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In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems regarding cut complexes of graphs: their realizability, the uniqueness of graph reconstruction from them, and their algorithmic recognition. We define the parameter $m(d,n)$ as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yufeng Shen , Zhiyu Song , Fenglin Yu , Leopold Wuhan Zhou , Jingqi Zhuang

Grid graphs, and, more generally, $k\times r$ grid graphs, form one of the most basic classes of geometric graphs. Over the past few decades, a large body of works studied the (in)tractability of various computational problems on grid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

We consider a the minimum k-way cut problem for unweighted graphs with a size bound s on the number of cut edges allowed. Thus we seek to remove as few edges as possible so as to split a graph into k components, or report that this requires…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-27 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup

While graphs and abstract data structures can be large and complex, practical instances are often regular or highly structured. If the instance has sufficient structure, we might hope to compress the object into a more succinct…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shreya Gupta , Boyang Huang , Russell Impagliazzo , Stanley Woo , Christopher Ye

Given a directed graph $G$, a set of $k$ terminals and an integer $p$, the \textsc{Directed Vertex Multiway Cut} problem asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $p$ (nonterminal) vertices whose removal disconnects each terminal from all other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

We show that the following two problems are fixed-parameter tractable with parameter k: testing whether a connected n-vertex graph with m edges has a square root with at most n-1+k edges and testing whether such a graph has a square root…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Manfred Cochefert , Jean-François Couturier , Petr A. Golovach , Dieter Kratsch , Daniël Paulusma

Fully dynamic graph is a data structure that (1) supports edge insertions and deletions and (2) answers problem specific queries. The time complexity of (1) and (2) are referred to as the update time and the query time respectively. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka

When considering a graph problem from a parameterized point of view, the parameter chosen is often the size of an optimal solution of this problem (the "standard" parameter). A natural subject for investigation is what happens when we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Nicolas Bourgeois , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Marc Demange , Vangelis Th. Paschos

In the Hedge Cut problem, the edges of a graph are partitioned into groups called hedges, and the question is what is the minimum number of hedges to delete to disconnect the graph. Ghaffari, Karger, and Panigrahi [SODA 2017] showed that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

In this work, we initiate a thorough study of parameterized graph optimization problems in the distributed setting. In a parameterized problem, an algorithm decides whether a solution of size bounded by a \emph{parameter} $k$ exists and if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Ran Ben-Basat , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

We present the first results on the parameterized complexity of reconfiguration problems, where a reconfiguration version of an optimization problem $Q$ takes as input two feasible solutions $S$ and $T$ and determines if there is a sequence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-23 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Narges Simjour , Akira Suzuki

The Steiner Multicut problem asks, given an undirected graph G, terminals sets T1,...,Tt $\subseteq$ V(G) of size at most p, and an integer k, whether there is a set S of at most k edges or nodes s.t. of each set Ti at least one pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Karl Bringmann , Danny Hermelin , Matthias Mnich , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The Independent Cutset problem asks whether there is a set of vertices in a given graph that is both independent and a cutset. Such a problem is $\textsf{NP}$-complete even when the input graph is planar and has maximum degree five. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

A graph is $c$-closed when every pair of nonadjacent vertices has at most $c-1$ common neighbors. In $c$-Closed Vertex Deletion, the input is a graph $G$ and an integer $k$ and we ask whether $G$ can be transformed into a $c$-closed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lisa Lehner , Christian Komusiewicz , Luca Pascal Staus

In this paper we study the problem of finding a small safe set $S$ in a graph $G$, i.e. a non-empty set of vertices such that no connected component of $G[S]$ is adjacent to a larger component in $G - S$. We enhance our understanding of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Rémy Belmonte , Tesshu Hanaka , Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

The study of parameterized streaming complexity on graph problems was initiated by Fafianie et al. (MFCS'14) and Chitnis et al. (SODA'15 and SODA'16). Simply put, the main goal is to design streaming algorithms for parameterized problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Sudeshna Kolay , Gopinath Mishra , Saket Saurabh

Given a bipartite graph $G$, the \textsc{Bicluster Editing} problem asks for the minimum number of edges to insert or delete in $G$ so that every connected component is a bicluster, i.e. a complete bipartite graph. This has several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Manuel Lafond

Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs is important in a variety of application domains, such as network vulnerability assessment, epidemic control, and drug design. The critical node problem (CNP) aims to find a set of critical nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Xuwei Tan , Yangming Zhou , MengChu Zhou , Zhang-Hua Fu

We study the fixed-parameter tractability of the following fundamental problem: given two directed graphs $\vec H$ and $\vec G$, count the number of copies of $\vec H$ in $\vec G$. The standard setting, where the tractability is well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Marco Bressan , Matthias Lanzinger , Marc Roth

We study deterministic algorithms for computing graph cuts, with focus on two fundamental problems: balanced sparse cut and $k$-vertex connectivity for small $k$ ($k=O(\polylog n)$). Both problems can be solved in near-linear time with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai