English
Related papers

Related papers: An $11/6$-Approximation Algorithm for Vertex Cover…

200 papers

Erd\"os conjectured that if $G$ is a triangle free graph of chromatic number at least $k\geq 3$, then it contains an odd cycle of length at least $k^{2-o(1)}$ \cite{sudakovverstraete, verstraete}. Nothing better than a linear bound…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-09-11 Ajit A. Diwan , Sreyash Kenkre , Sundar Vishwanathan

A well-studied coloring problem is to assign colors to the edges of a graph $G$ so that, for every pair of vertices, all edges of at least one shortest path between them receive different colors. The minimum number of colors necessary in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-17 L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Davis Issac , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Although the chromatic number of a graph is not known in general, attempts have been made to find good bounds for the number. Here we prove that for a graph G with two forbidden subgraphs and maximum degree less than or equal to 2{\omega} -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Medha Dhurandhar

Answering a question by Letzter and Snyder, we prove that for large enough $k$ any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\frac{1}{2k-1}n$ and without odd cycles of length less than $2k+1$ is $3$-colourable. In fact, we prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Julia Böttcher , Nóra Frankl , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli , Olaf Parczyk , Jozef Skokan

The $2$-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2-ECSS) is one of the most fundamental and well-studied problems in the context of network design. In the problem, we are given an undirected graph $G$, and the objective is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yusuke Kobayashi , Takashi Noguchi

We prove that the exact crossing number of a graph can be efficiently computed for simple graphs having bounded vertex cover. In more precise words, Crossing Number is in FPT when parameterized by the vertex cover size. This is a notable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Petr Hliněný , Abhisekh Sankaran

We investigate semi-streaming algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Specifically, we focus on a variant known as the $(1,2)$-TSP, where the distances between any two vertices are either one or two. Our primary emphasis is on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sharareh Alipour , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Tobias Mömke

The dichromatic number $\vec\chi(D)$ of a digraph is the minimum number $k$ such that $V(D)$ can be partitioned into $k$ subsets, each inducing an acyclic digraph. The acyclic number $\vec\alpha(D)$ is the cardinality of a largest induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Parinya Chalermsook , Harmender Gahlawat , Felix Klingelhoefer , Alantha Newman , Chaoliang Tang

The bandwidth of a graph G on n vertices is the minimum b such that the vertices of G can be labeled from 1 to n such that the labels of every pair of adjacent vertices differ by at most b. In this paper, we present a 2-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Martin Fürer , Serge Gaspers , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

We exactly evaluate the entanglement of a six vertex and a nine vertex graph states which correspond to non ''two-colorable'' graphs. The upper bound of entanglement for five vertices ring graph state is improved to 2.9275, less than upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 Xiao-yu Chen , Li-zhen Jiang

We present a new algorithm for finding large independent sets in $3$-colorable graphs with small $1$-sided threshold rank. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex $3$-colorable graph whose uniform random walk matrix has at most $r$ eigenvalues…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jun-Ting Hsieh

Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, the problem of Graph Burning is to find a sequence of nodes from $V$, called a burning sequence, to burn the whole graph. This is a discrete-step process, and at each step, an unburned vertex is selected as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

In this paper, we propose a column by column encoding scheme suitable for two-dimensional (2D) constraint codes and derive a lower bound of its maximum achievable rate. It is shown that the maximum achievable rate is equal to the largest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Kazuya Hirata , Tadashi Wadayama

Word-representable graphs, characterized by the existence of a semi-transitive orientation, form a well-studied class of graphs. Comparability graphs form another well-studied class and constitute a subclass of word-representable graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Benny George Kenkireth , Gopalan Sajith , Sreyas Sasidharan

We consider the k-strong conflict-free coloring of a set of points on a line with respect to a family of intervals: Each point on the line must be assigned a color so that the coloring has to be conflict-free, in the sense that in every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

We study maximum matchings in fully dynamic graphs, which are graphs that undergo both edge insertions and deletions. Our focus is on algorithms that estimate the size of maximum matching after each update while spending a small time. An…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani

In this paper, we establish that the maximum edit distance of an $n$-vertex graph from the hereditary property of word-representable graphs is $n^2/8-o(n^2)$. In addition, we establish that the maximum edit distance of an $n$-vertex graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Sergey Kitaev , Ryan R. Martin

The \textit{square} of a graph $G$, denoted by $G^2$, is obtained from $G$ by adding an edge to connect every pair of vertices with a common neighbor in $G$. In this paper we prove that for every planar graph $G$ with maximum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Jiani Zou , Miaomiao Han , Hong-Jian Lai

Given a graph $G$ and a list assignment $L(v)$ for each vertex of $v$ of $G$. A proper $L$-list-coloring of $G$ is a function that maps every vertex to a color in $L(v)$ such that no pair of adjacent vertices have the same color. We say…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Hoang La , Mickael Montassier

The 2-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph Problem (2ECSS) is a fundamental problem in survivable network design. Given an undirected $2$-edge-connected graph, the goal is to find a $2$-edge-connected spanning subgraph with the minimum number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Felix Hommelsheim , Alexander Lindermayr , Zhenwei Liu