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For each $d\leq3$, we construct a finite set $F_d$ of multigraphs such that for each graph $H$ of girth at least $5$ obtained from a multigraph $G$ by subdividing each edge at least two times, $H$ has twin-width at most $d$ if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Jungho Ahn , Debsoumya Chakraborti , Kevin Hendrey , Sang-il Oum

Over the last 30 years, researchers have investigated connections between dimension for posets and planarity for graphs. Here we extend this line of research to the structural graph theory parameter tree-width by proving that the dimension…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Kevin G. Milans , William T. Trotter , Bartosz Walczak , Ruidong Wang

The twin-width of a graph $G$ is the minimum integer $d$ such that $G$ has a $d$-contraction sequence, that is, a sequence of $|V(G)|-1$ iterated vertex identifications for which the overall maximum number of red edges incident to a single…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

Twin-width is a recently introduced graph parameter for finite graphs. It is an open problem to determine whether there is an $n$-vertex graph having twin-width at least $n/2$ (due to J. Ahn, K. Hendrey, D. Kim and S. Oum). In an earlier…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Kajal Das

The fascinating question of the maximum value of twin-width on planar graphs is nowadays not far from the final resolution; there is a lower bound of 7 coming from a construction by Kr\'al' and Lamaison [arXiv, September 2022], and an upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Petr Hliněný

We define new graph parameters, called flip-width, that generalize treewidth, degeneracy, and generalized coloring numbers for sparse graphs, and clique-width and twin-width for dense graphs. The flip-width parameters are defined using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Szymon Toruńczyk

In 1977, Trotter and Moore proved that a poset has dimension at most $3$ whenever its cover graph is a forest, or equivalently, has treewidth at most $1$. On the other hand, a well-known construction of Kelly shows that there are posets of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , William T. Trotter , Ruidong Wang , Veit Wiechert

The problem of whether and how one can compute the twin-width of a graph -- along with an accompanying contraction sequence -- lies at the forefront of the area of algorithmic model theory. While significant effort has been aimed at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Jakub Balabán , Robert Ganian , Mathis Rocton

We investigate the structure of graphs of twin-width at most $1$, and obtain the following results: - Graphs of twin-width at most $1$ are permutation graphs. In particular they have an intersection model and a linear structure. - There is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jungho Ahn , Hugo Jacob , Noleen Köhler , Christophe Paul , Amadeus Reinald , Sebastian Wiederrecht

We establish a list of characterizations of bounded twin-width for hereditary, totally ordered binary structures. This has several consequences. First, it allows us to show that a (hereditary) class of matrices over a finite alphabet either…

We introduce merge-width, a family of graph parameters that unifies several structural graph measures, including treewidth, degeneracy, twin-width, clique-width, and generalized coloring numbers. Our parameters are based on new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Jan Dreier , Szymon Toruńczyk

We introduce a new parameter, called stretch-width, that we show sits strictly between clique-width and twin-width. Unlike the reduced parameters [BKW '22], planar graphs and polynomial subdivisions do not have bounded stretch-width. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron

Threshold graphs are recursive deterministic network models that have been proposed for describing certain economic and social interactions. One drawback of this graph family is that it has limited generative attachment rules. To mitigate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Vida Ravanmehr , Gregory J. Puleo , Sadegh Bolouki , Olgica Milenkovic

Joret, Micek, Milans, Trotter, Walczak, and Wang recently asked if there exists a constant $d$ such that if $P$ is a poset with cover graph of $P$ of pathwidth at most $2$, then $\dim(P)\leq d$. We answer this question in the affirmative by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Csaba Biró , Mitchel T. Keller , Stephen J. Young

We recently introduced the graph invariant twin-width, and showed that first-order model checking can be solved in time $f(d,k)n$ for $n$-vertex graphs given with a witness that the twin-width is at most $d$, called $d$-contraction sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

The metric dimension has been introduced independently by Harary, Melter and Slater in 1975 to identify vertices of a graph G using its distances to a subset of vertices of G. A resolving set X of a graph G is a subset of vertices such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nicolas Bousquet , Quentin Deschamps , Aline Parreau

Over the past two decades the main focus of research into first-order (FO) model checking algorithms have been sparse relational structures-culminating in the FPT-algorithm by Grohe, Kreutzer and Siebertz for FO model checking of nowhere…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Daniel Lokshtanov , Jan Obdržálek , Sebastian Ordyniak , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

We study set systems formed by neighborhoods in graphs of bounded twin-width. We start by proving that such graphs have linear neighborhood complexity, in analogy to previous results concerning graphs from classes with bounded expansion and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Wojciech Przybyszewski

For some geometric graph classes, tractability of testing first-order formulas is precisely characterised by the graph parameter twin-width. This was first proved for interval graphs among others in [BCKKLT, IPEC '22], where the equivalence…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Colin Geniet , Gunwoo Kim , Lucas Meijer

The queue number of a poset is the queue number of its cover graph when the vertex order is a linear extension of the poset. Heath and Pemmaraju conjectured that every poset of width $w$ has queue number at most $w$. The conjecture has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Sergey Pupyrev