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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Takehiro Ito , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yoshio Okamoto

In 1990, Alon, Seymour, and Thomas gave the first balanced separator of size $O(h^{3/2}\sqrt{n})$ for any $K_h$-minor-free graph, which has had numerous algorithmic applications. They conjectured that the size of the balanced separator can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hung Le

A balanced partition is a clustering of a graph into a given number of equal-sized parts. For instance, the Bisection problem asks to remove at most k edges in order to partition the vertices into two equal-sized parts. We prove that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-12 René van Bevern , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Manuel Sorge , Ondřej Suchý

At STOC 2002, Eiter, Gottlob, and Makino presented a technique called ordered generation that yields an $n^{O(d)}$-delay algorithm listing all minimal transversals of an $n$-vertex hypergraph of degeneracy $d$. Recently at IWOCA 2019,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Valentin Bartier , Oscar Defrain , Fionn Mc Inerney

We show an algorithm that, given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, in time $2^{O(k \log k)} n^{O(1)}$ finds a tree decomposition of $G$ with the following properties: * every adhesion of the tree decomposition is of size at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Marek Cygan , Paweł Komosa , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Magnus Wahlström

In the \emph{budgeted rooted node-weighted Steiner tree} problem, we are given a graph $G$ with $n$ nodes, a predefined node $r$, two weights associated to each node modelling costs and prizes. The aim is to find a tree in $G$ rooted at $r$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Esmaeil Delfaraz

In a directed graph $D$ on vertex set $v_1,\dots ,v_n$, a \emph{forward arc} is an arc $v_iv_j$ where $i<j$. A pair $v_i,v_j$ is \emph{forward connected} if there is a directed path from $v_i$ to $v_j$ consisting of forward arcs. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Stéphane Bessy , Stéphan Thomassé , Laurent Viennot

Computing bounded depth decompositions is a bottleneck in many applications of the treedepth parameter. The fastest known algorithm, which is due to Reidl, Rossmanith, S\'{a}nchez Villaamil, and Sikdar [ICALP 2014], runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. de Lima , Wojciech Nadara , Emmanuel Sam

The metric dimension of a graph is the minimum size of a set of vertices such that each vertex is uniquely determined by the distances to the vertices of that set. Our aim is to upper-bound the order $n$ of a graph in terms of its diameter…

The celebrated notion of important separators bounds the number of small $(S,T)$-separators in a graph which are 'farthest from $S$' in a technical sense. In this paper, we introduce a generalization of this powerful algorithmic primitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michał Włodarczyk

This paper is motivated by the following question: what are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? Aboulker et al. made a conjecture which answers this question in graphs of bounded maximum degree, asserting that…

We study the refutation complexity of graph isomorphism in the tree-like resolution calculus. Tor\'an and W\"orz (TOCL 2023) showed that there is a resolution refutation of narrow width $k$ for two graphs if and only if they can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Christoph Berkholz , Moritz Lichter , Harry Vinall-Smeeth

Given a directed graph $G$ and a list $(s_1,t_1),\dots,(s_d,t_d)$ of terminal pairs, the Directed Steiner Network problem asks for a minimum-cost subgraph of $G$ that contains a directed $s_i\to t_i$ path for every $1\le i \le k$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Daniel Marx

We give an algorithm that, given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and an integer $k$, in time $2^{O(k)} n$ either outputs a tree decomposition of $G$ of width at most $2k + 1$ or determines that the treewidth of $G$ is larger than $k$. This is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Tuukka Korhonen

Courcelle's Theorem is an important result in graph theory, proving the existence of linear-time algorithms for many decision problems on graphs whose tree-width is bounded by a constant. The purpose of this text is twofold: to provide an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Adrian Rettich

We give a dynamic programming solution to find the minimum cost of a diameter constrained Steiner tree in case of directed graphs. Then we show a simple reduction from undirected version to the directed version to realize an algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Prashanth Amireddy , Chetan Sai Digumarthi

We prove that there is a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that given an edge-weighted graph $G$ excluding a fixed-minor $Q$ on $n$ vertices and an accuracy parameter $\varepsilon>0$, constructs an edge-weighted graph~$H$ and an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

Building upon [1], this study aims to introduce fractal geometry into graph theory, and to establish a potential theoretical foundation for complex networks. Specifically, we employ the method of substitution to create and explore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Nero Ziyu Li

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

For every $r \in \mathbb{N}$, let $\theta_r$ denote the graph with two vertices and $r$ parallel edges. The $\theta_r$-girth of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges of a subgraph of $G$ that can be contracted to $\theta_r$. This…

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