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We study dynamic planar graphs with $n$ vertices, subject to edge deletion, edge contraction, edge insertion across a face, and the splitting of a vertex in specified corners. We dynamically maintain a combinatorial embedding of such a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg

A $k$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a sparse subgraph $H$ whose shortest path distances match those of $G$ up to a multiplicative error $k$. In this paper we study spanners that are resistant to faults. A subgraph $H \subseteq G$ is an $f$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Merav Parter , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

An edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ is called stable if the value of a maximum-weight matching equals the value of a maximum-weight fractional matching. Stable graphs play an important role in some interesting game theory problems, such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhuan Khye Koh , Laura Sanità

A $t$-spanner of a graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ in which all distances are preserved up to a multiplicative $t$ factor. A classical result of Alth\"ofer et al. is that for every integer $k$ and every graph $G$, there is a $(2k-1)$-spanner of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Eden Chlamtáč , Michael Dinitz , Thomas Robinson

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We present the first algorithm for maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) of a fully dynamic graph---which undergoes both edge insertions and deletions---in polylogarithmic time. Our algorithm is randomized and, per update, takes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Cliff Stein , Madhu Sudan

Single Source Shortest Paths ($\textrm{SSSP}$) is among the most well-studied problems in computer science. In the incremental (resp. decremental) setting, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source in a graph undergoing edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Christopher Ye

In (fully) dynamic set cover, the goal is to maintain an approximately optimal solution to a dynamically evolving instance of set cover, where in each step either an element is added to or removed from the instance. The two main desiderata…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sayan Bhattacharya , Ruoxu Cen , Debmalya Panigrahi

We study dynamic algorithms for maintaining fundamental algebraic properties of matrices, specifically, rank, basis, and full-rank submatrices, with applications to maximum matching on dynamic graphs. Prior dynamic algorithms for rank…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jan van den Brand , Vishal Kumar , Daniel J. Zhang

Recent work has pinned down the existentially optimal size bounds for vertex fault-tolerant spanners: for any positive integer $k$, every $n$-node graph has a $(2k-1)$-spanner on $O(f^{1-1/k} n^{1+1/k})$ edges resilient to $f$ vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Caleb Robelle

We initiate the study of approximate maximum matching in the vertex partition model, for graphs subject to dynamic changes. We assume that the $n$ vertices of the graph are partitioned among $k$ players, who execute a distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Peter Robinson , Xianbin Zhu

Computing a dense subgraph is a fundamental problem in graph mining, with a diverse set of applications ranging from electronic commerce to community detection in social networks. In many of these applications, the underlying context is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Suman K. Bera , Sayan Bhattacharya , Jayesh Choudhari , Prantar Ghosh

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers specific queries pertinent to the problem at hand. In this work, we address the fully dynamic edge orientation problem, also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ernestine Großmann , Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Fabian Walliser

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

The classic technique of Baker [J. ACM '94] is the most fundamental approach for designing approximation schemes on planar, or more generally topologically-constrained graphs, and it has been applied in a myriad of different variants and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tuukka Korhonen , Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski

Stabilization of graphs has received substantial attention in recent years due to its connection to game theory. Stable graphs are exactly the graphs inducing a matching game with non-empty core. They are also the graphs that induce a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Corinna Gottschalk , Jochen Könemann , Britta Peis , Daniel Schmand , Andreas Wierz

Spanning trees of low average stretch on the non-tree edges, as introduced by Alon et al. [SICOMP 1995], are a natural graph-theoretic object. In recent years, they have found significant applications in solvers for symmetric diagonally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci

We consider the problem of maintaining an (approximately) minimum vertex cover in an $n$-node graph $G = (V, E)$ that is getting updated dynamically via a sequence of edge insertions/deletions. We show how to maintain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sayan Bhattacharya , Janardhan Kulkarni

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers certain queries that are specific to the problem under consideration. There has been a lot of research on dynamic algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

We describe a data structure that maintains the number of triangles in a dynamic undirected graph, subject to insertions and deletions of edges and of degree-zero vertices. More generally it can be used to maintain the number of copies of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-16 David Eppstein , Emma S. Spiro