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The mim-width of a graph is a powerful structural parameter that, when bounded by a constant, allows several hard problems to be polynomial-time solvable - with a recent meta-theorem encompassing a large class of problems [SODA2023]. Since…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Max Dupré la Tour , Manuel Lafond , Ndiamé Ndiaye

We prove that Hamiltonian Path and Hamiltonian Cycle are NP-hard on graphs of linear mim-width 26, even when a linear order of the input graph with mim-width 26 is provided together with input. This fills a gap left by a broken proof of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Lars Jaffke

mim-width is a recent graph width measure that has seen applications in graph algorithms and problems related to propositional satisfiability. In this paper, we show linear lower bounds for the mim-width of strongly chordal split graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Stefan Mengel

Mim-width and sim-width are among the most powerful graph width parameters, with sim-width more powerful than mim-width, which is in turn more powerful than clique-width. While several $\mathsf{NP}$-hard graph problems become tractable for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

Graph parameters measure the amount of structure (or lack thereof) in a graph that makes it amenable to being decomposed in a way that facilitates dynamic programming. Graph decompositions and their associated parameters are important both…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Svein Høgemo

A large number of NP-hard graph problems become polynomial-time solvable on graph classes where the mim-width is bounded and quickly computable. Hence, when solving such problems on special graph classes, it is helpful to know whether the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Nick Brettell , Jake Horsfield , Andrea Munaro , Giacomo Paesani , Daniel Paulusma

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter. For graphs of bounded clique-width, many problems that are NP-hard in general can be polynomial-time solvable. The fact motivates several studies to investigate whether the clique-width of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yu Nakahata

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

An \textit{$(n,m)$-graph} $G$ is a graph having both arcs and edges, and its arcs (resp., edges) are labeled using one of the $n$ (resp., $m$) different symbols. An \textit{$(n,m)$-complete graph} $G$ is an $(n,m)$-graph without loops or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Sagnik Sen , S Taruni

The maximum matching width is a graph width parameter that is defined on a branch-decomposition over the vertex set of a graph. In this short paper, we prove that the problem of computing the maximum matching width is NP-hard.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Kwangjun Ahn , Jisu Jeong

A bipartite graph $G=(A,B,E)$ is ${\cal H}$-convex, for some family of graphs ${\cal H}$, if there exists a graph $H\in {\cal H}$ with $V(H)=A$ such that the set of neighbours in $A$ of each $b\in B$ induces a connected subgraph of $H$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Nick Brettell , Andrea Munaro , Daniël Paulusma

We investigate new graph classes of bounded mim-width, strictly extending interval graphs and permutation graphs. The graphs $K_t \boxminus K_t$ and $K_t \boxminus S_t$ are graphs obtained from the disjoint union of two cliques of size $t$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Dong Yeap Kang , O-joung Kwon , Torstein J. F. Strømme , Jan Arne Telle

We prove that the class of $(K_t,sP_1+P_5)$-free graphs has bounded mim-width for every $s\geq 0$ and $t\geq 1$, and that there is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given a graph in the class, computes a branch decomposition of constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Nick Brettell , Jake Horsfield , Daniel Paulusma

In this paper, we give a very simple proof that Treewidth is NP-complete; this proof also shows NP-completeness on the class of co-bipartite graphs. We then improve the result by Bodlaender and Thilikos from 1997 that Treewidth is…

We show NP-completeness for several planar variants of the monotone satisfiability problem with bounded variable appearances. With one exception the presented variants have an associated bipartite graph where the vertex degree is bounded by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Andreas Darmann , Janosch Döcker , Britta Dorn

We study the tractability of the maximum independent set problem from the viewpoint of graph width parameters, with the goal of defining a width parameter that is as general as possible and allows to solve independent set in polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Tuukka Korhonen , Igor Razgon

The linear induced matching width (LMIM-width) of a graph is a width parameter defined by using the notion of branch-decompositions of a set function on ternary trees. In this paper we study output-polynomial enumeration algorithms on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Dieter Kratsch , Sigve H. Sæther , Yngve Villanger

This paper investigates the computational complexity of deciding whether the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into a disjoint union of cliques and a triangle-free subgraph. This problem is known to be $\NP$-complete on arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Carl Feghali , Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Haiko Müller

Deciding whether a graph can be embedded in a grid using only unit-length edges is NP-complete, even when restricted to binary trees. However, it is not difficult to devise a number of graph classes for which the problem is polynomial, even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Vinícius G. P. de Sá , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Raphael Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

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
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