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A periodic temporal graph, in its simplest form, is a graph in which every edge appears exactly once in the first $\Delta$ time steps, and then it reappears recurrently every $\Delta$ time steps, where $\Delta$ is a given period length.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche

The classical, linear-time solvable Feedback Edge Set problem is concerned with finding a minimum number of edges intersecting all cycles in a (static, unweighted) graph. We provide a first study of this problem in the setting of temporal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Roman Haag , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We study the complexity for graph width parameters for which the ordinary problems…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler

Temporal graphs have been recently introduced to model changes to a given network that occur throughout a fixed period of time. The Temporal $\Delta$ Clique problem, that generalizes the well known Clique problem to temporal graphs, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Danny Hermelin , Yuval Itzhaki , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier

A temporal (directed) graph is a graph whose edges are available only at specific times during its lifetime, $\tau$. Paths are sequences of adjacent edges whose appearing times are either strictly increasing or non-strictly increasingly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Isnard Lopes Costa , Raul Lopes , Andrea Marino , Ana Silva

Temporal graphs provide a useful model for many real-world networks. Unfortunately the majority of algorithmic problems we might consider on such graphs are intractable. There has been recent progress in defining structural parameters which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jessica Enright , Samuel D. Hand , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks

Temporal graphs arise when modeling interactions that evolve over time. They usually come in several flavors, depending on the number of parameters used to describe the temporal aspects of the interactions: time of appearance, duration,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Guillaume Aubian , Filippo Brunelli , Feodor F Dragan , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib , Allen Ibiapina , Laurent Viennot

In this work, we follow the current trend on temporal graph realization, where one is given a property P and the goal is to determine whether there is a temporal graph, that is, a graph where the edge set changes over time, with property P…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Justine Cauvi , Nils Morawietz , Laurent Viennot

An Eulerian walk (or Eulerian trail) is a walk (resp. trail) that visits every edge of a graph $G$ at least (resp. exactly) once. This notion was first discussed by Leonhard Euler while solving the famous Seven Bridges of K\"{o}nigsberg…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andrea Marino , Ana Silva

A graph environment must be explored by a collection of mobile robots. Some of the robots, a priori unknown, may turn out to be unreliable. The graph is weighted and each node is assigned a deadline. The exploration is successful if each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Jurek Czyzowicz , Maxime Godon , Evangelos Kranakis , Arnaud Labourel , Euripides Markou

A temporal graph is a graph for which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. This paper considers undirected temporal graphs defined over L time steps and connected at each time step. We study the Shortest Temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Stefan Balev , Éric Sanlaville , Antoine Toullalan

Disjoint paths problems are among the most prominent problems in combinatorial optimization. The edge- as well as vertex-disjoint paths problem, are NP-complete on directed and undirected graphs. But on undirected graphs, Robertson and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Dario Cavallaro , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer

Connectivity in temporal graphs relies on the notion of temporal paths, in which edges follow a chronological order (either strict or non-strict). In this work, we investigate the question of how to make a temporal graph connected. More…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 T. Bellitto , J. Bouton Popper , B. Escoffier

We investigate the computational complexity of finding temporally disjoint paths or walks in temporal graphs. There, the edge set changes over discrete time steps and a temporal path (resp. walk) uses edges that appear at monotonically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche

Reachability and other path-based measures on temporal graphs can be used to understand spread of infection, information, and people in modelled systems. Due to delays and errors in reporting, temporal graphs derived from data are unlikely…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , William Pettersson

Temporal graphs are graphs where the edge set can change in each time step, and the vertex set stays the same. Exploration of temporal graphs whose snapshot in each time step is a connected graph, called connected temporal graphs, has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Frank Kammer , Johannes Meintrup , William K. Moses

A temporal graph $G$ is a sequence $(G_t)_{t \in I}$ of graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$. The \emph{temporal exploration problem} asks for the length of the shortest sequence of vertices that starts at a given vertex, visits every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Paul Bastide , Carla Groenland , Lukas Michel , Clément Rambaud

A temporal graph is a graph whose edges appear at certain points in time. These graphs are temporally connected (in class TC) if all vertices can reach each other by temporal paths (traversing the edges in chronological order). Reachability…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Arnaud Casteigts , Timothée Corsini , Nils Morawietz

In this paper we revisit the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph G and a set of terminal pairs P and asks whether G contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan