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We analyze the computational complexity of several new variants of edge-matching puzzles. First we analyze inequality (instead of equality) constraints between adjacent tiles, proving the problem NP-complete for strict inequalities but…

We provide a decomposition that is sufficient in showing when a symmetric tridiagonal matrix $A$ is completely positive. Our decomposition can be applied to a wide range of matrices. We give alternate proofs for a number of related results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Lei Cao , Darian McLaren , Sarah Plosker

A hypergraph is \textit{bipartite with bipartition $(A, B)$} if every edge has exactly one vertex in $A$, and a matching in such a hypergraph is \textit{$A$-perfect} if it saturates every vertex in $A$. We prove an upper bound on the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Tantan Dai , Alexander Divoux , Tom Kelly

For a class $\mathcal{G}$ of graphs, the problem SUBGRAPH COMPLEMENT TO $\mathcal{G}$ asks whether one can find a subset $S$ of vertices of the input graph $G$ such that complementing the subgraph induced by $S$ in $G$ results in a graph in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dhanyamol Antony , Jay Garchar , Sagartanu Pal , R. B. Sandeep , Sagnik Sen , R. Subashini

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi

Inspired by applications of perfect graphs in combinatorial optimization, Chv\'{a}tal defined t-perfect graphs in 1970s. The long efforts of characterizing t-perfect graphs started immediately, but embarrassingly, even a working conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Yixin Cao , Shenghua Wang

The problem of matrix completion and decomposition in the cone of positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices is a well-understood problem, with many important applications in areas such as linear algebra, optimization, and control theory. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Ding Zhang , Axel Ringh , Li Qiu

A conference matrix of order $n$ is an $n\times n$ matrix $C$ with diagonal entries $0$ and off-diagonal entries $\pm 1$ satisfying $CC^\top=(n-1)I$. If $C$ is symmetric, then $C$ has a symmetric spectrum $\Sigma$ (that is,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Willem H. Haemers , Leila Parsaei Majd

We consider, for complete bipartite graphs, the convex hulls of characteristic vectors of all matchings, extended by a binary entry indicating whether the matching contains two specific edges. These polytopes are associated to the quadratic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Matthias Walter

A real symmetric matrix (resp., tensor) is said to be copositive if the associated quadratic (resp., homogeneous) form is greater than or equal to zero over the nonnegative orthant. The problem of detecting their copositivity is NP-hard.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Jiawang Nie , Zi Yang , Xinzhen Zhang

In this paper, we prove that given a 2-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{4n}$ that has the same number of edges of each colour, we can always find a perfect matching with an equal number of edges of each colour. This solves a problem posed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Teeradej Kittipassorn , Panon Sinsap

We establish for the matrix group $G=\mathrm{SL}_{n}\left(\mathbb{F}_{p}\right)$ that there exist absolute constants $c\in\left(0,1\right)$ and $C>0$ such that any symmetric generating set $A$, with $\left|A\right|\geq\left|G\right|^{1-c}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Eitan Porat

This paper considers the matrix completion problem. We show that it is not necessary to assume joint incoherence, which is a standard but unintuitive and restrictive condition that is imposed by previous studies. This leads to a sample…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yudong Chen

In this paper we complete the classification of topological symmetry groups for complete graphs $K_n$ by characterizing which $K_n$ can have a cyclic group, a dihedral group, or a subgroup of $D_m \times D_m$ where $m$ is odd, as its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Erica Flapan , Blake Mellor , Ramin Naimi , Michael Yoshizawa

A signed graph is a pair $(G,\Sigma)$, where $G=(V,E)$ is a graph (in which parallel edges are permitted, but loops are not) with $V=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and $\Sigma\subseteq E$. The edges in $\Sigma$ are called odd and the other edges of $E$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Marina Arav , Frank J. Hall , Zhongshan Li , Hein van der Holst

We show that order-invariant injective maps on the noncompactly causal symmetric space $SO_0 (1,n)/SO_0 (1,n-1)$ belong to $O(1,n)^+$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-19 Nils Byrial Andersen , Michael G. Cowling

A trigraph is a graph where each pair of vertices is labelled either 0 (a non-arc), 1 (an arc) or $\star$ (both an arc and a non-arc). In a series of papers, Hell and co-authors proposed to study the complexity of homomorphisms from graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Alexey Barsukov , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté

We consider the L(p,q)-Edge-Labelling problem, which is the edge variant of the well-known L(p,q)-Labelling problem. So far, the complexity of this problem was only partially classified. We complete this study for all nonnegative p and q,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Gaetan Berthe , Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Siani Smith

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $\sigma$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yiting Cai , Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently introduced vast generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We investigate the computational complexity of a class of PCSPs beyond the most studied cases -…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Libor Barto , Diego Battistelli , Kevin M. Berg