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Computing the diameter of a graph is a problem of great interest both in general algorithms research and specifically within fine-grained complexity, where it is a cornerstone hard problem. Recent work has achieved a full conditional lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yael Kirkpatrick , Liam Roditty , Richard Qi , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We study two "above guarantee" versions of the classical Longest Path problem on undirected and directed graphs and obtain the following results. In the first variant of Longest Path that we study, called Longest Detour, the task is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , William Lochet , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov , Saket Saurabh

The problems of computing eccentricity, radius, and diameter are fundamental to graph theory. These parameters are intrinsically defined based on the distance metric of the graph. In this work, we propose quantum algorithms for the diameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Adam Wesołowski , Jinge Bao

We show, assuming the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis, that for every $\varepsilon > 0$, approximating undirected unweighted Diameter on $n$-vertex $n^{1+o(1)}$-edge graphs within ratio $7/4 - \varepsilon$ requires $n^{4/3 - o(1)}$ time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Édouard Bonnet

The diameter of an undirected or a directed graph is defined to be the maximum shortest path distance over all pairs of vertices in the graph. Given an undirected graph $G$, we examine the problem of assigning directions to each edge of $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Debajyoti Mondal , N. Parthiban , Indra Rajasingh

We show that for any fixed integer $k \geq 0$, there exists an algorithm that computes the diameter and the eccentricies of all vertices of an input unweighted, undirected $n$-vertex graph of Euler genus at most $k$ in time \[…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kacper Kluk , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Giannos Stamoulis

An orientation of an undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of exactly one direction to each edge of $G$. The oriented diameter of a graph $G$ is the smallest diameter among all the orientations of $G$. The maximum oriented diameter of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Jasine Babu , Deepu Benson , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Sai Nishant Vaka

The diameter of a graph is the maximum distance among all pairs of vertices. Thus a graph $G$ has diameter $d$ if any two vertices are at distance at most $d$ and there are two vertices at distance $d$. We are interested in studying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Laila Loudiki , Mustapha Kchikech , El Hassan Essaky

We develop a framework for algorithms finding the diameter in graphs of bounded distance Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, in (parameterized) subquadratic time complexity. The class of bounded distance VC-dimension graphs is wide, including,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lech Duraj , Filip Konieczny , Krzysztof Potępa

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

A directed diameter of a directed graph is the maximum possible distance between a pair of vertices, where paths must respect edge orientations, while undirected diameter is the diameter of the undirected graph obtained by symmetrizing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Saveliy V. Skresanov

The degree-diameter problem seeks to find the maximum possible order of a graph with a given (maximum) degree and diameter. It is known that graphs attaining the maximum possible value (the Moore bound) are extremely rare, but much activity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Dominique Buset , Mourad El Amiri , Grahame Erskine , Hebert Pérez-Rosés , Mirka Miller

Succinct representations of a graph have been objects of central study in computer science for decades. In this paper, we study the operation called \emph{Distance Preserving Graph Contractions}, which was introduced by Bernstein et al.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Siddhartha Jain

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

The diameter of an undirected unweighted graph $G=(V,E)$ is the maximum value of the distance from any vertex $u$ to another vertex $v$ for $u,v \in V$ where distance i.e. $d(u,v)$ is the length of the shortest path from $u$ to $v$ in $G$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Bhadrachalam Chitturi , Priyanshu Das

The conditional diameter of a connected graph $\Gamma=(V,E)$ is defined as follows: given a property ${\cal P}$ of a pair $(\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2)$ of subgraphs of $\Gamma$, the so-called \emph{conditional diameter} or ${\cal P}$-{\em…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. A. Rodriguez

We consider the problem of estimating the graph size, where one is given only local access to the graph. We formally define a query model in which one starts with a \emph{seed} node and is allowed to make queries about neighbours of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Varun Kanade , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Victor Verdugo

We develop a new approach for distributed distance computation in planar graphs that is based on a variant of the metric compression problem recently introduced by Abboud et al. [SODA'18]. One of our key technical contributions is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Jason Li , Merav Parter

An extremity is a vertex such that the removal of its closed neighbourhood does not increase the number of connected components. Let $Ext_{\alpha}$ be the class of all connected graphs whose quotient graph obtained from modular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guillaume Ducoffe

We consider the degree-diameter problem for undirected and directed circulant graphs. To date, attempts to generate families of large circulant graphs of arbitrary degree for a given diameter have concentrated mainly on the diameter 2 case.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 David Bevan , Grahame Erskine , Robert Lewis