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Knots are commonly represented and manipulated via diagrams, which are decorated planar graphs. When such a knot diagram has low treewidth, parameterized graph algorithms can be leveraged to ensure the fast computation of many invariants…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Corentin Lunel , Arnaud de Mesmay

Given an undirected weighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we give the first deterministic $m^{1+o(1)}$-time algorithm for constructing the cactus representation of \emph{all} global minimum cuts. This improves the current…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhongtian He , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We present an easy structure theorem for graphs which do not admit an immersion of the complete graph. The theorem motivates the definition of a variation of tree decompositions based on edge cuts instead of vertex cuts which we call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Paul Wollan

The edge Szeged index and edge-vertex Szeged index of a graph are defined as $Sz_{e}(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}m_{u}(uv|G)m_{v}(uv|G)$ and $Sz_{ev}(G)=\frac{1}{2} \sum\limits_{uv \in E(G)}[n_{u}(uv|G)m_{v}(uv|G)+n_{v}(uv|G)m_{u}(uv|G)],$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Shengjie He , Rong-Xia Hao , Aimei Yu

We show that all the tangles in a finite graph or matroid can be distinguished by a single tree-decomposition that is invariant under the automorphisms of the graph or matroid. This comes as a corollary of a similar decomposition theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Reinhard Diestel , Fabian Hundertmark , Sahar Lemanczyk

We construct tree-decompositions of graphs that distinguish all their k-blocks and tangles of order k, for any fixed integer k. We describe a family of algorithms to construct such decompositions, seeking to maximize their diversity subject…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Johannes Carmesin , Reinhard Diestel , Matthias Hamann , Fabian Hundertmark

The subpath number of a graph G is defined as the total number of subpaths in G, and it is closely related to the number of subtrees, a well-studied topic in graph theory. This paper is a continuation of our previous paper [5], where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Yu Yang

In this work, we study methodical decomposition of an undirected, unweighted complete graph ($K_n$ of order $n$, size $m$) into minimum number of edge-disjoint trees. We find that $x$, a positive integer, is minimum and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Antika Sinha , Sanjoy Kumar Saha , Partha Basuchowdhuri

A graph is chordal if it contains no induced cycle of length four or more. While finite chordal graphs are precisely those admitting tree-decompositions into cliques, this fails for infinite graphs. We establish two results extending the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Max Pitz , Lucas Real , Roman Schaut

It was conjectured by Hoffmann-Ostenhof that the edge set of every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a matching and a family of cycles. In this paper, we show that this conjecture holds for traceable cubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 F. Abdolhosseini , S. Akbari , H. Hashemi , M. S. Moradian

A vertex whose removal in a graph $G$ increases the number of components of $G$ is called a cut vertex. For all $n,c$, we determine the maximum number of connected induced subgraphs in a connected graph with order $n$ and $c$ cut vertices,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

The vertex (resp. edge) metric dimension of a connected graph G; denoted by dim(G) (resp. edim(G)), is defined as the size of a smallest set S in V (G) which distinguishes all pairs of vertices (resp. edges) in G: Bounds dim(G) <=…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski

In 1985, Golumbic and Scheinerman established an equivalence between comparability graphs and containment graphs, graphs whose vertices represent sets, with edges indicating set containment. A few years earlier, McMorris and Zaslavsky…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Ketai Chen , Jared DeLeo , Owen Henderschedt

While finite graphs have tree-decompositions that efficiently distinguish all their tangles, locally finite graphs with thick ends need not have such tree-decompositions. We show that every locally finite graph without thick ends admits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe

We present a systematic investigation into how tree-decompositions of finite adhesion capture topological properties of the space formed by a graph together with its ends. As main results, we characterise when the ends of a graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Marcel Koloschin , Thilo Krill , Max Pitz

We proved in another paper that every connected graph can be realized as the cut locus of some point on some riemannian surface. Here we give upper bounds on the number of such realizations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Jin-ichi Itoh , Costin Vîlcu

The edge-Wiener index $W_e(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is the sum of distances between all pairs of edges of $G$. A connected graph $G$ is said to be a cactus if each of its blocks is either a cycle or an edge. Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,t}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Siyan Liu , Rong-Xia Hao

We present a canonical way to decompose finite graphs into highly connected local parts. The decomposition depends only on an integer parameter whose choice sets the intended degree of locality. The global structure of the graph, as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Reinhard Diestel , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Jan Kurkofka

The problem of realizing finite metric spaces in terms of weighted graphs has many applications. For example, the mathematical and computational properties of metrics that can be realized by trees have been well-studied and such research…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Momoko Hayamizu , Katharina T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Yukihiro Murakami

In this paper it is shown that for any network there is a uniquely determined network based on a structure tree that provides a convenient way of determining a minimal cut separating a pair $s, t$ where each of $s, t$ is either a vertex or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody