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In this paper we present a new width measure for a tree decomposition, minor-matching hypertree width, $\mu\text{-}tw$, for graphs and hypergraphs, such that bounding the width guarantees that set of maximal independent sets has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Nikola Yolov

The local tree-width of a graph G=(V,E) is the function ltw^G: N -> N that associates with every natural number r the maximal tree-width of an r-neighborhood in G. Our main graph theoretic result is a decomposition theorem for graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe

We prove that a hereditary class of graphs is $(\mathsf{tw}, \omega)$-bounded if and only if the induced minors of the graphs from the class form a $(\mathsf{tw}, \omega)$-bounded class.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Claire Hilaire , Martin Milanič , Nicolas Trotignon , Djordje Vasić

We prove that the tree independence number of every even-hole-free graph is at most polylogarithmic in its number of vertices. More explicitly, we prove that there exists a constant c>0 such that for every integer n>1 every n-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Maria Chudnovsky , Peter Gartland , Sepehr Hajebi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Sophie Spirkl

Many hard graph problems can be solved efficiently when restricted to graphs of bounded treewidth, and more generally to graphs of bounded clique-width. But there is a price to be paid for this generality, exemplified by the four problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Jan Arne Telle

We investigate a relaxation of the notion of treewidth-fragility, namely tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for independent packing problems on fractionally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

The induced matching width of a tree decomposition of a graph $G$ is the cardinality of a largest induced matching $M$ of $G$, such that there exists a bag that intersects every edge in $M$. The induced matching treewidth of a graph $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hans L. Bodlaender , Fedor V. Fomin , Tuukka Korhonen

In this paper we compare and illustrate the algorithmic use of graphs of bounded tree-width and graphs of bounded clique-width. For this purpose we give polynomial time algorithms for computing the four basic graph parameters independence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Frank Gurski

We consider a variant of treewidth that we call clique-partitioned treewidth in which each bag is partitioned into cliques. This is motivated by the recent development of FPT-algorithms based on similar parameters for various problems. With…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Thomas Bläsius , Maximilian Katzmann , Marcus Wilhelm

For given graph $H$, the independence number $\alpha(H)$ of $H$, is the size of the maximum independent set of $V(H)$. Finding the maximum independent set in a graph is a NP-hard problem. Another version of the independence number is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Yaser Rowshan

We study how the relationship between non-equivalent width parameters changes once we restrict to some special graph class. As width parameters, we consider treewidth, clique-width, twin-width, mim-width, sim-width and tree-independence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nick Brettell , Andrea Munaro , Daniël Paulusma , Shizhou Yang

Partitioning a graph using graph separators, and particularly clique separators, are well-known techniques to decompose a graph into smaller units which can be treated independently. It was previously known that the treewidth was bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Boi Faltings , Martin Charles Golumbic

We introduce the tree-decomposition-based graph parameter Odd-Cycle-Packing-treewidth (OCP-tw) as a width parameter that asks to decompose a given graph into pieces of bounded odd cycle packing number. The parameter OCP-tw is monotone under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Mujin Choi , Maximilian Gorsky , Gunwoo Kim , Caleb McFarland , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter owing to its use in understanding algorithmic tractability: if the clique-width of a graph class ${\cal G}$ is bounded by a constant, a wide range of problems that are NP-complete in general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, we say that a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-free if no induced subgraph of $G$ is isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{H}$. Let $W_{t\times t}$ be the $t$-by-$t$ hexagonal grid and let $\mathcal{L}_t$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Maria Chudnovsky , Julien Codsi

We determine if the width of a graph class ${\cal G}$ changes from unbounded to bounded if we consider only those graphs from ${\cal G}$ whose diameter is bounded. As parameters we consider treedepth, pathwidth, treewidth and clique-width,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Tala Eagling-Vose , Noleen Köhler , Sebastian Ordyniak , Daniël Paulusma

We prove that for every integer $t\geq 1$ there exists an integer $c_t\geq 1$ such that every $n$-vertex even-hole-free graph with no clique of size $t$ has treewidth at most $c_t\log{n}$. This resolves a conjecture of Sintiari and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Maria Chudnovsky , Peter Gartland , Sepehr Hajebi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Sophie Spirkl

We investigate how efficiently a well-studied family of domination-type problems can be solved on bounded-treewidth graphs. For sets $\sigma,\rho$ of non-negative integers, a $(\sigma,\rho)$-set of a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Fionn Mc Inerney , Daniel Neuen , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper , Philip Wellnitz

A three-path-configuration is a graph consisting of three pairwise internally-disjoint paths the union of every two of which is an induced cycle of length at least four. A graph is 3PC-free if no induced subgraph of it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Sophie Spirkl

We investigate a relaxation of the notion of fractional treewidth-fragility, namely fractional tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for meta-problems such as finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang