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We study the problem of edge partitioning, where the goal is to partition the edge set of a graph into several parts. The replication factor of a vertex $v$ is the number of parts that contain edges incident to $v$. The goal is to minimize…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alexander Yakunin , Andrey Kupavskii , Alexander Sushin , Stanislav Moiseev

This paper presents an $O^{*}(1.42^{n})$ time algorithm for the Maximum Cut problem on split graphs, along with a subexponential time algorithm for its decision variant.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Marko Lalovic

We study algorithmic and structural aspects of connectivity in hypergraphs. Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|$, $m = |E|$ and $p = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$ the best known algorithm to compute a global minimum cut in $H$ runs in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Chandra Chekuri , Chao Xu

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

A skew-symmetric graph $(D=(V,A),\sigma)$ is a directed graph $D$ with an involution $\sigma$ on the set of vertices and arcs. In this paper, we introduce a separation problem, $d$-Skew-Symmetric Multicut, where we are given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-30 M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

This paper considers a natural fault-tolerant shortest paths problem: for some constant integer $f$, given a directed weighted graph with no negative cycles and two fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, compute (either explicitly or implicitly) for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Eyob Woldeghebriel , Yinzhan Xu

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

We give an algorithm to find a minimum cut in an edge-weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges in $\tilde O(n\cdot \max(m^{2/3}, n))$ time. This improves on the 30 year old bound of $\tilde O(nm)$ obtained by Hao and Orlin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kent Quanrud , Thatchaphol Saranurak

The problem of computing the vertex expansion of a graph is an NP-hard problem. The current best worst-case approximation guarantees for computing the vertex expansion of a graph are a $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-approximation algorithm due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anand Louis , Rakesh Venkat

The NP-complete problem Matching Cut is to decide if a graph has a matching that is also an edge cut of the graph. We prove new complexity results for Matching Cut restricted to $H$-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

In an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, we say $(A,B)$ is a pair of perfectly matched sets if $A$ and $B$ are disjoint subsets of $V$ and every vertex in $A$ (resp. $B$) has exactly one neighbor in $B$ (resp. $A$). The size of a pair of perfectly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 N. R. Aravind , Roopam Saxena

The Metric Embedding problem takes as input two metric spaces $(X,D_X)$ and $(Y,D_Y)$, and a positive integer $d$. The objective is to determine whether there is an embedding $F:X \rightarrow Y$ such that $d_{F} \leq d$, where $d_{F}$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Arijit Ghosh , Sudeshna Kolay , Gopinath Mishra

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev

We consider the problem of finding edge-disjoint paths between given pairs of vertices in a sufficiently strong $d$-regular expander graph $G$ with $n$ vertices. In particular, we describe a deterministic, polynomial time algorithm which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nemanja Draganić , Rajko Nenadov

Computing the diameter of a graph, i.e. the largest distance, is a fundamental problem that is central in fine-grained complexity. In undirected graphs, the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) yields a lower bound on the time vs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Amir Abboud , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ray Li , Virginia Vassilevska-Williams

In the d-Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (d-EDMC) problem, one aims to determine whether a given partial matrix of pairwise distances can be extended to a full Euclidean distance matrix in d dimensions. This problem is a cornerstone of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

We consider the Hypergraph-$k$-cut problem. The input consists of a hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative hyperedge-costs $c: E\rightarrow R_+$ and a positive integer $k$. The objective is to find a least-cost subset $F\subseteq E$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri

In the NP-hard Max $c$-Cut problem, one is given an undirected edge-weighted graph $G$ and aims to color the vertices of $G$ with $c$ colors such that the total weight of edges with distinctly colored endpoints is maximal. The case with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jaroslav Garvardt , Niels Grüttemeier , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz

Given a list of k source-sink pairs in an edge-weighted graph G, the minimum multicut problem consists in selecting a set of edges of minimum total weight in G, such that removing these edges leaves no path from each source to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Cédric Bentz