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We analyze the problem of identifying large cliques in graphs that are affected by adversarial uncertainty. More specifically, we consider a new formulation, namely the adversarial maximum clique problem, which extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Immanuel Bomze , Chiara Faccio , Francesco Rinaldi , Giovanni Spisso

Covering and partitioning the edges of a graph into cliques are classical problems at the intersection of combinatorial optimization and graph theory, having been studied through a range of algorithmic and complexity-theoretic lenses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

Deep neural networks have been applied to a wide range of problems across different application domains with great success. Recently, research into combinatorial optimization problems in particular has generated much interest in the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jason Van Hulse , Joshua S. Friedman

We consider problems of finding a maximum size/weight $t$-matching without forbidden subgraphs in an undirected graph $G$ with the maximum degree bounded by $t+1$, where $t$ is an integer greater than $2$. Depending on the variant forbidden…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Katarzyna Paluch , Mateusz Wasylkiewicz

Given a hypergraph $H$, the dual hypergraph of $H$ is the hypergraph of all minimal transversals of $H$. A hypergraph is conformal if it is the family of maximal cliques of a graph. In a recent work, Boros, Gurvich, Milani\v{c}, and Uno…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Martin Milanič , Dmitry Tikhanovsky , Yushi Uno

The bandwidth of a graph is the labeling of vertices with minimum maximum edge difference. For many graph families this is NP-complete. A classic result computes the bandwidth for the hypercube. We generalize this result to give sharp lower…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Mitchell A. Harris

Generalized Tur\'an problems have been a central topic of study in extremal combinatorics throughout the last few decades. One such problem, maximizing the number of cliques of a fixed order in a graph with fixed number of vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Da Qi Chen

A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in the Euclidean plane, where the disks correspond to the vertices of the graph and a pair of vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding disks intersect. The problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jared Espenant , J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

An overlap representation is an assignment of sets to the vertices of a graph in such a way that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the sets assigned to them overlap. The overlap number of a graph is the minimum number of elements…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Bill Rosgen , Lorna Stewart

The bandwidth of a graph G is the minimum of the maximum difference between adjacent labels when the vertices have distinct integer labels. We provide a polynomial algorithm to produce an optimal bandwidth labeling for graphs in a special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Le Tu Quoc Hung , Maciej M. Syslo , Margaret L. Weaver , Douglas B. West

We consider the size of the smallest set of vertices required to intersect every longest path in a chordal graph. Such sets are known as longest path transversals. We show that if $\omega(G)$ is the clique number of a chordal graph $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Daniel J. Harvey , Michael S. Payne

A novel approach to complex problems has been previously applied to graph classification and the graph equivalence problem. Here we apply it to the NP complete problem of finding the largest perfect clique within a graph $G$.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Shmuel Nussinov , Zohar Nussinov

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

Although it has been claimed in two different papers that the maximum cardinality cut problem is polynomial-time solvable for proper interval graphs, both of them turned out to be erroneous. In this paper, we give FPT algorithms for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Arman Boyacı , Tınaz Ekim , Mordechai Shalom

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

Interval graphs, intersection graphs of segments on a real line (intervals), play a key role in the study of algorithms and special structural properties. Unit interval graphs, their proper subclass, where each interval has a unit length,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jan Kratochvíl , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná

A disk graph is an intersection graph of disks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Determining the computational complexity of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph is a long-standing open problem. In 1990, Clark, Colbourn, and Johnson gave a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-17 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal

A grounded 1-bend string graph is an intersection graph of a set of polygonal lines, each with one bend, such that the lines lie above a common horizontal line $\ell$ and have exactly one endpoint on $\ell$. We show that the problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-13 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal , Ehsan Moradi , Yakov Nekrich

Let $n,k,b$ be integers with $1 \le k-1 \le b \le n$ and let $G_{n,k,b}$ be the graph whose vertices are the $k$-element subsets $X$ of $\{0,\dots,n\}$ with $\max(X)-\min(X) \le b$ and where two such vertices $X,Y$ are joined by an edge if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Konrad Engel , Sebastian Hanisch