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A graph is said to be nearly complete bipartite if it can be obtained by deleting a set of independent edges from a complete bipartite graph. The nonorientable genus of such graphs is known except in a few cases where the sizes of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Warren Singh , Timothy Sun

We revisit a classical paper about (even hole, triangle)-free graphs [Conforti, Cornu\'ejols, Kapoor and Vu\v skovi\'c, Triangle-free graphs that are signable without even holes, Journal of Graph Theory, 34(3), 204--220, 2000]. In fact, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Beatriz Martins , Nicolas Trotignon

A set of vertices X of a graph G is convex if it contains all vertices on shortest paths between vertices of X. We prove that for fixed p, all partitions of the vertex set of a bipartite graph into p convex sets can be found in polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Luciano Grippo , Martín Matamala , Martín Safe , Maya Stein

In a directed graph, a kernel is a subset of vertices that is both stable and absorbing. Not all digraphs have a kernel, but a theorem due to Boros and Gurvich guarantees the existence of a kernel in every clique-acyclic orientation of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Adèle Pass-Lanneau , Ayumi Igarashi , Frédéric Meunier

We study edge partitions of a bipartite graph into induced-$2K_2$-free bipartite graphs, i.e.\ into Ferrers (chain) graphs. We define $\fp(G)$ as the minimum number of parts in such a partition. We prove general lower and upper bounds in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 András London

Let $G$ be a finite undirected graph. A vertex {\em dominates} itself and all its neighbors in $G$. A vertex set $D$ is an {\em efficient dominating set} (\emph{e.d.}\ for short) of $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is dominated by exactly one…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Andreas Brandstadt , Vassilis Giakoumakis

In the Maximum Independent Set problem we are asked to find a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices in a given graph with the maximum possible cardinality. In general graphs, this classical problem is known to be NP-hard and hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Maria Chudnovsky , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Stéphan Thomassé

A celebrated theorem of Fr\"oberg gives a complete combinatorial classification of quadratic square-free monomial ideals with a linear resolution. A generalization of this theorem to higher degree square-free monomial ideals is an active…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Priyavrat Deshpande , Amit Roy , Anurag Singh , Adam Van Tuyl

We show that the problem of counting perfect matchings remains #P-complete even if we restrict the input to very dense graphs, proving the conjecture in [5]. Here "dense graphs" refer to bipartite graphs of bipartite independence number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Nicolas El Maalouly , Yanheng Wang

The monopole-dimer model introduced recently is an exactly-solvable signed generalisation of the dimer model. We show that the partition function of the monopole-dimer model on a graph invariant under a fixed-point free involution is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Arvind Ayyer

Perfect graphs form one of the distinguished classes of finite simple graphs. In 2006, Chudnovsky, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas proved that a graph is perfect if and only if it has no odd holes and no odd antiholes as induced subgraphs,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Hidefumi Ohsugi , Kazuki Shibata , Akiyoshi Tsuchiya

In the past decades for more and more graph classes the Graph Isomorphism Problem was shown to be solvable in polynomial time. An interesting family of graph classes arises from intersection graphs of geometric objects. In this work we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Daniel Neuen

We consider complete graphs with edge weights and/or node weights taking values in some set. In the first part of this paper, we show that a large number of graphs are completely determined, up to isomorphism, by the distribution of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

We show that there are polynomial-time algorithms to compute maximum independent sets in the categorical products of two cographs and two splitgraphs. We show that the ultimate categorical independence ratio is computable in polynomial time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-21 W. Hon , T. Kloks , S. Liu , S. Poon , Y. Wang

Matching minors are a specialisation of minors fit for the study of graph with perfect matchings. The notion of matching minors has been used to give a structural description of bipartite graphs on which the number of perfect matchings can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Archontia C Giannopoulou , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Wiederrecht

We prove a number of results related to the computational complexity of recognizing well-covered graphs. Let $k$ and $s$ be positive integers and let $G$ be a graph. Then $G$ is said - $\mathbf{W_k}$ if for any $k$ pairwise disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Carl Feghali , Malory Marin , Rémi Watrigant

For an arbitrary undirected simple graph G with m edges, we give an algorithm with running time O(m^4 |L|^2) to generate the set L of all minimal edge dominating sets of G. For bipartite graphs we obtain a better result; we show that their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Dieter Kratsch , Yngve Villanger

We investigate the computational complexity of the graph primality testing problem with respect to the direct product (also known as Kronecker, cardinal or tensor product). In [1] Imrich proves that both primality testing and a unique prime…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Luca Calderoni , Luciano Margara , Moreno Marzolla

While standard Weisfeiler-Leman vertex labels are not able to distinguish even vertices of regular graphs, there is proposed and tested family of inexpensive polynomial time vertex and edge invariants, distinguishing much more difficult…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jarek Duda

We study the linear extension complexity of stable set polytopes of perfect graphs. We make use of known structural results permitting to decompose perfect graphs into basic perfect graphs by means of two graph operations: 2-join and skew…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Hao Hu , Monique Laurent