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We design efficient deterministic algorithms for finding short edge-disjoint paths in expanders. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge expander $G$ of conductance $\phi$ and minimum degree $\delta$, and a set of pairs $\{(s_i,t_i)\}_i$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Matija Bucić , Zhongtian He , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak

This paper investigates the complexity of finding secluded paths in graphs. We focus on the \textsc{Short Secluded Path} problem and a natural new variant we introduce, \textsc{Shortest Secluded Path}. Formally, given an undirected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Daisuke Tsuru

The Longest Path Problem is a question of finding the maximum length between pairs of vertices of a graph. In the general case, the problem is NP-complete. However, there is a small collection of graph classes for which there exists an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Omar Al - Khazali

In the Directed Steiner Network problem, the input is a directed graph G, a subset T of k vertices of G called the terminals, and a demand graph D on T. The task is to find a subgraph H of G with the minimum number of edges such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Esther Galby , Sandor Kisfaludi-Bak , Daniel Marx , Roohani Sharma

For a finite set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the $\mathcal{F}$-Hitting problem aims to compute, for a given graph $G$ (taken from some graph class $\mathcal{G}$) of $n$ vertices (and $m$ edges) and a parameter $k\in\mathbb{N}$, a set $S$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

Let $F$ be a $2$-regular graph of order $v$. The Oberwolfach problem $OP(F)$, posed in 1967 and still open, asks for a decomposition of $K_v$ into copies of $F$. In this paper we show that $OP(F)$ has a solution whenever $F$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-18 A. C. Burgess , P. Danziger , T. Traetta

We consider the problem of finding a maximum size triangle-free $2$-matching in a graph $G=(V,E)$. A (simple) $2$-matching is any subset of the edges such that each vertex is incident to at most two edges from the subset. The first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Katarzyna Paluch

This paper proposes a new analysis of graph using the concept of electric potential, and also proposes a graph simplification method based on this analysis. Suppose that each node in the weighted-graph has its respective potential value.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jaeho Choi , Joongheon Kim

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) attempts to find cryptographic protocols resistant to attacks using Shor polynomial time algorithm for numerical field problems or Grover search algorithm. A mostly overlooked but valuable line of solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-23 P. Hecht

We prove the following theorem. Given a planar graph $G$ and an integer $k$, it is possible in polynomial time to randomly sample a subset $A$ of vertices of $G$ with the following properties: (i) $A$ induces a subgraph of $G$ of treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

Indexing labeled graphs for pattern matching is a central challenge of pangenomics. Equi et al. (Algorithmica, 2022) developed the Elastic Founder Graph ($\mathsf{EFG}$) representing an alignment of $m$ sequences of length $n$, drawn from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Nicola Rizzo , Massimo Equi , Tuukka Norri , Veli Mäkinen

In the past decades for more and more graph classes the Graph Isomorphism Problem was shown to be solvable in polynomial time. An interesting family of graph classes arises from intersection graphs of geometric objects. In this work we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Daniel Neuen

The point of this paper is to use affine automorphisms from algebraic geometry to build cryptographic multivariate mappings. We will construct groups G,H, both isomorphic to the cyclic group with a prime number of elements and multilinear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Paul Hriljac

The $k$-vertex disjoint paths problem is one of the most studied problems in algorithmic graph theory. In 1994, Schrijver proved that the problem can be solved in polynomial time for every fixed $k$ when restricted to the class of planar…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Saeed Amiri , Ali Golshani , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Siebertz

In this paper, we study isogeny graphs of supersingular elliptic curves. Supersingular isogeny graphs were introduced as a hard problem into cryptography by Charles, Goren, and Lauter for the construction of cryptographic hash functions…

In this paper, we propose a path following replicator dynamic, and investigate its potentials in uncovering the underlying cluster structure of a graph. The proposed dynamic is a generalization of the discrete replicator dynamic. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Hairong Liu , Longin Jan Latecki , Shuicheng Yan

We present a novel method for computing reachability probabilities of parametric discrete-time Markov chains whose transition probabilities are fractions of polynomials over a set of parameters. Our algorithm is based on two key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Nils Jansen , Florian Corzilius , Matthias Volk , Ralf Wimmer , Erika Ábrahám , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Bernd Becker

Given a graph $G$, the hard-core model defines a probability distribution over its independent sets, assigning to each set of size $k$ a probability of $\frac{\lambda^k}{Z}$, where $\lambda>0$ is a parameter known as the \emph{fugacity} and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Malory Marin

We give an algorithmic and lower-bound framework that facilitates the construction of subexponential algorithms and matching conditional complexity bounds. It can be applied to intersection graphs of similarly-sized fat objects, yielding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mark de Berg , Hans L. Bodlaender , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx , Tom C. van der Zanden

This introduction to graphs and graph algebras provides the optimal bound for the number of all paths of length $k$ in a graph with $N\geq k$ edges and no loops. Our proof relies on a construction of a number of terminating algorithms that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Piotr M. Hajac , Mariusz Tobolski