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In a finite undirected simple graph, a {\it chordless cycle} is an induced subgraph which is a cycle. We propose two algorithms to enumerate all chordless cycles of such a graph. Compared to other similar algorithms, the proposed algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Elisângela Silva Dias , Diane Castonguay , Humberto Longo , Walid Abdala Rfaei Jradi

In this paper we revisit the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan

Consider a graph $G$ with a long path $P$. When is it the case that $G$ also contains a long induced path? This question has been investigated in general as well as within a number of different graph classes since the 80s. We have recently…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Julien Duron , Louis Esperet , Jean-Florent Raymond

A Group Labeled Graph is a pair $(G,\Lambda)$ where $G$ is an oriented graph and $\Lambda$ is a mapping from the arcs of $G$ to elements of a group. A (not necessarily directed) cycle $C$ is called non-null if for any cyclic ordering of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Daniel Lokshtanov , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

In this paper, we consider a transformation of $k$ disjoint paths in a graph. For a graph and a pair of $k$ disjoint paths $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$ connecting the same set of terminal pairs, we aim to determine whether $\mathcal{P}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Takehiro Ito , Yuni Iwamasa , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi , Shun-ichi Maezawa , Yuta Nozaki , Yoshio Okamoto , Kenta Ozeki

A spanning subgraph of a graph G is called a [0,2]-factor of G, if for . is a union of some disjoint cycles, paths and isolate vertices, that span the graph G. It is easy to get a [0,2]-factor of G and there would be many of [0,2]-factors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Yingtai Xie

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a set of connected graphs, and let $G$ be a graph. We say that $G$ is \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-free} if it does not contain $F$ as an induced subgraph for all $F\in\mathcal{F}$, and we call $\mathcal{F}$ a forbidden pair if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Binlong Li , Ziqing Sang , Shipeng Wang

We study the problem of computing shortest path or distance between two query vertices in a graph, which has numerous important applications. Quite a number of indexes have been proposed to answer such distance queries. However, all of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Huanhuan Wu , James Cheng , Shumo Chu , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Path cover is a well-known intractable problem that finds a minimum number of vertex disjoint paths in a given graph to cover all the vertices. We show that a variant, where the objective function is not the number of paths but the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yinhui Cai , Guangting Chen , Yong Chen , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin , Longcheng Liu , An Zhang

Every semicomplete multipartite digraph contains a quasi-Hamiltonian path, but the problem of finding a quasi-Hamiltonian path with prescribed start and end vertex is NP-complete even when restricted to semicomplete multipartite digraphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Julian Brinkmann

The central path problem is a variation on the single facility location problem. The aim is to find, in a given connected graph $G$, a path $P$ minimizing its eccentricity, which is the maximal distance from $P$ to any vertex of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Paul Bastide , Claire Hilaire , Eileen Robinson

For a fixed set ${\cal H}$ of graphs, a graph $G$ is ${\cal H}$-subgraph-free if $G$ does not contain any $H \in {\cal H}$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. A recently proposed framework gives a complete classification on ${\cal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vadim Lozin , Barnaby Martin , Sukanya Pandey , Daniel Paulusma , Mark Siggers , Siani Smith , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We consider how to assign labels to any undirected graph with n nodes such that, given the labels of two nodes and no other information regarding the graph, it is possible to determine the distance between the two nodes. The challenge in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Stephen Alstrup , Cyril Gavoille , Esben Bistrup Halvorsen , Holger Petersen

For a graph (undirected, directed, or mixed), a cycle-factor is a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles covering the entire vertex set. Cycle-factors subject to parity constraints arise naturally in the study of structural graph theory and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Florian Hörsch , Csaba Király , Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Gyula Pap , Eszter Szabó , Yutaro Yamaguchi

In the Disjoint Paths problem, the input is an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a set of $k$ vertex pairs, $\{s_i,t_i\}_{i=1}^k$, and the task is to find $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint paths connecting $s_i$ to $t_i$. The problem was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Daniel Lokshtanov , Pranabendu Misra , Michal Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

Hop-constrained s-t simple path (HC-s-t path) enumeration is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. Existing solutions for this problem focus on optimizing the processing performance of a single query. However, in practice, it is more…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Long Yuan , Kongzhang Hao , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang

With the recent rise in the amount of structured data available, there has been considerable interest in methods for machine learning with graphs. Many of these approaches have been kernel methods, which focus on measuring the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-07 P. -L. Giscard , R. C. Wilson

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

In this paper, matching pairs of stocahstically generated graphs in the presence of generalized seed side-information is considered. The graph matching problem emerges naturally in various applications such as social network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Given a graph G=(V,E) with a label set L = {l_1, l_2, ..., l_q}, in which each edge has a label from L, a source s in V, and a sink t in V, the Min Label s-t Cut problem asks to pick a set L' subseteq L of labels with minimized cardinality,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Peng Zhang , Linqing Tang