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Compression and sparsification algorithms are frequently applied in a preprocessing step before analyzing or optimizing large networks/graphs. In this paper we propose and study a new framework contracting edges of a graph (merging vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Aaron Bernstein , Karl Däubel , Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Torsten Mütze , Frieder Smolny

Compatibility of unrooted phylogenetic trees is a well studied problem in phylogenetics. It asks to determine whether for a set of k input trees there exists a larger tree (called a supertree) that contains the topologies of all k input…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Alexander Grigoriev , Steven Kelk , Nela Lekic

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

Several classical combinatorial problems have been considered and analysed on temporal graphs. Recently, a variant of Vertex Cover on temporal graphs, called MinTimelineCover, has been introduced to summarize timeline activities in social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Riccardo Dondi , Manuel Lafond

The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

For a connected graph G=(V,E), a subset U of V is called a disconnected cut if U disconnects the graph and the subgraph induced by U is disconnected as well. We show that the problem to test whether a graph has a disconnected cut is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma

Let F be a finite set of graphs. In the F-Deletion problem, we are given an n-vertex graph G and an integer k as input, and asked whether at most k vertices can be deleted from G such that the resulting graph does not contain a graph from F…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Saket Saurabh

Threshold graphs are a class of graphs that have many equivalent definitions and have applications in integer programming and set packing problems. A graph is said to have a threshold cover of size $k$ if its edges can be covered using $k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mathew C. Francis , Dalu Jacob

We study the problem of transforming bipartite graphs into bicluster graphs. Abu-Khzam, Isenmann, and Merchad [IWOCA '25] introduced two variants of this problem. In both problems, the goal is to transform a bipartite graph into a bicluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Matthias Bentert , Pål Grønås Drange , Erlend Haugen

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden subgraphs, we study $\mathcal{F}$-Free Edge Deletion, where the goal is to remove minimum number of edges such that the resulting graph does not contain any $F\in \mathcal{F}$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

Vertex splitting is a graph operation that replaces a vertex $v$ with two nonadjacent new vertices and makes each neighbor of $v$ adjacent with one or both of the introduced vertices. Vertex splitting has been used in contexts from circuit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Alexander Firbas , Manuel Sorge

Given $k$ input graphs $G_1, \dots ,G_k$, where each pair $G_i$, $G_j$ with $i \neq j$ shares the same graph $G$, the problem Simultaneous Embedding With Fixed Edges (SEFE) asks whether there exists a planar drawing for each input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Simon D. Fink , Matthias Pfretzschner , Ignaz Rutter

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $R$ be a set of pairs of vertices in $V$ called \emph{requests}. A \emph{multicut} is a subset $F$ of $E$ such that every request $xy$ of $R$ is cut by $F$, \i.e. every $xy$-path of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-24 Nicolas Bousquet , Jean Daligault , Stéphan Thomassé

For an undirected graph G, we consider the following problems: given a fixed graph H, can we partition the vertices of G into two non-empty sets A and B such that neither the induced graph G[A] nor G[B] contain H (i) as a subgraph? (ii) as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Anjeneya Swami Kare

In this article, we revisit the complexity of the reconfiguration of independent sets under the token sliding rule on chordal graphs. In the \textsc{Token Sliding-Connectivity} problem, the input is a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Rajat Adak , Saraswati Girish Nanoti , Prafullkumar Tale

In this work, a graph partitioning problem in a fixed number of connected components is considered. Given an undirected graph with costs on the edges, the problem consists of partitioning the set of nodes into a fixed number of subsets with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Mishelle Cordero , Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo , Diego Recalde , Ramiro Torres , Polo Vaca

We present a parameterized dichotomy for the \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem in weighted and unweighted versions. In particular, we show that the weighted \textsc{$k$-Sparsest Cut} problem is NP-hard for every $k\geq 3$ even on graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ramin Javadi , Amir Nikabadi

This paper investigates the computational complexity of deciding whether the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into a disjoint union of cliques and a triangle-free subgraph. This problem is known to be $\NP$-complete on arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Carl Feghali , Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Haiko Müller

We study the problem of partitioning the edge set of the complete graph into bipartite subgraphs under certain constraints defined by forbidden subgraphs. These constraints lead to both classical problems, such as partitioning into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Lajos Győrffy , András London , Gábor V. Nagy , András Pluhár

A tree with at most k leaves is called k-ended tree, and a tree with exactly k leaves is called k-end tree, where a leaf is a vertex of degree one. Contraction of a graph G along the edge e means deleting the edge e and identifying its end…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Hamed Ghasemian Zoeram