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Let G and H be two cographs. We show that the problem to determine whether H is a retract of G is NP-complete. We show that this problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the size of H. When restricted to the class of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Ton Kloks , Yue-Li Wang

We enumerate weighted graphs with a certain upper bound condition. We also compute the generating function of the numbers of these graphs, and prove that it is a rational function. In particular, we show that if the given graph is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miklós Bóna , Hyeong-Kwan Ju , Ruriko Yoshida

A graph $G = (V, E)$ is said to be word-representable if there exists a word $w$ over the alphabet $V$ such that, for any two distinct letters $x, y \in V$, the letters $x$ and $y$ alternate in $w$ if and only if $xy \in E$. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Biswajit Das , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

A graph $G$ is well-covered if all its maximal stable sets have the same size, denoted by alpha(G) (M. D. Plummer, 1970). If for any $k$ the $k$-th coefficient of a polynomial I(G;x) is equal to the number of stable sets of cardinality $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

Let $G$ be a connected graph. A vertex $w$ strongly resolves a pair $u$, $v$ of vertices of $G$ if there exists some shortest $u-w$ path containing $v$ or some shortest $v-w$ path containing $u$. A set $W$ of vertices is a strong resolving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Dorota Kuziak , Ismael G. Yero , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

A path in an edge-colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge-colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a rainbow (geodesic) path between every pair of vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Shasha Li , Xueliang Li

The problem Cover(H) asks whether an input graph G covers a fixed graph H (i.e., whether there exists a homomorphism G to H which locally preserves the structure of the graphs). Complexity of this problem has been intensively studied. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-20 Ondřej Bílka , Jozef Jirásek , Pavel Klavík , Martin Tancer , Jan Volec

We show that, given a $ k $-tangle $ \tau $ in a graph $ G $, there always exists a weight function $ w\colon V(G)\to\mathbb{N} $ such that a separation $ (A,B) $ of $ G $ of order $ {<}k $ lies in $ \tau $ if and only if $ w(A)<w(B) $,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Christian Elbracht , Jay Lilian Kneip , Maximilian Teegen

We introduce and study the pinnacle sets of a simple graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. Given a bijective vertex labeling $\lambda\,:\,V(G)\rightarrow [n]$, the label $\lambda(v)$ of vertex $v$ is a pinnacle of $(G, \lambda)$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Chassidy Bozeman , Christine Cheng , Pamela E. Harris , Stephen Lasinis , Shanise Walker

A theorem of Ding, Oporowski, Oxley, and Vertigan implies that any sufficiently large twin-free graph contains a large matching, a co-matching, or a half-graph as a semi-induced subgraph. The sizes of these unavoidable patterns are measured…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

The regular number of a graph G denoted by reg(G) is the minimum number of subsets into which the edge set of G can be partitioned so that the subgraph induced by each subset is regular. In this work we answer to the problem posed as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

The independence polynomial $I(G,x)$ of a finite graph $G$ is the generating function for the sequence of the number of independent sets of each cardinality. We investigate whether, given a fixed number of vertices and edges, there exists…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 J. I. Brown , D. Cox

A graph $G$ is {\it weakly semiregular} if there are two numbers $a,b$, such that the degree of every vertex is $a$ or $b$. The {\it weakly semiregular number} of a graph $G$, denoted by $wr(G)$, is the minimum number of subsets into which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Arash Ahadi , Ali Dehghan , Mohsen Mollahajiaghaei

Consider a planar graph $G=(V,E)$ with polynomially bounded edge weight function $w:E\to [0, poly(n)]$. The main results of this paper are NC algorithms for the following problems: - minimum weight perfect matching in $G$, - maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Piotr Sankowski

A connected graph $G$, of order two or more, is matching covered if each edge lies in some \pema. The tight cut decomposition of a matching covered graph $G$ yields a list of bricks and braces; as per a theorem of Lov{\'a}sz~\cite{lova87},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Fuliang Lu , Nishad Kothari , Xing Feng , Lianzhu Zhang

A graph covering projection, also referred to as a locally bijective homomorphism, is a mapping between the vertices and edges of two graphs that preserves incidences and is a local bijection. This concept originates in topological graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

Several popular language models represent local contexts in an input text $x$ as bags of words. Such representations are naturally encoded by a sequence graph whose vertices are the distinct words occurring in $x$, with edges representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sammy Khalife , Yann Ponty , Laurent Bulteau

A graph is well-(edge-)dominated if every minimal (edge) dominating set is minimum. A graph is equimatchable if every maximal matching is maximum. We study these concepts on strong product graphs. We fully characterize well-edge-dominated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Yixin Cao , Guiqiang Mou , Jianxin Wang

A treedepth decomposition of an undirected graph $G$ is a rooted forest $F$ on the vertex set of $G$ such that every edge $uv\in E(G)$ is in ancestor-descendant relationship in $F$. Given a weight function $w\colon V(G)\rightarrow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jona Dirks , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová