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The bandwidth of a graph G is the minimum of the maximum difference between adjacent labels when the vertices have distinct integer labels. We provide a polynomial algorithm to produce an optimal bandwidth labeling for graphs in a special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Le Tu Quoc Hung , Maciej M. Syslo , Margaret L. Weaver , Douglas B. West

It is well-known that the graph isomorphism problem can be posed as an equivalent problem of determining whether an auxiliary graph structure contains a clique of specific order. However, the algorithms that have been developed so far for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We show that #SAT is polynomial-time tractable for classes of CNF formulas whose incidence graphs have bounded symmetric clique-width (or bounded clique-width, or bounded rank-width). This result strictly generalizes polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider

It is known that a number of natural graph problems which are FPT parameterized by treewidth become W-hard when parameterized by clique-width. It is therefore desirable to find a different structural graph parameter which is as general as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Jakub Gajarský , Michael Lampis , Sebastian Ordyniak

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

We study graphs whose chromatic number is close to the order of the graph (the number of vertices). Both when the chromatic number is a constant multiple of the order and when the difference of the chromatic number and the order is a small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-14 Csaba Biró

The celebrated theorem of Robertson and Seymour states that in the family of minor-closed graph classes, there is a unique minimal class of graphs of unbounded tree-width, namely, the class of planar graphs. In the case of tree-width, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-01 A. Collins , J. Foniok , N. Korpelainen , V. Lozin , V. Zamaraev

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

We study classes of graphs with bounded clique-width that are well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation, in the presence of labels on the vertices. We prove that, given a finite presentation of a class of graphs, one can decide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Maël Dumas , Aliaume Lopez

An abundance of real-world problems manifest as covering edges and/or vertices of a graph with cliques that are optimized for some objectives. We consider different structural parameters of graph, and design fixed-parameter tractable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ahammed Ullah

We construct classes of graphs that are variants of the so-called layered wheel. One of their key properties is that while the treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique number, the construction can be adjusted to make the dependance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Nicolas Trotignon

A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Brandst\"adt, Engelfriet, Le and Lozin proved that the class of chordal graphs with independence number at most 3 has unbounded clique-width. Brandst\"adt, Le and Mosca…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Andreas Brandstädt , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Shenwei Huang , Daniël Paulusma

Seese's conjecture for finite graphs states that monadic second-order logic (MSO) is undecidable on all graph classes of unbounded clique-width. We show that to establish this it would suffice to show that grids of unbounded size can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Anuj Dawar , Abhisekh Sankaran

A graph is $(H_1,H_2)$-free for a pair of graphs $H_1,H_2$ if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$. In 2001, Kr\'al', Kratochv\'{\i}l, Tuza, and Woeginger initiated a study into the complexity of Colouring for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Alexandre Blanché , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

We resolve the computational complexity of Graph Isomorphism for classes of graphs characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1$ and $H_2$ for all but six pairs $(H_1,H_2)$. Schweitzer had previously shown that the number of open…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Théo Pierron

Multi-clique-width is obtained by a simple modification in the definition of clique-width. It has the advantage of providing a natural extension of tree-width. Unlike clique-width, it does not explode exponentially compared to tree-width.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Martin Fürer

Dallard, Milani\v{c}, and \v{S}torgel conjectured that for a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$, if there is some function $f:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ such that every graph $G\in \mathcal{G}$ with clique number $\omega(G)$ has treewidth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Sepehr Hajebi

Determining the complexity of colouring ($4K_1, C_4$)-free graph is a long open problem. Recently Penev showed that there is a polynomial-time algorithm to colour a ($4K_1, C_4, C_6$)-free graph. In this paper, we will prove that if $G$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chính T. Hoàng , Ramin Javadi , Nicolas Trotignon

We propose and study a hierarchical algorithm to generate graphs having a predetermined distribution of cliques, the fully connected subgraphs. The construction mechanism may be either random or incorporate preferential attachment. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregor Kaczor , Claudius Gros

The 3-coloring of hereditary graph classes has been a deeply-researched problem in the last decade. A hereditary graph class is characterized by a (possibly infinite) list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1,H_2,\ldots$; the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Vít Jelínek , Tereza Klimošová , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Aneta Pokorná