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We revisit the classical question of the relationship between the diameter of a graph and its expansion properties. One direction is well understood: expander graphs exhibit essentially the lowest possible diameter. We focus on the reverse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Michael Dinitz , Michael Schapira , Gal Shahaf

Computing the diameter of a graph, i.e. the largest distance, is a fundamental problem that is central in fine-grained complexity. In undirected graphs, the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) yields a lower bound on the time vs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Amir Abboud , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ray Li , Virginia Vassilevska-Williams

Oriented matroids (often called order types) are combinatorial structures that generalize point configurations, vector configurations, hyperplane arrangements, polyhedra, linear programs, and directed graphs. Oriented matroids have played a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Ilan Adler , Jesús A. De Loera , Steven Klee , Zhenyang Zhang

We initiate the study of diameter computation in geometric intersection graphs from the fine-grained complexity perspective. A geometric intersection graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to some shapes in $d$-dimensional Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser , Zahra Parsaeian

The investigation of combinatorial diameters of polyhedra is a classical topic in linear programming due to its connection with the possibility of an efficient pivot rule for the simplex method. We are interested in the diameters of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Steffen Borgwardt , Weston Grewe , Jon Lee

We study the VC-dimension of the set system on the vertex set of some graph which is induced by the family of its $k$-connected subgraphs. In particular, we give tight upper and lower bounds for the VC-dimension. Moreover, we show that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Andrea Munaro

An orientation of an undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of exactly one direction to each edge of $G$. The oriented diameter of a graph $G$ is the smallest diameter among all the orientations of $G$. The maximum oriented diameter of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Jasine Babu , Deepu Benson , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Sai Nishant Vaka

The modelling of interconnection networks by graphs motivated the study of several extremal problems that involve well known parameters of a graph (degree, diameter, girth and order) and ask for the optimal value of one of them while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Nacho López

The degree/diameter problem for mixed graphs asks for the largest possible order of a mixed graph with given diameter and degree parameters. Similarly the \emph{degree/geodecity} problem concerns the smallest order of a $k$-geodetic mixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 James Tuite , Grahame Erskine

The circuit diameter of a polyhedron is the maximum length (number of steps) of a shortest circuit walk between any two vertices of the polyhedron. Introduced by Borgwardt, Finhold and Hemmecke (SIDMA 2015), it is a relaxation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Daniel Dadush , Stefan Kober , Zhuan Khye Koh

In this paper we study bounded diameter variations of the following form of Ryser's conjecture. For every graph $G=(V,E)$ with independence number $\alpha(G)=\alpha$ and integer $r\geq 2$, in every $r$-edge coloring of $G$ there is a cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Andras Gyarfas , Gabor N. Sarkozy

The conditional diameter of a connected graph $\Gamma=(V,E)$ is defined as follows: given a property ${\cal P}$ of a pair $(\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2)$ of subgraphs of $\Gamma$, the so-called \emph{conditional diameter} or ${\cal P}$-{\em…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. A. Rodriguez

The study of the combinatorial diameter of a polyhedron is a classical topic in linear-programming theory due to its close connection with the possibility of a polynomial simplex-method pivot rule. The 2-sum operation is a classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Steffen Borgwardt , Weston Grewe , Jon Lee

The space of unit flows on a finite acyclic directed graph is a lattice polytope called the flow polytope of the graph. Given a bipartite graph $G$ with minimum degree at least two, we construct two associated acyclic directed graphs: the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Benjamin Braun , Kaitlin Bruegge , Robert Davis , Derek Hanely

Let $\lambda^{*}$ be the maximum spectral radius of connected irregular graphs on $n$ vertices with maximum degree $\Delta$. Liu, Shen and Wang (2007) conjectured that $\lim_{n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Jie Xue , Ruifang Liu

In some physical implementations of quantum computers, 2-qubit operations can be applied only on certain pairs of qubits. Compilation of a quantum circuit into one compliant to such qubit connectivity constraint results in an increase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

We derive attainable upper bounds on the algebraic connectivity (spectral gap) of a regular graph in terms of its diameter and girth. This bound agrees with the well-known Alon-Boppana-Friedman bound for graphs of even diameter, but is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Geoffrey Exoo , Theodore Kolokolnikov , Jeanette Janssen , Timothy Salamon

Recent research on computing the diameter of geometric intersection graphs has made significant strides, primarily focusing on the 2D case where truly subquadratic-time algorithms were given for simple objects such as unit-disks and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

In 1967, Katona and Szemer\'{e}di showed that no undirected graph with $n$ vertices and fewer than $\frac{n}{2}\log_2\frac{n}{2}$ edges admits an orientation of diameter two. In 1978, Chv\'atal and Thomassen revealed the complexity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Hengzhe Li , Zhiwei Ding , Jianbing Liu , Hong-Jian Lai

Integral circulant graphs are proposed as models for quantum spin networks that permit a quantum phenomenon called perfect state transfer. Specifically, it is important to know how far information can potentially be transferred between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Milan Bašić , Aleksandar Ilić , Aleksandar Stamenković