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A partial complement of the graph $G$ is a graph obtained from $G$ by complementing all the edges in one of its induced subgraphs. We study the following algorithmic question: for a given graph $G$ and graph class $\mathcal{G}$, is there a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Torstein J. F. Strømme , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Property $(P)$, introduced in recent work and rooted in the classical theory of Parter vertices, concerns the existence of a nonsingular matrix $A\in S(G)$ for which every vertex of $G$ is a $P$-vertex. Previous investigations have fully…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 G. Arunkumar , Puja Samanta

In this paper, we consider different constrained partition problems for weighted trees and cactus graphs. We focus on the (l,u)-partition problem, which is the problem of partitioning a weighted graph into connected clusters such that each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Maike Buchin , Leonie Selbach

The NP-hard general factor problem asks, given a graph and for each vertex a list of integers, whether the graph has a spanning subgraph where each vertex has a degree that belongs to its assigned list. The problem remains NP-hard even if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Arezou Soleimanfallah , Stefan Szeider , Anders Yeo

The Connected Vertex Cover problem is to decide if a graph G has a vertex cover of size at most $k$ that induces a connected subgraph of $G$. This is a well-studied problem, known to be NP-complete for restricted graph classes, and, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Matthew Johnson , Giacomo Paesani , Daniel Paulusma

The strong geodetic problem is to find the smallest number of vertices such that by fixing one shortest path between each pair, all vertices of the graph are covered. In this paper we study the strong geodetic problem on complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Vesna Iršič , Matjaž Konvalinka

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph which minimizes the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already when all functions are the same, we show that it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Shmuel Onn

We consider extension variants of the classical graph problems Vertex Cover and Independent Set. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a vertex set $U \subseteq V$, it is asked if there exists a minimal vertex cover (resp.\ maximal independent set)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Katrin Casel , Henning Fernau , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jérôme Monnot , Florian Sikora

Minimum Bisection denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets of equal sizes while minimizing the width of the bisection, which is defined as the number of edges between these two sets. We first consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

The Near-Bipartiteness problem is that of deciding whether or not the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into sets $A$ and $B$, where $A$ is an independent set and $B$ induces a forest. The set $A$ in such a partition is said to be an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Marthe Bonamy , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Carl Feghali , Matthew Johnson , Daniel Paulusma

We consider the algorithmic complexity of recognizing bipartite temporal graphs. Rather than defining these graphs solely by their underlying graph or individual layers, we define a bipartite temporal graph as one in which every layer can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Till Fluschnik , Pascal Kunz

A \emph{co-bipartite chain} graph is a co-bipartite graph in which the neighborhoods of the vertices in each clique can be linearly ordered with respect to inclusion. It is known that the maximum cut problem (MaxCut) is NP-Hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom

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

This paper discusses the graph covering problem in which a set of edges in an edge- and node-weighted graph is chosen to satisfy some covering constraints while minimizing the sum of the weights. In this problem, because of the large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Takuro Fukunaga

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a positive integer $t\geq2$, the task in the vertex cover $P_t$ ($VCP_t$) problem is to find a minimum subset of vertices $F\subseteq V$ such that every path of order $t$ in $G$ contains at least one vertex from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Zongwen Bai , Jianhua Tu , Yongtang Shi

Generally, a graph G, an independent set is a subset S of vertices in G such that no two vertices in S are adjacent (connected by an edge) and a vertex cover is a subset S of vertices such that each edge of G has at least one of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-02 Kamanashis Biswas , S. A. M. Harun

Matchings and coverings are central topics in graph theory. The close relationship between these two has been key to many fundamental algorithmic and polyhedral results. For mixed graphs, the notion of matching forest was proposed as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Tamás Király , Yu Yokoi

In a bounded max-coloring of a vertex/edge weighted graph, each color class is of cardinality at most $b$ and of weight equal to the weight of the heaviest vertex/edge in this class. The bounded max-vertex/edge-coloring problems ask for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-13 Evripidis Bampis , Alexander Kononov , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Milis

For a positive integer $s$, an $s$-club in a graph $G$ is a set of vertices inducing a subgraph with diameter at most $s$. As generalizations of cliques, $s$-clubs offer a flexible model for real-world networks. This paper addresses the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angelo Monti , Blerina Sinaimeri

We investigate the problem of simultaneously dominating all spanning trees of a given graph. We prove that on 2-connected graphs, a subset of the vertices dominates all spanning trees of the graph if and only if it is a vertex cover. Using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Sebastian S. Johann , Sven O. Krumke , Manuel Streicher