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We investigate graphs that can be disconnected into small components by removing a vanishingly small fraction of their vertices. We show that when a quantum network is described by such a graph, the network is efficiently controllable, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Can Gokler , Seth Lloyd , Peter Shor , Kevin Thompson

The minimum number of inputs needed to control a network is frequently used to quantify its controllability. Control of linear dynamics through a minimum set of inputs, however, often has prohibitively large energy requirements and there is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Samie Alizadeh , Márton Pósfai , Abdorasoul Ghasemi

Numerous complex systems, such as those arisen in ecological networks, genomic contact networks, and social networks, exhibit higher-order and time-varying characteristics, which can be effectively modeled using temporal hypergraphs.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Anqi Dong , Xin Mao , Can Chen

The control of complex networks has generated a lot of interest in a variety of fields from traffic management to neural systems. A commonly used metric to compare two particular control strategies that accomplish the same task is the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Isaac Klickstein , Francesco Sorrentino

Controllability of multi-agent systems is determined by the interconnection topologies. In practice, losing agents can change the topologies of multi-agent systems, which may affect the controllability. This paper studies non-fragility of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Bin Zhao , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

We give a self-contained introduction to the theory of directed graphs, leading up to the relationship between the Perron-Frobenius eigenvectors of a graph and its autocatalytic sets. Then we discuss a particular dynamical system on a fixed…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay Jain , Sandeep Krishna

A circle graph is the intersection graph of a set of chords in a circle. Keil [Discrete Applied Mathematics, 42(1):51-63, 1993] proved that Dominating Set, Connected Dominating Set, and Total Dominating Set are NP-complete in circle graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Daniel Gonçalves , George B. Mertzios , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Stéphan Thomassé

In this paper we consider the problem of controlling a limited number of target nodes of a network. Equivalently, we can see this problem as controlling the target variables of a structured system, where the state variables of the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Christian Commault , Jacob van der Woude , Paolo Frasca

In this paper we begin the study of well-failed graphs, that is, graphs in which every maximal failed zero forcing set is a maximum failed zero forcing set, or equivalently, in which every minimal fort is a minimum fort. We characterize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Bonnie Jacob

Twisted hypercubes are graphs that generalize the structure of the hypercube by relaxing the symmetry constraint while maintaining degree-regularity and connectivity. We study the zero forcing number of twisted hypercubes. Zero forcing is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Peter Collier , Jeannette Janssen

Let $G$ be a graph that admits a perfect matching. A {\sf forcing set} for a perfect matching $M$ of $G$ is a subset $S$ of $M$, such that $S$ is contained in no other perfect matching of $G$. This notion originally arose in chemistry in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Peyman Afshani , Hamed Hatami , Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian

Sufficient and necessary conditions are established for controllability of affine control systems where the control is constrained to a set whose convex hull contains the origin but is not necessarily, in contrast with previously known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Jean-Baptiste Caillau , Lamberto Dell'Elce , Alesia Herasimenka , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

Our ability to control network dynamical systems is often hindered by constraints on the number and nature of the available control actions, which make controlling the whole network unfeasible. In this manuscript, we focus on the case where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Camilla Ancona , Francesco Lo Iudice , Antonio Coppola , Pietro De Lellis , Franco Garofalo

Reconfiguration graphs provide a way to represent relationships among solutions to a problem, and have been studied in many contexts. We investigate the reconfiguration graphs corresponding to minimum PSD forcing sets and minimum skew…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Novi Bong , Mary Flagg , Mark Hunnell , John Hutchens , Ryan Moruzzi , Houston Schuerger , Ben Small

In engineering applications, one of the major challenges today is to develop reliable and robust control algorithms for complex networked systems. Controllability and observability of such systems play a crucial role in the design process.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Michael Dellnitz , Stefan Klus

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of vertices marked as filled, we consider a color-change rule known as zero forcing. A set $S$ is a zero forcing set if filling $S$ and applying all possible instances of the color change rule causes all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Eric Ufferman , Nicolas Swanson

Given a graph G=(V, E), a vertex is said to ve-dominate an edge if it is either incident with the edge or adjacent to one of its endpoints. A set of vertices is a ve-dominating set if it ve-dominates every edge of the graph. We introduce…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yasemin Büyükçolak

Pinning control on complex dynamical networks has emerged as a very important topic in recent trends of control theory due to the extensive study of collective coupled behaviors and their role in physics, engineering and biology. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stephane Chretien , Sebastien Darses

The study of network structure has uncovered signatures of the organization of complex systems. However, there is also a need to understand how to control them; for example, identifying strategies to revert a diseased cell to a healthy…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Alexander J. Gates , Luis M. Rocha

We consider the problem of controlling a partially-observed dynamic process on a graph by a limited number of interventions. This problem naturally arises in contexts such as scheduling virus tests to curb an epidemic; targeted marketing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Eli A. Meirom , Haggai Maron , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik