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Given a graph G, an incidence matrix N(G) is defined for the set of distinct isomorphism types of induced subgraphs of G. If Ulam's conjecture is true, then every graph invariant must be reconstructible from this matrix, even when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhalchandra D. Thatte

Given access to the vertex set $V$ of a connected graph $G=(V,E)$ and an oracle that given two vertices $u,v\in V$, returns the shortest path distance between $u$ and $v$, how many queries are needed to reconstruct $E$? Firstly, we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Paul Bastide , Carla Groenland

We present a partial description of which polytopes are reconstructible from their graphs. This is an extension of work by Blind and Mani (1987) and Kalai (1988), which showed that simple polytopes can be reconstructed from their graphs. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Joseph Doolittle

We prove that a large family of graphs which are decomposable with respect to the modular decomposition can be reconstructed from their collection of vertex-deleted subgraphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Robert Brignall , Nicholas Georgiou , Robert J. Waters

Unrooted phylogenetic networks are graphs used to represent evolutionary relationships. Accurately reconstructing such networks is of great relevance for evolutionary biology. It has recently been conjectured that all phylogenetic networks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Péter L. Erdős , Leo van Iersel , Mark Jones

The polynomial reconstruction problem, introduced by Cvetkovi\'c in 1973, asks whether the characteristic polynomial $\phi^G$ of a graph $G$ with at least $3$ vertices can be reconstructed from the polynomial deck $\{\phi^{G \setminus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Thomás Jung Spier

The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components, which is one of the most basic and fundamental graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hadley Black , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha , Yinzhan Xu

A connected graph has tree-depth at most $k$ if it is a subgraph of the closure of a rooted tree whose height is at most $k$. We give an algorithm which for a given $n$-vertex graph $G$, in time $\mathcal{O}(1.9602^n)$ computes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Fedor V. Fomin , Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Michał Pilipczuk

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have limited expressive power, failing to represent many graph classes correctly. While more expressive graph representation learning (GRL) alternatives can distinguish some of these classes, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Leonardo Cotta , Christopher Morris , Bruno Ribeiro

We prove the following 30-year old conjecture of Gy\H{o}ri and Tuza: the edges of every $n$-vertex graph $G$ can be decomposed into complete graphs $C_1,\ldots,C_\ell$ of orders two and three such that $|C_1|+\cdots+|C_\ell|\le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Daniel Král' , Bernard Lidický , Taísa L. Martins , Yanitsa Pehova

A variant of the Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture, posed by Havet, Reed, Stein and Wood, states that every graph with minimum degree at least $\lfloor 2k/3 \rfloor$ and maximum degree at least $k$ contains a copy of every tree with $k$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Leo Versteegen , Ella Williams

Wu, Zhang and Li [4] conjectured that the set of vertices of any simple graph $G$ can be equitably partitioned into $\lceil(\Delta(G)+1)/2\rceil$ subsets so that each of them induces a forest of $G$. In this note, we prove this conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Xin Zhang , Jian-Liang Wu

How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance queries between its vertices? We assume that the unknown graph is connected, unweighted, and has bounded degree. The goal is to find every edge in the graph. This problem admits a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

A tree with at most k leaves is called k-ended tree, and a tree with exactly k leaves is called k-end tree, where a leaf is a vertex of degree one. Contraction of a graph G along the edge e means deleting the edge e and identifying its end…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Hamed Ghasemian Zoeram

The tree-metric theorem provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a dissimilarity matrix to be a tree metric, and has served as the foundation for numerous distance-based reconstruction methods in phylogenetics. Our main result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lior Pachter , David E Speyer

For some $k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}\cup \infty$, we call a linear forest $k$-bounded if each of its components has at most $k$ edges. We will say a $(k,\ell)$-bounded linear forest decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of $E(G)$ into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Rutger Campbell , Florian Hörsch , Benjamin Moore

It is a classical result that any finite tree with positively weighted edges, and without vertices of degree 2, is uniquely determined by the weighted path distance between each pair of leaves. Moreover, it is possible for a (small) strict…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Katharina T. Huber , Mike Steel

We consider the problem of reconstructing an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices given multiple random noisy subgraphs or "traces". Specifically, a trace is generated by sampling each vertex with probability $p_v$, then taking the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Andrew McGregor , Rik Sengupta

Let $k\geq\ell\geq1$ and $n\geq 1$ be integers. Let $G(k,n)$ be the complete $k$-partite graph with $n$ vertices in each colour class. An $\ell$-decomposition of $G(k,n)$ is a set $X$ of copies of $K_k$ in $G(k,n)$ such that each copy of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Ruy Fabila-Monroy , David R. Wood

The reconstruction conjecture has remained open for simple undirected graphs since it was suggested in 1941 by Kelly and Ulam. In an attempt to prove the conjecture, many graph invariants have been shown to be reconstructible from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-15 T. Kotek