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Graph homomorphism has been studied intensively. Given an m x m symmetric matrix A, the graph homomorphism function is defined as \[Z_A (G) = \sum_{f:V->[m]} \prod_{(u,v)\in E} A_{f(u),f(v)}, \] where G = (V,E) is any undirected graph. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

The Multicut problem asks for a minimum cut separating certain pairs of vertices: formally, given a graph $G$ and demand graph $H$ on a set $T\subseteq V(G)$ of terminals, the task is to find a minimum-weight set $C$ of edges of $G$ such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jacob Focke , Florian Hörsch , Shaohua Li , Dániel Marx

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for counting planar graph homomorphisms of domain size 3. Given any 3 by 3 real valued symmetric matrix $H$ defining a graph homomorphism from all planar graphs $G \mapsto Z_H(G)$, we completely…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jin-Yi Cai , Ashwin Maran

Given a graph $G$, a set $T$ of terminal vertices, and a demand graph $H$ on $T$, the \textsc{Multicut} problem asks for a set of edges of minimum weight that separates the pairs of terminals specified by the edges of $H$. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Florian Hörsch , Dániel Marx

In the Maximum Common Induced Subgraph problem (henceforth MCIS), given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, one looks for a graph with the maximum number of vertices being both an induced subgraph of $G_1$ and $G_2$. MCIS is among the most studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Édouard Bonnet , Florian Sikora

Lov\'{a}sz proved that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if $\hom(K,G) = \hom(K,H)$ for all graphs $K$, where $\hom(G_1,G_2)$ denotes the number of homomorphisms from $G_1$ to $G_2$. Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k showed that it suffices to count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Andrea Jiménez , Benjamin Moore , Daniel A. Quiroz , Youngho Yoo

We present an algorithm to count the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as an induced subgraph in a host graph $G$. If $G$ belongs to a bounded expansion class, the algorithm runs in linear time. Our design choices are motivated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Felix Reidl , Blair D. Sullivan

Lattice-based cryptography is not only for thwarting future quantum computers, and is also the basis of Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Motivated from the advantage of graph homomorphisms we combine graph homomorphisms with graph total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Bing Yao , Hongyu Wang

We examine the computational complexity of approximately counting the list H-colourings of a graph. We discover a natural graph-theoretic trichotomy based on the structure of the graph H. If H is an irreflexive bipartite graph or a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if and only if they are homomorphism indistinguishable over the class of all graphs, i.e. for every graph $F$, the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ equals the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Martin Grohe , Gaurav Rattan , Tim Seppelt

We investigate the problem $\#\mathsf{IndSub}(\Phi)$ of counting all induced subgraphs of size $k$ in a graph $G$ that satisfy a given property $\Phi$. This continues the work of Jerrum and Meeks who proved the problem to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt

This paper settles the computational complexity of model checking of several extensions of the monadic second order (MSO) logic on two classes of graphs: graphs of bounded treewidth and graphs of bounded neighborhood diversity. A classical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

The problem of determining whether a graph $G$ contains another graph $H$ as a minor, referred to as the minor containment problem, is a fundamental problem in the field of graph algorithms. While it is NP-complete when $G$ and $H$ are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tatsuya Gima , Soh Kumabe , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi

For every fixed graph $H$, it is known that homomorphism counts from $H$ and colorful $H$-subgraph counts can be determined in $O(n^{t+1})$ time on $n$-vertex input graphs $G$, where $t$ is the treewidth of $H$. On the other hand, a running…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-30 C. S. Bhargav , Shiteng Chen , Radu Curticapean , Prateek Dwivedi

The complexity of graph homomorphism problems has been the subject of intense study. It is a long standing open problem to give a (decidable) complexity dichotomy theorem for the partition function of directed graph homomorphisms. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

The notion of homomorphism indistinguishability offers a combinatorial framework for characterizing equivalence relations of graphs, in particular equivalences in counting logics within finite model theory. That is, for certain graph…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Georg Schindling

We study the problem of query evaluation on probabilistic graphs, namely, tuple-independent probabilistic databases over signatures of arity two. We focus on the class of queries closed under homomorphisms, or, equivalently, the infinite…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Antoine Amarilli , İsmail İlkan Ceylan

For a fixed finite collection of graphs ${\cal F}$, the ${\cal F}$-M-DELETION problem asks, given an $n$-vertex input graph $G,$ for the minimum number of vertices that intersect all minor models in $G$ of the graphs in ${\cal F}$. by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Julien Baste , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We prove a robust contraction decomposition theorem for $H$-minor-free graphs, which states that given an $H$-minor-free graph $G$ and an integer $p$, one can partition in polynomial time the vertices of $G$ into $p$ sets $Z_1,\dots,Z_p$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Pranabendu Misra , Daniel Neuen , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale , Jie Xue

A drawback of the classic approach for complexity analysis of distributed graph problems is that it mostly informs about the complexity of notorious classes of ``worst case'' graphs. Algorithms that are used to prove a tight (existential)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Philipp Schneider