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In this paper we present with algebraic trees a novel notion of (continuum) trees which generalizes countable graph-theoretic trees to (potentially) uncountable structures. For that purpose we focus on the tree structure given by the branch…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Wolfgang Löhr , Anita Winter

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

The treewidth is a structural parameter that measures the tree-likeness of a graph. Many algorithmic and combinatorial results are expressed in terms of the treewidth. In this paper, we study the treewidth of outer $k$-planar graphs, that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Oksana Firman , Grzegorz Gutowski , Myroslav Kryven , Yuto Okada , Alexander Wolff

We prove a general width duality theorem for combinatorial structures with well-defined notions of cohesion and separation. These might be graphs and matroids, but can be much more general or quite different. The theorem asserts a duality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Reinhard Diestel , Sang-il Oum

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

This is a survey article on trees, with a modest number of proofs to give a flavor of the way these topologies can be efficiently handled. Trees are defined in set-theorist fashion as partially ordered sets in which the elements below each…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter J. Nyikos

Graphs, and sequences of growing graphs, can be used to specify the architecture of mathematical models in many fields including machine learning and computational science. Here we define structured graph "lineages" (ordered by level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Eric Mjolsness , Cory B. Scott

We give a simple proof that the straightforward generalisation of clique-width to arbitrary structures can be unbounded on structures of bounded tree-width. This can be corrected by allowing fusion of elements.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-06-03 Hans Adler , Isolde Adler

In this paper, we define a class of auxiliary graphs associated with simple undirected graphs. This class of auxiliary graphs is based on the set of spanning trees of the original graph and the edges constituting those spanning trees. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Abhishek Garg , Mahipal Jadeja , Rahul Muthu

Tree-width and path-width are well-known graph parameters. Many NP-hard graph problems allow polynomial-time solutions, when restricted to graphs of bounded tree-width or bounded path-width. In this work, we study the behavior of tree-width…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Frank Gurski , Robin Weishaupt

We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

The definition of $n$-width of a bounded subset $A$ in a normed linear space $X$ is based on the existence of $n$-dimensional subspaces. Although the concept of an $n$-dimensional subspace is not available for metric trees, in this paper,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Asuman Guven Aksoy , Kyle Edward Kinneberg

Tree-width has been proven to be a useful parameter to design fast and efficient algorithms for intractable problems. However, while tree-width is low on relatively sparse graphs can be arbitrary high on dense graphs. Therefore, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Chris Aronis

The study of structural graph width parameters like tree-width, clique-width and rank-width has been ongoing during the last five decades, and their algorithmic use has also been increasing [Cygan et al., 2015]. New width parameters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Eric Brandwein , Carolina Lucía González , Agustín Sansone

We present a method for reducing the treewidth of a graph while preserving all the minimal $s-t$ separators. This technique turns out to be very useful for establishing the fixed-parameter tractability of constrained separation and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Dániel Marx , Barry O'Sullivan , Igor Razgon

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

Perfect matching width is a treewidth-like parameter designed for graphs with perfect matchings. The concept was originally introduced by Norine for the study of non-bipartite Pfaffian graphs. Additionally, perfect matching width appears to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Meike Hatzel , Sebastian Wiederrecht

We define a far-reaching generalization of Schnyder woods which encompasses many classical combinatorial structures on planar graphs. Schnyder woods are defined for planar triangulations as certain triples of spanning trees covering the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Olivier Bernardi , Éric Fusy , Shizhe Liang

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long pursued models, theories, and techniques to imbue machines with human-like general intelligence. Yet even the currently predominant data-driven approaches in AI seem to be lacking humans' unique ability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Rafik Hadfi