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We modify the Pearce-Kelly algorithm that maintains a topological ordering for a directed acyclic graph in order to allow cycles to be tolerated. Cycles make topological orderings moot, of course, however tolerating them is useful in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-12 James Smith

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers certain queries that are specific to the problem under consideration. There has been a lot of research on dynamic algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

Monitoring edge-geodetic sets in a graph are subsets of vertices such that every edge of the graph must lie on all the shortest paths between two vertices of the monitoring set. These objects were introduced in a work by Foucaud, Krishna…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Tapas Das , Florent Foucaud , Clara Marcille , PD Pavan , Sagnik Sen

We study a family of graph clustering problems where each cluster has to satisfy a certain local requirement. Formally, let $\mu$ be a function on the subsets of vertices of a graph $G$. In the $(\mu,p,q)$-PARTITION problem, the task is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx

Let $G$ be a graph having a vertex $v$ such that $H = G - v$ is a trivially perfect graph. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of deciding whether it is possible to add at most $k$ edges to $G$ to obtain a trivially perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Mario Valencia-Pabon

The \emph{chromatic number} of a directed graph $D$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices of $D$ such that each color class of $D$ induces an acyclic subdigraph. Thus, the chromatic number of a tournament $T$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Ararat Harutyunyan , Tien-Nam Le , Stéphan Thomassé , Hehui Wu

A full-homomorphism between a pair of graphs is a vertex mapping that preserves adjacencies and non-adjacencies. For a fixed graph $H$, a full $H$-colouring is a full-homomorphism of $G$ to $H$. A minimal $H$-obstruction is a graph that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Santiago Guzmán-Pro

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s posed the following problem. Given an oriented graph $H$, determine or estimate the maximum possible number of $H$-free orientations of an $n$-vertex graph. When $H$ is a tournament, the answer was determined precisely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Matija Bucić , Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov

We introduce and study the problem of optimizing arbitrary functions over degree sequences of hypergraphs and multihypergraphs. We show that over multihypergraphs the problem can be solved in polynomial time. For hypergraphs, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Antoine Deza , Asaf Levin , Syed M. Meesum , Shmuel Onn

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

Interdiction problems are leader-follower games in which the leader is allowed to delete a certain number of edges from the graph in order to maximally impede the follower, who is trying to solve an optimization problem on the impeded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Feng Pan , Aaron Schild

Tolerance graphs model interval relations in such a way that intervals can tolerate a certain degree of overlap without being in conflict. This subclass of perfect graphs has been extensively studied, due to both its interesting structure…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 George B. Mertzios , Ignasi Sau , Shmuel Zaks

In this paper, we study $(1,2)$-step competition graphs of bipartite tournaments. A bipartite tournament means an orientation of a complete bipartite graph. We show that the $(1,2)$-step competition graph of a bipartite tournament has at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Jihoon Choi , Soogang Eoh , Suh-Ryung Kim , So Jung Lee

We show that one can define and effectively compute Stallings graphs for quasi-convex subgroups of automatic groups (\textit{e.g.} hyperbolic groups or right-angled Artin groups). These Stallings graphs are finite labeled graphs, which are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Miasnikov , Pascal Weil

Edge-coloring problems with forbidden patterns are decision problems asking to find an edge-coloring of the input graph which avoids a homomorphism from a fixed forbidden family of edge-colored graphs. In the precolored version of these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexey Barsukov , Antoine Mottet , Davide Perinti

An instance of the maximum mixed graph orientation problem consists of a mixed graph and a collection of source-target vertex pairs. The objective is to orient the undirected edges of the graph so as to maximize the number of pairs that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Iftah Gamzu , Moti Medina

We show that a number of conditions on oriented graphs, all of which are satisfied with high probability by randomly oriented graphs, are equivalent. These equivalences are similar to those given by Chung, Graham and Wilson in the case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Simon Griffiths

In this paper, we introduce the problem of finding an orientation of a given undirected graph that maximizes the burning number of the resulting directed graph. We show that the problem is polynomial-time solvable on K\H{o}nig-Egerv\'{a}ry…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Julien Courtiel , Paul Dorbec , Tatsuya Gima , Romain Lecoq , Yota Otachi

Given a class of (undirected) graphs $\mathcal{C}$, we say that a Feedback Arc Set (FAS for short) $F$ is a $\mathcal{C}$-FAS if the graph induced by the edges of $F$ (forgetting their orientations) belongs to $\mathcal{C}$. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Pierre Aboulker , Guillaume Aubian , Raul Lopes

The Berge-Fulkerson conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph can be covered with six perfect matchings such that each edge is covered exactly twice. An equivalent reformulation is that it's possible to find a 6-cycle 4-cover. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Nikolay Ulyanov