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The Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks, given a host graph G on n vertices and a pattern graph P on k vertices, whether G contains a subgraph isomorphic to P. The restriction of this problem to planar graphs has often been considered. After…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a set of $n$ disks in the plane. The disk graph $G_\mathcal{D}$ for $\mathcal{D}$ is the undirected graph with vertex set $\mathcal{D}$ in which two disks are joined by an edge if and only if they intersect. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sergio Cabello , Wolfgang Mulzer

The problem of finding, in an edge-weighted bidirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a cycle with minimum mean weight of its edges generalizes similar problems for both directed and undirected graphs. (The problem is considered in two variants: for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Babenko , Alexander V. Karzanov

The minimum cut problem in an undirected and weighted graph $G$ is to find the minimum total weight of a set of edges whose removal disconnects $G$. We completely characterize the quantum query and time complexity of the minimum cut problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Apers , Troy Lee

We show that a problem of deleting a minimum number of vertices from a graph to obtain a graph embeddable on a surface of a given Euler genus is solvable in time $2^{C_g \cdot k^2 \log k} n^{O(1)}$, where $k$ is the size of the deletion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Tomasz Kociumaka , Marcin Pilipczuk

We present a practically efficient algorithm that finds all global minimum cuts in huge undirected graphs. Our algorithm uses a multitude of kernelization rules to reduce the graph to a small equivalent instance and then finds all minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

An instance of the Connected Maximum Cut problem consists of an undirected graph G = (V, E) and the goal is to find a subset of vertices S $\subseteq$ V that maximizes the number of edges in the cut \delta(S) such that the induced graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz , Robert MacDavid , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar

We prove that given any $\alpha$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) on planar graphs, we can construct an $f(g)$-round $(3\alpha+1)$-approximation LOCAL algorithm for MDS on graphs embeddable in a given Euler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Marthe Bonamy , Avinandan Das , Cyril Gavoille , Timothé Picavet , Jukka Suomela , Alexandra Wesolek

In the cut-query model, the algorithm can access the input graph $G=(V,E)$ only via cut queries that report, given a set $S\subseteq V$, the total weight of edges crossing the cut between $S$ and $V\setminus S$. This model was introduced by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

We give a randomized algorithm that finds a minimum cut in an undirected weighted $m$-edge $n$-vertex graph $G$ with high probability in $O(m \log^2 n)$ time. This is the first improvement to Karger's celebrated $O(m \log^3 n)$ time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

We present the first near-linear work and poly-logarithmic depth algorithm for computing a minimum cut in a graph, while previous parallel algorithms with poly-logarithmic depth required at least quadratic work in the number of vertices. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Barbara Geissmann , Lukas Gianinazzi

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an undirected connected simple graph on $n$ vertices. A cut-equivalent tree of $G$ is an edge-weighted tree on the same vertex set $V$, such that for any pair of vertices $s, t\in V$, the minimum $(s, t)$-cut in the tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Tianyi Zhang

Let $H$ be a fixed graph and let $G$ be an $H$-minor free $n$-vertex graph with integer edge weights and no negative weight cycles reachable from a given vertex $s$. We present an algorithm that computes a shortest path tree in $G$ rooted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

The vertex connectivity of a graph $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices $S$ such that $G \setminus S$ is disconnected. For the class of planar graphs, the problem of vertex connectivity is well-studied, both from structural and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Therese Biedl , Karthik Murali

We study the following Two-Sets Cut-Uncut problem on planar graphs. Therein, one is given an undirected planar graph $G$ and two sets of vertices $S$ and $T$. The question is, what is the minimum number of edges to remove from $G$, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Matthias Bentert , Pål Grønås Drange , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen

We study the problem of computing a minimum $s$--$t$ cut in an unweighted, undirected graph via \emph{cut queries}. In this model, the input graph is accessed through an oracle that, given a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$, returns the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yonggang Jiang , Danupon Nanongkai , Pachara Sawettamalya

Let $G$ be a unit disk graph in the plane defined by $n$ disks whose positions are known. For the case when $G$ is unweighted, we give a simple algorithm to compute a shortest path tree from a given source in $O(n\log n)$ time. For the case…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Sergio Cabello , Miha Jejčič

Given a set P of n points in the plane, the unit-disk graph G_{r}(P) with respect to a parameter r is an undirected graph whose vertex set is P such that an edge connects two points p, q \in P if the Euclidean distance between p and q is at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

We significantly improve known time bounds for solving the minimum cut problem on undirected graphs. We use a ``semi-duality'' between minimum cuts and maximum spanning tree packings combined with our previously developed random sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David R. Karger