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The induced matching width of a tree decomposition of a graph $G$ is the cardinality of a largest induced matching $M$ of $G$, such that there exists a bag that intersects every edge in $M$. The induced matching treewidth of a graph $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hans L. Bodlaender , Fedor V. Fomin , Tuukka Korhonen

For the vast majority of local graph problems standard dynamic programming techniques give c^tw V^O(1) algorithms, where tw is the treewidth of the input graph. On the other hand, for problems with a global requirement (usually…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-03 Marek Cygan , Jesper Nederlof , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Johan van Rooij , Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk

We prove that the (divisorial) gonality of a finite connected graph is lower bounded by its treewidth. We show that equality holds for grid graphs and complete multipartite graphs. We prove that the treewidth lower bound also holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , Dion Gijswijt

Graph constraint logic is a framework introduced by Hearn and Demaine, which provides several problems that are often a convenient starting point for reductions. We study the parameterized complexity of Constraint Graph Satisfiability and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Tom C. van der Zanden

We show that for a number of parameterized problems for which only $2^{O(k)} n^{O(1)}$ time algorithms are known on general graphs, subexponential parameterized algorithms with running time $2^{O(k^{1-\frac{1}{1+\delta}} \log^2 k)}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk

In 1996, Bodlaender showed the celebrated result that an optimal tree decomposition of a graph of bounded treewidth can be found in linear time. The algorithm is based on an algorithm of Bodlaender and Kloks that computes an optimal tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ernst Althaus , Sarah Ziegler

Reachability is the problem of deciding whether there is a path from one vertex to the other in the graph. Standard graph traversal algorithms such as DFS and BFS take linear time to decide reachability however their space complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

The {Congested Clique} is a distributed-computing model for single-hop networks with restricted bandwidth that has been very intensively studied recently. It models a network by an $n$-vertex graph in which any pair of vertices can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Leonid Barenboim , Victor Khazanov

It is known for many algorithmic problems that if a tree decomposition of width $t$ is given in the input, then the problem can be solved with exponential dependence on $t$. A line of research by Lokshtanov, Marx, and Saurabh [SODA 2011]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Barış Can Esmer , Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Paweł Rzążewski

Dynamic complexity is concerned with updating the output of a problem when the input is slightly changed. We study the dynamic complexity of model checking a fixed monadic second-order formula over evolving subgraphs of a fixed maximal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Patricia Bouyer-Decitre , Vincent Jugé , Nicolas Markey

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

In $(k,r)$-Center we are given a (possibly edge-weighted) graph and are asked to select at most $k$ vertices (centers), so that all other vertices are at distance at most $r$ from a center. In this paper we provide a number of tight…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Vangelis Th. Paschos

We introduce a new notion of acyclicity representation in labeled graphs, and present three applications thereof. Our main result is an algorithm that, given a graph $G$ and a $k$-clique expression of $G$, in time $O(6^kn^c)$ counts modulo…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Narek Bojikian , Stefan Kratsch

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

In the PATH COVER problem, one asks to cover the vertices of a graph using the smallest possible number of (not necessarily disjoint) paths. While the variant where the paths need to be pairwise vertex-disjoint, which we call PATH…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Florent Foucaud , Atrayee Majumder , Tobias Mömke , Aida Roshany-Tabrizi

We study the Directed Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph. We prove that unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails, the problem cannot be solved in time $2^{o(t\log t)}\cdot n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Marthe Bonamy , Łukasz Kowalik , Jesper Nederlof , Michał Pilipczuk , Arkadiusz Socała , Marcin Wrochna

A vertex-subset graph problem $Q$ defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. The reconfiguration version of a vertex-subset problem $Q$ asks whether it is possible to transform one feasible solution for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Marcin Wrochna

In the problem (Unweighted) Max-Cut we are given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and asked for a set $S \subseteq V$ such that the number of edges from $S$ to $V \setminus S$ is maximal. In this paper we consider an even harder problem: (Weighted)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hauke Brinkop , Klaus Jansen

We present an algorithm for min-cost flow in graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, given a tree decomposition of width $\tau$ and size $S$, and polynomially bounded, integral edge capacities and costs, running in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sally Dong , Guanghao Ye

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser