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Consider the problem of determining whether there exists a spanning hypertree in a given k-uniform hypergraph. This problem is trivially in P for k=2, and is NP-complete for k>= 4, whereas for k=3, there exists a polynomial-time algorithm…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-19 Sergio Caracciolo , Gregor Masbaum , Alan D. Sokal , Andrea Sportiello

We consider the NP-hard problem of finding a spanning tree with a maximum number of internal vertices. This problem is a generalization of the famous Hamiltonian Path problem. Our dynamic-programming algorithms for general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Henning Fernau , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Raible

The interval graph for a set of intervals on a line consists of one vertex for each interval, and an edge for each intersecting pair of intervals. A probe interval graph is a variant that is motivated by an application to genomics, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Ross M. McConnell , Yahav Nussbaum

Cartesian tree matching is the problem of finding all substrings of a given text which have the same Cartesian trees as that of a given pattern. So far there is one linear-time solution for Cartesian tree matching, which is based on the KMP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Siwoo Song , Cheol Ryu , Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq , Kunsoo Park

We continue the study of $(\mathrm{tw},\omega)$-bounded graph classes, that is, hereditary graph classes in which the treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique, with the goal of understanding the extent to which this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

A three-path-configuration is a graph consisting of three pairwise internally-disjoint paths the union of every two of which is an induced cycle of length at least four. A graph is 3PC-free if no induced subgraph of it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Sophie Spirkl

In combinatorial reconfiguration, the reconfiguration problems on a vertex subset (e.g., an independent set) are well investigated. In these problems, some tokens are placed on a subset of vertices of the graph, and there are three natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Masaaki Kanzaki , Yota Otachi , Ryuhei Uehara

The independent set sequence of trees has been well studied, with much effort devoted to the (still open) question of Alavi, Malde, Schwenk and Erd\H{o}s on whether the independent set sequence of a tree is always unimodal. Much less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 David Galvin , Courtney Sharpe

The clique-width is a measure of complexity of decomposing graphs into certain tree-like structures. The class of graphs with bounded clique-width contains bounded tree-width graphs. We give a polynomial time graph isomorphism algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , I. Vinod Reddy

Influence Diagrams (ID) are a flexible tool to represent discrete stochastic optimization problems, including Markov Decision Process (MDP) and Partially Observable MDP as standard examples. More precisely, given random variables considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Axel Parmentier , Victor Cohen , Vincent Leclère , Guillaume Obozinski , Joseph Salmon

We obtain a number of lower bounds on the running time of algorithms solving problems on graphs of bounded treewidth. We prove the results under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis of Impagliazzo and Paturi. In particular, assuming that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Saket Saurabh

We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

We develop an experimental algorithm for the exact solving of the maximum independent set problem. The algorithm consecutively finds the maximal independent sets of vertices in an arbitrary undirected graph such that the next such set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

In a graph, a spanning tree is said to be a tree t-spanner of the graph if the distance between any two vertices in is at most times their distance in . The tree t-spanner has many applications in networks and distributed environments. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Sambhu Charan Barman , Sukumar Mondal , Madhumangal Pal

The problem of finding a longest common subsequence of two main sequences with some constraint that must be a substring of the result (STR-IC-LCS) was formulated recently. It is a variant of the constrained longest common subsequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Sebastian Deorowicz

In this paper, we present fixed-parameter tractability algorithms for both the undirected and directed versions of the Spanning Tree Isomorphism Problem, parameterized by the size $k$ of a redundant set. A redundant set is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Fangjian Shen , Yicheng Zheng , Wushao Wen , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Decision trees are simple, yet powerful, classification models used to classify categorical and numerical data, and, despite their simplicity, they are commonly used in operations research and management, as well as in knowledge mining.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Andrea Brunello , Guido Sciavicco , Ionel Eduard Stan

The tree spanner problem for a graph $G$ is as follows: For a given integer $k$, is there a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ (called a tree $k$-spanner) such that the distance in $T$ between every pair of vertices is at most $k$ times their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Lan Lin , Yixun Lin

We consider problems in which a simple path of fixed length, in an undirected graph, is to be shifted from a start position to a goal position by moves that add an edge to either end of the path and remove an edge from the other end. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Erik D. Demaine , David Eppstein , Adam Hesterberg , Kshitij Jain , Anna Lubiw , Ryuhei Uehara , Yushi Uno

The class of $\mathsf{Ga}$lled-$\mathsf{T}$ree $\mathsf{Ex}$plainable ($\mathsf{GaTEx}$) graphs has recently been discovered as a natural generalization of cographs. Cographs are precisely those graphs that can be uniquely represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Marc Hellmuth , Guillaume E. Scholz