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Modern, inherently dynamic systems are usually characterized by a network structure, i.e. an underlying graph topology, which is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph can be represented…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Eleni C. Akrida , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis , Viktor Zamaraev

A queue layout of a graph $G$ consists of a vertex ordering of $G$ and a partition of the edges into so-called queues such that no two edges in the same queue nest, i.e., have their endpoints ordered in an ABBA-pattern. Continuing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

The concept of $k$-planarity is extensively studied in the context of Beyond Planarity. A graph is $k$-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane in which each edge is crossed at most $k$ times. The local crossing number of a graph is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tatsuya Gima , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada

A graph covering projection, also referred to as a locally bijective homomorphism, is a mapping between the vertices and edges of two graphs that preserves incidences and is a local bijection. This concept originates in topological graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

Given a drawing of a graph, its \emph{visual complexity} is defined as the number of geometrical entities in the drawing, for example, the number of segments in a straight-line drawing or the number of arcs in a circular-arc drawing (in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Myroslav Kryven , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff

We study the problem of finding, for a given one-dimensional topological space $X$, a cover of $X$ of smallest size by geodesics with respect to some metric. The infimal size of such a set is called the metric geodesic cover number of $X$.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jerry Chen , Kyle Hess , Matthew Romney

A measure for the visual complexity of a straight-line crossing-free drawing of a graph is the minimum number of lines needed to cover all vertices. For a given graph $G$, the minimum such number (over all drawings in dimension $d \in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Therese Biedl , Stefan Felsner , Henk Meijer , Alexander Wolff

We initiate the study of computational complexity of graph coverings, aka locally bijective graph homomorphisms, for {\em graphs with semi-edges}. The notion of graph covering is a discretization of coverings between surfaces or topological…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Petr Hliněný , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

A graph $G$ is $[a,b]$-covered if for each edge $e$ of $G$ there is an $[a,b]$-factor containing it. For $a=b=1$, an $[a,b]$-covered graph is a matching covered graph. The structural theory of matching covered graphs constitutes a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Qixuan Yuan , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan

Given two $k$-uniform hypergraphs $F$ and $G$, we say that $G$ has an $F$-covering if for every vertex in $G$ there is a copy of $F$ covering it. For $1\leq i\leq k-1$, the minimum $i$-degree $\delta_i(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum integer such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Ran Gu , Shuaichao Wang

Graph theoretical problems based on shortest paths are at the core of research due to their theoretical importance and applicability. This paper deals with the geodetic number which is a global measure for simple connected graphs and it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ahmad T. Anaqreh , Boglarka G. -Toth , Tamas Vinko

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the recognition problem for the proper $H$-graphs. The $H$-graphs are the intersection graphs of connected subgraphs of a subdivision of a multigraph $H$, and the properness means that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Steven Chaplick , Petr A. Golovach , Tim A. Hartmann , Dušan Knop

For a graph $G$, the central graph $C(G)$ is the graph constructed from $G$ by subdividing each edge of $G$ with one vertex and also by adding an edge to every pair of non-adjacent vertices in $G$. Also for a graph $G$, let $\gamma(G)$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Shinya Fujita , Farshad Kazemnejad , Behnaz Pahlavsay

We introduce the novel concepts of local and union book embeddings, and, as the corresponding graph parameters, the local page number ${\rm pn}_\ell(G)$ and the union page number ${\rm pn}_u(G)$. Both parameters are relaxations of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

In this work we consider two two-criteria optimization problems: given an input graph, the goal is to find its interval (or chordal) supergraph that minimizes the number of edges and its clique number simultaneously. For the interval…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dariusz Dereniowski , Adam Stański

Given a finite covering of graphs $f : Y \to X$, it is not always the case that $H_1(Y;\mathbb{C})$ is spanned by lifts of primitive elements of $\pi_1(X)$. In this paper, we study graphs for which this is not the case, and we give here the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Destine Lee , Iris Rosenblum-Sellers , Jakwanul Safin , Anda Tenie

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a network is a well-known problem in graph theory. Several alternative formulations of cohesive subgraph have been proposed, a notable example being $s$-club, which is a subgraph where each vertex is at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Riccardo Dondi , Giancarlo Mauri , Florian Sikora , Italo Zoppis

A tessellation of a graph is a partition of its vertices into vertex disjoint cliques. A tessellation cover of a graph is a set of tessellations that covers all of its edges, and the tessellation cover number, denoted by $T(G)$, is the size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Alexandre Abreu , Luís Cunha , Celina de Figueiredo , Luis Kowada , Franklin Marquezino , Renato Portugal , Daniel Posner

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan