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The directed graph reachability problem takes as input an $n$-vertex directed graph $G=(V,E)$, and two distinguished vertices $s$ and $t$. The problem is to determine whether there exists a path from $s$ to $t$ in $G$. This is a canonical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Ryo Ashida , Kotaro Nakagawa

We present the first exact polynomial time algorithm for constructing optimal geometric bottleneck 2-connected Steiner networks containing at most $k$ Steiner points, where $k>2$ is a constant. Given a set of $n$ vertices embedded in an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Marcus Brazil , Charl Ras , Doreen Thomas

Finding paths in graphs is a fundamental graph-theoretic task. In this work, we we are concerned with finding a path with some constraints on its length and the number of vertices neighboring the path, that is, being outside of and incident…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Max-Jonathan Luckow , Till Fluschnik

A {\it semi-proper orientation} of a given graph $G$ is a function $(D,w)$ that assigns an orientation $D(e)$ and a positive integer weight $ w(e)$ to each edge $e$ such that for every two adjacent vertices $v$ and $u$, $S_{(D,w)}(v) \neq…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ali Dehghan

We propose a consistent polynomial-time method for the unseeded node matching problem for networks with smooth underlying structures. Despite widely conjectured by the research community that the structured graph matching problem to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-24 Yuan Zhang

We view the determinant and permanent as functions on directed weighted graphs and introduce their analogues for the undirected graphs. We prove that the task of computing the undirected determinants as well as permanents for planar graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Diana Dziewa-Dawidczyk , Adam J. Przeździecki

We introduce the idea that the P vs NP problem can have a finer structure. Given the NP complete problem of interest, the configurations space of the problem can be divided in (at least) two regions. In one region, polynomial algorithms to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Fabrizio Canfora , Marco Cedeno

We consider the problem of sampling from the uniform distribution on the set of Eulerian orientations of subgraphs of the triangular lattice. Although it is known that this can be achieved in polynomial time for any graph, the algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paidi Creed

The presented material continues the previous article (arxiv:1007.1059) and also is devoted to the equivalent conversion between the graphs. The examining of the transformation of the vertex graphs into the edge graphs (together with the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Leonid Malinin , Natalia Malinina

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite undirected graph. An edge set $E' \subseteq E$ is a dominating induced matching (d.i.m.) in $G$ if every edge in $E$ is intersected by exactly one edge of $E'$. The Dominating Induced Matching (DIM) problem asks…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Andreas Brandstadt , Raffaele Mosca

We exhibit a new obstacle to the nascent algorithmic theory for classes excluding an induced minor. We indeed show that on the class of string graphs -- which avoids the 1-subdivision of, say, $K_5$ as an induced minor -- Induced 2-Disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Pierre Aboulker , Édouard Bonnet , Timothé Picavet , Nicolas Trotignon

Let $G$ be a connected graph and $\mathcal{P}(G)$ a graph parameter. We say that $\mathcal{P}(G)$ is feasible if $\mathcal{P}(G)$ satisfies the following properties: (I) $\mathcal{P}(G)\leq \mathcal{P}(G_{uv})$, if $G_{uv}=G[u\to v]$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jiangdong Ai , Hui Lei , Bo Ning , Yongtang Shi

Exact pattern matching in labeled graphs is the problem of searching paths of a graph $G=(V,E)$ that spell the same string as the given pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Massimo Equi , Roberto Grossi , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Veli Mäkinen

Our main result is a full classification, for every connected graph $H$, of the computational complexity of Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs. To obtain this dichotomy, we establish the following new algorithmic, hardness, and…

We introduce a temporal Steiner network problem in which a graph, as well as changes to its edges and/or vertices over a set of discrete times, are given as input; the goal is to find a minimal subgraph satisfying a set of $k$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Alex Khodaverdian , Benjamin Weitz , Jimmy Wu , Nir Yosef

Despite the great promise of the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in solving forward and inverse problems, several technical challenges are present as roadblocks for more complex and realistic applications. First, most existing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Han Gao , Matthew J. Zahr , Jian-Xun Wang

Given a graph and a pair of terminals $s$, $t$, the next-to-shortest path problem asks for an $s\!\to \!t$ (simple) path that is shortest among all not shortest $s\!\to \!t$ paths (if one exists). This problem was introduced in 1996, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kuowen Chen , Nicole Wein , Yiran Zhang

Research of cycles through specific vertices is a central topic in graph theory. In this context, we focus on a well-studied computational problem, \textsc{$T$-Cycle}: given an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a set of $k$ vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Harmender Gahlawat , Abhishek Rathod , Meirav Zehavi

We develop two different methods to achieve subexponential time parameterized algorithms for problems on sparse directed graphs. We exemplify our approaches with two well studied problems. For the first problem, {\sc $k$-Leaf…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-07 Frederic Dorn , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We consider non-trivial homomorphisms to reflexive oriented graphs in which some pair of adjacent vertices have the same image. Using a notion of convexity for oriented graphs, we study those oriented graphs that do not admit such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christopher Duffy , Sonja Linghui Shan