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For a fixed finite collection of graphs ${\cal F}$, the ${\cal F}$-M-DELETION problem asks, given an $n$-vertex input graph $G,$ for the minimum number of vertices that intersect all minor models in $G$ of the graphs in ${\cal F}$. by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Julien Baste , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We study the time complexity of induced subgraph isomorphism problems where the pattern graph is fixed. The earliest known example of an improvement over trivial algorithms is by Itai and Rodeh (1978) who sped up triangle detection in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Markus Bläser , Balagopal Komarath , Karteek Sreenivasaiah

The study of structural graph width parameters like tree-width, clique-width and rank-width has been ongoing during the last five decades, and their algorithmic use has also been increasing [Cygan et al., 2015]. New width parameters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Eric Brandwein , Carolina Lucía González , Agustín Sansone

We investigate a relaxation of the notion of fractional treewidth-fragility, namely fractional tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for meta-problems such as finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

The classic algorithm of Bodlaender and Kloks [J. Algorithms, 1996] solves the following problem in linear fixed-parameter time: given a tree decomposition of a graph of (possibly suboptimal) width k, compute an optimum-width tree…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Michał Pilipczuk

We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

Algorithmic meta-theorems, stating that graph properties expressible in some particular logic can be decided efficiently in graph classes having some specific structural properties, are now standard in sequential graph algorithms. One of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Benjamin Jauregui , Jason Li , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

Many algorithms have been developed for NP-hard problems on graphs with small treewidth $k$. For example, all problems that are expressable in linear extended monadic second order can be solved in linear time on graphs of bounded treewidth.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Frank Kammer , Torsten Tholey

Courcelle's Theorem is an important result in graph theory, proving the existence of linear-time algorithms for many decision problems on graphs whose tree-width is bounded by a constant. The purpose of this text is twofold: to provide an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Adrian Rettich

Let $M=(m_{ij})$ be a symmetric matrix of order $n$ whose elements lie in an arbitrary field $\mathbb{F}$, and let $G$ be the graph with vertex set $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ such that distinct vertices $i$ and $j$ are adjacent if and only if $m_{ij}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Martin Fürer , Carlos Hoppen , Vilmar Trevisan

We give the first polynomial-time algorithms on graphs of bounded maximum induced matching width (mim-width) for problems that are not locally checkable. In particular, we give $n^{\mathcal{O}(w)}$-time algorithms on graphs of mim-width at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Jan Arne Telle

We study the design of fixed-parameter algorithms for problems already known to be solvable in polynomial time. The main motivation is to get more efficient algorithms for problems with unattractive polynomial running times. Here, we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios , Rolf Niedermeier

The generating function that records the sizes of directed circuit partitions of a connected 2-in, 2-out digraph D can be determined from the interlacement graph of D with respect to a directed Euler circuit; the same is true of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Lorenzo Traldi

There are many classical problems in P whose time complexities have not been improved over the past decades. Recent studies of "Hardness in P" have revealed that, for several of such problems, the current fastest algorithm is the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yoichi Iwata , Tomoaki Ogasawara , Naoto Ohsaka

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

We introduce a new graph polynomial in two variables. This ``interlace'' polynomial can be computed in two very different ways. The first is an expansion analogous to the state space expansion of the Tutte polynomial; the significant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Arratia , Bela Bollobas , Gregory B. Sorkin

The independence number of a tree decomposition is the size of a largest independent set contained in a single bag. The tree-independence number of a graph $G$ is the minimum independence number of a tree decomposition of $G$. As shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

Motivated by circle graphs, and the enumeration of Euler circuits, we define a one-variable ``interlace polynomial'' for any graph. The polynomial satisfies a beautiful and unexpected reduction relation, quite different from the cut and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Arratia , Bela Bollobas , Gregory B. Sorkin

We extend Babai's quasipolynomial-time graph isomorphism test (STOC 2016) and develop a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for the multiple-coset isomorphism problem. The algorithm for the multiple-coset isomorphism problem allows to exploit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Daniel Wiebking

Let G be a graph with adjacency matrix A(G). Consider the matrix IA(G)=(I | A(G)), where I is the identity matrix, and let M(IA(G)) be the binary matroid represented by IA(G). Then suitably parametrized versions of the Tutte polynomial of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Lorenzo Traldi