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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

In this paper, we study the (weighted) bichromatic two-center problem on graphs. The input consists of a graph $G$ of $n$ (weighted) vertices and $m$ edges, and a set $\mathcal{P}$ of pairs of distinct vertices, where no vertex appears in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qi Sun , Jingru Zhang

We study the NP-hard Minimum Shared Edges (MSE) problem on graphs: decide whether it is possible to route $p$ paths from a start vertex to a target vertex in a given graph while using at most $k$ edges more than once. We show that MSE can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Till Fluschnik , Meike Hatzel , Steffen Härtlein , Hendrik Molter , Henning Seidler

The \emph{linear vertex arboricity} of a graph is the smallest number of sets into which the vertices of a graph can be partitioned so that each of these sets induces a linear forest. Chaplick et al. [JoCG 2020] showed that, somewhat…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Erhardt , Alexander Wolff

Let $G$ be a connected graph. Given an ordered set $W = \{w_1, w_2,\dots w_k\}\subseteq V(G)$ and a vertex $u\in V(G)$, the representation of $u$ with respect to $W$ is the ordered $k$-tuple $(d(u,w_1), d(u,w_2),\dots,$ $d(u,w_k))$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-11 D. Kuziak , J. A. Rodríguez-Velázquez , I. G. Yero

Given an undirected graph, one can assign directions to each of the edges of the graph, thus orienting the graph. To be as egalitarian as possible, one may wish to find an orientation such that no vertex is unfairly hit with too many arcs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Glencora Borradaile , Jennifer Iglesias , Theresa Migler , Antonio Ochoa , Gordon Wilfong , Lisa Zhang

We consider a natural combinatorial optimization problem on chordal graphs, the class of graphs with no induced cycle of length four or more. A subset of vertices of a chordal graph is (monophonically) convex if it contains the vertices of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jean Cardinal , Jean-Paul Doignon , Keno Merckx

Computing a minimum-area planar straight-line drawing of a graph is known to be NP-hard for planar graphs, even when restricted to outerplanar graphs. However, the complexity question is open for trees. Only a few hardness results are known…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Therese Biedl , Debajyoti Mondal

A vertex set $U \subseteq V$ of an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a \textit{resolving set} for $G$ if for every two distinct vertices $u,v \in V$ there is a vertex $w \in U$ such that the distance between $u$ and $w$ and the distance between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Duygu Vietz , Egon Wanke

In a graph G, the cardinality of the smallest ordered set of vertices that distinguishes every element of V (G) (resp. E(G)) is called the vertex (resp. edge) metric dimension of G. In [16] it was shown that both vertex and edge metric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski

We consider a generalized version of the (weighted) one-center problem on graphs. Given an undirected graph $G$ of $n$ vertices and $m$ edges and a positive integer $k\leq n$, the problem aims to find a point in $G$ so that the maximum…

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The smallest set of vertices needed to differentiate or categorize every other vertex in a graph is referred to as the graph's metric dimension. Finding the class of graphs for a particular given metric dimension is an NP-hard problem. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Amal S. Alali , Shahbaz Ali , Muhammad Adnan , Delfim F. M. Torres

Metric embedding has become a common technique in the design of algorithms. Its applicability is often dependent on how high the embedding's distortion is. For example, embedding finite metric space into trees may require linear distortion…

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Using the two way distance, we introduce the concepts of weak metric dimension of a strongly connected digraph $\Gamma$. We first establish lower and upper bounds for the number of arcs in $\Gamma$ by using the diameter and weak metric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Min Feng , Kaishun Wang , Yuefeng Yang

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

Many discrete optimization problems amount to selecting a feasible set of edges of least weight. We consider in this paper the context of spatial graphs where the positions of the vertices are uncertain and belong to known uncertainty sets.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

The threshold-$k$ metric dimension ($\mathrm{Tmd}_k$) of a graph is the minimum number of sensors -- a subset of the vertex set -- needed to uniquely identify any vertex in the graph, solely based on its distances from the sensors, when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Zsolt Bartha , Júlia Komjáthy , Järvi Raes

Numerous problems consisting in identifying vertices in graphs using distances are useful in domains such as network verification and graph isomorphism. Unifying them into a meta-problem may be of main interest. We introduce here a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Florian Barbero , Lucas Isenmann , Jocelyn Thiebaut

We consider monotonicity problems for graph searching games. Variants of these games - defined by the type of moves allowed for the players - have been found to be closely connected to graph decompositions and associated width measures such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-02-18 Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Ordyniak