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We study a variant of the subgraph isomorphism problem that is of high interest to the quantum computing community. Our results give an algorithm to perform pattern matching in quantum circuits for many patterns simultaneously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Luca Mondada , Pablo Andrés-Martínez

In line with the recent development in topological graph theory, we are considering undirected graphs that are allowed to contain {\em multiple edges}, {\em loops}, and {\em semi-edges}. A graph is called {\em simple} if it contains no…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl , Paweł Rzążewski

We introduce $k$-robust clique complexes, a family of simplicial complexes that generalizes the traditional clique complex. Here, a subset of vertices forms a simplex provided it does not contain an independent set of size $k$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Marek Filakovský

In this work, we consider the problem of sampling a $k$-clique in a graph from an almost uniform distribution in sublinear time in the general graph query model. Specifically the algorithm should output each $k$-clique with probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

Let $H$ be a fixed undirected graph on $k$ vertices. The $H$-hitting set problem asks for deleting a minimum number of vertices from a given graph $G$ in such a way that the resulting graph has no copies of $H$ as a subgraph. This problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Noah Brüstle , Tal Elbaz , Hamed Hatami , Onur Kocer , Bingchan Ma

A graph $G$ admits an $H$-tiling if it contains a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. In this paper, we confirm a conjecture proposed by K\"{u}hn, Osthus, and Treglown by showing that for any given graph $H$, there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuping Gao , Yilin Guo , Guanghui Wang , Lin-Peng Zhang

For any fixed surface Sigma of genus g, we give an algorithm to decide whether a graph G of girth at least five embedded in Sigma is colorable from an assignment of lists of size three in time O(|V(G)|). Furthermore, we can allow a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Zdenek Dvorak , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

One of the main problems in quantum complexity theory is that our understanding of the theory of QMA-completeness is not as rich as its classical analogue, the NP- completeness. In this paper we consider the clique problem in graphs, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-13 Salman Beigi , Peter W. Shor

We initiate the study of combinatorial algorithms for Triangle Detection in $H$-free graphs. The goal is to decide if a graph that forbids a fixed pattern $H$ as a subgraph contains a triangle, using only "combinatorial" methods that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Amir Abboud , Ron Safier , Nathan Wallheimer

A $(\delta\geq k_1,\delta\geq k_2)$-partition of a graph $G$ is a vertex-partition $(V_1,V_2)$ of $G$ satisfying that $\delta(G[V_i])\geq k_i$ for $i=1,2$. We determine, for all positive integers $k_1,k_2$, the complexity of deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Stéphane Bessy

In this paper we study the fundamental problem of finding small dense subgraphs in a given graph. For a real number $s>2$, we prove that every graph on $n$ vertices with average degree at least $d$ contains a subgraph of average degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov , István Tomon

We prove that for all $r\geq2$ and c>0, every graph of order n with at least cn^{r} cliques of order r contains a complete r-partite graph with each part of size $\lfloor c^{r}\log n \rfloor.$ This result implies a concise form of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Vladimir Nikiforov

We study the problem of detecting the presence of an underlying high-dimensional geometric structure in a random graph. Under the null hypothesis, the observed graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,p)$. Under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Sébastien Bubeck , Jian Ding , Ronen Eldan , Miklós Rácz

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely used for question answering (QA) applications, especially the entity based QA. However, searching an-swers from an entire large-scale knowledge graph is very time-consuming and it is hard to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shuangyong Song

The Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma

For every graph $G$, let $\omega(G)$ be the largest size of complete subgraph in $G$. This paper presents a simple algorithm which, on input a graph $G$, a positive integer $k$ and a small constant $\epsilon>0$, outputs a graph $G'$ and an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Bingkai Lin

Given two $k$-uniform hypergraphs $F$ and $G$, we say that $G$ has an $F$-covering if every vertex in $G$ is contained in a copy of $F$. For $1\le i \le k-1$, let $c_i(n,F)$ be the least integer such that every $n$-vertex $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Yuxuan Tang , Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou

We consider the problem of counting $k$-cliques in $s$-uniform Erdos-Renyi hypergraphs $G(n,c,s)$ with edge density $c$, and show that its fine-grained average-case complexity can be based on its worst-case complexity. We prove the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Enric Boix-Adserà , Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ we consider the parameter $\Theta(F)$, the minimum size of a clique cover of the of $F$. We derive bounds on $\Theta(F)$ for $F$ belonging to various classes of hypergraphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Vojtech Rödl , Marcelo Sales