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It is a celebrated result in early combinatorics that, in bipartite graphs, the size of maximum matching is equal to the size of a minimum vertex cover. K\H{o}nig's proof of this fact gave an algorithm for finding a minimum vertex cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Jacob Turner

A b-chromatic colouring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-colouring of the vertices of $G$, for some integer $k$, such that, for each colour $i$ ($1\leq i\leq k$), there exists a vertex $v$ of colour $i$ such that $v$ is adjacent to a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Fabricio Mendoza Granada , David Manlove

In the stochastic matching problem, we are given a general (not necessarily bipartite) graph $G(V,E)$, where each edge in $E$ is realized with some constant probability $p > 0$ and the goal is to compute a bounded-degree (bounded by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

We consider the algorithmic decision problem that takes as input an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with minimum codegree at least $m-c$ and decides whether it has a matching of size $m$. We show that this decision problem is fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Jie Han , Peter Keevash

A partial complement of the graph $G$ is a graph obtained from $G$ by complementing all the edges in one of its induced subgraphs. We study the following algorithmic question: for a given graph $G$ and graph class $\mathcal{G}$, is there a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Torstein J. F. Strømme , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

A matching cut in a graph G is an edge cut of G that is also a matching. This short survey gives an overview of old and new results and open problems for Maximum Matching Cut, which is to determine the size of a largest matching cut in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Van Bang Le , Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

The independent set on a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of $V$ such that no two vertices in the subset have an edge between them. The MIS problem on $G$ seeks to identify an independent set with maximum cardinality, i.e. maximum independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Bhadrachalam Chitturi

The problem of finding a maximum $2$-matching without short cycles has received significant attention due to its relevance to the Hamilton cycle problem. This problem is generalized to finding a maximum $t$-matching which excludes specified…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Yuni Iwamasa , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kenjiro Takazawa

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph where $V$ and $E$ are the vertex and edge set, respectively. For two disjoint subsets $A$ and $B$, we say $A$ dominates $B$ if every vertex of $B$ is adjacent to at least one vertex of $A$. A vertex partition $\pi…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Subhabrata Paul , Kamal Santra

A $b$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring of its vertices such that each color class contains a vertex that has at least one neighbor in all the other color classes. The b-Coloring problem asks whether a graph $G$ has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima

A graph $G$ is a \emph{max point-tolerance (MPT)} graph if each vertex $v$ of $G$ can be mapped to a \emph{pointed-interval} $(I_v, p_v)$ where $I_v$ is an interval of $\mathbb{R}$ and $p_v \in I_v$ such that $uv$ is an edge of $G$ iff $I_u…

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche

A multipacking in an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set $M\subseteq V$ such that for every vertex $v\in V$ and for every integer $r\geq 1$, the ball of radius $r$ around $v$ contains at most $r$ vertices of $M$, that is, there are at most…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sandip Das , Sk Samim Islam , Daniel Lokshtanov

This paper studies the problem of matching two complete graphs with edge weights correlated through latent geometries, extending a recent line of research on random graph matching with independent edge weights to geometric models.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Haoyu Wang , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Israel Yolou

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Consider a random graph model where each possible edge $e$ is present independently with some probability $p_e$. Given these probabilities, we want to build a large/heavy matching in the randomly generated graph. However, the only way we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Nikhil Bansal , Anupam Gupta , Jian Li , Julian Mestre , Viswanath Nagarajan , Atri Rudra

Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

A perfect matching in a hypergraph is a set of edges that partition the set of vertices. We study the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in orderable and separable hypergraphs. We show that the class of orderable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Shmuel Onn

An unweighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ nodes is said to have \emph{bandwidth} at most $k$ if its nodes can be labelled from $0$ to $n - 1$ such that no two adjacent nodes have labels that differ by more than $k$. It is known that one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Luis M. B. Varona

Let G=(V,E) be a graph with f:V\to Z_+ a function assigning degree bounds to vertices. We present the first efficient algebraic algorithm to find an f-factor. The time is \tilde{O}(f(V)^{\omega}). More generally for graphs with integral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Harold N. Gabow , Piotr Sankowski