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Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with $V=\{1,\ldots,n\}$, we place on every vertex a token $T_1,\ldots,T_n$. A swap is an exchange of tokens on adjacent vertices. We consider the algorithmic question of finding a shortest sequence of swaps such that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Tillmann Miltzow , Lothar Narins , Yoshio Okamoto , Günter Rote , Antonis Thomas , Takeaki Uno

We investigate the joint distribution of the vertex degrees in three models of random bipartite graphs. Namely, we can choose each edge with a specified probability, choose a specified number of edges, or specify the vertex degrees in one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Brendan D. McKay , Fiona Skerman

Rank of divisor on graph was introduced in 2007 and it quickly attracts many attentions. Recently, in 2015 the problem for computing this quantity was proved to be NP-hard. In this paper, we describe a linear time algorithm for this problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Phan Thi Ha Duong

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

We introduce a novel framework of graph modifications specific to interval graphs. We study interdiction problems with respect to these graph modifications. Given a list of original intervals, each interval has a replacement interval such…

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The Clique Problem has a reduction to the Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem. We review the reduction to evolve a polynomial time algorithm for the Clique Problem. A computer program in C language has been written to validate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pawan Tamta , B. P. Pande , H. S. Dhami

Given a graph $G$, the longest path problem asks to compute a simple path of $G$ with the largest number of vertices. This problem is the most natural optimization version of the well known and well studied Hamiltonian path problem, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-04-27 George B. Mertzios , Derek G. Corneil

It is confirmed in this work that the graph isomorphism can be tested in polynomial time, which resolves a longstanding problem in the theory of computation. The contributions are in three phases as follows. 1. A description graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Rui Xue

Indexing of static and dynamic sets is fundamental to a large set of applications such as information retrieval and caching. Denoting the characteristic vector of the set by B, we consider the problem of encoding sets and multisets to…

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In this paper, we give new, tight subexponential lower bounds for a number of graph embedding problems. We introduce two related combinatorial problems, which we call String Crafting and Orthogonal Vector crafting, and show that these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Hans L. Bodlaender , Tom C. van der Zanden

We study vertex-ordering problems in loop-free digraphs subject to constraints on the left-going arcs, focusing on existence conditions and computational complexity. As an intriguing special case, we explore vertex-specific lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nóra A. Borsik , Péter Madarasi

We describe some necessary conditions for the existence of a Hamiltonian path in any graph (in other words, for a graph to be traceable). These conditions result in a linear time algorithm to decide the Hamiltonian path problem for cactus…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Pascal Welke

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal…

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Finding a maximum independent set is a fundamental NP-hard problem that is used in many real-world applications. Given an unweighted graph, this problem asks for a maximum cardinality set of pairwise non-adjacent vertices. Some of the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Demian Hespe , Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schorr

Given a graph $G$ and two spanning trees $T$ and $T'$ in $G$, Spanning Tree Reconfiguration asks whether there is a step-by-step transformation from $T$ to $T'$ such that all intermediates are also spanning trees of $G$, by exchanging an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Tesshu Hanaka , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada , Rin Saito

A cactus graph is a connected graph in which every block is either an edge or a cycle. In this paper, we consider several problems of graph theory and developed optimal algorithms to solve such problems on cactus graphs. The running time of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Kalyani Das

Reachability is the problem of deciding whether there is a path from one vertex to the other in the graph. Standard graph traversal algorithms such as DFS and BFS take linear time to decide reachability however their space complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

We study a family of graph modification problems called the F-Vertex Splitting problem. Given a graph G, the task is to determine whether G can be transformed into a graph G-prime belonging to a graph class F through a sequence of at most k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Hitendra Kumar , S. Padmapriya , Praneet Kumar Patra , Harsh Sanklecha , Soumen Maity

We study Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some fixed graph $H$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. We are motivated by a recent framework that completely characterizes the complexity of…