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Subdividing an edge $uv$ in a graph replaces it by a path $u w v$ with one new vertex. For a graph $H$, the \textsc{$H$-free Subdivision} problem asks whether, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, one can destroy all induced copies of $H$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Marta Piecyk , R. B. Sandeep

A Hamilton cycle in a digraph is a cycle that passes through all the vertices, where all the arcs are oriented in the same direction. The problem of finding Hamilton cycles in directed graphs is well studied and is known to be hard. One of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Asaf Ferber , Gal Kronenberg , Eoin Long

We prove that Hamiltonicity in maximum-degree-3 grid graphs (directed or undirected) is ASP-complete, i.e., it has a parsimonious reduction from every NP search problem (including a polynomial-time bijection between solutions). As a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 MIT Hardness Group , Josh Brunner , Lily Chung , Erik D. Demaine , Jenny Diomidova , Della Hendrickson , Andy Tockman

A packing of a graph G with Hamilton cycles is a set of edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles in G. Such packings have been studied intensively and recent results imply that a largest packing of Hamilton cycles in G_n,p a.a.s. has size \lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-25 Dan Hefetz , Daniela Kühn , John Lapinskas , Deryk Osthus

We construct an explicit Hamiltonian cycle in the state graph of the 5-puzzle on a toroidal 2x 3 grid, a graph with 720 vertices. The cycle is described by a short symbolic sequence of 48 moves over the alphabet {L,R,V}, repeated $15$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Taizo Sadahiro

Hybrid algorithms that combine quantum and classical resources have become commonplace in quantum computing. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is routinely used to solve prototype problems. Currently, hybrid algorithms use no more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Manpreet Singh Jattana

Given an $r$-edge-colouring of the edges of a graph $G$, we say that it can be partitioned into $p$ monochromatic cycles when there exists a set of $p$ vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles covering all the vertices of $G$. In the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Fabrício Siqueira Benevides , Arthur Lima Quintino , Alexandre Talon

We present quantum algorithms for various problems related to graph connectivity. We give simple and query-optimal algorithms for cycle detection and odd-length cycle detection (bipartiteness) using a reduction to st-connectivity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Kai DeLorenzo , Shelby Kimmel , R. Teal Witter

We experimentally evaluate the practical state-of-the-art in graph bipartization (Odd Cycle Transversal), motivated by recent advances in near-term quantum computing hardware and the related embedding problems. We assemble a preprocessing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Timothy D. Goodrich , Eric Horton , Blair D. Sullivan

Polynomial systems over the binary field have important applications, especially in symmetric and asymmetric cryptanalysis, multivariate-based post-quantum cryptography, coding theory, and computer algebra. In this work, we study the…

We introduce and study the complexity of Path Packing. Given a graph $G$ and a list of paths, the task is to embed the paths edge-disjoint in $G$. This generalizes the well known Hamiltonian-Path problem. Since Hamiltonian Path is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jan Dreier , Janosch Fuchs , Tim A. Hartmann , Philipp Kuinke , Peter Rossmanith , Bjoern Tauer , Hung-Lung Wang

The embedding is an essential step when calculating on the D-Wave machine. In this work we show the hardness of the embedding problem for both types of existing hardware, represented by the Chimera and the Pegasus graphs, containing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Elisabeth Lobe , Annette Lutz

Minor embedding is essential for mapping largescale combinatorial problems onto quantum annealers, particularly in quantum machine learning and optimization. This work presents an optimized, universal minor-embedding framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Salvatore Sinno , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Arati Sahoo

A bipartite graph is chordal bipartite if every cycle of length at least six has a chord in it. M$\ddot{\rm u}$ller \cite {muller1996Hamiltonian} has shown that the Hamiltonian cycle problem is NP-complete on chordal bipartite graphs by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 S. Aadhavan , R. Mahendra Kumar , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

A Hamilton cycle is a cycle containing every vertex of a graph. A graph is called Hamiltonian if it contains a Hamilton cycle. The Hamilton cycle problem is to find the sufficient and necessary condition that a graph is Hamiltonian. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Heping Jiang

Motivated by hybrid graph representations, we introduce and study the following beyond-planarity problem, which we call $h$-Clique2Path Planarity: Given a graph $G$, whose vertices are partitioned into subsets of size at most $h$, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Patrizio Angelini , Peter Eades , Seok-Hee Hong , Karsten Klein , Stephen Kobourov , Giuseppe Liotta , Alfredo Navarra , Alessandra Tappini

Chen, Faudree, Gould, Jacobson, and Lesniak determined the minimum degree threshold for which a balanced $k$-partite graph has a Hamiltonian cycle. We give an asymptotically tight minimum degree condition for Hamiltonian cycles in arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Louis DeBiasio , Robert A. Krueger , Dan Pritikin , Eli Thompson

Every semicomplete multipartite digraph contains a quasi-Hamiltonian path, but the problem of finding a quasi-Hamiltonian path with prescribed start and end vertex is NP-complete even when restricted to semicomplete multipartite digraphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Julian Brinkmann

Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Itay Hen , Daniel A. Lidar

We study Hamiltonicity in graphs obtained as the union of a deterministic $n$-vertex graph $H$ with linear degrees and a $d$-dimensional random geometric graph $G^d(n,r)$, for any $d\geq1$. We obtain an asymptotically optimal bound on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Alberto Espuny Díaz