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Given a family F of graphs, a graph G is F-free if it does not contain any graph in F as an induced subgraph. The problem of determining the complexity of colouring (claw, 4K1)- free graphs is a well-known open problem. In this paper we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Kathie Cameron , Chính T. Hoàng , Taite LaGrange

The $k^{th}$-power of a given graph $G=(V,E)$ is obtained from $G$ by adding an edge between every two distinct vertices at a distance at most $k$ in $G$. We call $G$ a $k$-Steiner power if it is an induced subgraph of the $k^{th}$-power of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Guillaume Ducoffe

A directed multigraph is said vulnerable if it can generate Braess paradox in Traffic Networks. In this paper, we give a graph-theoretic characterisation of vulnerable directed multigraphs; analogous results appeared in the literature only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pietro Cenciarelli , Daniele Gorla , Ivano Salvo

In this paper, we show that for all $k\geq 10^8$, every graph with minimum degree $k$ and girth at least $10^8$ contains an induced subdivision of a $K_{k+1}$. This answers a problem asked by K\"uhn and Osthus (originally attributed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 António Girão , Zach Hunter

Sublinear time algorithms represent a new paradigm in computing, where an algorithm must give some sort of an answer after inspecting only a small portion of the input. The most typical situation where sublinear time algorithms are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-18 Vladimir Shpilrain

Minimal separators in graphs are an important concept in algorithmic graph theory. In particular, many problems that are NP-hard for general graphs are known to become polynomial-time solvable for classes of graphs with a polynomially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

Let G=(V,E) be an undirected graph, lambda_k be the k-th smallest eigenvalue of the normalized laplacian matrix of G. There is a basic fact in algebraic graph theory that lambda_k > 0 if and only if G has at most k-1 connected components.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

We consider the problem of testing graph cluster structure: given access to a graph $G=(V, E)$, can we quickly determine whether the graph can be partitioned into a few clusters with good inner conductance, or is far from any such graph?…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Ashish Chiplunkar , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Aida Mousavifar , Yuval Peres

We introduce the standard decomposition, a way of decomposing a labeled graph into a sum of certain labeled subgraphs. We motivate this graph-theoretic concept by relating it to Connect Four decompositions of standard sets. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Laurent Evain , Mathias Lederer , Bjarke Hammersholt Roune

It is a long-standing open problem whether the minimal dominating sets of a graph can be enumerated in output-polynomial time. In this paper we investigate this problem in graph classes defined by forbidding an induced subgraph. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Marthe Bonamy , Oscar Defrain , Marc Heinrich , Jean-Florent Raymond , Michał Pilipczuk

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

In this paper, we give a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether an input bipartite graph admits a 2-layer fan-planar drawing, resolving an open problem posed in several papers since 2015.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada

We consider the task of detecting a hidden bipartite subgraph in a given random graph. This is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem, under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph over $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Asaf Rotenberg , Wasim Huleihel , Ofer Shayevitz

We show that the number of $k$-matching in a given undirected graph $G$ is equal to the number of perfect matching of the corresponding graph $G_k$ on an even number of vertices divided by a suitable factor. If $G$ is bipartite then one can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Shmuel Friedland , Daniel Levy

A graph is inductive $k$-independent if there exists and ordering of its vertices $v_{1},...,v_{n}$ such that $\alpha(G[N(v_{i})\cap V_{i}])\leq k $ where $N(v_{i})$ is the neighborhood of $v_{i}$, $V_{i}=\{v_{i},...,v_{n}\}$ and $\alpha$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 George Manoussakis

A graph $H$ is an immersion of a graph $G$ if $H$ can be obtained by some sugraph $G$ after lifting incident edges. We prove that there is a polynomial function $f:\Bbb{N}\times\Bbb{N}\rightarrow\Bbb{N}$, such that if $H$ is a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Archontia Giannopoulou , O-joung Kwon , Jean-Florent Raymond , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

A graph is a cograph if it is $P_4$-free. A $k$-polar partition of a graph $G$ is a partition of the set of vertices of $G$ into parts $A$ and $B$ such that the subgraph induced by $A$ is a complete multipartite graph with at most $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Pavol Hell , César Hernández-Cruz , Cláudia Linhares Sales

The $k$-cut problem asks, given a connected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal splits $G$ into $k$ connected components. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm with approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 MohammadHossein Bateni , Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

We propose an algorithm for solving of the graph isomorphism problem. Also, we introduce the new class of graphs for which the graph isomorphism problem can be solved polynomially using the algorithm.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rashit T. Faizullin , Alexander V. Prolubnikov

Let $k$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices. A connected $k$-subpartition of $G$ is a collection of $k$ pairwise disjoint sets (a.k.a. classes) of vertices in $G$ such that each set induces a connected subgraph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman , Roel Leus