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For graphs $G$ and $H$, a \emph{homomorphism} from $G$ to $H$ is an edge-preserving mapping from the vertex set of $G$ to the vertex set of $H$. For a fixed graph $H$, by \textsc{Hom($H$)} we denote the computational problem which asks…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Karolina Okrasa , Paweł Rzążewski

A circle graph is an intersection graph of a set of chords of a circle. We describe the unavoidable induced subgraphs of circle graphs with large treewidth. This includes examples that are far from the `usual suspects'. Our results imply…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Robert Hickingbotham , Freddie Illingworth , Bojan Mohar , David R. Wood

A graph is $H$-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. We prove new complexity results for the two classical cycle transversal problems Feedback Vertex Set and Odd Cycle Transversal by showing that they can be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Carl Feghali , Matthew Johnson , Giacomo Paesani , Daniël Paulusma , Paweł Rzążewski

Given a finite set of $2$-edge-coloured graphs $\mathcal F$ and a hereditary property of graphs $\mathcal{P}$, we say that $\mathcal F$ expresses $\mathcal{P}$ if a graph $G$ has the property $\mathcal{P}$ if and only if it admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jan Bok , Santiago Guzmán-Pro , Nikola Jedličková , César Hernández-Cruz

We show that every $H$-minor-free graph that also excludes a $(k \times k)$-grid as a minor has treewidth/branchwidth bounded from above by a function $f(t,k)$ that is linear in $k$ and polynomial in $t := |V(H)|$. Such a result was proven…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Maximilian Gorsky , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Treewidth is a well-known graph invariant with multiple interesting applications in combinatorics. On the practical side, many NP-complete problems are polynomial-time (sometimes even linear-time) solvable on graphs of bounded treewidth. On…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Zoltan A. Kocsis , Benjamin Merlin Bumpus

Fixed parameter tractable algorithms for bounded treewidth are known to exist for a wide class of graph optimization problems. While most research in this area has been focused on exact algorithms, it is hard to find decompositions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Thomas Bosman

The Steiner Multicut problem asks, given an undirected graph G, terminals sets T1,...,Tt $\subseteq$ V(G) of size at most p, and an integer k, whether there is a set S of at most k edges or nodes s.t. of each set Ti at least one pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Karl Bringmann , Danny Hermelin , Matthias Mnich , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

A strengthened version of Harborth's well-known conjecture -- known as Kleber's conjecture -- states that every planar graph admits a planar straight-line drawing where every edge has integer length and each vertex is restricted to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Henry Förster , Stephen Kobourov , Jacob Miller , Johannes Zink

The Steiner Tree Problem (STP) in graphs is an important problem with various applications in many areas such as design of integrated circuits, evolution theory, networking, etc. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to solve the STP. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matthieu De Laere , San Tu Pham , Patrick De Causmaecker

A hole in a graph is an induced cycle of length at least 4. A hole is long if its length is at least 5. By $P_t$ we denote a path on $t$ vertices. In this paper we give polynomial-time algorithms for the following problems: the Maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski , Paul Seymour

Suppose we are given a bipartite graph that admits a perfect matching and an adversary may delete any edge from the graph with the intention of destroying all perfect matchings. We consider the task of adding a minimum cost edge-set to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Felix Hommelsheim , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Oliver Schaudt

Daligault, Rao and Thomass\'e asked whether every hereditary graph class that is well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation has bounded clique-width. Lozin, Razgon and Zamaraev (JCTB 2017+) gave a negative answer to this question,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Vadim V. Lozin , Daniël Paulusma

We introduce the notion of delineation. A graph class $\mathcal C$ is said delineated if for every hereditary closure $\mathcal D$ of a subclass of $\mathcal C$, it holds that $\mathcal D$ has bounded twin-width if and only if $\mathcal D$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Édouard Bonnet , Dibyayan Chakraborty , Eun Jung Kim , Noleen Köhler , Raul Lopes , Stéphan Thomassé

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

What are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? It is well-known that the answer must include a complete graph, a complete bipartite graph, all subdivisions of a wall and line graphs of all subdivisions of a wall…

We prove that for every integer $t\geq 1$ there exists an integer $c_t\geq 1$ such that every $n$-vertex even-hole-free graph with no clique of size $t$ has treewidth at most $c_t\log{n}$. This resolves a conjecture of Sintiari and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Maria Chudnovsky , Peter Gartland , Sepehr Hajebi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Sophie Spirkl

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is locally bijective, surjective, or injective if its restriction to the neighborhood of every vertex of G is bijective, surjective, or injective, respectively. We prove that the problems of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Steven Chaplick , Jiří Fiala , Pim van 't Hof , Daniël Paulusma , Marek Tesař

We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree of minimum cost under a hop constraint which requires the depth of the tree to be at most $k$. Our main result is an exact algorithm for metrics induced by graphs with bounded treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Martin Böhm , Ruben Hoeksma , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon

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