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A function on a topological space is called unimodal if all of its super-level sets are contractible. A minimal unimodal decomposition of a function $f$ is the smallest number of unimodal functions that sum up to $f$. The problem of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Mishal Assif P K , Yuliy Baryshnikov

Given $k$ input graphs $G_1, \dots ,G_k$, where each pair $G_i$, $G_j$ with $i \neq j$ shares the same graph $G$, the problem Simultaneous Embedding With Fixed Edges (SEFE) asks whether there exists a planar drawing for each input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Simon D. Fink , Matthias Pfretzschner , Ignaz Rutter

The complexity of the graph isomorphism problem for trapezoid graphs has been open over a decade. This paper shows that the problem is GI-complete. More precisely, we show that the graph isomorphism problem is GI-complete for comparability…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Asahi Takaoka

An st-shortest path, or st-path for short, in a graph G is a shortest (induced) path from s to t in G. Two st-paths are said to be adjacent if they differ on exactly one vertex. A reconfiguration sequence between two st-paths P and Q is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nicolas Bousquet , Kshitij Gajjar , Abhiruk Lahiri , Amer E. Mouawad

This work presents a study of star covers on graphs. Unlike traditional formulations that minimize the number of stars, our aim is to optimize the number of bipartite components used in the cover. This problem, motivated by a symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Damjana Kokol Bukovšek , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

We consider the algorithmic complexity of recognizing bipartite temporal graphs. Rather than defining these graphs solely by their underlying graph or individual layers, we define a bipartite temporal graph as one in which every layer can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Till Fluschnik , Pascal Kunz

A degree monotone path in a graph $G$ is a path $P$ such that the sequence of degrees of the vertices in the order in which they appear on $P$ is monotonic. The length of the longest degree monotone path in $G$ is denoted by $mp(G)$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Yair Caro , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

We show that the problem k-Dominating Set and its several variants including k-Connected Dominating Set, k-Independent Dominating Set, and k-Dominating Clique, when parameterized by the solution size k, are W[1]-hard in either…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Minghui Jiang , Yong Zhang

An (edge) decomposition of a graph $G$ is a set of subgraphs of $G$ whose edge sets partition the edge set of $G$. Here we show, for each odd $\ell \geq 5$, that any graph $G$ of sufficiently large order $n$ with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Darryn Bryant , Peter Dukes , Daniel Horsley , Barbara Maenhaut , Richard Montgomery

Graph editing problems offer an interesting perspective on sub- and supergraph identification problems for a large variety of target properties. They have also attracted significant attention in recent years, particularly in the area of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Luke Mathieson

Given a sequence $S=(s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_p)$, $p\geq 2$, of non-decreasing integers, an $S$-packing coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set into $p$ disjoint sets $V_1,\ldots, V_p$ such that any two distinct vertices of $V_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Maidoun Mortada , Olivier Togni

A graph $G$ is said to be a `set graph' if it admits an acyclic orientation that is also `extensional', in the sense that the out-neighborhoods of its vertices are pairwise distinct. Equivalently, a set graph is the underlying graph of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Milanič , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu

We study the Decomposition Conjecture posed by Bar\'at and Thomassen (2006), which states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(T)|$ divides $|E(G)|$, then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fábio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

We consider the problem of extending the drawing of a subgraph of a given plane graph to a drawing of the entire graph using straight-line and polyline edges. We define the notion of star complexity of a polygon and show that a drawing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Tamara Mchedlidze , Jérôme Urhausen

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the graph editing problem called Editing to a Graph with a Given Degree Sequence, where the aim is to obtain a graph with a given degree sequence \sigma by at most k vertex or edge deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Petr A. Golovach , George B. Mertzios

\textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is the problem to find a vertex subset $S$ of size $k$ such that the number of edges in the subgraph induced by $S$ is maximized. In this paper, we show that \textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is fixed parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Tesshu Hanaka

The domination problem is a well-studied problem in graph theory. In this paper, we study two natural variants: the hop domination problem and the $2$-step domination problem. Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$. For a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sandip Das , Sweta Das , Sk Samim Islam

Star sampling (SS) is a random sampling procedure on a graph wherein each sample consists of a randomly selected vertex (the star center) and its (one-hop) neighbors (the star points). We consider the use of SS to find any member of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jonathan Stokes , Steven Weber

We introduce a variant of the graph coloring problem, which we denote as {\sc Budgeted Coloring Problem} (\bcp). Given a graph $G$, an integer $c$ and an ordered list of integers $\{b_1, b_2, \ldots, b_c\}$, \bcp asks whether there exists a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Suman Banerjee , Aritra Banik , Venkatesh Raman

We study the classical problem of computing geometric thickness, i.e., finding a straight-line drawing of an input graph and a partition of its edges into as few parts as possible so that each part is crossing-free. Since the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Thomas Depian , Simon Dominik Fink , Alexander Firbas , Robert Ganian , Martin Nöllenburg