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Cubicity of a graph $G$ is the smallest dimension $d$, for which $G$ is a unit disc graph in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, under the $l^\infty$ metric, i.e. $G$ can be represented as an intersection graph of $d$-dimensional (axis-parallel) unit…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jasine Babu , Manu Basavaraju , L Sunil Chandran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Naveen Sivadasan

A treedepth decomposition of an undirected graph $G$ is a rooted forest $F$ on the vertex set of $G$ such that every edge $uv\in E(G)$ is in ancestor-descendant relationship in $F$. Given a weight function $w\colon V(G)\rightarrow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jona Dirks , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We present a new approximation algorithm for the treewidth problem which finds an upper bound on the treewidth and constructs a corresponding tree decomposition as well. Our algorithm is a faster variation of Reed's classical algorithm. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

The treewidth of a graph is an important invariant in structural and algorithmic graph theory. This paper studies the treewidth of line graphs. We show that determining the treewidth of the line graph of a graph $G$ is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

It is well known that the treewidth of a graph $G$ corresponds to the node search number where a team of cops is pursuing a robber that is lazy, visible and has the ability to move at infinite speed via unguarded path. In recent papers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Guillaume Mescoff , Christophe Paul , Dimitrios Thilikos

Dynamic programming on path and tree decompositions of graphs is a technique that is ubiquitous in the field of parameterized and exponential-time algorithms. However, one of its drawbacks is that the space usage is exponential in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

We give an algorithm that for an input n-vertex graph G and integer k>0, in time 2^[O(k)]n either outputs that the treewidth of G is larger than k, or gives a tree decomposition of G of width at most 5k+4. This is the first algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Hans Bodlaender , Pål G. Drange , Markus S. Dregi , Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk

We provide the first algorithm for computing an optimal tree decomposition for a given graph $G$ that runs in single exponential time in the feedback vertex number of $G$, that is, in time $2^{O(\text{fvn}(G))}\cdot n^{O(1)}$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi , Amit Zivan

The maximum/minimum bisection problems are, given an edge-weighted graph, to find a bipartition of the vertex set into two sets whose sizes differ by at most one, such that the total weight of edges between the two sets is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Taiga Sone

We consider the problem of approximating the arboricity of a graph $G= (V,E)$, which we denote by $\mathsf{arb}(G)$, in sublinear time, where the arboricity of a graph is the minimal number of forests required to cover its edges. An…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Talya Eden , Saleet Mossel , Dana Ron

We prove the following result about approximating the maximum independent set in a graph. Informally, we show that any approximation algorithm with a ``non-trivial'' approximation ratio (as a function of the number of vertices of the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Parinya Chalermsook , Fedor Fomin , Thekla Hamm , Tuukka Korhonen , Jesper Nederlof , Ly Orgo

In a graph G, a dissociation set is a subset of vertices which induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1. Finding a dissociation set of maximum cardinality in a graph is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs and is called the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Jianhua Tu , Lei Zhang , Junfeng Du , Rongling Lang

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

Dynamic programming is widely used for exact computations based on tree decompositions of graphs. However, the space complexity is usually exponential in the treewidth. We study the problem of designing efficient dynamic programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Martin Furer , Huiwen Yu

We present a dynamic data structure for representing a graph $G$ with tree-depth at most $D$. Tree-depth is an important graph parameter which arose in the study of sparse graph classes. The structure allows addition and removal of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Zdenek Dvorak , Martin Kupec , Vojtech Tuma

We revisit the issue of low-distortion embedding of metric spaces into the line, and more generally, into the shortest path metric of trees, from the parameterized complexity perspective.Let $M=M(G)$ be the shortest path metric of an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Michael Fellows , Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Elena Losievskaja , Frances A. Rosamond , Saket Saurabh

The three-in-a-tree problem is to determine if a simple undirected graph contains an induced subgraph which is a tree connecting three given vertices. Based on a beautiful characterization that is proved in more than twenty pages,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Kai-Yuan Lai , Hsueh-I Lu , Mikkel Thorup

The tree-depth is a parameter introduced under several names as a measure of sparsity of a graph. We compute asymptotic values of the tree-depth of random graphs. For dense graphs, p>> 1/n, the tree-depth of a random graph G is a.a.s.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-16 Guillem Perarnau , Oriol Serra

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , Guanghao Ye