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We give an algorithm to compute all the local peaks in the $k$-level of an arrangement of $n$ lines in $O(n \log n) + \tilde{O}((kn)^{2/3})$ time. We can also find $\tau$ largest peaks in $O(n \log ^2 n) + \tilde{O}((\tau n)^{2/3})$ time.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Naoki Katoh , Takeshi Tokuyama

We present a $\mathsf{BQSPACE}(O(\log n))$-procedure to count $st$-paths on directed graphs for which we are promised that there are at most polynomially many paths starting in $s$ and polynomially many paths ending in $t$. For comparison,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Simon Apers , Roman Edenhofer

We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the $O(m+n\log n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ran Duan , Jiayi Mao , Xiao Mao , Xinkai Shu , Longhui Yin

Many applications in graph theory are motivated by routing or flow problems. Among these problems is Steiner Orientation: given a mixed graph G (having directed and undirected edges) and a set T of k terminal pairs in G, is there an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Moritz Beck , Johannes Blum , Myroslav Kryven , Andre Löffler , Johannes Zink

This paper considers the classic Online Steiner Forest problem where one is given a (weighted) graph $G$ and an arbitrary set of $k$ terminal pairs $\{\{s_1,t_1\},\ldots ,\{s_k,t_k\}\}$ that are required to be connected. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Étienne Bamas , Marina Drygala , Andreas Maggiori

We present a deterministic O(n log log n) time algorithm for finding shortest cycles and minimum cuts in planar graphs. The algorithm improves the previously known fastest algorithm by Italiano et al. in STOC'11 by a factor of log n. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Jakub Łącki , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper, we show that the $(3k+4)$-dimensional Weisfeiler--Leman algorithm can identify graphs of treewidth $k$ in $O(\log n)$ rounds. This improves the result of Grohe & Verbitsky (ICALP 2006), who previously established the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Michael Levet , Puck Rombach , Nicholas Sieger

We study the query complexity of the metric Steiner Tree problem, where we are given an $n \times n$ metric on a set $V$ of vertices along with a set $T \subseteq V$ of $k$ terminals, and the goal is to find a tree of minimum cost that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

The girth of a graph, i.e. the length of its shortest cycle, is a fundamental graph parameter. Unfortunately all known algorithms for computing, even approximately, the girth and girth-related structures in directed weighted $m$-edge and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jakub Pachocki , Liam Roditty , Aaron Sidford , Roei Tov , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We give a randomized O(n polylog n)-time approximation scheme for the Steiner forest problem in the Euclidean plane. For every fixed eps > 0 and given n terminals in the plane with connection requests between some pairs of terminals, our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein , Claire Mathieu

Treewidth is an important structural graph parameter that quantifies how closely a graph resembles a tree-like structure. It has applications in many algorithmic and combinatorial problems. In this paper, we study the treewidth of outer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rafał Pyzik

We present a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm running in $O(f(\epsilon)\cdot n \log^4 n)$ time for finding the diameter of an undirected planar graph with non-negative edge lengths.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Oren Weimann , Raphael Yuster

We revisit a classical graph-theoretic problem, the \textit{single-source shortest-path} (SSSP) problem, in weighted unit-disk graphs. We first propose an exact (and deterministic) algorithm which solves the problem in $O(n \log^2 n)$ time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

In the pairwise weighted spanner problem, the input consists of an $n$-vertex-directed graph, where each edge is assigned a cost and a length. Given $k$ vertex pairs and a distance constraint for each pair, the goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Elena Grigorescu , Nithish Kumar , Young-San Lin

The slope number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of slopes needed for the segments representing the edges in any straight-line drawing of $G$. It serves as a measure of the visual complexity of a graph drawing. Several bounds on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Jonathan Klawitter , Johannes Zink

Let $G$ be a unit disk graph in the plane defined by $n$ disks whose positions are known. For the case when $G$ is unweighted, we give a simple algorithm to compute a shortest path tree from a given source in $O(n\log n)$ time. For the case…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Sergio Cabello , Miha Jejčič

It is known that any planar graph with diameter D has treewidth O(D), and this fact has been used as the basis for several planar graph algorithms. We investigate the extent to which similar relations hold in other graph families. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-21 David Eppstein

We analyze the distribution of PageRank on a directed configuration model and show that as the size of the graph grows to infinity it can be closely approximated by the PageRank of the root node of an appropriately constructed tree. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Ningyuan Chen , Nelly Litvak , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

We initiate the study of computational problems on $k$-mers (strings of length $k$) in labeled graphs. As a starting point, we consider the problem of counting the number of distinct $k$-mers found on the walks of a graph. We establish that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jarno N. Alanko , Maximo Perez-Lopez

For an additive submonoid $\mathcal{M}$ of $\mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$, the weight of an $\mathcal{M}$-labeled directed graph is the sum of all of its edge labels, while the content is the product of the labels. Having fixed $\mathcal{M}$ and a…

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