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The clique-width is a measure of complexity of decomposing graphs into certain tree-like structures. The class of graphs with bounded clique-width contains bounded tree-width graphs. We give a polynomial time graph isomorphism algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , I. Vinod Reddy

The Longest Path Problem is a question of finding the maximum length between pairs of vertices of a graph. In the general case, the problem is NP-complete. However, there is a small collection of graph classes for which there exists an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Omar Al - Khazali

In view of the problem that each subchain in the chain-of-model (CoM) relies only on the information of the previous subchain and may lose long-range dependencies due to the causal mask blocking the global context flow between multi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Libo Wang

The Matrix-Tree Theorem states that the number of spanning trees of a graph is given by the absolute value of any cofactor of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. We propose a very short proof of this result which amounts to comparing Taylor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Amitai Netser Zernik

Treewidth is an important graph invariant, relevant for both structural and algorithmic reasons. A necessary condition for a graph class to have bounded treewidth is the absence of large cliques. We study graph classes closed under taking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

Tangle-tree theorems are an important tool in structural graph theory, and abstract separation systems are a very general setting in which tangle-tree theorems can still be formulated and proven. For infinite abstract separation systems, so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Ann-Kathrin Elm , Hendrik Heine

A graph theoretic perspective is taken for a range of phenomena in continuum physics in order to develop representations for analysis of large scale, high-fidelity solutions to these problems. Of interest are phenomena described by partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 R. Banerjee , K. Sagiyama , G. H. Teichert , K. Garikipati

In recent years, there has been significant interest in characterizing the induced subgraph obstructions to bounded treewidth and pathwidth. While this has recently been resolved for pathwidth, the case of treewidth remains open, and prior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Maria Chudnovsky , David Fischer , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl , Bartosz Walczak

We present a data structure that for a dynamic graph $G$ that is updated by edge insertions and deletions, maintains a tree decomposition of $G$ of width at most $6k+5$ under the promise that the treewidth of $G$ never grows above $k$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Tuukka Korhonen , Konrad Majewski , Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski

Reachability is the problem of deciding whether there is a path from one vertex to the other in the graph. Standard graph traversal algorithms such as DFS and BFS take linear time to decide reachability however their space complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

A map graph is a graph admitting a representation in which vertices are nations on a spherical map and edges are shared curve segments or points between nations. We present an explicit fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for recognizing map…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos , Giordano Da Lozzo , Martin Gronemann , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Alessandra Tappini

One of the major results of [N. Robertson and P. D. Seymour. Graph minors. XIII. The disjoint paths problem. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 63(1):65--110, 1995], also known as the weak structure theorem, revealed the local structure of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the Isometric Path Partition problem when parameterized by the treewidth ($\mathrm{tw}$) of the input graph, arguably one of the most widely studied parameters. Courcelle's theorem shows that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Oscar Defrain , Florent Foucaud , Mathieu Mari , Prafullkumar Tale

The study of structural graph width parameters like tree-width, clique-width and rank-width has been ongoing during the last five decades, and their algorithmic use has also been increasing [Cygan et al., 2015]. New width parameters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Eric Brandwein , Carolina Lucía González , Agustín Sansone

We consider the multivariate interlace polynomial introduced by Courcelle (2008), which generalizes several interlace polynomials defined by Arratia, Bollobas, and Sorkin (2004) and by Aigner and van der Holst (2004). We present an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Markus Bläser , Christian Hoffmann

The availability of graph data with node attributes that can be either discrete or real-valued is constantly increasing. While existing kernel methods are effective techniques for dealing with graphs having discrete node labels, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

One of Courcelle's celebrated results states that if C is a class of graphs of bounded tree-width, then model-checking for monadic second order logic (MSO_2) is fixed-parameter tractable (fpt) on C by linear time parameterized algorithms,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stephan Kreutzer

We study the inertia of distance matrices of weighted graphs. Our novel congruence-based proof of the inertia of weighted trees extends to a proof for the inertia of weighted unicyclic graphs whose cycle is a triangle. Partial results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jeffrey Cheng , Ian Malcolm Johnson McInnis , Matthew Yee

In this paper, we hope to bring closer graph theory and consensus algorithms. Firstly, we give a brief introduction to graph theory by listing a concise definition. Then we analyze and visualize some commonly used graphs. Secondly, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shen Zheng

In directed graphs, a cycle can be seen as a structure that allows its vertices to loop back to themselves, or as a structure that allows pairs of vertices to reach each other through distinct paths. We extend these concepts to temporal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davi de Andrade , Júlio Araújo , Allen Ibiapina , Andrea Marino , Jason Schoeters , Ana Silva