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For every graph $H$, there exists a polynomial-time algorithm deciding if a planar input graph $G$ can be contracted to~$H$. However, the degree of the polynomial depends on the size of $H$. In this paper, we identify a class of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Marcin Kaminski , Daniel Paulusma , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In this paper we study unimodality problems for the independence polynomial of a graph, including unimodality, log-concavity and reality of zeros. We establish recurrence relations and give factorizations of independence polynomials for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-17 Yi Wang , Bao-Xuan Zhu

We make advances towards a structural characterisation of the signed graphs $H$ for which the list switch $H$-colouring problem $\operatorname{LSwHom}(H)$ problem is polynomial time solvable. We conjecture a characterisation for signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Hyobin Kim , Mark Siggers

We construct tree-decompositions of graphs that distinguish all their k-blocks and tangles of order k, for any fixed integer k. We describe a family of algorithms to construct such decompositions, seeking to maximize their diversity subject…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Johannes Carmesin , Reinhard Diestel , Matthias Hamann , Fabian Hundertmark

For each commutative, graded algebra with finite dimension in each degree, we construct a graded cohomology theory for graphs whose graded Euler characteristic is the chromatic polynomial of the graph. This extends our previous work which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laure Helme-Guizon , Yongwu Rong

In Graph Theory a number of results were devoted to studying the computational complexity of the number modulo 2 of a graph's edge set decompositions of various kinds, first of all including its Hamiltonian decompositions, as well as the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Greg Cohen

We consider homomorphisms of signed graphs from a computational perspective. In particular, we study the list homomorphism problem seeking a homomorphism of an input signed graph $(G,\sigma)$, equipped with lists $L(v) \subseteq V(H), v \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Tomás Feder , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková

It is known that a graph isomorphism testing algorithm is polynomially equivalent to a detecting of a graph non-trivial automorphism algorithm. The polynomiality of the latter algorithm, is obtained by consideration of symmetry properties…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandr Golubchik

Equivariant Ehrhart theory generalizes the study of lattice point enumeration to also account for the symmetries of a polytope under a linear group action. We present a catalogue of techniques with applications in this field, including…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Sophia Elia , Donghyun Kim , Mariel Supina

We exhibit non-switching-isomorphic signed graphs that share a common underlying graph and common chromatic polynomials, thereby answering a question posed by Zaslavsky. For various joins of all-positive or all-negative signed complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Charissa I. Utomo

We give a new method to calculate the universal cohomology classes of coincident root loci. We show a polynomial behavior of them and apply this result to prove that generalized Pl\"ucker formulas are polynomials in the degree, just as the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-28 László M. Fehér , András P. Juhász

The Dichotomy Conjecture for constraint satisfaction problems has been verified for conservative problems (or, equivalently, for list homomorphism problems) by Andrei Bulatov. An earlier case of this dichotomy, for list homomorphisms to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Pavol Hell , Arash Rafiey

The degree polynomial of a multigraph $G$ is given by $\sum _{v \in V(G)} x^{\mbox{deg}(v)}$. We investigate here properties of the roots of such polynomials. In addition to examining the roots for some families of graphs with few and many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jason I. Brown , Ian C. George

We determine all graphs whose matching polynomials have at most five distinct zeros. As a consequence, we find new families of graphs which are determined by their matching polynomial.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Ebrahim Ghorbani

In this paper, we focus on the study of immanantal polynomials for linear combination matrices composed of the degree matrix and adjacency matrix of a graph. First, applying the concept of vertex orientation for general graphs, we provide a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Xiangshuai Dong , Tingzeng Wu

We propose an algorithm for solving of the graph isomorphism problem. Also, we introduce the new class of graphs for which the graph isomorphism problem can be solved polynomially using the algorithm.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rashit T. Faizullin , Alexander V. Prolubnikov

We show that the category of graphs has the structure of a 2-category with homotopy as the 2-cells. We then develop an explicit description of homotopies for finite graphs, in terms of what we call `spider moves'. We then create a category…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Tien Chih , Laura Scull

Mutual visibility in graphs provides a framework for analysing how vertices can observe one another along shortest paths free of internal obstructions. The visibility polynomial, which enumerates mutual-visibility sets of all orders, has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Tonny K B , Shikhi M

In this paper we are interested in the fine-grained complexity of deciding whether there is a homomorphism from an input graph $G$ to a fixed graph $H$ (the $H$-Coloring problem). The starting point is that these problems can be viewed as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

We present a deterministic algorithm that given any directed graph on n vertices computes the parity of its number of Hamiltonian cycles in O(1.619^n) time and polynomial space. For bipartite graphs, we give a 1.5^n poly(n) expected time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt