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The problem of finding the maximum-weight, planar subgraph of a finite, simple graph with nonnegative real edge weights is well known in industrial and electrical engineering, systems biology, sociology and finance. As the problem is known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Diane Castonguay , Elisângela Silva Dias , Leslie Richard Foulds

A graph covering projection, also referred to as a locally bijective homomorphism, is a mapping between the vertices and edges of two graphs that preserves incidences and is a local bijection. This concept originates in topological graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

This paper reviews graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) through the lens of edge-variant graph filters. The edge-variant graph filter is a finite order, linear, and local recursion that allows each node, in each iteration, to weigh…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Elvin Isufi , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Vertex splitting is a graph modification operation in which a vertex is replaced by multiple vertices such that the union of their neighborhoods equals the neighborhood of the original vertex. We introduce and study vertex splitting as a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Dipayan Chakraborty , Lucas Isenmann , Nacim Oijid

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 pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Massimo Equi , Roberto Grossi , Veli Mäkinen

We perform a systematic study in the computational complexity of the connected variant of three related transversal problems: Vertex Cover, Feedback Vertex Set, and Odd Cycle Transversal. Just like their original counterparts, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Nina Chiarelli , Tatiana R. Hartinger , Matthew Johnson , Martin Milanič , Daniël Paulusma

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Motivated by Chudnovsky's structure theorem of bull-free graphs, Abu-Khzam, Feghali, and M\"uller have recently proved that deciding if a graph has a vertex partition into disjoint cliques and a triangle-free graph is NP-complete for five…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Marin Bougeret , Pascal Ochem

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Christian Reiher

We introduce a new subclass of chordal graphs that generalizes split graphs, which we call well-partitioned chordal graphs. Split graphs are graphs that admit a partition of the vertex set into cliques that can be arranged in a star…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Jungho Ahn , Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Paloma T. Lima

Degree sequence (DS) problems are around for at least hundred twenty years, and with the advent of network science, more and more complicated, structured DS problems were invented. Interestingly enough all those problems so far are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Péter L. Erdős , István Miklós

Given a set of nonempty subsets of some universal set, their intersection graph is defined as the graph with one vertex for each set and two vertices are adjacent precisely when their representing sets have non-empty intersection. Sometimes…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Mahipal Jadeja , Rahul Muthu , Sunitha V

For an optimization problem $\Pi$ on graphs whose solutions are vertex sets, a vertex $v$ is called $c$-essential for $\Pi$ if all solutions of size at most $c \cdot OPT$ contain $v$. Recent work showed that polynomial-time algorithms to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Bart M. P. Jansen , Ruben F. A. Verhaegh

We show that problems which have finite integer index and satisfy a requirement we call treewidth-bounding admit linear kernels on the class of $H$-topological-minor free graphs, for an arbitrary fixed graph $H$. This builds on earlier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Alexander Langer , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Deciding whether a given graph has a square root is a classical problem that has been studied extensively both from graph theoretic and from algorithmic perspectives. The problem is NP-complete in general, and consequently substantial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Dieter Kratsch , Paloma T. Lima , Daniel Paulusma

We present a learning-based approach to computing solutions for certain NP-hard problems. Our approach combines deep learning techniques with useful algorithmic elements from classic heuristics. The central component is a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zhuwen Li , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

The forcing number of a graph with a perfect matching $M$ is the minimum number of edges in $M$ whose endpoints need to be deleted, such that the remaining graph only has a single perfect matching. This number is of great interest in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Maximilian Gorsky , Fabian Kreßin

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal proposed a problem that: is it true that every $(2n+1)$-vertex graph with $n^2+n+1$ edges contains two vertices of equal degree connected by a path of length three? The edge bound is sharp by the complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Xiamiao Zhao , Yichen Wang , Mei Lu