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We call a graph $G$ pancyclic if it contains at least one cycle of every possible length $m$, for $3\le m\le |V(G)|$. In this paper, we define a new property called chorded pancyclicity. We explore forbidden subgraphs in claw-free graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Megan Cream , Ronald J. Gould , Victor Larsen

A graph is unichord free if it does not contain a cycle with exactly one chord as its subgraph. In [3], it is shown that a graph is unichord free if and only if every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. In this paper, we first show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-27 Mahati Kumar , S. Manasvini , N. Sadagopan , Adithya Seshadri

Listing copies of small subgraphs (such as triangles, $4$-cycles, small cliques) in the input graph is an important and well-studied problem in algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we give a simple algorithm that lists $t$ (non-induced)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Renfei Zhou

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

A chord of a cycle $C$ is an edge joining two non-consecutive vertices of $C$. A cycle $C$ in a graph $G$ is chorded if the vertex set of $C$ induces at least one chord. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a graph with order $n\geq 6$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Jiaxin Zheng , Xueyi Huang , Junjie Wang

Many complex networks, ranging from social to biological systems, exhibit structural patterns consistent with an underlying hyperbolic geometry. Revealing the dimensionality of this latent space can disentangle the structural complexity of…

In this paper we give fast distributed graph algorithms for detecting and listing small subgraphs, and for computing or approximating the girth. Our algorithms improve upon the state of the art by polynomial factors, and for girth, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Keren Censor-Hillel , Orr Fischer , Tzlil Gonen , François Le Gall , Dean Leitersdorf , Rotem Oshman

We present sublinear-time (randomized) algorithms for finding simple cycles of length at least $k\geq 3$ and tree-minors in bounded-degree graphs. The complexity of these algorithms is related to the distance of the graph from being…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Artur Czumaj , Oded Goldreich , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri , Asaf Shapira , Christian Sohler

For a graph $G$, let $\sigma_{2}(G)$ be the minimum degree sum of two non-adjacent vertices in $G$. A chord of a cycle in a graph $G$ is an edge of $G$ joining two non-consecutive vertices of the cycle. In this paper, we prove the following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Shuya Chiba , Suyun Jiang , Jin Yan

We consider the problem of detecting a cycle in a directed graph that grows by arc insertions, and the related problems of maintaining a topological order and the strong components of such a graph. For these problems, we give two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , Robert E. Tarjan

A graph is chordal if every cycle of length at least four contains a chord, that is, an edge connecting two nonconsecutive vertices of the cycle. Several classical applications in sparse linear systems, database management, computer vision,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-07 David Bergman , Carlos H. Cardonha , Andre A. Cire , Arvind U. Raghunathan

A \emph{unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of a cycle. A \emph{square} is an induced cycle on four vertices. A graph is \emph{unichord-free} if none of its edges is a unichord. We give a slight restatement of a known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo , Nicolas Trotignon

Using closure concepts, we show that within every undirected network, or graph, there is a unique irreducible subgraph which we call its "spine". The chordless cycles which comprise this irreducible core effectively characterize the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-10 John L. Pfaltz

A hole is a chordless cycle with at least four vertices. A hole is odd if it has an odd number of vertices. A dart is a graph which vertices $a, b, c, d, e$ and edges $ab, bc, bd, be, cd, de$. Dart-free graphs have been actively studied in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Chính T. Hoàng

Random graph generation is an important tool for studying large complex networks. Despite abundance of random graph models, constructing models with application-driven constraints is poorly understood. In order to advance state-of-the-art…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Mohsen Bayati , Andrea Montanari , Amin Saberi

We consider a natural combinatorial optimization problem on chordal graphs, the class of graphs with no induced cycle of length four or more. A subset of vertices of a chordal graph is (monophonically) convex if it contains the vertices of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jean Cardinal , Jean-Paul Doignon , Keno Merckx

Subgraph enumeration problems ask to output all subgraphs of an input graph that belongs to the specified graph class or satisfy the given constraint. These problems have been widely studied in theoretical computer science. As far, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kunihiro Wasa , Takeaki Uno

This is an expository paper. A $1$-cycle in a graph is a set $C$ of edges such that every vertex is contained in an even number of edges from $C$. E.g., a cycle in the sense of graph theory is a $1$-cycle, but not vice versa. It is easy to…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-07-24 E. Alkin , S. Dzhenzher , O. Nikitenko , A. Skopenkov , A. Voropaev

A long-standing conjecture of Thomassen says that every longest cycle of a $3$-connected graph has a chord. Thomassen (2018) proved that if $G$ is a $2$-connected cubic graph, then any longest cycle must have a chord. He also showed that in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Haidong Wu , Shunzhe Zhang

Let ${\cal{C}}_1$ be the set of fundamental cycles of breadth-first-search trees in a graph $G$ and ${\cal{C}}_2$ the set of the sums of two cycles in ${\cal{C}}_1$. Then we show that $(1) {\cal{C}}={\cal{C}}_1\bigcup{\cal{C}}_2$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-11 Han Ren , Ni Cao