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In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

Irregular computations on unstructured data are an important class of problems for parallel programming. Graph coloring is often an important preprocessing step, e.g. as a way to perform dependency analysis for safe parallel execution. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Georgios Rokos , Gerard Gorman , Paul H J Kelly

This chapter presents an introduction to graph colouring algorithms. The focus is on vertex-colouring algorithms that work for general classes of graphs with worst-case performance guarantees in a sequential model of computation. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Thore Husfeldt

The problem of finding paths in temporal graphs has been recently considered due to its many applications. In this paper we consider a variant of the problem that, given a vertex-colored temporal graph, asks for a path whose vertices have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Riccardo Dondi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

A method for improving the efficiency of graph isomorphism testing is presented. The method uses the structure of the graph colored by vertex hash codes as a means of partitioning vertices into equivalence classes, which in turn reduces the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Thomas E. Portegys

The computation of short paths in graphs with arc lengths is a pillar of graph algorithmics and network science. In a more diverse world, however, not every short path is equally valuable. For the setting where each vertex is assigned to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Matthias Bentert , Leon Kellerhals , Rolf Niedermeier

Given two graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, a graph is $(H_1,H_2)$-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ nor $H_2$. A graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if every proper induced subgraph of $G$ has chromatic number less than $k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Wen Xia , Jorik Jooken , Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang

An assignment of colours to the vertices of a graph is stable if any two vertices of the same colour have identically coloured neighbourhoods. The goal of colour refinement is to find a stable colouring that uses a minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Christoph Berkholz , Paul Bonsma , Martin Grohe

The modeling flexibility provided by hypergraphs has drawn a lot of interest from the combinatorial scientific community, leading to novel models and algorithms, their applications, and development of associated tools. Hypergraphs are now a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Enver Kayaaslan , Ali Pinar , Umit V. Catalyurek , Cevdet Aykanat

Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Noe

A (minimal) transversal of a partition is a set which contains exactly one element from each member of the partition and nothing else. A coloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into anticliques, that is, sets of pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Matthias Kriesell , Samuel Mohr

We say that a vertex or edge colouring of a graph is distinguishing if the only automorphism that preserves this colouring is the identity. A (proper) distinguishing colouring is irreducible if there is no possibility of merging two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Marcin Stawiski

We study combinatorial indicators related to the characteristic phase transitions associated with coloring a graph optimally and finding a maximum independent set. In particular, we investigate the role of the acyclic orientations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. C. Barbosa , R. G. Ferreira

We introduce a new notion of resilience for constraint satisfaction problems, with the goal of more precisely determining the boundary between NP-hardness and the existence of efficient algorithms for resilient instances. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Jeremy Kun , Lev Reyzin

In this report, we describe a novel graph invariant for computational graphs (colored directed acylic graphs) and how we used it to generate all distinct computational graphs up to isomorphism for small graphs. The algorithm iteratively…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chris Ying

A theorem of Ding, Oporowski, Oxley, and Vertigan implies that any sufficiently large twin-free graph contains a large matching, a co-matching, or a half-graph as a semi-induced subgraph. The sizes of these unavoidable patterns are measured…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

We study the problem of maximizing the number of independent sets in $n$-vertex $k$-chromatic $\ell$-connected graphs. First we consider maximizing the total number of independent sets in such graphs with $n$ sufficiently large, and for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-10 John Engbers , Lauren Keough , Taylor Short

We initiate the study of a new parameterization of graph problems. In a multiple interval representation of a graph, each vertex is associated to at least one interval of the real line, with an edge between two vertices if and only if an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Serge Gaspers , Petr Golovach , Karol Suchan , Stefan Szeider , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Martin Vatshelle , Yngve Villanger

An independent transversal in a multipartite graph is an independent set that intersects each part in exactly one vertex. We show that for every even integer $r\ge 2$, there exist $c_r>0$ and $n_0$ such that every $r$-partite graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Yantao Tang , Yi Zhao