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Counting small patterns in a large dataset is a fundamental algorithmic task. The most common version of this task is subgraph/homomorphism counting, wherein we count the number of occurrences of a small pattern graph $H$ in an input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

The most elusive problem around the class of circular-arc graphs is identifying all minimal graphs that are not in this class. The main obstacle is the lack of a systematic way of enumerating these minimal graphs. McConnell [FOCS 2001]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Yixin Cao , Jan Derbisz , Tomasz Krawczyk

It is known that for every graph $G$ there exists the smallest Helly graph $\cal H(G)$ into which $G$ isometrically embeds ($\cal H(G)$ is called the injective hull of $G$) such that the hyperbolicity of $\cal H(G)$ is equal to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Feodor F. Dragan , Heather M. Guarnera

The ball hypergraph of a graph $G$ is the family of balls of all possible centers and radii in $G$. It has Helly number at most $k$ if every subfamily of $k$-wise intersecting balls has a nonempty common intersection. A graph is $k$-Helly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Guillaume Ducoffe

For a fixed set ${\cal H}$ of graphs, a graph $G$ is ${\cal H}$-subgraph-free if $G$ does not contain any $H \in {\cal H}$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. A recently proposed framework gives a complete classification on ${\cal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vadim Lozin , Barnaby Martin , Sukanya Pandey , Daniel Paulusma , Mark Siggers , Siani Smith , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

In this paper we present a characterisation, by an infinite family of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs, of proper circular arc graphs which are intersection graphs of paths on a grid, where each path has at most one bend (turn).

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Esther Galby , Maria Pia Mazzoleni , Bernard Ries

A proper Helly circular-arc graph is an intersection graph of a set of arcs on a circle such that none of the arcs properly contains any other arc and every set of pairwise intersecting arcs has a common intersection. The Proper Helly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Akanksha Agrawal , Satyabrata Jana , Abhishek Sahu

We give a linear-time algorithm that checks for isomorphism between two 0-1 matrices that obey the circular-ones property. This algorithm leads to linear-time isomorphism algorithms for related graph classes, including Helly circular-arc…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Andrew R. Curtis , Min Chih Lin , Ross M. McConnell , Yahav Nussbaum , Francisco J. Soulignac , Jeremy P. Spinrad , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

What are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? It is well-known that the answer must include a complete graph, a complete bipartite graph, all subdivisions of a wall and line graphs of all subdivisions of a wall…

For any particular class of graphs, algorithms for computational problems restricted to the class often rely on structural properties that depend on the specific problem at hand. This begs the question if a large set of such results can be…

Golumbic, Lipshteyn, and Stern defined in 2009 the class of EPG graphs, the intersection graph class of edge paths on a grid. An EPG graph $G$ is a graph that admits a representation where its vertices correspond to paths in a grid $Q$,…

The irrelevant vertex technique provides a powerful tool for the design of parameterized algorithms for a wide variety of problems on graphs. A common characteristic of these problems, permitting the application of this technique on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Petr A. Golovach , Stavros G. Kolliopoulos , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In 1969, Alan Tucker characterized proper circular-arc graphs as those graphs whose augmented adjacency matrices have the circularly compatible ones property. Moreover, he also found a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Martín D. Safe

In this paper we investigate the existence of subexponential parameterized algorithms of three fundamental cycle-hitting problems in geometric graph classes. The considered problems, \textsc{Triangle Hitting} (TH), \textsc{Feedback Vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the recognition problem for the proper $H$-graphs. The $H$-graphs are the intersection graphs of connected subgraphs of a subdivision of a multigraph $H$, and the properness means that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Steven Chaplick , Petr A. Golovach , Tim A. Hartmann , Dušan Knop

In recent years, there has been significant interest in characterizing the induced subgraph obstructions to bounded treewidth and pathwidth. While this has recently been resolved for pathwidth, the case of treewidth remains open, and prior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Maria Chudnovsky , David Fischer , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl , Bartosz Walczak

A graph $H$ is an induced subgraph of a graph $G$ if a graph isomorphic to $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by deleting vertices. Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the unavoidable induced subgraphs for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Robert Hickingbotham

An obstacle representation of a graph G is a set of points on the plane together with a set of polygonal obstacles that determine a visibility graph isomorphic to G. The obstacle number of G is the minimum number of obstacles over all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 János Pach , Deniz Sarioz

A graph is circle if its vertices are in correspondence with a family of chords in a circle in such a way that every two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding chords have nonempty intersection. Even though there…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Guillermo A. Durán , Nina Pardal , Martín D. Safe

A hedge graph is a graph whose edge set has been partitioned into groups called hedges. Here we consider a generalization of the well-known \textsc{Cluster Deletion} problem, named \textsc{Hedge Cluster Deletion}. The task is to compute the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Charis Papadopoulos , Georgios Velissaris