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For an undirected graph G, we consider the following problems: given a fixed graph H, can we partition the vertices of G into two non-empty sets A and B such that neither the induced graph G[A] nor G[B] contain H (i) as a subgraph? (ii) as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Anjeneya Swami Kare

We study the existence and construction of sparse supports for hypergraphs derived from subgraphs of a graph $G$. For a hypergraph $(X,\mathcal{H})$, a support $Q$ is a graph on $X$ s.t. $Q[H]$, the graph induced on vertices in $H$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Rajiv Raman , Karamjeet Singh

We (nearly) settle the time complexity for computing vertex fault-tolerant (VFT) spanners with optimal sparsity (up to polylogarithmic factors). VFT spanners are sparse subgraphs that preserve distance information, up to a small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Merav Parter

Depth first search (DFS) tree is one of the most well-known data structures for designing efficient graph algorithms. Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the textbook algorithm takes $O(n+m)$ time to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Lijie Chen , Ran Duan , Ruosong Wang , Hanrui Zhang , Tianyi Zhang

We provide the first non-trivial result on dynamic breadth-first search (BFS) in external-memory: For general sparse undirected graphs of initially $n$ nodes and O(n) edges and monotone update sequences of either $\Theta(n)$ edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Ulrich Meyer

Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree constructions are classical problems in distributed computing, traditionally studied in the message-passing model, where static nodes communicate via messages. This paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

Given an undirected unweighted graph $G$ and a source set $S$ of $|S| = \sigma $ sources, we want to build a data structure which can process the following query {\sc Q}$(s,t,e):$ find the shortest distance from $s$ to $t$ avoiding an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Manoj Gupta , Aditi Singh

We study a generalization of the classic Spanning Tree problem that allows for a non-uniform failure model. More precisely, edges are either \emph{safe} or \emph{unsafe} and we assume that failures only affect unsafe edges. In Unweighted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Matthias Bentert , Jannik Schestag , Frank Sommer

Depth First Search (DFS) tree is a fundamental data structure for solving graph problems. The DFS tree of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges can be built in $O(m+n)$ time. Till date, only a few algorithms have been designed for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Surender Baswana , Ayush Goel , Shahbaz Khan

A $k$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph $H$ whose shortest path distances match those of $G$ up to a multiplicative error $k$. In this paper we study spanners that are resistant to faults. A subgraph $H \subseteq G$ is an $f$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Merav Parter , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiaolong Wan , Xixian Han

The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

We study the problem of low-stretch spanning trees in graphs of bounded width: bandwidth, cutwidth, and treewidth. We show that any simple connected graph $G$ with a linear arrangement of bandwidth $b$ can be embedded into a distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers , David Eppstein , William Maxwell , Amir Nayyeri

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration techniques is that a BFS sample is a plausible graph on its own, and therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

To find a shortest path between two nodes $s_0$ and $s_1$ in a given graph, a classical approach is to start a Breadth-First Search (BFS) from $s_0$ and run it until the search discovers $s_1$. Alternatively, one can start two Breadth-First…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sacha Cerf , Benjamin Dayan , Umberto De Ambroggio , Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller

This paper considers a natural fault-tolerant shortest paths problem: for some constant integer $f$, given a directed weighted graph with no negative cycles and two fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, compute (either explicitly or implicitly) for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Eyob Woldeghebriel , Yinzhan Xu

We show that for any fixed dense graph G and bounded-degree tree T on the same number of vertices, a modest random perturbation of G will typically contain a copy of T . This combines the viewpoints of the well-studied problems of embedding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Michael Krivelevich , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

There has been a rise in the popularity of algebraic methods for graph algorithms given the development of the GraphBLAS library and other sparse matrix methods. An exemplar for these approaches is Breadth-First Search (BFS). The algebraic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Paul Burkhardt

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider this problem in the setting of local algorithms: one wants to quickly determine whether a given edge $e$ is in a specific spanning tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We propose polynomial-time algorithms that sparsify planar and bounded-genus graphs while preserving optimal or near-optimal solutions to Steiner problems. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given an unweighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Erik Jan van Leeuwen