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A \emph{disk graph} is the intersection graph of (closed) disks in the plane. We consider the classic problem of finding a maximum clique in a disk graph. For general disk graphs, the complexity of this problem is still open, but for unit…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jie Gao , Pawel Gawrychowski , Panos Giannopoulos , Wolfgang Mulzer , Satyam Singh , Frank Staals , Meirav Zehavi

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

In Clique Cover, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to partition the vertices of $G$ into $k$ cliques. Clique Cover on unit ball graphs has a natural interpretation as a clustering problem, where the objective function is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Tomohiro Koana , Nidhi Purohit , Kirill Simonov

In the 90's Clark, Colbourn and Johnson wrote a seminal paper where they proved that maximum clique can be solved in polynomial time in unit disk graphs. Since then, the complexity of maximum clique in intersection graphs of d-dimensional…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Nicolas Grelier

In this paper we consider the fundamental problem of approximating the diameter $D$ of directed or undirected graphs. In a seminal paper, Aingworth, Chekuri, Indyk and Motwani [SIAM J. Comput. 1999] presented an algorithm that computes in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Coudert et al. (SODA'18) proved that under the Strong Exponential-Time Hypothesis, for any $\epsilon >0$, there is no ${\cal O}(2^{o(k)}n^{2-\epsilon})$-time algorithm for computing the diameter within the $n$-vertex cubic graphs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Guillaume Ducoffe

We study the problem of computing the diameter and the mean distance of a continuous graph, i.e., a connected graph where all points along the edges, instead of only the vertices, must be taken into account. It is known that for continuous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sergio Cabello , Delia Garijo , Antonia Kalb , Fabian Klute , Irene Parada , Rodrigo I. Silveira

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

Median graphs form the class of graphs which is the most studied in metric graph theory. Recently, B\'en\'eteau et al. [2019] designed a linear-time algorithm computing both the $\Theta$-classes and the median set of median graphs. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Pierre Bergé , Michel Habib

A subcoloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into subsets (called colors), each inducing a disjoint union of cliques. It is a natural generalization of the classical proper coloring, in which each color must instead induce an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Malory Marin , Rémi Watrigant

In the context of fine-grained complexity, we investigate the notion of certificate enabling faster polynomial-time algorithms. We specifically target radius (minimum eccentricity), diameter (maximum eccentricity), and all-eccentricity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Feodor F. Dragan , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib , Laurent Viennot

Among the most important graph parameters is the Diameter, the largest distance between any two vertices. There are no known very efficient algorithms for computing the Diameter exactly. Thus, much research has been devoted to how fast this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Arturs Backurs , Liam Roditty , Gilad Segal , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

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

The intensively studied Diameter problem is to find the diameter of a given connected graph. We investigate, for the first time in a structured manner, the complexity of Diameter for H-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jelle J. Oostveen , Daniël Paulusma , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in weighted unit-disk graphs in constant dimension $d$. Although the single-source and all-pairs variants of this problem are well-studied in the plane case, no non-trivial exact distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Pawlewicz , Piotr Sankowski

The (unweighted) point-separation problem asks, given a pair of points $s$ and $t$ in the plane, and a set of candidate geometric objects, for the minimum-size subset of objects whose union blocks all paths from $s$ to $t$. Recent work has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jayson Lynch , Jack Spalding-Jamieson

We study unit ball graphs (and, more generally, so-called noisy uniform ball graphs) in $d$-dimensional hyperbolic space, which we denote by $\mathbb{H}^d$. Using a new separator theorem, we show that unit ball graphs in $\mathbb{H}^d$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak

Computing the diameter, and more generally, all eccentricities of an undirected graph is an important problem in algorithmic graph theory and the challenge is to identify graph classes for which their computation can be achieved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Pierre Bergé , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib

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

Some of the most fundamental and well-studied graph parameters are the Diameter (the largest shortest paths distance) and Radius (the smallest distance for which a "center" node can reach all other nodes). The natural and important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein