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This note summarizes the state of what is known about the tractability of the problem ModPath, which asks if an input undirected graph contains a simple st-path whose length satisfies modulo constraints. We also consider the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Antoine Amarilli

Connectivity query processing is a fundamental problem in graph processing. Given an undirected graph and two query vertices, the problem aims to identify whether they are connected via a path. Given frequent edge updates in real graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lantian Xu , Junhua Zhang , Dong Wen , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We introduce the problem of finding a spanning tree along with a partition of the tree edges into fewest number of feasible sets, where constraints on the edges define feasibility. The motivation comes from wireless networking, where we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Guy Kortsarz , Pradipta Mitra , Tigran Tonoyan

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and vertices $s,t,w_1,w_2\in V$, we study finding whether there exists a simple path $P$ from $s$ to $t$ such that $w_1,w_2 \in P$. As a sub-problem, we study the question: given an undirected graph and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Yefim Dinitz , Solomon Eyal Shimony

The status of a vertex $x$ in a graph is the sum of the distances between $x$ and all other vertices. Let $G$ be a connected graph. The status sequence of $G$ is the list of the statuses of all vertices arranged in nondecreasing order. $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

In the Minimum Clique Routing Problem on Cycles \textsc{MCRPC} we are given a cycle together with a set of demands (weighted origin-destination pairs) and the goal is to route all the pairs minimizing the maximum weighted clique of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mariana Escalante , Martín Matamala , Iván Rapaport , Paola Tolomei , Luis Miguel Torres

Let G be an undirected graph on n vertices and let S(G) be the set of all real symmetric n x n matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of G. The inverse inertia problem for G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Wayne Barrett , H. Tracy Hall , Raphael Loewy

In the spanning-tree congestion problem ($\mathsf{STC}$), we are given a graph $G$, and the objective is to compute a spanning tree of $G$ that minimizes the maximum edge congestion. While $\mathsf{STC}$ is known to be $\mathbb{NP}$-hard,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sunny Atalig , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Dürr , Petr Kolman , Huong Luu , Jiří Sgall , Gregory Zhu

In the context of algorithm theory, various studies have been conducted on spanning trees with desirable properties. In this paper, we consider the \textsc{Minimum Cover Spanning Tree} problem (MCST for short). Given a graph $G$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Toranosuke Kokai , Akira Suzuki , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Xiao Zhou

Due to data compression or low resolution, nearby vertices and edges of a graph drawing may be bundled to a common node or arc. We model such a `compromised' drawing by a piecewise linear map $\varphi:G\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$. We wish to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Radoslav Fulek , Csaba D. Tóth

Minimum Bisection denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets of equal sizes while minimizing the width of the bisection, which is defined as the number of edges between these two sets. We first consider…

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

The intersection graph of a collection of trapezoids with corner points lying on two parallel lines is called a trapezoid graph. These graphs and their generalizations were applied in various fields, including modeling channel routing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-16 Aleksandar Ilic

A spanning tree of a graph is a connected subgraph on all vertices with the minimum number of edges. The number of spanning trees in a graph $G$ is given by Matrix Tree Theorem in terms of principal minors of Laplacian matrix of $G$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Keivan Hassani Monfared , Sudipta Mallik

A graph $G$ with vertex set $\{v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n\}$ is an intersection graph of segments if there are segments $s_1,\ldots,s_n$ in the plane such that $s_i$ and $s_j$ have a common point if and only if $\{v_i,v_j\}$ is an edge of~$G$. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Jiri Matousek

Short cycles connectivity is a generalization of ordinary connectivity. Instead by a path (sequence of edges), two vertices have to be connected by a sequence of short cycles, in which two adjacent cycles have at least one common vertex. If…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 V. Batagelj , M. Zaversnik

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

A tessellation of a graph is a partition of its vertices into vertex disjoint cliques. A tessellation cover of a graph is a set of tessellations that covers all of its edges, and the tessellation cover number, denoted by $T(G)$, is the size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Alexandre Abreu , Luís Cunha , Celina de Figueiredo , Luis Kowada , Franklin Marquezino , Renato Portugal , Daniel Posner

The Minimum Spanning Tree with Conflicting Edge Pairs is a generalization that adds conflict constraints to a classical optimization problem on graphs used to model several real-world applications. In the last few years several approaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

An edge-colored graph $G$ is called properly colored if every two adjacent edges are assigned different colors. A monochromatic triangle is a cycle of length 3 with all the edges having the same color. Given a tree $T_0$, let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Ruonan Li , Ruhui Lu , Xueli Su , Shenggui Zhang

It was shown by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milani\v{c}, and Servatius in 2022 that every induced $2$-edge path in a vertex-transitive graph closes to an induced cycle. Similar results were obtained for 3-edge paths closing to cycles in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Martin Milanič , Đorđe Mitrović