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The crossing number of a graph is the least number of crossings over all drawings of the graph in the plane. Computing the crossing number of a given graph is NP-hard, but fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) with respect to the natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada , Alexander Wolff

The well-known $k$-disjoint path problem ($k$-DPP) asks for pairwise vertex-disjoint paths between $k$ specified pairs of vertices $(s_i, t_i)$ in a given graph, if they exist. The decision version of the shortest $k$-DPP asks for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Samir Datta , Siddharth Iyer , Raghav Kulkarni , Anish Mukherjee

We consider the parameterized complexity of the problem of tracking shortest s-t paths in graphs, motivated by applications in security and wireless networks. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with a source s and a destination t,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Banik , Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We consider the Minimum-$(k,\rho)$-$\mathrm{Shortcut}$ problem ($\min(k,\rho)\text{-}\mathrm{Shortcut}$), where the goal is to find the smallest set of shortcut edges such that every vertex in a given graph can reach its $\rho$ closest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tatiana Rocha Avila , Julian Christoph Brinkmann , Alexander Leonhardt , Conrad Schecker

In this paper, we reduce the logspace shortest path problem to biconnected graphs; in particular, we present a logspace shortest path algorithm for general graphs which uses a logspace shortest path oracle for biconnected graphs. We also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Boris Brimkov

Given an undirected, weighted graph, with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and two special vertices $s$ and $t$, the problem is to find the shortest path between them. We give two bounded-error quantum algorithms with improved runtime in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Adam Wesołowski , Stephen Piddock

The problem of finding the shortest path in a graph G(V, E) has been widely studied. However, in many applications it is necessary to compute an arbitrary number of them, k. Even though the problem has raised a lot of interest from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Carlos Linares López , Ian Herman

The problem of identifying the maximum edge biclique in bipartite graphs has attracted considerable attention in bipartite graph analysis, with numerous real-world applications such as fraud detection, community detection, and online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Donghang Cui , Ronghua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Hongchao Qin , Guoren Wang

On an assigned graph, the problem of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) consists in finding paths for multiple agents, avoiding collisions. Finding the minimum-length solution is known to be NP-hard, and computation times grows exponentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Irene Saccani , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

We study the problem of leader selection in leader-follower multi-agent systems that are subject to stochastic disturbances. This problem arises in applications such as vehicle formation control, distributed clock synchronization, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Stacy Patterson

Testing if a given graph $G$ contains the $k$-vertex path $P_k$ as a minor or as an induced minor is trivial for every fixed integer $k\geq 1$. However, the situation changes for the problem of checking if a graph can be modified into $P_k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Daniël Paulusma

A directed acyclic hypergraph is a generalized concept of a directed acyclic graph, where each hyperedge can contain an arbitrary number of tails and heads. Directed hypergraphs can be used to model data flow and execution dependencies in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Merten Popp , Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

We consider the following problem that we call the Shortest Two Disjoint Paths problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge weights $w:E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, two terminals $s$ and $t$ in $G$, find two internally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Ildikó Schlotter

This paper details a new algorithm to solve the shortest path problem in valued graphs. Its complexity is $O(D \log v)$ where $D$ is the graph diameter and $v$ its number of vertices. This complexity has to be compared to the one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michel Koskas

We present three new complexity results for classes of planning problems with simple causal graphs. First, we describe a polynomial-time algorithm that uses macros to generate plans for the class 3S of planning problems with binary state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Omer Giménez , Anders Jonsson

We consider the parameterised $k,e$-Long Cycle problem, in which you are given an $n$-vertex undirected graph $G$, a specified edge $e$ in $G$, and a positive integer $k$, and are asked to decide if the graph $G$ has a simple cycle through…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt

The Surjective Homomorphism problem is to test whether a given graph G called the guest graph allows a vertex-surjective homomorphism to some other given graph H called the host graph. The bijective and injective homomorphism problems can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Petr A. Golovach , Bernard Lidický , Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma

We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Keerti Choudhary , Amit Kumar , Lakshay Saggi

Counting short cycles in bipartite graphs is a fundamental problem of interest in many fields including the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. There are two computational approaches to count short cycles (with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Ali Dehghan , Amir H. Banihashemi

We consider the problem of partitioning the edges of a graph into as few paths as possible. This is a~subject of the classic conjecture of Gallai and a recurring topic in combinatorics. Regarding the complexity of partitioning a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tomáš Masařík , Michał Włodarczyk , Mehmet Akif Yıldız