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This work examines the problem of clique enumeration on a graph by exploiting its clique covers. The principle of inclusion/exclusion is applied to determine the number of cliques of size $r$ in the graph union of a set $\mathcal{C} =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Pavel Shuldiner , R. Wayne Oldford

We study the problem of approximating the number of $k$-cliques in a graph when given query access to the graph. We consider the standard query model for general graphs via (1) degree queries, (2) neighbor queries and (3) pair queries. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

In this note we show a polynomial bound on the number of minimal separators and potential maximal cliques in $P_6$-free graphs of bounded clique number.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

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

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

In the 90's Clark, Colbourn and Johnson wrote a seminal paper where they proved that maximum clique can be solved in polynomial time in unit disk graphs. Since then, the complexity of maximum clique in intersection graphs of d-dimensional…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Nicolas Grelier

We prove an upper bound of $n+9$ for the strong separation number of the complete graph $K_n$, and an upper bound of $n+1$ for its weak separation number. This improves on the previous best known bound of $(1+o(1))n$ for both cases.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-25 George Kontogeorgiou , Maya Stein

A k-clique covering of a simple graph G, is an edge covering of G by its cliques such that each vertex is contained in at most k cliques. The smallest k for which G admits a k-clique covering is called local clique cover number of G and is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Ramin Javadi , Zeinab Maleki , Behnaz Omoomi

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, the unit-disk graph $G(P)$ is a graph with $P$ as its vertex set such that two points of $P$ have an edge if their Euclidean distance is at most $1$. We consider the problem of computing a maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Anastasiia Tkachenko , Haitao Wang

Multiple interval graphs are variants of interval graphs where instead of a single interval, each vertex is assigned a set of intervals on the real line. We study the complexity of the MAXIMUM CLIQUE problem in several classes of multiple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Mathew C. Francis , Daniel Gonçalves , Pascal Ochem

Hypergraphs are an invaluable tool to understand many hidden patterns in large data sets. Among many ways to represent hypergraph, one useful representation is that of weighted clique expansion. In this paper, we consider this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ashwin Guha , Ambedkar Dukkipati

We study the maximum number of $r$-vertex cliques in $(r-1)$-uniform hypergraphs not containing complete $r$-partite hypergraphs $K_r^{(r-1)}(a_1, \dots, a_r)$. By using the hypergraph removal lemma, we show that this maximum is $o( n^{r -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ayush Basu , Vojtech Rodl , Yi Zhao

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 clique chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colours needed to colour its vertices so that no inclusion-wise maximal clique which is not an isolated vertex is monochromatic. We show that every graph of maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Bruce Reed , Michiel Smid

We prove an exponential lower bound for general circuits computing the clique function and hereby confirm that NP != P.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Weimin Chen

A bound on consecutive clique numbers of graphs is established. This bound is evaluated and shown to often be much better than the bound of the Kruskal-Katona theorem. A bound on non-consecutive clique numbers is also proven.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-23 Andy Frohmader

This paper investigates some relationship between the algebraic connectivity and the clique number of graphs. We characterize all extremal graphs which have the maximum and minimum the algebraic connectivity among all graphs of order $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Counts of small subgraphs, or graphlet counts, are widely applicable to measure graph similarity. Computing graphlet counts can be computationally expensive and may pose obstacles in network analysis. We study the role of cliques in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Anthony Bonato , Zhiyuan Zhang

A \emph{clique} is a set of pairwise adjacent vertices in a graph. We determine the maximum number of cliques in a graph for the following graph classes: (1) graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges; (2) graphs with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-17 David R. Wood

A set of vertices in a graph forms a potential maximal clique if there exists a minimal chordal completion in which it is a maximal clique. Potential maximal cliques were first introduced as a key tool to obtain an efficient, though…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Caroline Brosse , Alessio Conte , Vincent Limouzy , Giulia Punzi , Davide Rucci