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Recently, Alon introduced the notion of an $H$-code for a graph $H$: a collection of graphs on vertex set $[n]$ is an $H$-code if it contains no two members whose symmetric difference is isomorphic to $H$. Let $D_{H}(n)$ denote the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Patrick Bennett , Emily Heath , Shira Zerbib

We consider properties of edge-colored vertex-ordered graphs, i.e., graphs with a totally ordered vertex set and a finite set of possible edge colors. We show that any hereditary property of such graphs is strongly testable, i.e., testable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Noga Alon , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Eldar Fischer

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

The query complexity of graph properties is well-studied when queries are on edges. We investigate the same when queries are on nodes. In this setting a graph $G = (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices and a property $\mathcal{P}$ are given. A black-box…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Nikhil Balaji , Samir Datta , Raghav Kulkarni , Supartha Podder

Hamiltonian cycles in graphs were first studied in the 1850s. Since then, an impressive amount of research has been dedicated to identifying classes of graphs that allow Hamiltonian cycles, and to related questions. The corresponding…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Isolde Adler , Noleen Köhler

Let k_r(n,m) denote the minimum number of r-cliques in graphs with n vertices and m edges. For r=3,4 we give a lower bound on k_r(n,m) that approximates k_r(n,m) with an error smaller than n^r/(n^2-2m). The solution is based on a constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-19 Vladimir Nikiforov

A clique of a graph is a maximal set of vertices of size at least 2 that induces a complete graph. A $k$-clique-colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertices with at most $k$ colours such that no clique is monochromatic. D\'efossez…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Hélio B. Macêdo Filho , Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

We consider the problem of counting $k$-cliques in $s$-uniform Erdos-Renyi hypergraphs $G(n,c,s)$ with edge density $c$, and show that its fine-grained average-case complexity can be based on its worst-case complexity. We prove the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Enric Boix-Adserà , Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

Let $G$ be an undirected, bounded degree graph with $n$ vertices. Fix a finite graph $H$, and suppose one must remove $\varepsilon n$ edges from $G$ to make it $H$-minor free (for some small constant $\varepsilon > 0$). We give an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Akash Kumar , C. Seshadhri , Andrew Stolman

We asymptotically determine the maximum density of subgraphs isomorphic to $H$, where $H$ is any graph containing a dominating vertex, in graphs $G$ on $n$ vertices with bounded maximum degree and bounded clique number. That is, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Rachel Kirsch

It is shown that any graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ in which the average degree of the induced subgraph on the set of all neighbors of any vertex exceeds $\frac{6k^2}{6k^2 + 1}\Delta + k + 6$ is either $(\Delta - k)$-colorable or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Landon Rabern

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

Finding a Maximum Clique is a classic property test from graph theory; find any one of the largest complete subgraphs in an Erd\"os-R\'enyi G(N, p) random graph. We use Maximum Clique to explore the structure of the problem as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-26 Raffaele Marino , Scott Kirkpatrick

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) of graphs is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied since its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in $2015$. Intuitively, DP-coloring generalizes list coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Anton Bernshteyn , Daniel Dominik , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

One of the most fundamental questions in graph property testing is to characterize the combinatorial structure of properties that are testable with a constant number of queries. We work towards an answer to this question for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

For a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, we call a vertex $k$-enabling if it belongs both to a clique of size $k$ and to an independent set of size $k$, and we call it $k$-excluding otherwise. Motivated by issues that arise in secret sharing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Uriel Feige , Ilia Pauzner

In many statistical applications, the dimension is too large to handle for standard high-dimensional machine learning procedures. This is particularly true for graphical models, where the interpretation of a large graph is difficult and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Luc Devroye , Gábor Lugosi , Piotr Zwiernik

We initiate the study of quantum property testing in sparse directed graphs, and more particularly in the unidirectional model, where the algorithm is allowed to query only the outgoing edges of a vertex. In the classical unidirectional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Simon Apers , Frédéric Magniez , Sayantan Sen , Dániel Szabó

A vertex colouring of a graph is \emph{nonrepetitive} if there is no path whose first half receives the same sequence of colours as the second half. A graph is nonrepetitively $k$-choosable if given lists of at least $k$ colours at each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Jakub Kozik , David R. Wood

We formalize the problem of detecting a community in a network into testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. We observe an undirected and unweighted graph on N nodes. Under the null hypothesis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Ery Arias-Castro , Nicolas Verzelen