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We study the problem of deleting the smallest set $S$ of vertices (resp. edges) from a given graph $G$ such that the induced subgraph (resp. subgraph) $G \setminus S$ belongs to some class $\mathcal{H}$. We consider the case where graphs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Pasin Manurangsi , Michał Włodarczyk

It is well-known that the Vertex Cover problem is in P on bipartite graphs, however; the computational complexity of the Partial Vertex Cover problem on bipartite graphs is open. In this paper, we first show that the Partial Vertex Cover…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Bugra Caskurlu , K. Subramani

A graph class is hereditary if it is closed under vertex deletion. We give examples of NP-hard, PSPACE-complete and NEXPTIME-complete problems that become constant-time solvable for every hereditary graph class that is not equal to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith

For a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{H}$, the $\mathcal{H}$-elimination distance of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of rounds needed to reduce $G$ to a member of $\mathcal{H}$ by removing one vertex from each connected component in each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon

An elimination tree of a connected graph $G$ is a rooted tree on the vertices of $G$ obtained by choosing a root $v$ and recursing on the connected components of $G-v$ to obtain the subtrees of $v$. The graph associahedron of $G$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Luís Felipe I. Cunha , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Mario Valencia-Pabon

A graph is $c$-closed when every pair of nonadjacent vertices has at most $c-1$ common neighbors. In $c$-Closed Vertex Deletion, the input is a graph $G$ and an integer $k$ and we ask whether $G$ can be transformed into a $c$-closed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lisa Lehner , Christian Komusiewicz , Luca Pascal Staus

Vertex deletion to hereditary graph class is well-studied in parameterized complexity. Vertex deletion to the scattered graph classes has gained attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider (Proper-Interval, Tree)-Vertex Deletion,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ashwin Jacob , Arpit Kumar , Diptapriyo Majumdar

A fundamental graph problem is to recognize whether the vertex set of a graph $G$ can be bipartitioned into sets $A$ and $B$ such that $G[A]$ and $G[B]$ satisfy properties $\Pi_A$ and $\Pi_B$, respectively. This so-called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Iyad Kanj , Christian Komusiewicz , Manuel Sorge , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The aim of edge editing or modification problems is to change a given graph by adding and deleting of a small number of edges in order to satisfy a certain property. We consider the Edge Editing to a Connected Graph of Given Degrees problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Petr A. Golovach

We study a family of graph modification problems called the F-Vertex Splitting problem. Given a graph G, the task is to determine whether G can be transformed into a graph G-prime belonging to a graph class F through a sequence of at most k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Hitendra Kumar , S. Padmapriya , Praneet Kumar Patra , Harsh Sanklecha , Soumen Maity

Let $S=\{K_{1,3},K_3,P_4\}$ be the set of connected graphs of size 3. We study the problem of partitioning the edge set of a graph $G$ into graphs taken from any non-empty $S'\subseteq S$. The problem is known to be NP-complete for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Laurent Bulteau , Guillaume Fertin , Anthony Labarre , Romeo Rizzi , Irena Rusu

The \emph{linear vertex arboricity} of a graph is the smallest number of sets into which the vertices of a graph can be partitioned so that each of these sets induces a linear forest. Chaplick et al. [JoCG 2020] showed that, somewhat…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Erhardt , Alexander Wolff

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the graph editing problem called Editing to a Graph with a Given Degree Sequence, where the aim is to obtain a graph with a given degree sequence \sigma by at most k vertex or edge deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Petr A. Golovach , George B. Mertzios

Minimum $k$-Section denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into $k$ sets of sizes as equal as possible while minimizing the cut width, which is the number of edges between these sets. When $k$ is an input…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G$ and two integers $\chi_d$, $\Delta^*$ and are asked if we can $\chi_d$-color $G$ so that the maximum degree induced by any color class is at most $\Delta^*$. We show that this natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

In the Tree Deletion Set problem the input is a graph G together with an integer k. The objective is to determine whether there exists a set S of at most k vertices such that G-S is a tree. The problem is NP-complete and even NP-hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Ondrej Suchy

In the {\sc Cluster Deletion} problem the goal is to remove the minimum number of edges of a given graph, such that every connected component of the resulting graph constitutes a clique. It is known that the decision version of {\sc Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Charis Papadopoulos

The $H$-Free Edge Deletion problem asks, for a given graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether it is possible to delete at most $k$ edges from $G$ to make it $H$-free, that is, not containing $H$ as an induced subgraph. The $H$-Free Edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Ivan Bliznets , Marek Cygan , Pawel Komosa , Michal Pilipczuk

Funnels are a new natural subclass of DAGs. Intuitively, a DAG is a funnel if every source-sink path can be uniquely identified by one of its arcs. Funnels are an analog to trees for directed graphs that is more restrictive than DAGs but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Marcelo Garlet Millani , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Manuel Sorge

Grid graphs, and, more generally, $k\times r$ grid graphs, form one of the most basic classes of geometric graphs. Over the past few decades, a large body of works studied the (in)tractability of various computational problems on grid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi