English
Related papers

Related papers: The Even-Path Problem in Directed Single-Crossing-…

200 papers

Recently, one has seen a surge of interest in developing such methods including ones for learning such representations for (undirected) graphs (while preserving important properties). However, most of the work to date on embedding graphs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Jiankai Sun , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

We investigate the odd multiway node (edge) cut problem where the input is a graph with a specified collection of terminal nodes and the goal is to find a smallest subset of nonterminal nodes (edges) to delete so that the terminal nodes do…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Matthias Mnich , Sahand Mozaffari

The d-Cut problem is to decide if a graph has an edge cut such that each vertex has at most d neighbours at the opposite side of the cut. If $d=1$, we obtain the intensively studied Matching Cut problem. The d-Cut problem has been studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Felicia Lucke , Ali Momeni , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith

We study a constrained shortest path problem in group-labeled graphs with nonnegative edge length, called the shortest non-zero path problem. Depending on the group in question, this problem includes two types of tractable variants in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yoichi Iwata , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We consider the worst-case query complexity of some variants of certain \cl{PPAD}-complete search problems. Suppose we are given a graph $G$ and a vertex $s \in V(G)$. We denote the directed graph obtained from $G$ by directing all edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Günter Rote , Gábor Wiener

A Hamiltonian path (a Hamiltonian cycle) in a graph is a path (a cycle, respectively) that traverses all of its vertices. The problems of deciding their existence in an input graph are well-known to be NP-complete, in fact, they belong to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

The paper focuses on two problems: (i) how to orient the edges of an undirected graph in order to maximize the number of ordered vertex pairs (x,y) such that there is a directed path from x to y, and (ii) how to orient the edges so as to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. L. Hakimi , E. Schmeichel , Neal E. Young

The directed graph reachability problem takes as input an $n$-vertex directed graph $G=(V,E)$, and two distinguished vertices $s$ and $t$. The problem is to determine whether there exists a path from $s$ to $t$ in $G$. This is a canonical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Ryo Ashida , Kotaro Nakagawa

We address a problem posed by Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal in 1991, proving that for all $n \geq 600$, every $(2n+1)$-vertex graph with at least $n^2 + n + 1$ edges contains two vertices of equal degree connected by a path of length three. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma

Given a graph G and k pairs of vertices (s_1,t_1), ..., (s_k,t_k), the k-Vertex-Disjoint Paths problem asks for pairwise vertex-disjoint paths P_1, ..., P_k such that P_i goes from s_i to t_i. Schrijver [SICOMP'94] proved that the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Marek Cygan , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

Perfect Matching-Cut is the problem of deciding whether a graph has a perfect matching that contains an edge-cut. We show that this problem is NP-complete for planar graphs with maximum degree four, for planar graphs with girth five, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Valentin Bouquet , Christophe Picouleau

This paper revisits the classical Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem, where one is given an undirected graph $G$ and a set of terminal pairs $P$ and asks whether $G$ contains a set of pairwise edge-disjoint paths connecting every terminal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak

We consider the problem of computing all-pairs shortest paths in a directed graph with real weights assigned to vertices. For an $n\times n$ 0-1 matrix $C,$ let $K_{C}$ be the complete weighted graph on the rows of $C$ where the weight of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Andrzej Lingas , Dzmitry Sledneu

Graphs are fundamental objects that find widespread applications across computer science and beyond. Graph Theory has yielded deep insights about structural properties of various families of graphs, which are leveraged in the design and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Rachit Nimavat

We consider two orientation problems in a graph, namely the minimization of the sum of all the shortest path lengths and the minimization of the diameter. We show that it is NP-complete to decide whether a graph has an orientation such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-15 N. Eggemann , S. D. Noble

The shortest Disjoint Path problem (SDPP) requires us to find pairwise vertex disjoint paths between k designated pairs of terminal vertices such that the sum of the path lengths is minimum. The focus here is on SDPP restricted to planar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta

For two vertices $s$ and $t$ in a graph $G=(V,E)$, the next-to-shortest path is an $st$-path which length is minimum amongst all $st$-paths strictly longer than the shortest path length. In this paper we show that, when the graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Bang Ye Wu , Jun-Lin Guo , Yue-Li Wang

Answering a question of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal, Chen and Ma proved that for all \(n\geq600\) every graph with \(2n + 1\) vertices and at least \(n^2 + n+1\) edges contains two vertices of equal degree connected by a path of length three. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Zhen Liu , Qinghou Zeng

We study a map matching problem, the task of finding in an embedded graph a path that has low distance to a given curve in R^2. The Fr\'echet distance is a common measure for this problem. Efficient methods exist to compute the best path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Wouter Meulemans