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We are given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, where a random subset of $k$ vertices has been made into a clique, and the remaining edges are chosen independently with probability $\tfrac12$. This random graph model is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-15 Yael Dekel , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Yuval Peres

In this paper, we study the maximum clique problem on hyperbolic random graphs. A hyperbolic random graph is a mathematical model for analyzing scale-free networks since it effectively explains the power-law degree distribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Eunjin Oh , Seunghyeok Oh

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

A graph is inductive $k$-independent if there exists and ordering of its vertices $v_{1},...,v_{n}$ such that $\alpha(G[N(v_{i})\cap V_{i}])\leq k $ where $N(v_{i})$ is the neighborhood of $v_{i}$, $V_{i}=\{v_{i},...,v_{n}\}$ and $\alpha$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 George Manoussakis

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck

Finding a maximum clique in a given graph is one of the fundamental NP-hard problems. We compare two multi-core thread-parallel adaptations of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for the maximum clique problem, and provide a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Kloks, Kratsch, and Spinrad showed how treewidth and minimum-fill, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems related to minimal triangulations, are broken into subproblems by block subgraphs defined by minimal separators. These ideas were…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Rob Gysel

EPG graphs, introduced by Golumbic et al. in 2009, are edge-intersection graphs of paths on an orthogonal grid. The class $B_k$-EPG is the subclass of EPG graphs where the path on the grid associated to each vertex has at most $k$ bends.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nicolas Bousquet , Marc Heinrich

The maximum clique problem (MCP) is to find the largest complete subgraph in an undirected graph, that is, the subgraph in which there are edges between every two different vertices. It is an NP-Hard problem with wide applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Wenmin Han , Shiqi Zheng , Peian Chen , Yukun Wang

We consider a variant of the clustering problem for a complete weighted graph. The aim is to partition the nodes into clusters maximizing the sum of the edge weights within the clusters. This problem is known as the clique partitioning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Determining the computational complexity of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph is a long-standing open problem. In 1990, Clark, Colbourn, and Johnson gave a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-17 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

The max-cut problem is a classical graph theory problem which is NP-complete. The best polynomial time approximation scheme relies on \emph{semidefinite programming} (SDP). We study the conditions under which graphs of certain classes have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Daniel Hong , Hyunwoo Lee , Alex Wei

A graph is perfect if the chromatic number of every induced subgraph equals the size of its largest clique, and an algorithm of Gr\"otschel, Lov\'asz, and Schrijver from 1988 finds an optimal colouring of a perfect graph in polynomial time.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Maria Chudnovsky , Aurélie Lagoutte , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Perfect Matching-Cut is the problem of deciding whether a graph has a perfect matching that contains an edge-cut. We show that this problem is NP-complete for planar graphs with maximum degree four, for planar graphs with girth five, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Valentin Bouquet , Christophe Picouleau

The maximum edge-weight clique problem is to find a clique whose sum of edge-weight is the maximum for a given edge-weighted undirected graph. The problem is NP-hard and some branch-and-bound algorithms have been proposed. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Satoshi Shimizu , Kazuaki Yamaguchi , Sumio Masuda

We analyze the problem of identifying large cliques in graphs that are affected by adversarial uncertainty. More specifically, we consider a new formulation, namely the adversarial maximum clique problem, which extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Immanuel Bomze , Chiara Faccio , Francesco Rinaldi , Giovanni Spisso

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

Given a simple undirected graph $G$, the maximum $k$-club problem is to find a maximum-cardinality subset of nodes inducing a subgraph of diameter at most $k$ in $G$. This NP-hard generalization of clique, originally introduced to model low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Andreas Wotzlaw

We consider the problem of identifying a maximum clique in a given graph. We have proposed a mathematical model for this problem. The model resembles the matrix decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a given graph. The objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Salma Omer , Montaz Ali

In this article we present the idea of clique ceiling numbers of the vertices of a given graph that has a universal vertex. We follow up with a polynomial-time algorithm to compute an upper bound for the clique number of such a graph using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran