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Removing all connections between two vertices s and z in a graph by removing a minimum number of vertices is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. This (s,z)-separation problem is well-known to be polynomial solvable and serves…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Nicolas Maack , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

An elimination tree of a connected graph $G$ is a rooted tree on the vertices of $G$ obtained by choosing a root $v$ and recursing on the connected components of $G-v$ to obtain the subtrees of $v$. The graph associahedron of $G$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Luís Felipe I. Cunha , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Mario Valencia-Pabon

Let F be a finite set of graphs. In the F-Deletion problem, we are given an n-vertex graph G and an integer k as input, and asked whether at most k vertices can be deleted from G such that the resulting graph does not contain a graph from F…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Saket Saurabh

In this paper, we are interested in algorithms that take in input an arbitrary graph $G$, and that enumerate in output all the (inclusion-wise) maximal "subgraphs" of $G$ which fulfil a given property $\Pi$. All over this paper, we study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Caroline Brosse , Aurélie Lagoutte , Vincent Limouzy , Arnaud Mary , Lucas Pastor

When a graph $G$ admits a vertex $v$ that is contained in all its longest paths, we call $v$ a Gallai vertex. These are named after Gallai, who in 1966 asked the question if it is true that every connected graph contains such a vertex. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Amir Nikabadi , Eva Rotenberg , Lasse Wulf

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 and an integer k, the objective of the $\Pi$-Contraction problem is to check whether there exists at most k edges in G such that contracting them in G results in a graph satisfying the property $\Pi$. We investigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Dipayan Chakraborty , R. B. Sandeep

In the \textsc{Maximum Degree Contraction} problem, input is a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, and integers $k, d$, and the objective is to check whether $G$ can be transformed into a graph of maximum degree at most $d$, using at most $k$ edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

We consider the problem of counting the number of vertices reachable from each vertex in a digraph $G$, which is equal to computing all the out-degrees of the transitive closure of $G$. The current (theoretically) fastest algorithms run in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Naoto Ohsaka

A vertex set $D$ in a finite undirected graph $G$ is an efficient dominating set (e.d.s. for short) of $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is dominated by exactly one vertex of $D$. The Efficient Domination (ED) problem, which asks for the existence…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

We show a number of fine-grained hardness results for the Closest Vector Problem in the $\ell_p$ norm ($\mathrm{CVP}_p$), and its approximate and non-uniform variants. First, we show that $\mathrm{CVP}_p$ cannot be solved in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Divesh Aggarwal , Huck Bennett , Alexander Golovnev , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

Let G be a finite undirected graph. A vertex dominates itself and all its neighbors in G. A vertex set D is an efficient dominating set (e.d. for short) of G if every vertex of G is dominated by exactly one vertex of D. The Efficient…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Andreas Brandstädt , Martin Milanic , Ragnar Nevries

We consider the fine-grained complexity of sparse graph problems that currently have $\tilde{O}(mn)$ time algorithms, where m is the number of edges and n is the number of vertices in the input graph. This class includes several important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$ and an integer $k$, we study $k$-Vertex Seperator (resp. $k$-Edge Separator), where the goal is to remove the minimum number of vertices (resp. edges) such that each connected component in the resulting graph has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Euiwoong Lee

We study the problems of counting the homomorphisms, counting the copies, and counting the induced copies of a $k$-vertex graph $H$ in a $d$-degenerate $n$-vertex graph $G$. Our main result establishes exhaustive and explicit complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Marco Bressan , Marc Roth

Treedepth is a central parameter to algorithmic graph theory. The current state-of-the-art in computing and approximating treedepth consists of a $2^{O(k^2)} n$-time exact algorithm and a polynomial-time $O(\text{OPT} \log^{3/2}…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Édouard Bonnet , Daniel Neuen , Marek Sokołowski

We consider the following string matching problem on a node-labeled graph $G=(V,E)$: given a pattern string $P$, decide whether there exists a path in $G$ whose concatenation of node labels equals $P$. This is a basic primitive in various…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Massimo Equi , Veli Mäkinen , Alexandru I. Tomescu

We study the problem of deleting the smallest set $S$ of vertices (resp. edges) from a given graph $G$ such that the induced subgraph (resp. subgraph) $G \setminus S$ belongs to some class $\mathcal{H}$. We consider the case where graphs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Pasin Manurangsi , Michał Włodarczyk

The Closest Vector Problem (CVP) is a computational problem in lattices that is central to modern cryptography. The study of its fine-grained complexity has gained momentum in the last few years, partly due to the upcoming deployment of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amir Abboud , Rajendra Kumar