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Many algorithms have been developed for NP-hard problems on graphs with small treewidth $k$. For example, all problems that are expressable in linear extended monadic second order can be solved in linear time on graphs of bounded treewidth.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Frank Kammer , Torsten Tholey

We consider the problem of detecting a cycle in a directed graph that grows by arc insertions, and the related problems of maintaining a topological order and the strong components of such a graph. For these problems, we give two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , Robert E. Tarjan

The maximum clique problem (MCP) is to find the largest complete subgraph in an undirected graph, that is, the subgraph in which there are edges between every two different vertices. It is an NP-Hard problem with wide applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Wenmin Han , Shiqi Zheng , Peian Chen , Yukun Wang

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran

Let ${\cal G}$ be a minor-closed graph class. We say that a graph $G$ is a $k$-apex of ${\cal G}$ if $G$ contains a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G\setminus S$ belongs to ${\cal G}$. We denote by ${\cal A}_k ({\cal G})$ the set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ignasi Sau , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

For a non-negative integer $k$, a vertex cut in a graph is $k$-degenerate if it induces a $k$-degenerate subgraph. We show that a graph of order $n$ at least $2k+2$ without a $k$-degenerate cut has the size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Thilo Hartel , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

In this paper we provide a $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$ time algorithm that computes a $3$-multiplicative approximation of the girth of a $n$-node $m$-edge directed graph with non-negative edge lengths. This is the first algorithm which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Shiri Chechik , Yang P. Liu , Omer Rotem , Aaron Sidford

We consider the problems of finding a maximum clique in a graph and finding a maximum-edge biclique in a bipartite graph. Both problems are NP-hard. We write both problems as matrix-rank minimization and then relax them using the nuclear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-01-22 Brendan Ames , Stephen Vavasis

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a cycle of length $2k$ (a $C_{2k}$) in an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges for constant $k\ge2$. A classic result by Bondy and Simonovits [J.Comb.Th.'74] implies that if $m…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Søren Dahlgaard , Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen , Morten Stöckel

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a connected graph with maximum degree $k\geq 3$ distinct from $K_{k+1}$. Given integers $s \geq 2$ and $p_1,\ldots,p_s\geq 0$, $G$ is said to be $(p_1, \dots, p_s)$-partitionable if there exists a partition of $V$ into…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Carl Feghali , Pinar Heggernes

A graph is $k$-clique-extendible if there is an ordering of the vertices such that whenever two $k$-sized overlapping cliques $A$ and $B$ have $k-1$ common vertices, and these common vertices appear between the two vertices $a,b\in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mathew Francis , Rian Neogi , Venkatesh Raman

While algebrisation constitutes a powerful technique in the design and analysis of centralised algorithms, to date there have been hardly any applications of algebraic techniques in the context of distributed graph algorithms. This work is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Petteri Kaski , Janne H. Korhonen , Christoph Lenzen , Jukka Suomela

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental graph mining task, but its utility is often limited by computational intractability and highly redundant output. To address these challenges, we introduce \emph{$\rho$-dense aggregators}, a novel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Noga Alon , Sabyasachi Basu , Shweta Jain , Haim Kaplan , Jakub Łącki , Blair D. Sullivan

We develop two different methods to achieve subexponential time parameterized algorithms for problems on sparse directed graphs. We exemplify our approaches with two well studied problems. For the first problem, {\sc $k$-Leaf…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-07 Frederic Dorn , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

In this note we present an algorithm that lists all $4$-cycles in a graph in time $\tilde{O}(\min(n^2,m^{4/3})+t)$ where $t$ is their number. Notably, this separates $4$-cycle listing from triangle-listing, since the latter has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Amir Abboud , Seri Khoury , Oree Leibowitz , Ron Safier

Our main result is that every graph $G$ on $n\ge 10^4r^3$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge (1 - 1 / 10^4 r^{3/2} ) n$ has a fractional $K_r$-decomposition. Combining this result with recent work of Barber, K\"uhn, Lo and Osthus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ben Barber , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

Cutwidth is one of the classic layout parameters for graphs. It measures how well one can order the vertices of a graph in a linear manner, so that the maximum number of edges between any prefix and its complement suffix is minimized. As…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Michał Pilipczuk , Jean-Florent Raymond , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Marcin Wrochna

We study graph realization problems from a distributed perspective and we study it in the node capacitated clique (NCC) model of distributed computing, recently introduced for representing peer-to-peer networks. We focus on two central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-19 John Augustine , Keerti Choudhary , Avi Cohen , David Peleg , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam , Suman Sourav