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We establish relations between the bandwidth and the treewidth of bounded degree graphs G, and relate these parameters to the size of a separator of G as well as the size of an expanding subgraph of G. Our results imply that if one of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Julia Böttcher , Klaas P. Pruessmann , Anusch Taraz , Andreas Würfl

For a given graph G and integers b,f >= 0, let S be a subset of vertices of G of size b+1 such that the subgraph of G induced by S is connected and S can be separated from other vertices of G by removing f vertices. We prove that every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

We initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a capacitated graph $G=(V,E)$, find a shortest walk ("route") from a source $s\in V$ to a destination $t\in V$ that includes all vertices specified by a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid

A treedepth decomposition of an undirected graph $G$ is a rooted forest $F$ on the vertex set of $G$ such that every edge $uv\in E(G)$ is in ancestor-descendant relationship in $F$. Given a weight function $w\colon V(G)\rightarrow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jona Dirks , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

In this paper, we consider the notion of \emph{special treewidth}, recently introduced by Courcelle\cite{Courcelle2012}. In a special tree decomposition, for each vertex $v$ in a given graph, the bags containing $v$ form a rooted path. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Hans L. Bodlaender , Vincent J. C. Kreuzen , Stefan Kratsch , O-joung Kwon , Seongmin Ok

The class of all even-hole-free graphs has unbounded tree-width, as it contains all complete graphs. Recently, a class of (even-hole, $K_4$)-free graphs was constructed, that still has unbounded tree-width [Sintiari and Trotignon, 2019].…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Pierre Aboulker , Isolde Adler , Eun Jung Kim , Ni Luh Dewi Sintiari , Nicolas Trotignon

Many algorithms have been developed for NP-hard problems on graphs with small treewidth $k$. For example, all problems that are expressable in linear extended monadic second order can be solved in linear time on graphs of bounded treewidth.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Frank Kammer , Torsten Tholey

Treewidth is an important structural graph parameter that quantifies how closely a graph resembles a tree-like structure. It has applications in many algorithmic and combinatorial problems. In this paper, we study the treewidth of outer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rafał Pyzik

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

Mathematical modeling is a standard approach to solve many real-world problems and {\em diversity} of solutions is an important issue, emerging in applying solutions obtained from mathematical models to real-world problems. Many studies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

Coverings of undirected graphs are used in distributed computing, and unfoldings of directed graphs in semantics of programs. We study these two notions from a graph theoretical point of view so as to highlight their similarities, as they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Bruno Courcelle

The tree-cut width of a graph is a graph parameter defined by Wollan [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 110:47-66, 2015] with the help of tree-cut decompositions. In certain cases, tree-cut width appears to be more adequate than treewidth as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Eunjung Kim , Sang-il Oum , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The study of abstraction and composition - the focus of category theory - naturally leads to sophisticated diagrams which can encode complex algebraic semantics. Consequently, these diagrams facilitate a clearer visual comprehension of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

Enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph is a problem which arises in many data management applications that include constraint mining, discovering unique column combinations, and enumerating database repairs. Previously, Eiter…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Batya Kenig , Dan Shlomo Mizrahi

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

Twisted diagrams are "diagrams" with components in different categories. Structure maps are defined using auxiliary data which consists of functors relating the various categories to each other. Prime examples of the construction are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-05-28 Thomas Huettemann , Oliver Roendigs

We associate root polytopes to directed graphs and study them by using ribbon structures. Most attention is paid to what we call the semi-balanced case, i.e., when each cycle has the same number of edges pointing in the two directions.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Tamás Kálmán , Lilla Tóthmérész

We provide proofs certifying that the structure theorem for vertex sets of bounded bidimensionality holds with polynomial bounds. The bidimensionality of vertex sets is a common generalisation of both treewidth and the face-cover-number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Maximilian Gorsky , Evangelos Protopapas , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Treewidth is a well-studied decompositional parameter to measure the tree-likeness of a graph. While the propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) is known to be tractable when parameterized by the treewidth of the underlying primal graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Robert Ganian , Marlene Gründel