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We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

The conjecture of Bollob\'as and Koml\'os, recently proved by B\"ottcher, Schacht, and Taraz [Math. Ann. 343(1), 175--205, 2009], implies that for any $\gamma>0$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices with bounded degree and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Julia Böttcher , Peter Christian Heinig , Anusch Taraz

Minimum Bisection denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets of equal sizes while minimizing the width of the bisection, which is defined as the number of edges between these two sets. We first consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In this work, we focus on several completion problems for subclasses of chordal graphs: Minimum Fill-In, Interval Completion, Proper Interval Completion, Threshold Completion, and Trivially Perfect Completion. In these problems, the task is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Ivan Bliznets , Marek Cygan , Pawel Komosa , Lukas Mach , Michal Pilipczuk

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

In 1973, Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits asked whether every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph with minimum degree greater than $1/3 \cdot n$ is 3-colourable. This question initiated the study of the chromatic profile of triangle-free graphs: for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Freddie Illingworth

For the set of graphs with a given degree sequence, consisting of any number of $2's$ and $1's$, and its subset of bipartite graphs, we characterize the optimal graphs who maximize and minimize the number of $m$-matchings. We find the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-16 S. Friedland , E. Krop , K. Markström

We analyze the query complexity of finding a local minimum in $t$ rounds on general graphs. More precisely, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and oracle access to an unknown function $f : V \to \mathbb{R}$, the goal is to find a local minimum--a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Simina Brânzei , Ioannis Panageas , Dimitris Paparas

The mincut graph bisection problem involves partitioning the n vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets, each containing exactly n/2 vertices, while minimizing the number of "cut" edges with an endpoint in each subset. When considered over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Allon G. Percus , Gabriel Istrate , Bruno Goncalves , Robert Z. Sumi , Stefan Boettcher

The degree-based entropy of a graph is defined as the Shannon entropy based on the information functional that associates the vertices of the graph with the corresponding degrees. In this paper, we study extremal problems of finding the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Yanni Dong , Maximilien Gadouleau , Pengfei Wan , Shenggui Zhang

The enumeration of minimal connected dominating sets is known to be notoriously hard for general graphs. Currently, it is only known that the sets can be enumerated slightly faster than $\mathcal{O}^{*}(2^n)$ and the algorithm is highly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Mohamed Yosri Sayadi

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with two distinguished vertices $s,t\in V$ and an integer parameter $L>0$, an {\em $L$-bounded cut} is a subset $F$ of edges (vertices) such that the every path between $s$ and $t$ in $G\setminus F$ has length more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Petr Kolman

We study the approximability of the maximum size independent set (MIS) problem in bounded degree graphs. This is one of the most classic and widely studied NP-hard optimization problems. We focus on the well known minimum degree greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Piotr Krysta , Mathieu Mari , Nan Zhi

A seminal result of Lee asserts that the Ramsey number of any bipartite $d$-degenerate graph $H$ satisfies $\log r(H) = \log n + O(d)$. In particular, this bound applies to every bipartite graph of maximal degree $\Delta$. It remains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Dylan J. Altschuler , Han Huang , Konstantin Tikhomirov

The densest subgraph problem is a classic problem in combinatorial optimisation. Danisch, Chan, and Sozio propose a definition for \emph{local density} that assigns to each vertex $v$ a value $\rho^*(v)$. This local density is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Aleksander Bjørn Christiansen , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

In this paper, we use a new method to decrease the parameterized complexity bound for finding the minimum vertex cover of connected max-degree-3 undirected graphs. The key operation of this method is reduction of the size of a particular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Weiya Yue , John Franco , Weiwei Cao

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

The smallest set of vertices needed to differentiate or categorize every other vertex in a graph is referred to as the graph's metric dimension. Finding the class of graphs for a particular given metric dimension is an NP-hard problem. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Amal S. Alali , Shahbaz Ali , Muhammad Adnan , Delfim F. M. Torres

A locally irregular graph is a graph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees, a regular graph is a graph where each vertex has the same degree and a locally regular graph is a graph where for every two adjacent vertices u, v, their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Arash Ahadi , Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Brett Stevens