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In this note, we revisit the edge-degree constrained subgraph (EDCS) introduced by Bernstein and Stein (ICALP'15). An EDCS is a sparse subgraph satisfying simple edge-degree constraints that is guaranteed to include an (almost)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Soheil Behnezhad

A unit disk graph $G$ on a given set $P$ of points in the plane is a geometric graph where an edge exists between two points $p,q \in P$ if and only if $|pq| \leq 1$. A spanning subgraph $G'$ of $G$ is a $k$-hop spanner if and only if for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Adrian Dumitrescu , Anirban Ghosh , Csaba D. Tóth

This is the fourth in a series of articles devoted to showing that a typical covering map of large degree to a fixed, regular graph has its new adjacency eigenvalues within the bound conjectured by Alon for random regular graphs. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Joel Friedman , David Kohler

We present a simple greedy procedure to compute an $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner for a graph $G$. We then show that this procedure is useful for building fault-tolerant spanners, as well as spanners for weighted graphs. Our first main result is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Elizaveta Popova , Elad Tzalik

We show, assuming the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis, that for every $\varepsilon > 0$, approximating directed Diameter on $m$-arc graphs within ratio $7/4 - \varepsilon$ requires $m^{4/3 - o(1)}$ time. Our construction uses nonnegative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Édouard Bonnet

We address the following problem: Given a complete $k$-partite geometric graph $K$ whose vertex set is a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, compute a spanner of $K$ that has a ``small'' stretch factor and ``few'' edges. We present two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-12-05 Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi , Mathieu Couture , Anil Maheshwari , Pat Morin , Michiel Smid

We maintain a $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanner over the disk intersection graph of a dynamic set of disks. We restrict all disks to have their diameter in $[4,\Psi]$ for some fixed and known $\Psi$. The resulting $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanner has size…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sarita de Berg , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Johanne M. Vistisen , Sampson Wong

A spanner of a graph is a subgraph that preserves lengths of shortest paths up to a multiplicative distortion. For every $k$, a spanner with size $O(n^{1+1/k})$ and stretch $(2k+1)$ can be constructed by a simple centralized greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Rubi Arviv , Lily Chung , Reut Levi , Edward Pyne

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, an {\em $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner} $H=(V,E')$ is a subgraph that approximately preserves distances; for every $u,v\in V$, $d_H(u,v)\le \alpha\cdot d_G(u,v)+\beta$. An $(\alpha,\beta)$-hopset is a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ofer Neiman , Idan Shabat

We present improved upper and lower bounds on the spanning ratio of $\theta$-graphs with at least six cones. Given a set of points in the plane, a $\theta$-graph partitions the plane around each vertex into $m$ disjoint cones, each having…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Pat Morin , André van Renssen , Sander Verdonschot

We consider upward-planar layered drawings of directed graphs, i.e., crossing-free drawings in which each edge is drawn as a y-monotone curve going upward from its tail to its head, and the y-coordinates of the vertices are integers. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Patrizio Angelini , Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Fabrizio Frati , Philipp Kindermann , Ignaz Rutter , Johannes Zink

Given a directed graph $G = (V,E)$, undergoing an online sequence of edge deletions with $m$ edges in the initial version of $G$ and $n = |V|$, we consider the problem of maintaining all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) in $G$. Whilst this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Jacob Evald , Viktor Fredslund-Hansen , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We prove better lower bounds on additive spanners and emulators, which are lossy compression schemes for undirected graphs, as well as lower bounds on shortcut sets, which reduce the diameter of directed graphs. We show that any $O(n)$-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shang-En Huang , Seth Pettie

The greedy spanner in a low dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental geometric construction that has been extensively studied over three decades as it possesses the two most basic properties of a good spanner: constant maximum degree…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hung Le , Cuong Than

A $k$-fault-tolerant connectivity preserver of a directed $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ such that, for any edge set $F \subseteq E(G)$ of size $|F| \le k$, the strongly connected components of $G - F$ and $H - F$ are the same.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Gary Hoppenworth , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

We initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

We study the space complexity of sketching cuts and Laplacian quadratic forms of graphs. We show that any data structure which approximately stores the sizes of all cuts in an undirected graph on $n$ vertices up to a $1+\epsilon$ error must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Charles Carlson , Alexandra Kolla , Nikhil Srivastava , Luca Trevisan

Designing dynamic graph algorithms against an adaptive adversary is a major goal in the field of dynamic graph algorithms. While a few such algorithms are known for spanning trees, matchings, and single-source shortest paths, very little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aaron Bernstein , Jan van den Brand , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , He Sun

We study the problem of releasing the weights of all-pair shortest paths in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy (DP). In this setting, the underlying graph is fixed and two graphs are neighbors if their edge weights differ…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson

Given a weighted graph $G$ and an error parameter $\epsilon > 0$, the {\em graph sparsification} problem requires sampling edges in $G$ and giving the sampled edges appropriate weights to obtain a sparse graph $G_{\epsilon}$ (containing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Ramesh Hariharan , Debmalya Panigrahi