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Transductions are a general formalism for expressing transformations of graphs (and more generally, of relational structures) in logic. We prove that a graph class $\mathscr{C}$ can be $\mathsf{FO}$-transduced from a class of bounded-height…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Michał Pilipczuk , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sebastian Siebertz

This is the second paper in a series of two. The goal of the series is to give a polynomial time algorithm for the $4$-coloring problem and the $4$-precoloring extension problem restricted to the class of graphs with no induced six-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Maria Chudnovsky , Sophie Spirkl , Mingxian Zhong

Let F be a set of ordered patterns, i.e., graphs whose vertices are linearly ordered. An F-free ordering of the vertices of a graph H is a linear ordering of V(H) such that none of patterns in F occurs as an induced ordered subgraph. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Pavol Hell , Bojan Mohar , Arash Rafiey

In this paper we introduce a class of regular bipartite graphs whose biadjacency matrices are circulant matrices and we describe some of their properties. Notably, we compute upper and lower bounds for the zero forcing number for such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Seth A. Meyer

A graph is $P_t$-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to a $t$-vertex path. A graph is not bipartite if and only if it contains an induced subgraph isomorphic to a $k$-vertex cycle, where $k$ is odd. We focus on the 3-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Yidong Zhou , Mingxian Zhong , Shenwei Huang

(Induced) Subgraph Isomorphism and Maximum Common (Induced) Subgraph are fundamental problems in graph pattern matching and similarity computation. In graphs derived from time-series data or protein structures, a natural total ordering of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Haruya Imamura , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi , Toshiki Saitoh , Keita Sato , Asahi Takaoka , Ryo Yoshinaka , Tom C. van der Zanden

Quantum entanglement in multipartite systems cannot be shared freely. In order to illuminate basic rules of entanglement sharing between qubits we introduce a concept of an entangled structure (graph) such that each qubit of a multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Plesch , Vladimir Buzek

It has been proved by Boros and Makino that there is no output-polynomial-time algorithm enumerating the minimal redundant sets or the maximal irredundant sets of a hypergraph, unless P=NP. The same question was left open for graphs, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Emanuel Castelo , Jérémie Chalopin , Oscar Defrain , Simon Vilmin

Biregular bipartite graphs have been proven to have similar edge distributions to random bipartite graphs and thus have nice pseudorandomness and expansion properties. Thus it is quite desirable to find a biregular bipartite spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Dandan Fan , Xiaofeng Gu , Huiqiu Lin

We consider a bipartite version of the color degree matrix problem. A bipartite graph $G(U,V,E)$ is half-regular if all vertices in $U$ have the same degree. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a bipartite degree matrix (also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Mark Aksen , Istvan Miklos , Kathleen Zhou

A digraph is semicomplete multipartite if its underlying graph is a complete multipartite graph. As a special case of semicomplete multipartite digraphs, J{\o}rgensen et al. \cite{JG14} initiated the study of doubly regular team…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Shuang Li , Yuefeng Yang , Kaishun Wang

This is the first paper in a series whose goal is to give a polynomial time algorithm for the $4$-coloring problem and the $4$-precoloring extension problem restricted to the class of graphs with no induced six-vertex path, thus proving a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Maria Chudnovsky , Sophie Spirkl , Mingxian Zhong

We obtain first order linear partial differential equations which are satisfied by exponential generating functions of two variables for the number of connected bipartite graphs with given Betti number. By solving these equations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Taro Hasui , Tomoyuki Shirai , Satoshi Yabuoku

In this paper, we study oriented bipartite graphs. In particular, we introduce "bitransitive" graphs. Several characterizations of bitransitive bitournaments are obtained. We show that bitransitive bitounaments are equivalent to acyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Sandip Das , Prantar Ghosh , Shamik Ghosh , Sagnik Sen

We study various aspects of the first-order transduction quasi-order on graph classes, which provides a way of measuring the relative complexity of graph classes based on whether one can encode the other using a formula of first-order (FO)…

We show that the class of multigraphs with at most $p$ connected components and bonds of size at most $k$ is well-quasi-ordered by edge contraction for all positive integers $p,k$. (A bond is a minimal non-empty edge cut.) We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Marcin Kamiński , Jean-Florent Raymond , Théophile Trunck

For a bipartite graph G, let h(G) be the largest t such that either G or the bipartite complement of G contain K_{t,t}. For a class F of graphs, let h(F)= min {h(G): G\in F}. We say that a bipartite graph H is strongly acyclic if neither H…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Maria Axenovich , Casey Tompkins , Lea Weber

Hypergraph partitioning is a fundamental optimization problem with applications in data management and other domains involving higher-order relations. In this paper, we study balanced hypergraph partitioning from the perspective of quantum…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yiran Li , Y. Batuhan Yilmaz , Michael Silver , Zachary Vernec , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Given a finite group G, let cd(G) denote the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of G. The character degree graph of G is defined as the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of the numbers in cd(G),…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Zeinab Akhlaghi , Carlo Casolo , Silvio Dolfi , Emanuele Pacifici , Lucia Sanus

S. B. Rao conjectured that graphic sequences are well-quasi-ordered under an inclusion based on induced subgraphs. This conjecture has now been settled completely by M. Chudnovsky and P. Seymour. One part of the proof proves the result for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Vaidy Sivaraman