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We study random graph models for directed acyclic graphs, an important class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and feed-forward neural networks among others. We propose two specific models, roughly analogous to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-16 Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

With recent advances in high-throughput cell biology the amount of cellular biological data has grown drastically. Such data is often modeled as graphs (also called networks) and studying them can lead to new insights into molecule-level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-09 David Aparício , Pedro Ribeiro , Fernando Silva

We study property testing of (di)graph properties in bounded-degree graph models. The study of graph properties in bounded-degree models is one of the focal directions of research in property testing in the last 15 years. However, despite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Hiro Ito , Areej Khoury , Ilan Newman

The study of triangles in graphs is a standard tool in network analysis, leading to measures such as the \emph{transitivity}, i.e., the fraction of paths of length $2$ that participate in triangles. Real-world networks are often directed,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-25 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Nurcan Durak , Tamara G. Kolda

Over the last 30 years, researchers have investigated connections between dimension for posets and planarity for graphs. Here we extend this line of research to the structural graph theory parameter tree-width by proving that the dimension…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Kevin G. Milans , William T. Trotter , Bartosz Walczak , Ruidong Wang

An out-branching of a directed graph is a rooted spanning tree with all arcs directed outwards from the root. We consider the problem of deciding whether a given directed graph D has an out-branching with at least k leaves (Directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-27 Paul Bonsma , Frederic Dorn

Daligault, Rao and Thomass\'e asked whether a hereditary class of graphs well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation has bounded clique-width. Lozin, Razgon and Zamaraev recently showed that this is not true for classes defined by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Vadim V. Lozin , Daniël Paulusma

The burning number of a graph was recently introduced by Bonato et al. Although they mention that the burning number generalises naturally to directed graphs, no further research on this has been done. Here, we introduce graph burning for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Remie Janssen

In this paper, we characterise graphs that are quasi-isometric to graphs with bounded treewidth. Specifically, we prove that a graph is quasi-isometric to a graph with bounded treewidth if and only if it has a tree-decomposition where each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Robert Hickingbotham

For a tree decomposition $\mathcal{T}$ of a graph $G$, let $\mu(\mathcal{T})$ denote the maximum size of an induced matching in $G$ with the property that some bag of $\mathcal{T}$ contains at least one endpoint of every edge of the…

We generalize the class of split graphs to the directed case and show that these split digraphs can be identified from their degree sequences. The first degree sequence characterization is an extension of the concept of splittance to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-25 M. Drew LaMar

In the Directed Disjoint Paths problem, we are given a digraph $D$ and a set of requests $\{(s_1, t_1), \ldots, (s_k, t_k)\}$, and the task is to find a collection of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths $\{P_1, \ldots, P_k\}$ such that each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Raul Lopes , Ignasi Sau

Treewidth is an important structural graph parameter that quantifies how closely a graph resembles a tree-like structure. It has applications in many algorithmic and combinatorial problems. In this paper, we study the treewidth of outer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rafał Pyzik

To each link $L$ in $S^3$ we associate a collection of certain labelled directed trees, called width trees. We interpret some classical and new topological link invariants in terms of these width trees and show how the geometric structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Qidong He , Scott A. Taylor

The Pathwidth Theorem states that if a class of graphs has unbounded pathwidth, then it contains all trees as graph minors. We prove a similar result for dense graphs. More precisely, we give a finite family of tree-like patterns and prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Pierre Ohlmann

The treewidth of control flow graphs arising from structured programs is known to be at most six. However, as a control flow graph is inherently directed, it makes sense to consider a measure of width for digraphs instead. We use the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Therese Biedl , Sebastian Fischmeister , Neeraj Kumar

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing a directed graph using path queries. In this query model of learning, a graph is hidden from the learner, and the learner can access information about it with path queries. For a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Lev Reyzin

We prove that for all $0\leq t\leq k$ and $d\geq 2k$, every graph $G$ with treewidth at most $k$ has a `large' induced subgraph $H$, where $H$ has treewidth at most $t$ and every vertex in $H$ has degree at most $d$ in $G$. The order of $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmovic , David R. Wood

We introduce the tree distance, a new distance measure on graphs. The tree distance can be computed in polynomial time with standard methods from convex optimization. It is based on the notion of fractional isomorphism, a characterization…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Böker

Rank-width is a width parameter of graphs describing whether it is possible to decompose a graph into a tree-like structure by `simple' cuts. This survey aims to summarize known algorithmic and structural results on rank-width of graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Sang-il Oum