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In this paper we study fair variants of MSO$_1$ definable problems parameterized by cluster vertex deletion number, i.e., the smallest number of vertices required to be removed from the graph such that what remains is a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tomáš Masařík , Jędrzej Olkowski , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

In this paper, we consider the following two problems: (i) Deletion Blocker($\alpha$) where we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and two integers $k,d\geq 1$ and ask whether there exists a subset of vertices $S\subseteq V$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Felicia Lucke , Bernard Ries

Vertex deletion to hereditary graph class is well-studied in parameterized complexity. Vertex deletion to the scattered graph classes has gained attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider (Proper-Interval, Tree)-Vertex Deletion,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ashwin Jacob , Arpit Kumar , Diptapriyo Majumdar

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden subgraphs, we study $\mathcal{F}$-Free Edge Deletion, where the goal is to remove minimum number of edges such that the resulting graph does not contain any $F\in \mathcal{F}$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We study the complexity for graph width parameters for which the ordinary problems…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

We study the following problem: for given integers $d$, $k$ and graph $G$, can we reduce some fixed graph parameter $\pi$ of $G$ by at least $d$ via at most $k$ graph operations from some fixed set $S$? As parameters we take the chromatic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Öznur Yaşar Diner , Daniël Paulusma , Christophe Picouleau , Bernard Ries

A bipartite graph $G=(L,R;E)$ with at least one edge is said to be identifiable if for every vertex $v\in L$, the subgraph induced by its non-neighbors has a matching of cardinality $|L|-1$. An $\ell$-subgraph of $G$ is an induced subgraph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Stefan Kratsch , Martin Milanič

In the Split to Block Vertex Deletion and Split to Threshold Vertex Deletion problems the input is a split graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to decide whether there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G-S$ is a block…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Dekel Tsur

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 investigate the relative complexity of the graph isomorphism problem (GI) and problems related to the reconstruction of a graph from its vertex-deleted or edge-deleted subgraphs (in particular, deck checking (DC) and legitimate deck (LD)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Stanislaw P. Radziszowski , Rahul Tripathi

In this paper, we study the problem of pathfinding on traversal-dependent graphs, i.e., graphs whose edges change depending on the previously visited vertices. In particular, we study \emph{self-deleting graphs}, introduced by Carmesin et…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Michal Dvořák , Dušan Knop , Michal Opler , Jan Pokorný , Ondřej Suchý , Krisztina Szilágyi

We study the parameterized complexity of the $s$-Club Cluster Edge Deletion problem: Given a graph $G$ and two integers $s \ge 2$ and $k \ge 1$, is it possible to remove at most $k$ edges from $G$ such that each connected component of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli , Alessandra Tappini

This work investigates the parameterized complexity of three related graph modification problems. Given a directed graph, a distinguished vertex, and a positive integer k, Minimum Indegree Deletion asks for a vertex subset of size at most k…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Robert Bredereck

A graph is distance-hereditary if for any pair of vertices, their distance in every connected induced subgraph containing both vertices is the same as their distance in the original graph. The Distance-Hereditary Vertex Deletion problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Eun Jung Kim , O-joung Kwon

For a finite collection of connected graphs $\mathcal{F}$, the $\mathcal{F}$-MINOR-DELETION problem consists in, given a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell$, deciding whether $G$ contains a vertex set of size at most $\ell$ whose removal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Marin Bougeret , Eric Brandwein , Ignasi Sau

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a threshold function $t~ :~ V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ and an integer $k$, we study the Harmless Set problem, where the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$ of size at least $k$ such that every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

In this paper, we investigate the approximability of two node deletion problems. Given a vertex weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ and a specified, or "distinguished" vertex $p \in V$, MDD(min) is the problem of finding a minimum weight vertex set $S…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Sounaka Mishra , Ashwin Pananjady , N Safina Devi

For a positive integer $k$ and graph $G=(V,E)$, a $k$-colouring of $G$ is a mapping $c: V\rightarrow\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ whenever $uv\in E$. The $k$-Colouring problem is to decide, for a given $G$, whether a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Shenwei Huang , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

Given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, the $k$-biclique problem asks whether $G$ contains a complete bipartite subgraph $K_{k,k}$. This is the most easily stated problem on graphs whose parameterized complexity is still unknown. We provide…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Bingkai Lin

We study the parameterized and classical complexity of two related problems on undirected graphs $G=(V,E)$. In Strong Triadic Closure we aim to label the edges in $E$ as strong and weak such that at most~$k$ edges are weak and $G$ contains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Niels Grüttemeier , Christian Komusiewicz