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The treedepth of a graph $G$ is the least possible depth of an elimination forest of $G$: a rooted forest on the same vertex set where every pair of vertices adjacent in $G$ is bound by the ancestor/descendant relation. We propose an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Smulewicz

For any graph $G$ of order $n$, the spanning tree packing number \emph{$STP(G)$}, is the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees contained in $G$. In this paper, we obtain some sharp lower bounds for the spanning tree numbers of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao , Jun Yue

We prove that any extended formulation that approximates the matching polytope on $n$-vertex graphs up to a factor of $(1+\varepsilon)$ for any $\frac2n \le \varepsilon \le 1$ must have at least $\binom{n}{{\alpha}/{\varepsilon}}$ defining…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Makrand Sinha

Given a planar graph $G$ and an integer $b$, OrthogonalPlanarity is the problem of deciding whether $G$ admits an orthogonal drawing with at most $b$ bends in total. We show that OrthogonalPlanarity can be solved in polynomial time if $G$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Emilio Di Giacomo , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani

We give an algorithm to calculate the minimal and maximal genus of the orientable closed surface where a graph $G$ can be embedded. For this, we construct some special branched coverings of the 2-sphere. We apply this algorithm to calculate…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Lorena Armas-Sanabria , Víctor Núñez

Let $f(n,k)$ be the minimum number of edges that must be removed from some complete geometric graph $G$ on $n$ points, so that there exists a tree on $k$ vertices that is no longer a planar subgraph of $G$. In this paper we show that…

We derive two formulas for the weighted sums of rooted spanning forests of particular sequence of graphs by using the matrix tree theorem. We consider cycle graphs with edges so called the pendant edges. One of our formula can be described…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Hajime Fujita , Kimiko Hasegawa , Yukie Inaba , Takefumi Kondo

Motivated by the problem of routing reliably and scalably in a graph, we introduce the notion of a splicer, the union of spanning trees of a graph. We prove that for any bounded-degree n-vertex graph, the union of two random spanning trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-10 Navin Goyal , Luis Rademacher , Santosh Vempala

We construct $n$-node graphs on which any $O(n)$-size spanner has additive error at least $+\Omega(n^{3/17})$, improving on the previous best lower bound of $\Omega(n^{1/7})$ [Bodwin-Hoppenworth FOCS '22]. Our construction completes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Greg Bodwin , Gary Hoppenworth , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein , Zixuan Xu

The complexity of a finite connected graph is its number of spanning trees; for a non-connected graph it is the product of complexities of its connected components. If $G$ is an infinite graph with cofinite free ${\mathbb Z}^d$-symmetry,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

We study a representation-theoretic refinement of the ordinary Laplacian spectrum of a graph. Given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, one may associate to it the element \[ X_G=\sum_{ij\in E(G)} (ij)\in \C[S_n]. \] The action of $X_G$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boris Shapiro

For a fixed "pattern" graph $G$, the $\textit{colored $G$-subgraph isomorphism problem}$ (denoted $\mathrm{SUB}(G)$) asks, given an $n$-vertex graph $H$ and a coloring $V(H) \to V(G)$, whether $H$ contains a properly colored copy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Deepanshu Kush , Benjamin Rossman

We give an Ore-Type condition sufficient for a graph G to have a spanning tree with a specified degree sequence.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-03 María Elena Martínez-Cuero , Eduardo Rivera-Campo

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a loopless graph and $\mathcal{T}(G)$ be the set of all spanning trees of $G$. Let $L(G)$ be the line graph of the graph $G$ and $t(L(G))$ be the number of spanning trees of $L(G)$. Then, by using techniques from electrical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Helin Gong , Xian'an Jin

We solve a problem of Krivelevich, Kwan and Sudakov [SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 31 (2017), 155-171] concerning the threshold for the containment of all bounded degree spanning trees in the model of randomly perturbed dense graphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Julia Böttcher , Jie Han , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Richard Montgomery , Olaf Parczyk , Yury Person

The task of finding an extension to a given partial drawing of a graph while adhering to constraints on the representation has been extensively studied in the literature, with well-known results providing efficient algorithms for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sujoy Bhore , Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Martin Nöllenburg

Graph polynomials encode fundamental combinatorial invariants of graphs. Their computation is investigated using tree and path decomposition frameworks, with formal definitions of treewidth, k-trees, and pathwidth establishing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehul Bafna , Shaghik Amirian

We show an $\widetilde{O}(m^{1.5} \epsilon^{-1})$ time algorithm that on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices outputs its spanning tree count up to a multiplicative $(1+\epsilon)$ factor with high probability, improving on the previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Junzhao Yang

We give two new approximation algorithms to compute the fractional hypertree width of an input hypergraph. The first algorithm takes as input $n$-vertex $m$-edge hypergraph $H$ of fractional hypertree width at most $\omega$, runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Viktoriia Korchemna , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan , Jie Xue

We give approximation schemes for Subset TSP and Steiner Tree on unit disk graphs, and more generally, on intersection graphs of similarly sized connected fat (not necessarily convex) polygons in the plane. As a first step towards this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx