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We consider simplicial complexes that are generated from the binomial random 3-uniform hypergraph by taking the downward-closure. We determine when this simplicial complex is homologically connected, meaning that its zero-th and first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Oliver Cooley , Penny Haxell , Mihyun Kang , Philipp Sprüssel

We obtain a mixed complex simpler than the canonical one the computes the type cyclic homologies of a crossed product with invertible cocycle $A\times_{\rho}^f H$, of a weak module algebra $A$ by a weak Hopf algebra $H$ whose unit…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Jorge A. Guccione , Juan J. Guccione , Christian Valqui

The complexity of the list homomorphism problem for signed graphs appears difficult to classify. Existing results focus on special classes of signed graphs, such as trees and reflexive signed graphs. Irreflexive signed graphs are in a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Tomás Feder , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková

For digraphs $G$ and $H$, a homomorphism of $G$ to $H$ is a mapping $f:\ V(G)\dom V(H)$ such that $uv\in A(G)$ implies $f(u)f(v)\in A(H)$. If moreover each vertex $u \in V(G)$ is associated with costs $c_i(u), i \in V(H)$, then the cost of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-16 Arvind Gupta , Pavol Hell , Mehdi Karimi , Arash Rafiey

The Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma

Let $G$ be a graph having a vertex $v$ such that $H = G - v$ is a trivially perfect graph. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of deciding whether it is possible to add at most $k$ edges to $G$ to obtain a trivially perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Mario Valencia-Pabon

A {\em hole} is a chordless cycle of length at least four. A hole is {\em even} (resp. {\em odd}) if it contains an even (resp. odd) number of vertices. A \emph{cap} is a graph induced by a hole with an additional vertex that is adjacent to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Shenwei Huang , Murilo V. G. da Silva

In the Feedback Vertex Set problem, we aim to find a small set $S$ of vertices in a graph intersecting every cycle. The Subset Feedback Vertex Set problem requires $S$ to intersect only those cycles that include a vertex of some specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Giacomo Paesani , Daniël Paulusma , Paweł Rzążewski

A cut $C:=\partial(X)$ of a matching covered graph $G$ is a separating cut if both its $C$-contractions $G/X$ and $G/\overline{X}$ are also matching covered. A brick is solid if it is free of nontrivial separating cuts. In 2004, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Cláudio L. Lucchesi , Marcelo H. de Carvalho , Nishad Kothari , U. S. R. Murty

The Connected Vertex Cover problem is to decide if a graph G has a vertex cover of size at most $k$ that induces a connected subgraph of $G$. This is a well-studied problem, known to be NP-complete for restricted graph classes, and, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Matthew Johnson , Giacomo Paesani , Daniel Paulusma

Deciding if a graph is a Hamilton graph, also named the Hamilton cycle problem, is important for discrete mathematics and computer science. Due to no characterization to identify Hamilton graphs effectively, there are no tractable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Heping Jiang

It is known that non-isomorphic strongly regular graphs with the same parameters must be cospectral (have the same eigenvalues). In this paper, we investigate whether the spectra of higher order Laplacians associated with these graphs can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Krystal Guo , Chunxu Ji , Mutasim Mim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods have achieved impressive performance on node clustering task. However, they are designed on the homophilic assumption of graph and clustering on heterophilic graph is overlooked. Due to the lack of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang

A geometric graph is a drawing of a graph in the plane where the vertices are drawn as points in general position and the edges as straight-line segments connecting their endpoints. It is plane if it contains no crossing edges. We study…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Marco Ricci , Jonathan Rollin , André Schulz , Alexandra Weinberger

We consider a natural generalization of Vertex Cover: the Subset Vertex Cover problem, which is to decide for a graph $G=(V,E)$, a subset $T\subseteq V$ and integer $k$, if $V$ has a subset $S$ of size at most $k$, such that $S$ contains at…

We introduce $k$-robust clique complexes, a family of simplicial complexes that generalizes the traditional clique complex. Here, a subset of vertices forms a simplex provided it does not contain an independent set of size $k$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Marek Filakovský

For a fixed integer h>=1, let G be a tripartite graph with N vertices in each vertex class, N divisible by 6h, such that every vertex is adjacent to at least 2N/3+h-1 vertices in each of the other classes. We show that if N is sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Ryan R. Martin , Yi Zhao

A graph is $H$-free if it does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. For every integer $k$ and every graph $H$, we determine the computational complexity of $k$-Edge Colouring for $H$-free graphs.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Esther Galby , Paloma T. Lima , Daniel Paulusma , Bernard Ries

A graph $G$ is called well-covered if all maximal independent sets of vertices have the same cardinality. A simplicial complex $\Delta$ is called pure if all of its facets have the same cardinality. Let $\mathcal G$ be the class of graphs…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Rashid Zaare-Nahandi

We show that if $G$ is a simple triangle-free graph with $n\geq 3$ vertices, without a perfect matching, and having a minimum degree at least $\frac{n-1}{2}$, then $G$ is isomorphic either to $C_5$ or to $K_{\frac{n-1}{2},\frac{n+1}{2}}$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Vahan V. Mkrtchyan , Petros A. Petrosyan