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Counting homomorphisms from a graph $H$ into another graph $G$ is a fundamental problem of (parameterized) counting complexity theory. In this work, we study the case where \emph{both} graphs $H$ and $G$ stem from given classes of graphs:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Marc Roth , Philip Wellnitz

Two graphs $G$ and $H$ are homomorphism indistinguishable over a graph class $\mathcal{F}$ if they admit the same number of homomorphisms from every graph $F \in \mathcal{F}$. Many graph isomorphism relaxations such as (quantum) isomorphism…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Marek Černý , Tim Seppelt

We study the complexity of a class of promise graph homomorphism problems. For a fixed graph H, the H-colouring problem is to decide whether a given graph has a homomorphism to H. By a result of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sergey Avvakumov , Marek Filakovský , Jakub Opršal , Gianluca Tasinato , Uli Wagner

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is locally bijective, surjective, or injective if its restriction to the neighborhood of every vertex of G is bijective, surjective, or injective, respectively. We prove that the problems of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Steven Chaplick , Jiří Fiala , Pim van 't Hof , Daniël Paulusma , Marek Tesař

We prove that unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) fails, deciding if there is a homomorphism from graph $G$ to graph $H$ cannot be done in time $|V(H)|^{o(|V(G)|)}$. We also show an exponential-time reduction from Graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Marek Cygan , Fedor V. Fomin , Alexander Golovnev , Alexander S. Kulikov , Ivan Mihajlin , Jakub Pachocki , Arkadiusz Socała

Two graphs $G$ and $H$ are homomorphism indistinguishable over a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ if for all graphs $F \in \mathcal{F}$ the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ is equal to the number of homomorphism from $F$ to $H$. Many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tim Seppelt

We study homomorphism problems of signed graphs. A signed graph is an undirected graph where each edge is given a sign, positive or negative. An important concept for signed graphs is the operation of switching at a vertex, which is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-08 François Dross , Florent Foucaud , Valia Mitsou , Pascal Ochem , Théo Pierron

In this work we contribute to the study of the fine-grained complexity of problems parameterized by multi-clique-width, which was initiated by F\"urer [ITCS 2017] and pursued further by Chekan and Kratsch [MFCS 2023]. Multi-clique-width is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Vera Chekan , Stefan Kratsch

The Surjective Homomorphism problem is to test whether a given graph G called the guest graph allows a vertex-surjective homomorphism to some other given graph H called the host graph. The bijective and injective homomorphism problems can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Petr A. Golovach , Bernard Lidický , Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma

We investigate the parameterized complexity of several problems formalizing cluster identification in graphs. In other words we ask whether a graph contains a large enough and sufficiently connected subgraph. We study here three relaxations…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ambroise Baril , Antoine Castillon , Nacim Oijid

For any particular class of graphs, algorithms for computational problems restricted to the class often rely on structural properties that depend on the specific problem at hand. This begs the question if a large set of such results can be…

A clique in an undirected graph G= (V, E) is a subset V' V of vertices, each pair of which is connected by an edge in E. The clique problem is an optimization problem of finding a clique of maximum size in graph. The clique problem is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-10-04 Murali Krishna P , Sabu . M Thampi

We consider homomorphisms of signed graphs from a computational perspective. In particular, we study the list homomorphism problem seeking a homomorphism of an input signed graph $(G,\sigma)$, equipped with lists $L(v) \subseteq V(H), v \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Tomás Feder , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková

We study the complexity of a classic problem in computational topology, the homology problem: given a description of some space $X$ and an integer $k$, decide if $X$ contains a $k$-dimensional hole. The setting and statement of the homology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Robbie King , Tamara Kohler

Bir\'{o} et al. (1992) introduced $H$-graphs, intersection graphs of connected subgraphs of a subdivision of a graph $H$. They are related to many classes of geometric intersection graphs, e.g., interval graphs, circular-arc graphs, split…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Steven Chaplick , Martin Töpfer , Jan Voborník , Peter Zeman

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

Constraint satisfaction problems are computational problems that naturally appear in many areas of theoretical computer science. One of the central themes is their computational complexity, and in particular the border between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Manuel Bodirsky

Is detecting a $k$-clique in $k$-partite regular (hyper-)graphs as hard as in the general case? Intuition suggests yes, but proving this -- especially for hypergraphs -- poses notable challenges. Concretely, we consider a strong notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nick Fischer , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redžić , Julian Stieß

Given graphs $H$ and $G$, possibly with vertex-colors, a homomorphism is a function $f:V(H)\to V(G)$ that preserves colors and edges. Many interesting counting problems (e.g., subgraph and induced subgraph counts) are finite linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Radu Curticapean

We completely classify the computational complexity of the list H-colouring problem for graphs (with possible loops) in combinatorial and algebraic terms: for every graph H the problem is either NP-complete, NL-complete, L-complete or is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Egri , Andrei Krokhin , Benoit Larose , Pascal Tesson