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We study how to sparsify connectivity in graphs under a tight deletion budget. Given a graph $G$ and integers $k,x \ge 0$, Critical Node Cut (CNC) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices so that the number of remaining unordered…

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This paper investigates some relationship between the algebraic connectivity and the clique number of graphs. We characterize all extremal graphs which have the maximum and minimum the algebraic connectivity among all graphs of order $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Graph constraint logic is a framework introduced by Hearn and Demaine, which provides several problems that are often a convenient starting point for reductions. We study the parameterized complexity of Constraint Graph Satisfiability and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Tom C. van der Zanden

We introduce a class of parameterised counting problems on graphs, p-#Induced Subgraph With Property(\Phi), which generalises a number of problems which have previously been studied. This paper focusses on the case in which \Phi defines a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Mark Jerrum , Kitty Meeks

Given a large data matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, we consider the problem of determining whether its entries are i.i.d. with some known marginal distribution $A_{ij}\sim P_0$, or instead $A$ contains a principal submatrix $A_{{\sf…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

We give a lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{n})$ for the degree-4 Sum-of-Squares SDP relaxation for the planted clique problem. Specifically, we show that on an Erd\"os-R\'enyi graph $G(n,\tfrac{1}{2})$, with high probability there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Prasad Raghavendra , Tselil Schramm

One of the prominent current challenges in complexity theory is the attempt to prove lower bounds for $TC^0$, the class of constant-depth, polynomial-size circuits with majority gates. Relying on the results of Williams (2013), an appealing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Roei Tell

By prior work, there is a distributed algorithm that finds a maximal fractional matching (maximal edge packing) in $O(\Delta)$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. We show that this is optimal: there is no distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Mika Göös , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Fabian Kuhn , Thomas Moscibroda , Roger Wattenhofer

We design new polynomial-time algorithms for recovering planted cliques in the semi-random graph model introduced by Feige and Kilian 2001. The previous best algorithms for this model succeed if the planted clique has size at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Rares-Darius Buhai , Pravesh K. Kothari , David Steurer

Courcelle's theorem and its adaptations to cliquewidth have shaped the field of exact parameterized algorithms and are widely considered the archetype of algorithmic meta-theorems. In the past decade, there has been growing interest in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jan Dreier , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm

In recent years there has been increased interest in extremal problems for "counting" parameters of graphs. For example, the Kahn-Zhao theorem gives an upper bound on the number of independent sets in a $d$-regular graph. In the same…

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In this note we show a polynomial bound on the number of minimal separators and potential maximal cliques in $P_6$-free graphs of bounded clique number.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

We develop efficient parameterized, with additive error, approximation algorithms for the (Connected) $r$-Domination problem and the (Connected) $p$-Center problem for unweighted and undirected graphs. Given a graph $G$, we show how to…

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We study the parameterized complexity of a broad class of problems called "local graph partitioning problems" that includes the classical fixed cardinality problems as max k-vertex cover, k-densest subgraph, etc. By developing a technique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Edouard Bonnet , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Emeric Tourniaire

Feedback Vertex Set is a classic combinatorial optimization problem that asks for a minimum set of vertices in a given graph whose deletion makes the graph acyclic. From the point of view of parameterized algorithms and fixed-parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Krzysztof Kiljan , Marcin Pilipczuk

When considering a graph problem from a parameterized point of view, the parameter chosen is often the size of an optimal solution of this problem (the "standard" parameter). A natural subject for investigation is what happens when we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Nicolas Bourgeois , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Marc Demange , Vangelis Th. Paschos

In the literature, several different identification problems in graphs have been studied, the most widely studied such problems are the ones based on dominating sets as a tool of identification. Hereby, the objective is to separate any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dipayan Chakraborty , Annegret K. Wagler

In the Minimum Bisection problem, input is a graph $G$ and the goal is to partition the vertex set into two parts $A$ and $B$, such that $||A|-|B|| \le 1$ and the number $k$ of edges between $A$ and $B$ is minimized. This problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tanmay Inamdar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan

The \emph{linear vertex arboricity} of a graph is the smallest number of sets into which the vertices of a graph can be partitioned so that each of these sets induces a linear forest. Chaplick et al. [JoCG 2020] showed that, somewhat…

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