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We consider the \textsc{Steiner Orientation} problem, where we are given as input a mixed graph $G=(V,E,A)$ and a set of $k$ demand pairs $(s_i,t_i)$, $i\in[k]$. The goal is to orient the undirected edges of $G$ in a way that the resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Edouard Nemery , Hirotaka Ono , Manolis Vasilakis

In the Directed Steiner Network problem, the input is a directed graph G, a subset T of k vertices of G called the terminals, and a demand graph D on T. The task is to find a subgraph H of G with the minimum number of edges such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Esther Galby , Sandor Kisfaludi-Bak , Daniel Marx , Roohani Sharma

We consider connectivity problems with orientation constraints. Given a directed graph $D$ and a collection of ordered node pairs $P$ let $P[D]=\{(u,v) \in P: D {contains a} uv{-path}}$. In the {\sf Steiner Forest Orientation} problem we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Marek Cygan , Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

We consider two orientation problems in a graph, namely the minimization of the sum of all the shortest path lengths and the minimization of the diameter. We show that it is NP-complete to decide whether a graph has an orientation such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-15 N. Eggemann , S. D. Noble

We consider the ideal orientation problem in planar graphs. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G$ with positive edge lengths and $k$ pairs of distinct vertices $(s_1, t_1), \dots, (s_k, t_k)$ called terminals, and we want to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yipu Wang

Given a graph $G$, we say that an orientation $D$ of $G$ is a KT orientation if, for all $u, v \in V(D)$, there is at most one directed path (in any direction) between $u$ and $v$. Graphs that admit such orientations have been used by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Barbora Dohnalová , Jiří Kalvoda , Gaurav Kucheriya , Sophie Spirkl

We initiate a general study of what we call orientation completion problems. For a fixed class C of oriented graphs, the orientation completion problem asks whether a given partially oriented graph P can be completed to an oriented graph in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Joergen Bang-Jensen , J. Huang , Xuding Zhu

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a connected graph, and let $T$ in $V$ be a subset of vertices. An orientation of $G$ is called $T$-odd if any vertex $v \in V$ has odd in-degree if and only if it is in $T$. Finding a T -odd orientation of G can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sylvain Gravier , Matthieu Petiteau , Isabelle Sivignon

Given a graph, when can we orient the edges to satisfy local constraints at the vertices, where each vertex specifies which local orientations of its incident edges are allowed? This family of graph orientation problems is a special kind of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-05 MIT Hardness Group , Zachary Abel , Erik D. Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Jeffery Li , Zixiang Zhou

The paper focuses on two problems: (i) how to orient the edges of an undirected graph in order to maximize the number of ordered vertex pairs (x,y) such that there is a directed path from x to y, and (ii) how to orient the edges so as to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. L. Hakimi , E. Schmeichel , Neal E. Young

Finding a Steiner strongly $k$-arc-connected orientation is particularly relevant in network design and reliability, as it guarantees robust communication between a designated set of critical nodes. Kir\'aly and Lau (FOCS 2006) introduced a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kristóf Bérczi , Florian Hörsch , András Imolay , Tamás Schwarcz

In the $k$-Steiner Orientation problem, we are given a mixed graph, that is, with both directed and undirected edges, and a set of $k$ terminal pairs. The goal is to find an orientation of the undirected edges that maximizes the number of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Michał Włodarczyk

The problem of orienting the edges of an undirected graph such that the resulting digraph is acyclic and has a single source s and a single sink t has a long tradition in graph theory and is central to many graph drawing algorithms. Such an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Carla Binucci , Walter Didimo , Maurizio Patrignani

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

We aim to find orientations of mixed graphs optimizing the total reachability, a problem that has applications in causality and biology. For given a digraph $D$, we use $P(D)$ for the set of ordered pairs of distinct vertices in $V(D)$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Florian Hörsch

We say that a tree $T$ is an $S$-Steiner tree if $S \subseteq V(T)$ and a hypergraph is an $S$-Steiner hypertree if it can be trimmed to an $S$-Steiner tree. We prove that it is NP-complete to decide, given a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Florian Hörsch , Zoltán Szigeti

In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

We examine ordered graphs, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, from the perspective of homomorphisms (and colorings) and their complexities. We demonstrate the corresponding computational and parameterized complexities, along…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

We consider the NP-complete problem of tracking paths in a graph, first introduced by Banik et. al. [3]. Given an undirected graph with a source $s$ and a destination $t$, find the smallest subset of vertices whose intersection with any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , James A. Liu , Pedro Matias

We study the problem of finding an acyclic orientation of an undirected graph with constrained in-degree parities specified by a subset T of vertices. An orientation is called T -odd if a vertex v has odd in-degree if and only if v P T .…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sylvain Gravier , Matthieu Petiteau , Isabelle Sivignon
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