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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

Let $\mathcal{Q}$ be a vertex subset problem on graphs. In a reconfiguration variant of $\mathcal{Q}$ we are given a graph $G$ and two feasible solutions $S_s, S_t\subseteq V(G)$ of $\mathcal{Q}$ with $|S_s|=|S_t|=k$. The problem is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Sebastian Siebertz

We consider the complexity of the Independent Set Reconfiguration problem under the Token Sliding rule. In this problem we are given two independent sets of a graph and are asked if we can transform one to the other by repeatedly exchanging…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Rémy Belmonte , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Yota Otachi , Florian Sikora

We introduce in a general setting a dynamic programming method for solving reconfiguration problems. Our method is based on contracted solution graphs, which are obtained from solution graphs by performing an appropriate series of edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Paul Bonsma , Daniel Paulusma

In the Minmax Set Cover Reconfiguration problem, given a set system $\mathcal{F}$ over a universe and its two covers $\mathcal{C}^\mathsf{start}$ and $\mathcal{C}^\mathsf{goal}$ of size $k$, we wish to transform $\mathcal{C}^\mathsf{start}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shuichi Hirahara , Naoto Ohsaka

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of subgraph reconfiguration problems in directed graphs. More specifically, we focus on the problem of reconfiguring arborescences in a digraph, where an arborescence is a directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Takehiro Ito , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yu Nakahata , Yota Otachi , Kunihiro Wasa

The dominating set reconfiguration problem is defined as determining, for a given dominating set problem and two among its feasible solutions, whether one is reachable from the other via a sequence of feasible solutions subject to a certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masato Kato , Torsten Schaub , Takehide Soh , Naoyuki Tamura , Mutsunori Banbara

Let $S$ be an independent set of a simple undirected graph $G$. Suppose that each vertex of $S$ has a token placed on it. The tokens are allowed to be moved, one at a time, by sliding along the edges of $G$, so that after each move, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mathew C. Francis , Veena Prabhakaran

In a reconfiguration version of an optimization problem $\mathcal{Q}$ the input is an instance of $\mathcal{Q}$ and two feasible solutions $S$ and $T$. The objective is to determine whether there exists a step-by-step transformation between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Fahad Panolan , Sebastian Siebertz

In the \textsc{Coloring Reconfiguration} problem, we are given two proper $k$-colorings of a graph and asked to decide whether one can be transformed into the other by repeatedly applying a specified recoloring rule, while maintaining a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Janosch Fuchs , Rin Saito , Tatsuhiro Suga , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

This paper begins the study of reconfiguration of zero forcing sets, and more specifically, the zero forcing graph. Given a base graph $G$, its zero forcing graph, $\mathscr{Z}(G)$, is the graph whose vertices are the minimum zero forcing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Jesse Geneson , Ruth Haas , Leslie Hogben

Reconfiguration graphs provide a way to represent relationships among solutions to a problem, and have been studied in many contexts. We investigate the reconfiguration graphs corresponding to minimum PSD forcing sets and minimum skew…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Novi Bong , Mary Flagg , Mark Hunnell , John Hutchens , Ryan Moruzzi , Houston Schuerger , Ben Small

In this paper we consider a fundamental problem in the area of viral marketing, called T{\scriptsize ARGET} S{\scriptsize ET} S{\scriptsize ELECTION} problem. In a a viral marketing setting, social networks are modeled by graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Chun-Ying Chiang , Liang-Hao Huang , Wei-Ting Huang , Hong-Gwa Yeh

In a reconfiguration problem, we are given two feasible solutions of a combinatorial problem and our goal is to determine whether it is possible to reconfigure one into the other, with the steps dictated by specific reconfiguration rules.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Tatsuhiro Suga , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou

Under the reconfiguration framework, we consider the various ways that a target graph $H$ is a {\em minor} of a host graph $G$, where a subgraph of $G$ can be transformed into $H$ by means of {\em edge contraction} (replacement of both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Benjamin Moore , Naomi Nishimura , Vijay Subramanya

We investigate the complexity of finding a transformation from a given spanning tree in a graph to another given spanning tree in the same graph via a sequence of edge flips. The exchange property of the matroid bases immediately yields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Nicolas Bousquet , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Haruka Mizuta , Paul Ouvrard , Akira Suzuki , Kunihiro Wasa

The independent set reconfiguration problem asks whether one can transform one given independent set of a graph into another, by changing vertices one by one in such a way the intermediate sets remain independent. Extremal problems on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Nicolas Bousquet , Bastien Durain , Théo Pierron , Stéphan Thomassé

A graph $G$ realizes the degree sequence $S$ if the degrees of its vertices is $S$. Hakimi gave a necessary and sufficient condition to guarantee that there exists a connected multigraph realizing $S$. Taylor later proved that any connected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Arnaud Mary

We prove that Balanced Biclique Reconfiguration on bipartite graphs is PSPACE-complete. This implies the PSPACE-completeness of the spanning variant of Subgraph Reconfiguration under the token jumping rule for the property "a graph is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yota Otachi , Emi Toyoda

We study reconfiguration of independent sets in interval graphs under the token sliding rule. We show that if two independent sets of size $k$ are reconfigurable in an $n$-vertex interval graph, then there is a reconfiguration sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Marcin Briański , Stefan Felsner , Jędrzej Hodor , Piotr Micek