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There are many variations on partition functions for graph homomorphisms or colorings. The case considered here is a counting or hard constraint problem in which the range or color graph carries a free and vertex transitive Abelian group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Eric Babson , Matthias Beck

It is well-known that the graphs not containing a given graph H as a subgraph have bounded chromatic number if and only if H is acyclic. Here we consider ordered graphs, i.e., graphs with a linear ordering on their vertex set, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Maria Axenovich , Jonathan Rollin , Torsten Ueckerdt

It is known that first-order logic with some counting extensions can be efficiently evaluated on graph classes with bounded expansion, where depth-$r$ minors have constant density. More precisely, the formulas are $\exists x_1 ... x_k \#y…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jan Dreier , Daniel Mock , Peter Rossmanith

We prove new parameterized complexity results for the FO Model Checking problem on a well-known generalization of interval and circular-arc graphs: the class of $H$-graphs, for any fixed multigraph $H$. In particular, we research how the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Nick Brettell , Noleen Köhler , Andrea Munaro , Daniël Paulusma

Many problems in extremal graph theory correspond to questions involving homomorphisms into a fixed image graph. Recently, there has been interest in maximizing the number of homomorphisms from graphs with a fixed number of vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Jonathan Cutler , Nicholas Kass

We study two computational problems, parameterised by a fixed tree H. #HomsTo(H) is the problem of counting homomorphisms from an input graph G to H. #WHomsTo(H) is the problem of counting weighted homomorphisms to H, given an input graph G…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

A graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if $G$ has chromatic number $k$ but every proper induced subgraph of $G$ has chromatic number less than $k$. The study of $k$-vertex-critical graphs for graph classes is an important topic in algorithmic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Qingqiong Cai , Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang

An ordered graph is a graph enhanced with a linear order on the vertex set. An ordered graph is a core if it does not have an order-preserving homomorphism to a proper subgraph. We say that $H$ is the core of $G$ if (i) $H$ is a core, (ii)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

For graphs $G,H$, a homomorphism from $G$ to $H$ is an edge-preserving mapping from $V(G)$ to $V(H)$. In the list homomorphism problem, denoted by \textsc{LHom}($H$), we are given a graph $G$ and lists $L: V(G) \to 2^{V(H)}$, and we ask for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

We consider the complexity of counting homomorphisms from an $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$ to a symmetric $r$-ary relation $H$. We give a dichotomy theorem for $r>2$, showing for which $H$ this problem is in FP and for which $H$ it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-04 Martin Dyer , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

The problems studied in this article originate from the Graph Motif problem introduced by Lacroix et al. in the context of biological networks. The problem is to decide if a vertex-colored graph has a connected subgraph whose colors equal a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Sylvain Guillemot , Florian Sikora

Reasoning is a fundamental problem for computers and deeply studied in Artificial Intelligence. In this paper, we specifically focus on answering multi-hop logical queries on Knowledge Graphs (KGs). This is a complicated task because, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alfonso Amayuelas , Shuai Zhang , Susie Xi Rao , Ce Zhang

In this paper, we prove that for every connected graph G, there exists a split graph H with the same independence number and the same order. Then we propose a first algorithm for finding this graph, given the degree sequence of the input…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-09 Omar Kettani

The neighborhood complex of a graph was introduced by Lov\'asz to provide topological lower bounds on chromatic number. More general homomorphism complexes of graphs were further studied by Babson and Kozlov. Such `Hom complexes' are also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Anton Dochtermann , Anurag Singh

For a fixed graph H, the function #IndSub(H,*) maps graphs G to the count of induced H-copies in G; this function obviously "counts something" in that it has a combinatorial interpretation. Linear combinations of such functions are called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Markus Bläser , Radu Curticapean , Julian Dörfler , Christian Ikenmeyer

In this article we study graphs with ordering of vertices, we define a generalization called a pseudoordering, and for a graph $H$ we define the $H$-Hamiltonian number of a graph $G$. We will show that this concept is a generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Martin Dzúrik

Several graph properties are characterized as the class of graphs that admit an orientation avoiding finitely many oriented structures. For instance, if $F_k$ is the set of homomorphic images of the directed path on $k+1$ vertices, then a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , César Hernández-Cruz

The classic theorem of Gallai and Milgram (1960) generalizes several fundamental results in Graph Theory, such as Dilworth's theorem on posets and K\H{o}nig's theorem on matchings in bipartite graphs. The theorem asserts that for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

For a fixed graph $H$, the reconfiguration problem for $H$-colourings (i.e. homomorphisms to $H$) asks: given a graph $G$ and two $H$-colourings $\varphi$ and $\psi$ of $G$, does there exist a sequence $f_0,\dots,f_m$ of $H$-colourings such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Richard C. Brewster , Jae-Baek Lee , Benjamin Moore , Jonathan A. Noel , Mark Siggers

Fix a finite group $G$. We study the computational complexity of counting problems of the following flavor: given a group $\Gamma$, count the number of homomorphisms $\Gamma \to G$. Our first result establishes that this problem is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Eric Samperton , Armin Weiß