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We identify a sufficient condition, treewidth-pliability, that gives a polynomial-time algorithm for an arbitrarily good approximation of the optimal value in a large class of Max-2-CSPs parameterised by the class of allowed constraint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Miguel Romero , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

This paper presents a deterministic, strongly polynomial time algorithm for computing the matrix rank for a class of symbolic matrices (whose entries are polynomials over a field). This class was introduced, in a different language, by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Orit E. Raz , Avi Wigderson

In this paper we compare and illustrate the algorithmic use of graphs of bounded tree-width and graphs of bounded clique-width. For this purpose we give polynomial time algorithms for computing the four basic graph parameters independence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Frank Gurski

A matching cut is a matching that is also an edge cut. In the problem Minimum Matching Cut, we ask for a matching cut with the minimum number of edges in the matching. We investigate the differences in complexity between Minimum Matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Felicia Lucke , Joseph Marchand , Jannik Olbrich

We study the following variant of the 15 puzzle. Given a graph and two token placements on the vertices, we want to find a walk of the minimum length (if any exists) such that the sequence of token swappings along the walk obtains one of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Hironori Kiya , Yuto Okada , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

Baker devised a powerful technique to obtain approximation schemes for various problems restricted to planar graphs. Her technique can be directly extended to various other graph classes, among the most general ones the graphs avoiding a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Zdeněk Dvořák

For the first time we provide a succinct pattern matching index for arbitrary graphs that can be built in polynomial time, which requires less space and answers queries more efficiently than the one in [SODA 2021]. We show that, given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nicola Cotumaccio

The aim of this paper is to characterize an important class of marked digraphs, called structurally observable graphs (SOGs), and to solve two minimum realization problems. To begin with, by exploring structural observability of large-scale…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Shiyong Zhu , Jianquan Lu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Jinde Cao

We present the first polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTASes) for the following subset-connectivity problems in edge-weighted graphs of bounded genus: Steiner tree, low-connectivity survivable-network design, and subset TSP. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Glencora Borradaile , Erik D. Demaine , Siamak Tazari

It's important to design polynomial time algorithms to test if two graphs are isomorphic at least for some special classes of graphs. An approach to this was presented by Eugene M. Luks(1981) in the work \textit{Isomorphism of Graphs of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Adria Alcala Mena

This paper presents the novel `uniqueness tree' algorithm, as one possible method for determining whether two finite, undirected graphs are isomorphic. We prove that the algorithm has polynomial time complexity in the worst case, and that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Jonathan Gorard

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

The notion of directed treewidth was introduced by Johnson, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas [Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, Vol 82, 2001] as a first step towards an algorithmic metatheory for digraphs. They showed that some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Bidimensionality is the most common technique to design subexponential-time parameterized algorithms on special classes of graphs, particularly planar graphs. The core engine behind it is a combinatorial lemma of Robertson, Seymour and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Distributed network optimization algorithms, such as minimum spanning tree, minimum cut, and shortest path, are an active research area in distributed computing. This paper presents a fast distributed algorithm for such problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li , Goran Zuzic

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

We propose a fast methodology for encoding graphs with information-theoretically minimum numbers of bits. Specifically, a graph with property pi is called a pi-graph. If pi satisfies certain properties, then an n-node m-edge pi-graph G can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xin He , Ming-Yang Kao , Hsueh-I Lu

We consider the NP-hard problem of finding a spanning tree with a maximum number of internal vertices. This problem is a generalization of the famous Hamiltonian Path problem. Our dynamic-programming algorithms for general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Henning Fernau , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Raible

Let $G$ be a finite group and let $H$ be a proper subgroup of $G$ of minimal index. By applying an old result of Y. Berkovich, we provide a polynomial algorithm for computing $|G : H|$ for a permutation group $G$. Moreover, we find $H$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Saveliy V. Skresanov

The complexity of the maximum common connected subgraph problem in partial $k$-trees is still not fully understood. Polynomial-time solutions are known for degree-bounded outerplanar graphs, a subclass of the partial $2$-trees. On the other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Nils Kriege , Florian Kurpicz , Petra Mutzel