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For a fixed property (graph class) ${\Pi}$, given a graph G and an integer k, the ${\Pi}$-deletion problem consists in deciding if we can turn $G$ into a graph with the property ${\Pi}$ by deleting at most $k$ edges. The ${\Pi}$-deletion…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ivo Koch , Nina Pardal , Vinicius Fernandes dos Santos

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph minimizing the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already for bipartite graphs when the functions are convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Gabriel Deza , Shmuel Onn

We introduce and study the problem of optimizing arbitrary functions over degree sequences of hypergraphs and multihypergraphs. We show that over multihypergraphs the problem can be solved in polynomial time. For hypergraphs, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Antoine Deza , Asaf Levin , Syed M. Meesum , Shmuel Onn

We resolve the longstanding open problem concerning the computational complexity of Max Cut on interval graphs by showing that it is NP-complete.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ranendu Adhikary , Kaustav Bose , Satwik Mukherjee , Bodhayan Roy

In well-studied graph modification problems, adding and deleting vertices and edges are used as graph editing operations. We propose a model for graph modification on geometric intersection graphs called Geometric Graph Edit Distance that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

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

The Firefighting problem is defined as follows. At time $t=0$, a fire breaks out at a vertex of a graph. At each time step $t \geq 0$, a firefighter permanently defends (protects) an unburned vertex, and the fire then spread to all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , Neeldhara Misra , I. Vinod Reddy

Grid graphs, and, more generally, $k\times r$ grid graphs, form one of the most basic classes of geometric graphs. Over the past few decades, a large body of works studied the (in)tractability of various computational problems on grid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G$ and two integers $\chi_d$, $\Delta^*$ and are asked if we can $\chi_d$-color $G$ so that the maximum degree induced by any color class is at most $\Delta^*$. We show that this natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

We study a large family of graph covering problems, whose definitions rely on distances, for graphs of bounded cyclomatic number (that is, the minimum number of edges that need to be removed from the graph to destroy all cycles). These…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Anni Hakanen

We study provably effective and efficient data reduction for a class of NP-hard graph modification problems based on vertex degree properties. We show fixed-parameter tractability for NP-hard graph completion (that is, edge addition) cases…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Vincent Froese , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

In this paper we study the graph parameter of burning number, introduced by Bonato, Janssen, and Roshanbin (2014). We are particular interested in determining the burning number of Circulant graphs. In this paper, we find upper and lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Shannon L. Fitzpatrick , Leif Wilm

We explore the complexity of computing the optimal pebbling number and pebbling number of a graph. We show that deciding whether the optimal pebbling number of G is at most k is NP-complete and deciding whether the pebbling number of G is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Milans , B. Clark

Chordal graphs form one of the most studied graph classes. Several graph problems that are NP-hard in general become solvable in polynomial time on chordal graphs, whereas many others remain NP-hard. For a large group of problems among the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Oylum Şeker , Pinar Heggernes , Tınaz Ekim , Z. Caner Taşkın

The NP-complete graph problem Cluster Editing seeks to transform a static graph into a disjoint union of cliques by making the fewest possible edits to the edges. We introduce a natural interpretation of this problem in temporal graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cristiano Bocci , Chiara Capresi , Kitty Meeks , John Sylvester

We prove that the geometric thickness of graphs whose maximum degree is no more than four is two. All of our algorithms run in O(n) time, where n is the number of vertices in the graph. In our proofs, we present an embedding algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christian A. Duncan , David Eppstein , Stephen G. Kobourov

Some classical graph problems such as finding minimal spanning tree, shortest path or maximal flow can be done efficiently. We describe slight variations of such problems which are shown to be NP-complete. Our proofs use straightforward…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Per Alexandersson

Covering all edges of a graph by a small number of vertices, this is the NP-complete Vertex Cover problem. It is among the most fundamental graph-algorithmic problems. Following a recent trend in studying temporal graphs (a sequence of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Valentin Rohm , Philipp Zschoche

The broadcast model is widely used to describe the process of information dissemination from a single node to all nodes within an interconnected network. In this model, a graph represents the network, where vertices correspond to nodes and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jinghan Xu , Zhiyuan Li

A {\em dominating set} of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of vertices $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$ has at least one neighbor in $S$. Finding a dominating set with the minimum cardinality in a connected graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Frank Hernandez , Ernesto Parra , Jose Maria Sigarreta , Nodari Vakhania