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We present an algorithm that determines the Galois group of linear difference equations with rational function coefficients.

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Ruyong Feng

A strong edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that no two edges of distance at most two receive the same color. The strong chromatic index $\chi'_s(G)$ is the minimum number of colors in a strong edge-coloring of $G$. P.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Chuanyun Zang

We consider the problem of devising algorithms to count exactly the number of independent sets of a graph G . We show that there is a polynomial time algorithm for this problem when G is restricted to the class of strongly orderable graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Marc Heinrich , Haiko Müller

We prove that the strong chromatic index for each $k$-degenerate graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ is at most $(4k-2)\Delta-k(2k-1)+1$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Gexin Yu

Recently, Van Hoeve proposed an algorithm for graph coloring based on an integer flow formulation on decision diagrams for stable sets. We prove that the solution to the linear flow relaxation on exact decision diagrams determines the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Timo Brand , Stephan Held

The vertex coloring problem to find chromatic numbers is known to be unsolvable in polynomial time. Although various algorithms have been proposed to efficiently compute chromatic numbers, they tend to take an enormous amount of time for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yayoi Abe , Auna Setoh , Gen Yoneda

We present a randomized algorithm that, given a constant $\epsilon > 0$, outputs a proper $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring of an $m$-edge simple graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 1/\epsilon$ in $O(m)$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

A Burling graph is an induced subgraph of some graph in Burling's construction of triangle-free high-chromatic graphs. Equivalently, a Burling graph is a graph that admits a so-called strict frame representation. We provide a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Paweł Rzążewski , Bartosz Walczak

We study "holomorphic quadratic differentials" on graphs. We relate them to the reactive power in an LC circuit, and also to the chromatic polynomial of a graph. Specifically, we show that the chromatic polynomial $\chi$ of a graph $G$, at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Richard Kenyon , Wai Yeung Lam

Irregular computations on unstructured data are an important class of problems for parallel programming. Graph coloring is often an important preprocessing step, e.g. as a way to perform dependency analysis for safe parallel execution. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Georgios Rokos , Gerard Gorman , Paul H J Kelly

Recent work has shown that not only decision trees (DTs) may not be interpretable but also proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for computing one PI-explanation of a DT. This paper shows that for a wide range of classifiers, globally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xuanxiang Huang , Yacine Izza , Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

We develop an algorithmic framework for graph colouring that reduces the problem to verifying a local probabilistic property of the independent sets. With this we give, for any fixed $k\ge 3$ and $\varepsilon>0$, a randomised…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang , François Pirot , Jean-Sébastien Sereni

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

This article presents a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. This algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that works as follows. Primal and dual problems are combined into a special system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Awoniyi

In this article we describe a new inductive approach to compute the chromatic polynomial of simple graphs and the characteristic polynomial of central hyperplane arrangements.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Madison Cox , Michele Torielli

In this paper we give a linear time algorithm for computing the number of spanninig trees in double nested graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Fernando Tura

We introduce the partition function of edge-colored graph homomorphisms, of which the usual partition function of graph homomorphisms is a specialization, and present an efficient algorithm to approximate it in a certain domain. Corollaries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

In this note we prove that every closed graph $G$ is up to isomorphism a proper interval graph. As a consequence we obtain that there exist linear-time algorithms for closed graph recognition.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Marilena Crupi , Giancarlo Rinaldo

The problem of finding paths in temporal graphs has been recently considered due to its many applications. In this paper we consider a variant of the problem that, given a vertex-colored temporal graph, asks for a path whose vertices have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Riccardo Dondi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

A polynomial time algorithm which detects all paths and cycles of all lengths in form of vertex pairs (start, finish).

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-09-10 Sergey Gubin