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We consider drawings of graphs in the plane in which vertices are assigned distinct points in the plane and edges are drawn as simple curves connecting the vertices and such that the edges intersect only at their common endpoints. There is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Salman Parsa , Tim Ophelders

We prove that graphs G, G' satisfy the same sentences of first-order logic with counting of quantifier rank at most k if and only if they are homomorphism-indistinguishable over the class of all graphs of tree depth at most k. Here G, G'…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Martin Grohe

Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

Orthology and paralogy relations are often inferred by methods based on gene similarity, which usually yield a graph depicting the relationships between gene pairs. Such relation graphs are known to frequently contain errors, as they cannot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mark Jones , Manuel Lafond , Celine Scornavacca

Representing graphs by their homomorphism counts has led to the beautiful theory of homomorphism indistinguishability in recent years. Moreover, homomorphism counts have promising applications in database theory and machine learning, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jan Böker , Louis Härtel , Nina Runde , Tim Seppelt , Christoph Standke

Given two non-empty graphs $H$ and $T$, write $H\succcurlyeq T$ to mean that $t(H,G)^{|E(T)|}\geq t(T,G)^{|E(H)|}$ for every graph $G$, where $t(\cdot,\cdot)$ is the homomorphism density function. We obtain various necessary and sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Natalie Behague , Gabriel Crudele , Jonathan A. Noel , Lina M. Simbaqueba

A graph $G$ is asymmetrizable if it has a set of vertices whose setwise stablizer only consists of the identity automorphism. The motion $m$ of a graph is the minimum number of vertices moved by any non-identity automorphism. It is known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Wilfried Imrich , Rafał Kalinowski , Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

The Tree Decomposition Conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k(T)$ such that the following holds: If $G$ is a $k(T)$-edge-connected simple graph with size divisible by the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Martin Merker

The treewidth of a graph is an important invariant in structural and algorithmic graph theory. This paper studies the treewidth of line graphs. We show that determining the treewidth of the line graph of a graph $G$ is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

For a vertex set $S\subseteq V(G)$ in a graph $G$, the {\em distance multiset}, $D(S)$, is the multiset of pairwise distances between vertices of $S$ in $G$. Two vertex sets are called {\em homometric} if their distance multisets are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Maria Axenovich , Lale Özkahya

Homomorphism is a key mapping technique between graphs that preserves their structure. Given a graph and a pattern, the subgraph homomorphism problem involves finding a mapping from the pattern to the graph, ensuring that adjacent vertices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuyang Guo , Wenjin Xie , Ping Lu , Ting Deng , Richong Zhang , Jianxin Li , Xiangping Huang , Zhongyi Liu

The study of homomorphisms of $(n,m)$-graphs, that is, adjacency preserving vertex mappings of graphs with $n$ types of arcs and $m$ types of edges was initiated by Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and Raspaud in 2000. Later, some attempts were made to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sagnik Sen , Éric Sopena , S Taruni

The goal of this paper is to investigate a family of optimization problems arising from list homomorphisms, and to understand what the best possible algorithms are if we restrict the problem to bounded-treewidth graphs. For a fixed $H$, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Barış Can Esmer , Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Paweł Rzążewski

We study the topological entropy of hom tree-shifts and show that, although the topological entropy is not a conjugacy invariant for tree-shifts in general, it remains invariant for hom tree higher block shifts. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Wen-Guei Hu , Yu-Liang Wu

Given a graph where every vertex has exactly one labeled token, how can we most quickly execute a given permutation on the tokens? In (sequential) token swapping, the goal is to use the shortest possible sequence of swaps, each of which…

Let $G$ be a graph with an adjacent matrix $A(G)$. The multiplicity of an arbitrary eigenvalue $\lambda$ of $A(G)$ is denoted by $m_\lambda(G)$. In \cite{Wong}, the author apply the Pater-Wiener Theorem to prove that if the diameter of $T$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Qian-Qian Chen , Ji-Ming Guo

In the counting Graph Homomorphism problem (#GraphHom) the question is: Given graphs G,H, find the number of homomorphisms from G to H. This problem is generally #P-complete, moreover, Cygan et al. proved that unless the ETH is false there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Amineh Dadsetan , Andrei A. Bulatov

For two graphs $T$ and $H$ with no isolated vertices and for an integer $n$, let $ex(n,T,H)$ denote the maximum possible number of copies of $T$ in an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices. The study of this function when $T=K_2$ is a single edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Noga Alon , Clara Shikhelman

A large driver of the complexity of graph learning is the interplay between structure and features. When analyzing the expressivity of graph neural networks, however, existing approaches ignore features in favor of structure, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Martin Carrasco , Olga Zaghen , Kavir Sumaraj , Erik Bekkers , Bastian Rieck