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A (unit) disk graph is the intersection graph of closed (unit) disks in the plane. Almost three decades ago, an elegant polynomial-time algorithm was found for \textsc{Maximum Clique} on unit disk graphs [Clark, Colbourn, Johnson; Discrete…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Édouard Bonnet , Panos Giannopoulos , Eun Jung Kim , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

When can we compute the diameter of a graph in quasi linear time? We address this question for the class of {\em split graphs}, that we observe to be the hardest instances for deciding whether the diameter is at most two. We stress that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib , Laurent Viennot

This paper is about: (1) bounds on the number of cliques in a graph in a particular class, and (2) algorithms for listing all cliques in a graph. We present a simple algorithm that lists all cliques in an $n$-vertex graph in O(n) time per…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , David R. Wood

A \emph{clique} is a set of pairwise adjacent vertices in a graph. We determine the maximum number of cliques in a graph for the following graph classes: (1) graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges; (2) graphs with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-17 David R. Wood

Jacob Fox, C. Seshadhri, Tim Roughgarden, Fan Wei, and Nicole Wein introduced the model of $c$-closed graphs--a distribution-free model motivated by triadic closure, one of the most pervasive structural signatures of social networks. While…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Gabriela Bourla , Kaixin Wang , Fan Wei , Runtian Zhou

For two fixed graphs $T$ and $H$ let $ex(G(n,p),T,H)$ be the random variable counting the maximum number of copies of $T$ in an $H$-free subgraph of the random graph $G(n,p)$. We show that for the case $T=K_m$ and $\chi(H)> m$ the behavior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Noga Alon , Alexandr Kostochka , Clara Shikhelman

We give a randomized algorithm that approximates the number of independent sets in a dense, regular bipartite graph -- in the language of approximate counting, we give an FPRAS for #BIS on the class of dense, regular bipartite graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Charlie Carlson , Ewan Davies , Alexandra Kolla , Aditya Potukuchi

Extremal problems concerning the number of complete subgraphs have a long story in extremal graph theory. Let $k_s(G)$ be the number of $s$-cliques in a graph $G$ and $m={{r_m}\choose s}+t_m$, where $0\le t_m\leq r_m$. Edr\H{o}s showed that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Longfei Fang , Mingqing Zhai , Bing Wang

We study the complexity of Maximum Clique in intersection graphs of convex objects in the plane. On the algorithmic side, we extend the polynomial-time algorithm for unit disks [Clark '90, Raghavan and Spinrad '03] to translates of any…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Grelier , Tillmann Miltzow

A graph $G$ covers a graph $H$ if there exists a locally bijective homomorphism from $G$ to $H$. We deal with regular covers where this homomorphism is prescribed by the action of a semiregular subgroup of $\textrm{Aut}(G)$. We study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Jiří Fiala , Pavel Klavík , Jan Kratochvíl , Roman Nedela

In this paper, we design efficient algorithms to approximately count the number of edges of a given $k$-hypergraph, and to sample an approximately uniform random edge. The hypergraph is not given explicitly, and can be accessed only through…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Holger Dell , John Lapinskas , Kitty Meeks

Mining cohesive subgraphs from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. One notable cohesive structure is $\gamma$-quasi-clique (QC), where each vertex connects at least a fraction $\gamma$ of the other vertices inside.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kaiqiang Yu , Cheng Long

We resolve the computational complexity of Graph Isomorphism for classes of graphs characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1$ and $H_2$ for all but six pairs $(H_1,H_2)$. Schweitzer had previously shown that the number of open…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Théo Pierron

We show that there is no subexponential time algorithm for computing the exact solution of the maximum independent set problem in d-regular graphs unless ETH fails. We expand our method to show that it helps to provide lower bounds for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri

A $k$-defective clique of an undirected graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices that induces a nearly complete graph with a maximum of $k$ missing edges. The maximum $k$-defective clique problem, which asks for the largest $k$-defective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Chunyu Luo , Yi Zhou , Zhengren Wang , Mingyu Xiao

Let $\mathcal{H}(k,n,p)$ be the distribution on $k$-uniform hypergraphs where every subset of $[n]$ of size $k$ is included as an hyperedge with probability $p$ independently. In this work, we design and analyze a simple spectral algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Venkatesan Guruswami , Pravesh K. Kothari , Peter Manohar

There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Joshua Z. Sobel

In this paper, we study the Planted Clique problem in a semi-random model. Our model is inspired from the Feige-Kilian model [16] which has been studied in many other works [8,11,17,26,35,38] for a variety of graph problems. Our algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yash Khanna

We investigate the asymptotic structure of a random perfect graph $P_n$ sampled uniformly from the perfect graphs on vertex set $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Our approach is based on the result of Pr\"omel and Steger that almost all perfect graphs are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Colin McDiarmid , Nikola Yolov

Nordhaus and Gaddum proved sharp upper and lower bounds on the sum and product of the chromatic number of a graph and its complement. Over the years, similar inequalities have been shown for a plenitude of different graph invariants. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Deepak Bal , Jonathan Cutler , Luke Pebody