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A subcoloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into subsets (called colors), each inducing a disjoint union of cliques. It is a natural generalization of the classical proper coloring, in which each color must instead induce an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Malory Marin , Rémi Watrigant

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set in which the number of vertices in the two parts differ by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges which go across the two parts. In this paper, motivated by several questions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-29 Choongbum Lee , Po-Shen Loh , Benny Sudakov

We give a short, self-contained, and easily verifiable proof that determining the outerthickness of a general graph is NP-hard. This resolves a long-standing open problem on the computational complexity of outerthickness. Moreover, our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pin-Hsian Lee , Te-Cheng Liu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

Disk contact representations realize graphs by mapping vertices bijectively to interior-disjoint disks in the plane such that two disks touch each other if and only if the corresponding vertices are adjacent in the graph. Deciding whether a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Boris Klemz , Martin Nöllenburg , Roman Prutkin

A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in the Euclidean plane, where the disks correspond to the vertices of the graph and a pair of vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding disks intersect. The problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jared Espenant , J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

We are given a set of weighted unit disks and a set of points in Euclidean plane. The minimum weight unit disk cover (\UDC) problem asks for a subset of disks of minimum total weight that covers all given points. \UDC\ is one of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Jian Li , Yifei Jin

Weak unit disk contact graphs are graphs that admit a representation of the nodes as a collection of internally disjoint unit disks whose boundaries touch if there is an edge between the corresponding nodes. We provide a gadget-based…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Man-Kwun Chiu , Jonas Cleve , Martin Nöllenburg

In this paper, we study the computational complexity of finding the \emph{geodetic number} of graphs. A set of vertices $S$ of a graph $G$ is a \emph{geodetic set} if any vertex of $G$ lies in some shortest path between some pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Harmender Gahlawat , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Bodhayan Roy

This document presents a simpler proof showcasing the NP-hardness of Familial Graph Compression.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ammar Ahmed , Zohair Raza Hassan , Mudassir Shabbir

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $S$ of $m$ disks in the plane, the disk hitting set problem asks for a smallest subset of $P$ such that every disk of $S$ contains at least one point in the subset. The problem is NP-hard. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Gang Liu , Haitao Wang

We explore what could make recognition of particular intersection-defined classes hard. We focus mainly on unit grid intersection graphs (UGIGs), i.e., intersection graphs of unit-length axis-aligned segments and grid intersection graphs…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Irina Mustata , Martin Pergel

In this paper, we consider the maximum $k$-edge-colorable subgraph problem. In this problem we are given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the goal is to take $k$ matchings of $G$ such that their union contains maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Vahan Mkrtchyan

Given a connected undirected weighted graph, we are concerned with problems related to partitioning the graph. First of all we look for the closest disconnected graph (the minimum cut problem), here with respect to the Euclidean norm. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Eleonora Andreotti , Dominik Edelmann , Nicola Guglielmi , Christian Lubich

We study unit disk visibility graphs, where the visibility relation between a pair of geometric entities is defined by not only obstacles, but also the distance between them. That is, two entities are not mutually visible if they are too…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Onur Çağırıcı , Deniz Ağaoğlu

Stick graphs are defined as follows. Let A (respectively B) be a set of vertical (respectively horizontal) segments in the plane such that the bottom endpoints of the segments in A and the left endpoints of the segments in B lie on the same…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Irena Rusu

Let $G$ be a complete edge-weighted graph on $n$ vertices. To each subset of vertices of $G$ assign the cost of the minimum spanning tree of the subset as its weight. Suppose that $n$ is a multiple of some fixed positive integer $k$. The…

The maximum independent set problem is known to be NP-hard in the class of subcubic graphs, i.e. graphs of vertex degree at most 3. We present a polynomial-time solution in a subclass of subcubic graphs generalizing several previously known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Ararat Harutyunyan , Michael Lampis , Vadim Lozin , Jérôme Monnot

We study the Maximum Bipartite Subgraph (MBS) problem, which is defined as follows. Given a set $S$ of $n$ geometric objects in the plane, we want to compute a maximum-size subset $S'\subseteq S$ such that the intersection graph of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Satyabrata Jana , Anil Maheshwari , Saeed Mehrabi , Sasanka Roy

Unit disk graphs are the intersection graphs of unit radius disks in the Euclidean plane. Deciding whether there exists an embedding of a given unit disk graph, i.e. unit disk graph recognition, is an important geometric problem, and has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Onur Çağırıcı

The mincut graph bisection problem involves partitioning the n vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets, each containing exactly n/2 vertices, while minimizing the number of "cut" edges with an endpoint in each subset. When considered over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Allon G. Percus , Gabriel Istrate , Bruno Goncalves , Robert Z. Sumi , Stefan Boettcher