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The task of listing all triangles in an undirected graph is a fundamental graph primitive with numerous applications. It is trivially solvable in time cubic in the number of vertices. It has seen a significant body of work contributing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Matthias Bentert , Till Fluschnik , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

We propose a new algorithm for 3-coloring that runs in time O(1.3217^n). For this algorithm, we make use of the time O(1.3289^n) algorithm for 3-coloring by Beigel and Eppstein. They described a structure in all graphs, whose vertices could…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lucas Meijer

3-list colouring is an NP-complete decision problem. It is hard even on planar bipartite graphs. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for solving 3-list colouring on permutation graphs.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jessica Enright , Lorna Stewart

The 3SUM problem asks if an input $n$-set of real numbers contains a triple whose sum is zero. We consider the 3POL problem, a natural generalization of 3SUM where we replace the sum function by a constant-degree polynomial in three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Luis Barba , Jean Cardinal , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman , Aurélien Ooms , Noam Solomon

We show a deterministic algorithm for computing edge connectivity of a simple graph with $m$ edges in $m^{1+o(1)}$ time. Although the fastest deterministic algorithm by Henzinger, Rao, and Wang [SODA'17] has a faster running time of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the classic 3SUM problem: given sets of integers $A, B, C $, determine whether there is a tuple $(a, b, c) \in A \times B \times C$ satisfying $a + b + c = 0$. The 3SUM Hypothesis, central in fine-grained complexity, states that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yael Kirkpatrick , John Kuszmaul , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

Classically, for many computational problems one can conclude time lower bounds conditioned on the hardness of one or more of key problems: k-SAT, 3SUM and APSP. More recently, similar results have been derived in the quantum setting…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Andris Ambainis , Harry Buhrman , Koen Leijnse , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

We are concerned with the fastest possible direct numerical solution algorithm for a thin-banded or tridiagonal linear system of dimension $N$ on a distributed computing network of $N$ nodes that is connected in a binary communication tree.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Martin Neuenhofen

Since the seminal result of Karger, Motwani, and Sudan, algorithms for approximate 3-coloring have primarily centered around SDP-based rounding. However, it is likely that important combinatorial or algebraic insights are needed in order to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Joshua Brakensiek , Sami Davies

We consider worst case time bounds for NP-complete problems including 3-SAT, 3-coloring, 3-edge-coloring, and 3-list-coloring. Our algorithms are based on a constraint satisfaction (CSP) formulation of these problems. 3-SAT is equivalent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-21 Richard Beigel , David Eppstein

In graph theory, Courcelle's theorem essentially states that, if an algorithmic problem can be formulated in monadic second-order logic, then it can be solved in linear time for graphs of bounded treewidth. We prove such a metatheorem for a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-13 Benjamin A. Burton , Rodney G. Downey

Sampling edges from a graph in sublinear time is a fundamental problem and a powerful subroutine for designing sublinear-time algorithms. Suppose we have access to the vertices of the graph and know a constant-factor approximation to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Talya Eden , Shyam Narayanan , Jakub Tětek

For any odd $t\ge 9$, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that solves the $3$-colouring problem, and finds a $3$-colouring if one exists, in $P_{t}$-free graphs of odd girth at least $t-2$. In particular, our algorithm works for $(P_9,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Alberto Rojas , Maya Stein

The number of triangles is a computationally expensive graph statistic which is frequently used in complex network analysis (e.g., transitivity ratio), in various random graph models (e.g., exponential random graph model) and in important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Let G = (V,E) be an n-vertex graph and M_d a d-vertex graph, for some constant d. Is M_d a subgraph of G? We consider this problem in a model where all n processes are connected to all other processes, and each message contains up to O(log…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Danny Dolev , Christoph Lenzen , Shir Peled

For every integer $g$, isomorphism of graphs of Euler genus at most $g$ can be decided in linear time. This improves previously known algorithms whose time complexity is $n^{O(g)}$ (shown in early 1980's), and in fact, this is the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

In 1994, Thomassen proved that every planar graph is 5-list-colorable. In 1995, Thomassen proved that every planar graph of girth at least five is 3-list-colorable. His proofs naturally lead to quadratic-time algorithms to find such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Luke Postle

We present an algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a $3$-edge-connected cubic graph that intersects every $3$-edge cut in exactly one edge. Specifically, we propose an algorithm with a time complexity of $O(n \log^4 n)$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

3-manifolds are commonly represented as triangulations, consisting of abstract tetrahedra whose triangular faces are identified in pairs. The combinatorial sparsity of a triangulation, as measured by the treewidth of its dual graph, plays a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kristóf Huszár , Clément Maria