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Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

Removing all connections between two vertices s and z in a graph by removing a minimum number of vertices is a fundamental problem in algorithmic graph theory. This (s,z)-separation problem is well-known to be polynomial solvable and serves…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Nicolas Maack , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

We consider the parameterized complexity of the problem of tracking shortest s-t paths in graphs, motivated by applications in security and wireless networks. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with a source s and a destination t,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Banik , Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We consider a the minimum k-way cut problem for unweighted graphs with a size bound s on the number of cut edges allowed. Thus we seek to remove as few edges as possible so as to split a graph into k components, or report that this requires…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-27 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup

Given a set of obstacles and two points, is there a path between the two points that does not cross more than $k$ different obstacles? This is a fundamental problem that has undergone a tremendous amount of work. It is known to be NP-hard,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Eduard Eiben , Iyad Kanj

A \emph{resolving set} $R$ in a graph $G$ is a set of vertices such that every vertex of $G$ is uniquely identified by its distances to the vertices of $R$. Introduced in the 1970s, this concept has been since then extensively studied from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Jan Bok , Antoine Dailly , Tuomo Lehtilä

A graph whose edges only appear at certain points in time is called a temporal graph (among other names). Such a graph is temporally connected if each ordered pair of vertices is connected by a path which traverses edges in chronological…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Arnaud Casteigts , Michael Raskin , Malte Renken , Viktor Zamaraev

We consider open quantum walks on a graph, and consider the random variables defined as the passage time and number of visits to a given point of the graph. We study in particular the probability that the passage time is finite, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Ivan Bardet , Denis Bernard , Yan Pautrat

We study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

Fully dynamic graph is a data structure that (1) supports edge insertions and deletions and (2) answers problem specific queries. The time complexity of (1) and (2) are referred to as the update time and the query time respectively. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka

Temporal graphs (in which edges are active at specified times) are of particular relevance for spreading processes on graphs, e.g.~the spread of disease or dissemination of information. Motivated by real-world applications, modification of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

Given an undirected graph $G$, the problem of deciding whether $G$ admits a simple and proper time-labeling that makes it temporally connected is known to be NP-hard (G\"obel et al., 1991). In this article, we relax this problem and ask…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Arnaud Casteigts , Michelle Döring , Nils Morawietz

We study the parameterized complexity of the classical Edge Hamiltonian Path problem and give several fixed-parameter tractability results. First, we settle an open question of Demaine et al. by showing that Edge Hamiltonian Path is FPT…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Michael Lampis , Kazuhisa Makino , Valia Mitsou , Yushi Uno

Consider the following computational problem: given a regular digraph $G=(V,E)$, two vertices $u,v \in V$, and a walk length $t\in \mathbb{N}$, estimate the probability that a random walk of length $t$ from $u$ ends at $v$ to within $\pm…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Edward Pyne , Salil Vadhan

Temporal graphs have been recently introduced to model changes to a given network that occur throughout a fixed period of time. The Temporal $\Delta$ Clique problem, that generalizes the well known Clique problem to temporal graphs, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Danny Hermelin , Yuval Itzhaki , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier

In the PATH COVER problem, one asks to cover the vertices of a graph using the smallest possible number of (not necessarily disjoint) paths. While the variant where the paths need to be pairwise vertex-disjoint, which we call PATH…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Florent Foucaud , Atrayee Majumder , Tobias Mömke , Aida Roshany-Tabrizi

We show that the Temporal Graph Exploration Problem is NP-complete, even when the underlying graph has pathwidth 2 and at each time step, the current graph is connected.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Hans L. Bodlaender , Tom C. van der Zanden

In the Disjoint Shortest Paths problem one is given a graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{T}=\{(s_1,t_1),\dots,(s_k,t_k)\}$ of $k$ vertex pairs. The question is whether there exist vertex-disjoint paths $P_1,\dots,P_k$ in $G$ so that each $P_i$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Michał Pilipczuk , Giannos Stamoulis , Michał Włodarczyk

We initiate the study of a new parameterization of graph problems. In a multiple interval representation of a graph, each vertex is associated to at least one interval of the real line, with an edge between two vertices if and only if an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Fedor V. Fomin , Serge Gaspers , Petr Golovach , Karol Suchan , Stefan Szeider , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Martin Vatshelle , Yngve Villanger
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