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A drawing of a graph is said to be a {\em straight-line drawing} if the vertices of $G$ are represented by distinct points in the plane and every edge is represented by a straight-line segment connecting the corresponding pair of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-08 V S Padmini Mukkamala

We prove that any $n$-node graph $G$ with diameter $D$ admits shortcuts with congestion $O(\delta D \log n)$ and dilation $O(\delta D)$, where $\delta$ is the maximum edge-density of any minor of $G$. Our proof is simple, elementary, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

We investigate a fundamental vertex-deletion problem called (Induced) Subgraph Hitting: given a graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden graphs, the goal is to compute a minimum-sized set $S$ of vertices of $G$ such that $G-S$ does…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zdeněk Dvořák , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

Consider the following "local" cut-detection problem in a directed graph: We are given a starting vertex $s$ and need to detect whether there is a cut with at most $k$ edges crossing the cut such that the side of the cut containing $s$ has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Sebastian Forster , Liu Yang

In this article we consider the Directed Steiner Path Cover problem on directed co-graphs. Given a directed graph G=(V,E) and a subset T of V of so-called terminal vertices, the problem is to find a minimum number of vertex-disjoint simple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs , Jochen Rethmann , Egon Wanke

A classical problem in computational geometry and graph algorithms is: given a dynamic set S of geometric shapes in the plane, efficiently maintain the connectivity of the intersection graph of S. Previous papers studied the setting where,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Ivor van der Hoog , André Nusser , Eva Rotenberg , Frank Staals

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

In a disk graph, every vertex corresponds to a disk in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and two vertices are connected by an edge whenever the two corresponding disks intersect. Disk graphs form an important class of geometric intersection graphs, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

A set $D$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex of $G$, which is not in $D$, has a neighbor in $D$. A set of vertices $D$ in $G$ is convex (respectively, isometric), if all vertices in all shortest paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Boštjan Brešar , Tanja Gologranc , Tim Kos

Finding the diameter of a graph in general cannot be done in truly subquadratic assuming the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), even when the underlying graph is unweighted and sparse. When restricting to concrete classes of graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Hung Le

Given an undirected, edge-weighted graph G together with pairs of vertices, called pairs of terminals, the minimum multicut problem asks for a minimum-weight set of edges such that, after deleting these edges, the two terminals of each pair…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Éric Colin de Verdière

The minimum clique partition (MCP) problem is that of partitioning the vertex set of a given graph into a minimum number of cliques. Given $n$ points in the plane, the corresponding unit disk graph (UDG) has these points as vertices, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , János Pach

We initiate a systematic study of approximation schemes for fundamental optimization problems on disk graphs, a common generalization of both planar graphs and unit-disk graphs. Our main contribution is a general framework for designing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

Consider the following 2-respecting min-cut problem. Given a weighted graph $G$ and its spanning tree $T$, find the minimum cut among the cuts that contain at most two edges in $T$. This problem is an important subroutine in Karger's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

We consider the Global Minimum Vertex-Cut problem: given an undirected vertex-weighted graph $G$, compute a minimum-weight subset of its vertices whose removal disconnects $G$. The problem is closely related to Global Minimum Edge-Cut,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Julia Chuzhoy , Ohad Trabelsi

Recently, many studies have been devoted to finding diverse solutions in classical combinatorial problems, such as Vertex Cover (Baste et al., IJCAI'20), Matching (Fomin et al., ISAAC'20) and Spanning Tree (Hanaka et al., AAAI'21). We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mark de Berg , Andrés López Martínez , Frits Spieksma

In this paper we present an O(n log n) algorithm for finding a maximum flow in a directed planar graph, where the vertices are subject to capacity constraints, in addition to the arcs. If the source and the sink are on the same face, then…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Haim Kaplan , Yahav Nussbaum

An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ consists of a set of pairwise disjoint simply-connected closed regions and a one-to-one mapping of the vertices of $G$ to points such that two vertices are adjacent in $G$ if and only if the line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Martin Balko , Steven Chaplick , Robert Ganian , Siddharth Gupta , Michael Hoffmann , Pavel Valtr , Alexander Wolff

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an undirected graph. We call $D_t \subseteq V$ as a total dominating set (TDS) of $G$ if each vertex $v \in V$ has a dominator in $D$ other than itself. Here we consider the TDS problem in unit disk graphs, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Sangram K. Jena , Gautam K. Das

The d-Cut problem is to decide if a graph has an edge cut such that each vertex has at most d neighbours at the opposite side of the cut. If $d=1$, we obtain the intensively studied Matching Cut problem. The d-Cut problem has been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Felicia Lucke , Ali Momeni , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith