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We study the problem of connecting the parts of a multipartite graph using a minimum number of edges under a matching constraint. We introduce interconnection trees, defined as matchings whose projections onto the quotient graph form a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noé Demange , Yann Strozecki

An automaton is called reachable if every state is reachable from the initial state. This notion has been generalized coalgebraically in two ways: first, via a universal property on pointed coalgebras, namely, that a reachable coalgebra has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Thorsten Wißmann , Bálint Kocsis , Jurriaan Rot , Ruben Turkenburg

Chip-firing on a directed graph is a game in which chips, a discrete commodity, are placed on the vertices of the graph and are transferred between vertices. In this paper, we study a chip-firing game on the Hasse diagram of the lattice of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

A set of vertices in a graph is c-colorable if the subgraph induced by the set has a proper c-coloring. In this paper, we study the problem of finding a step-by-step transformation (reconfiguration) between two c-colorable sets in the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Takehiro Ito , Yota Otachi

In this work, we present a numerical optimal control framework for reachable set computation using \emph{normotopes}, a new set representation as a norm ball with a shaping matrix. In reachable set computations, we expect to continuously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

Subgraph reconfiguration is a family of problems focusing on the reachability of the solution space in which feasible solutions are subgraphs, represented either as sets of vertices or sets of edges, satisfying a prescribed graph structure…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Tesshu Hanaka , Takehiro Ito , Haruka Mizuta , Benjamin Moore , Naomi Nishimura , Vijay Subramanya , Akira Suzuki , Krishna Vaidyanathan

We present a graph theoretical approach to the configurational statistics of random tree-like objects, such as randomly branching polymers. In particular, for ideal trees we show that Pr\"ufer labelling provides: (i) direct access to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Pieter H. W. van der Hoek , Angelo Rosa , Ralf Everaers

Given a graph $G$ rooted at a vertex $r$ and weight functions, $\gamma, \tau: E(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, the generalized cable-trench problem (CTP) is to find a single spanning tree that simultaneously minimizes the sum of the total edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Mya Davis , Carl Hammarsten , Siddarth Menon , Maria Pasaylo , Dane Sheridan

A matching complex of a simple graph $G$ is a simplicial complex with faces given by the matchings of $G$. The topology of matching complexes is mysterious; there are few graphs for which the homotopy type is known. Marietti and Testa…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Marija Jelić Milutinović , Helen Jenne , Alex McDonough , Julianne Vega

Reachability analysis is a powerful tool when it comes to capturing the behaviour, thus verifying the safety, of autonomous systems. However, general-purpose methods, such as Hamilton-Jacobi approaches, suffer from the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Alessandro Alla , Peter M. Dower , Vincent Liu

In this paper, we study the complexity of the chip-firing reachability problem. We show that for Eulerian digraphs, the reachability problem can be decided in strongly polynomial time, even if the digraph has multiple edges. We also show a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Bálint Hujter , Viktor Kiss , Lilla Tóthmérész

In this paper, we study a famous discrete dynamical system, the Chip Firing Game, used as a model in physics, economics and computer science. We use order theory and show that the set of reachable states (i.e. the configuration space) of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Latapy , H. D. Phan

Traditionally, reconfiguration problems ask the question whether a given solution of an optimization problem can be transformed to a target solution in a sequence of small steps that preserve feasibility of the intermediate solutions. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Mark de Berg , Bart M. P. Jansen , Debankur Mukherjee

We study the problem of deciding reconfigurability of target sets of a graph. Given a graph $G$ with vertex thresholds $\tau$, consider a dynamic process in which vertex $v$ becomes activated once at least $\tau(v)$ of its neighbors are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Naoto Ohsaka

This paper investigates reversibility properties of 1-dimensional 3-neighborhood d-state finite cellular automata (CAs) of length n under periodic boundary condition. A tool named reachability tree has been developed from de Bruijn graph…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Sukanta Das

We consider a \emph{code} to be a subset of the vertex set of a \emph{Hamming graph}. In this setting a \emph{neighbour} of the code is a vertex which differs in exactly one entry from some codeword. This paper examines codes with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Neil I. Gillespie , Cheryl E. Praeger

Avraham et al. [AFK+15] presented an alternative approach to parametric search, called \emph{bifurcation}, that performs faster under certain circumstances. Intuitively, when the underlying decider execution can be rolled back cheaply and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Sariel Har-Peled

Given a static vertex-selection problem (e.g. independent set, dominating set) on a graph, we can define a corresponding temporally satisfying reconfiguration problem on a temporal graph which asks for a sequence of solutions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tom Davot , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones

In this paper we investigate the reachability and observability properties of a network system, running a Laplacian based average consensus algorithm, when the communication graph is a path or a cycle. More in detail, we provide necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Gianfranco Parlangeli , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We reveal an algorithm for determining the complete prefix code irreducibility (CPC-irreducibility) of dyadic trees labeled by a finite alphabet. By introducing an extended directed graph representation of tree shift of finite type (TSFT),…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jung-Chao Ban , Chih-Hung Chang , Nai-Zhu Huang , Yu-Liang Wu