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The degree diameter problem asks for the maximum possible number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ and diameter $D$. In this paper, we focus on planar graphs of diameter $3$. Fellows, Hell and Seyffarth (1995) proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Antoine Dailly , Sasha Darmon , Ugo Giocanti , Claire Hilaire , Petru Valicov

We present an algorithm that computes the diameter of random geometric graphs (RGGs) with expected average degree ${\Theta}(n^{\delta})$ for constant ${\delta}\in(0,1)$ in $\tilde{O}(n^{\frac{3}{2}(1+{\delta})} +n^{2 -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Thomas Bläsius , Annemarie Schaub , Marcus Wilhelm

In an oriented graph, the inversion of a subset of vertices X is the operation reversing the direction of every arc with both endpoints in X. Given a graph G, the inversion distance between two orientations G is the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Carmen Arana , Thomas Bellitto , Hector Buffière , Quentin Chuet , Théo Pierron , Amadeus Reinald

It is well known that many random graphs with infinite variance degrees are ultrasmall. More precisely, for configuration models and preferential attachment models where the proportion of vertices of degree at least $k$ is approximately…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Francesco Caravenna , Alessandro Garavaglia , Remco van der Hofstad

Let $P$ be a path graph of $n$ vertices embedded in a metric space. We consider the problem of adding a new edge to $P$ to minimize the radius of the resulting graph. Previously, a similar problem for minimizing the diameter of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Christopher Johnson , Haitao Wang

A graph algorithm is truly subquadratic if it runs in ${\cal O}(m^b)$ time on connected $m$-edge graphs, for some positive $b < 2$. Roditty and Vassilevska Williams (STOC'13) proved that under plausible complexity assumptions, there is no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Guillaume Ducoffe

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem is of considerable importance in computer science. We examine the problem when the pattern graph H is of bounded treewidth, as occurs in a variety of applications. This problem has a well-known algorithm via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Karl Bringmann , Jasper Slusallek

We give an $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$-space single-pass $0.483$-approximation streaming algorithm for estimating the maximum directed cut size (Max-DICUT) in a directed graph on $n$ vertices. This improves over an $O(\log n)$-space $4/9 <…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Raghuvansh R. Saxena , Noah G. Singer , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

Two problems in the search of metric characteristics on weighted undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights are being considered. The first problem: a weighted undirected graph with non-negative edge weight is given. The radius,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Airat Urakov , Timofey Timeryaev

Metric dimension is a graph parameter motivated by problems in robot navigation, drug design, and image processing. In this paper, we answer several open extremal problems on metric dimension and pattern avoidance in graphs from (Geneson,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Jesse Geneson , Suchir Kaustav , Antoine Labelle

Cutwidth is a widely studied parameter that quantifies how well a graph can be decomposed along small edge-cuts. It complements pathwidth, which captures decomposition by small vertex separators, and it is well-known that cutwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Narek Bojikian , Vera Chekan , Stefan Kratsch

We develop a novel parallel decomposition strategy for unweighted, undirected graphs, based on growing disjoint connected clusters from batches of centers progressively selected from yet uncovered nodes. With respect to similar previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

We study the minimum diameter problem for a set of inexact points. By inexact, we mean that the precise location of the points is not known. Instead, the location of each point is restricted to a contineus region ($\impre$ model) or a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mohammad Ghodsi , Hamid Homapour , Masoud Seddighin

A vertex $w$ resolves two vertices $u$ and $v$ in a directed graph $G$ if the distance from $w$ to $u$ is different to the distance from $w$ to $v$. A set of vertices $R$ is a resolving set for a directed graph $G$ if for every pair of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yannick Schmitz , Egon Wanke

We show that any depth-$d$ circuit for determining whether an $n$-node graph has an $s$-to-$t$ path of length at most $k$ must have size $n^{\Omega(k^{1/d}/d)}$. The previous best circuit size lower bounds for this problem were…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Xi Chen , Igor C. Oliveira , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

In recent years it has become popular to study dynamic problems in a sensitivity setting: Instead of allowing for an arbitrary sequence of updates, the sensitivity model only allows to apply batch updates of small size to the original input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Monika Henzinger , Andrea Lincoln , Stefan Neumann , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We prove essentially tight lower bounds, conditionally to the Exponential Time Hypothesis, for two fundamental but seemingly very different cutting problems on surface-embedded graphs: the Shortest Cut Graph problem and the Multiway Cut…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Daniel Marx , Arnaud de Mesmay

Proximity graph-based methods have emerged as a leading paradigm for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in the system community. This paper presents fresh insights into the theoretical foundation of these methods. We describe an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shangqi Lu , Yufei Tao

In this paper we provide a $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$ time algorithm that computes a $3$-multiplicative approximation of the girth of a $n$-node $m$-edge directed graph with non-negative edge lengths. This is the first algorithm which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Shiri Chechik , Yang P. Liu , Omer Rotem , Aaron Sidford

We investigate the time-complexity of the All-Pairs Max-Flow problem: Given a graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, compute for all pairs of nodes the maximum-flow value between them. If Max-Flow (the version with a given source-sink pair…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi