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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Balázs Keszegh

A $r$-role assignment of a simple graph $G$ is an assignment of $r$ distinct roles to the vertices of $G$, such that two vertices with the same role have the same set of roles assigned to related vertices. Furthermore, a specific $r$-role…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Diane Castonguay , Elisângela S. Dias , Fernanda N. Mesquita , Julliano R. Nascimento

We present a polynomial-space algorithm that computes the number independent sets of any input graph in time $O(1.1387^n)$ for graphs with maximum degree 3 and in time $O(1.2355^n)$ for general graphs, where n is the number of vertices.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Serge Gaspers , Edward Lee

The $3$-colorability problem is a well-known NP-complete problem and it remains NP-complete for $bull$-free graphs, where a $bull$ is the graph consisting of a $K_3$ with two pendant edges attached to two of its vertices. In this paper, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Nadzieja Hodur , Monika Pilśniak , Magdalena Prorok , Ingo Schiermeyer

The coloring problem is a well-research topic and its complexity is known for several classes of graphs. However, the question of its complexity remains open for the class of antiprismatic graphs, which are the complement of prismatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Cléophée Robin , Eileen Robinson

Let $\mathscr{G}$ be the class of plane graphs without triangles normally adjacent to $8^{-}$-cycles, without $4$-cycles normally adjacent to $6^{-}$-cycles, and without normally adjacent $5$-cycles. In this paper, it is shown that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Fangyao Lu , Mengjiao Rao , Qianqian Wang , Tao Wang

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

Many complex questions in biology, physics, and mathematics can be mapped to the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph automorphism problem. In particular, these problems appear in the context of network visualization,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross

Many practical problems in almost all scientific and technological disciplines have been classified as computationally hard (NP-hard or even NP-complete). In life sciences, combinatorial optimization problems frequently arise in molecular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Jose Antonio Martin

DP-coloring as a generalization of list coloring was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2017, who proved that every planar graph without cycles from 4 to 8 is 3-choosable, which was conjectured by Borodin {\it et al.} in 2007. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Runrun Liu , Xiangwen Li

A polynomial algorithm for graphs' isomorphism testing is constructed in assumption that there exists a corresponding polynomial algorithm for graphs with trivial automorphism group.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandr Golubchik

In a seminal paper, De Loera et. al introduce the algorithm NulLA (Nullstellensatz Linear Algebra) and use it to measure the difficulty of determining if a graph is not 3-colorable. The crux of this relies on a correspondence between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Bo Li , Benjamin Lowenstein , Mohamed Omar

We present a new algorithm for finding large independent sets in $3$-colorable graphs with small $1$-sided threshold rank. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex $3$-colorable graph whose uniform random walk matrix has at most $r$ eigenvalues…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jun-Ting Hsieh

The paper considers the NP-hard graph vertex coloring problem, which differs from traditional problems in which it is required to color vertices with a given (or minimal) number of colors so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Georgii Zhukov

A graph is $(k_1,k_2)$-colorable if its vertex set can be partitioned into a graph with maximum degree at most $k_1$ and and a graph with maximum degree at most $k_2$. We show that every $(C_3,C_4,C_6)$-free planar graph is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-27 François Dross , Pascal Ochem

List k-Coloring (Li k-Col) is the decision problem asking if a given graph admits a proper coloring compatible with a given list assignment to its vertices with colors in {1,2,..,k}. The problem is known to be NP-hard even for k=3 within…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Josep Díaz , Öznur Yaşar Diner , Maria Serna , Oriol Serra

This is the first in a series of two papers dealing with $(2P_3,C_4,C_6)$-free graphs, or equivalently, $(2P_3,\text{even hole})$-free graphs. In this two-paper series, we give a full structural description of $(2P_3,C_4,C_6)$-free graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Irena Penev

A graph G is (d_1,..,d_l)-colorable if the vertex set of G can be partitioned into subsets V_1,..,V_l such that the graph G[V_i] induced by the vertices of V_i has maximum degree at most d_i for all 1 <= i <= l. In this paper, we focus on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Mickael Montassier , Pascal Ochem

We investigate the problem of determining how many monochromatic trees are necessary to cover the vertices of an edge-coloured random graph. More precisely, we show that for $p\gg n^{-1/6}{(\ln n)}^{1/6}$, in any $3$-edge-colouring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Walner Mendonça , Guilherme Oliveira Mota , Bjarne Schülke

In this paper, two results are obtained on a hypergraph embedding problem. The proof technique is itself of interest, being the first time amalgamations have been used to address the embedding of hypergraphs. The first result finds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Amin Bahmanian , Chris Rodger