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We provide the first algorithm for computing an optimal tree decomposition for a given graph $G$ that runs in single exponential time in the feedback vertex number of $G$, that is, in time $2^{O(\text{fvn}(G))}\cdot n^{O(1)}$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi , Amit Zivan

The independence number of a tree decomposition is the size of a largest independent set contained in a single bag. The tree-independence number of a graph $G$ is the minimum independence number of a tree decomposition of $G$. As shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

We present a dynamic data structure for representing a graph $G$ with tree-depth at most $D$. Tree-depth is an important graph parameter which arose in the study of sparse graph classes. The structure allows addition and removal of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Zdenek Dvorak , Martin Kupec , Vojtech Tuma

Dynamic graph theory is a novel, growing area that deals with graphs that change over time and is of great utility in modelling modern wireless, mobile and dynamic environments. As a graph evolves, possibly arbitrarily, it is challenging to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Bernard Mans , Luke Mathieson

Tree-width and path-width are widely successful concepts. Many NP-hard problems have efficient solutions when restricted to graphs of bounded tree-width. Many efficient algorithms are based on a tree decomposition. Sometimes the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Martin Fürer

We study edge-decompositions of highly connected graphs into copies of a given tree. In particular we attack the following conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-09 János Barát , Dániel Gerbner

Treedepth decomposition has several practical applications and can be used to speed up many parameterized algorithms. There are several works aiming to design a scalable algorithm to compute exact treedepth decompositions. Those include…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Zijian Xu , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

The canonical tree-decomposition theorem, given by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal graph minors series, turns out to be one of the most important tool in structural and algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we provide the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , O-joung Kwon

The investigation of width parameters in both graph and algebraic contexts has attracted considerable interest. Among these parameters, the linear branch width has emerged as a crucial measure. In this concise paper, we explore the concept…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Takaaki Fujita

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden subgraphs, we study $\mathcal{F}$-Free Edge Deletion, where the goal is to remove minimum number of edges such that the resulting graph does not contain any $F\in \mathcal{F}$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

The metric dimension of a graph is the minimum size of a set of vertices such that each vertex is uniquely determined by the distances to the vertices of that set. Our aim is to upper-bound the order $n$ of a graph in terms of its diameter…

For a tree decomposition $\mathcal{T}$ of a graph $G$, by $\mu(\mathcal{T})$ we denote the size of a largest induced matching in $G$ all of whose edges intersect one bag of $\mathcal{T}$. Induced matching treewidth of a graph $G$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Paloma T. Lima , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Karolina Okrasa , Paweł Rzążewski , Kenny Štorgel

For a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{H}$, the $\mathcal{H}$-elimination distance of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of rounds needed to reduce $G$ to a member of $\mathcal{H}$ by removing one vertex from each connected component in each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon

We show that a small tree-decomposition of a knot diagram induces a small sphere-decomposition of the corresponding knot. This, in turn, implies that the knot admits a small essential planar meridional surface or a small bridge sphere. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Arnaud de Mesmay , Jessica Purcell , Saul Schleimer , Eric Sedgwick

We present a method for reducing the treewidth of a graph while preserving all of its minimal $s-t$ separators up to a certain fixed size $k$. This technique allows us to solve $s-t$ Cut and Multicut problems with various additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dániel Marx , Barry O'Sullivan , Igor Razgon

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We give an algorithm that for an input n-vertex graph G and integer k>0, in time 2^[O(k)]n either outputs that the treewidth of G is larger than k, or gives a tree decomposition of G of width at most 5k+4. This is the first algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Hans Bodlaender , Pål G. Drange , Markus S. Dregi , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk

The shrinking operation converts a hypergraph into a graph by choosing, from each hyperedge, two endvertices of a corresponding graph edge. A hypertree is a hypergraph which can be shrunk to a tree on the same vertex set. Klimo\v{s}ov\'{a}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Karolína Hylasová , Tomáš Kaiser

A rough structure theorem is proved for graphs $G$ containing no copy of a bounded degree tree $T$: from any such $G$, one can delete $o(|G||T|)$ edges in order to get a subgraph all of whose connected components have a cover of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Alexey Pokrovskiy

In 2006, Bar\'at and Thomassen posed the following conjecture: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(G)|$ is divisible by $|E(T)|$, then $G$ admits a decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Fabio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi