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A temporal graph is a sequence of graphs (called layers) over the same vertex set -- describing a graph topology which is subject to discrete changes over time. A $\Delta$-temporal matching $M$ is a set of time edges $(e,t)$ (an edge $e$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Philipp Zschoche

Suppose we are given a pair of points $s, t$ and a set $S$ of $n$ geometric objects in the plane, called obstacles. We show that in polynomial time one can construct an auxiliary (multi-)graph $G$ with vertex set $S$ and every edge labeled…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Neeraj Kumar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Subhash Suri , Jie Xue

We consider the problem of assigning appearing times to the edges of a digraph in order to maximize the (average) temporal reachability between pairs of nodes. Motivated by the application to public transit networks, where edges cannot be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

We show that minimum connected $(s,t)$-vertex separator ($(s,t)$-CVS) is $\Omega(log^{2-\epsilon}n)$-hard for any $\epsilon >0$ unless NP has quasi-polynomial Las-Vegas algorithms. i.e., for any $\epsilon >0$ and for some $\delta >0$,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 N. S. Narayanaswamy , N. Sadagopan

We consider the problem of decomposing a given (di)graph into paths of length 2 with the additional restriction that no two such paths may have more than one vertex in common. We establish its NP-hardness by a reduction from 3-SAT,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Annika Thome , Matthias Walter

Let $G$ be a directed planar graph of complexity $n$, each arc having a nonnegative length. Let $s$ and $t$ be two distinct faces of $G$; let $s_1,...,s_k$ be vertices incident with $s$; let $t_1,...,t_k$ be vertices incident with $t$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Eric Colin De Verdière , Alexander Schrijver

In the $k$-Disjoint Shortest Paths ($k$-DSP) problem, we are given a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes and $m$ edges with specified source vertices $s_1, \dots, s_k$, and target vertices $t_1, \dots, t_k$, and are tasked with determining if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shyan Akmal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

In dynamic graphs, edges may be added or deleted in each synchronous round. Various connectivity models exist based on constraints on these changes. One well-known model is the $T$-Interval Connectivity model, where the graph remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ashish Saxena , Kaushik Mondal

In 2003, it was claimed that the following problem was solvable in polynomial time: do there exist k edge-disjoint paths of length exactly 3 between vertices s and t in a given graph? The proof was flawed, and we show that this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Hannah Alpert , Jennifer Iglesias

We introduce a generalization of the well known graph (vertex) coloring problem, which we call the problem of \emph{component coloring of graphs}. Given a graph, the problem is to color the vertices using minimum number of colors so that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Ajit Diwan , Soumitra Pal , Abhiram Ranade

In directed graphs, a cycle can be seen as a structure that allows its vertices to loop back to themselves, or as a structure that allows pairs of vertices to reach each other through distinct paths. We extend these concepts to temporal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davi de Andrade , Júlio Araújo , Allen Ibiapina , Andrea Marino , Jason Schoeters , Ana Silva

This paper considers a natural fault-tolerant shortest paths problem: for some constant integer $f$, given a directed weighted graph with no negative cycles and two fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, compute (either explicitly or implicitly) for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Eyob Woldeghebriel , Yinzhan Xu

Let $G$ be an undirected graph, and $s,t$ distinguished vertices of $G$. A minimal $s,t$-separator is an inclusion-wise minimal vertex-set whose removal places $s$ and $t$ in distinct connected components. We present an algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Batya Kenig

The betweenness centrality of a vertex v is an important centrality measure that quantifies how many optimal paths between pairs of other vertices visit v. Computing betweenness centrality in a temporal graph, in which the edge set may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Hendrik Molter

We develop a structural approach to simultaneous embeddability in temporal sequences of graphs, inspired by graph minor theory. Our main result is a classification theorem for 2-connected temporal sequences: we identify five obstruction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Johannes Carmesin , Will J. Turner

We study the long-standing open problem of efficiently testing rectilinear planarity of series-parallel graphs (SP-graphs) in the variable embedding setting. A key ingredient behind the design of a linear-time testing algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Walter Didimo , Michael Kaufmann , Giuseppe Liotta , Giacomo Ortali

Given a static vertex-selection problem (e.g. independent set, dominating set) on a graph, we can define a corresponding temporally satisfying reconfiguration problem on a temporal graph which asks for a sequence of solutions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tom Davot , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones

In the Vertex Planarization problem one asks to delete the minimum possible number of vertices from an input graph to obtain a planar graph. The parameterized complexity of this problem, parameterized by the solution size (the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Marcin Pilipczuk

We study the computational complexity of routing multiple objects through a network in such a way that only few collisions occur: Given a graph $G$ with two distinct terminal vertices and two positive integers $p$ and $k$, the question is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Till Fluschnik , Marco Morik , Manuel Sorge

Temporal graphs are graphs whose edges are labelled with times at which they are active. Their time-sensitivity provides a useful model of real networks, but renders many problems studied on temporal graphs more computationally complex than…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jessica Enright , Samuel D. Hand , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks