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Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V, E), a set X \subseteq V(G), and integers k and p, STEINER SUBGRAPH EXTENSION problem asks if there exists a set S \supseteq X with at most k vertices such that G[S] is p-edge-connected. This…

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Given a graph $G$, a set $T$ of terminal vertices, and a demand graph $H$ on $T$, the \textsc{Multicut} problem asks for a set of edges of minimum weight that separates the pairs of terminals specified by the edges of $H$. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Florian Hörsch , Dániel Marx

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

We consider the constrained graph alignment problem which has applications in biological network analysis. Given two input graphs $G_1=(V_1,E_1), G_2=(V_2,E_2)$, a pair of vertex mappings induces an {\it edge conservation} if the vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ferhat Alkan , Türker Bıyıkoğlu , Marc Demange , Cesim Erten

In an edge-colored graph, the cost incurred at a vertex on a path when two incident edges with different colors are traversed is called reload or changeover cost. The "Minimum Changeover Cost Arborescence" (MINCCA) problem consists in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Didem Gözüpek , Sibel Özkan , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Mordechai Shalom

The NP-hard Metric Dimension problem is to decide for a given graph G and a positive integer k whether there is a vertex subset of size at most k that separates all vertex pairs in G. Herein, a vertex v separates a pair {u,w} if the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

There has been substantial interest in estimating the value of a graph parameter, i.e., of a real-valued function defined on the set of finite graphs, by querying a randomly sampled substructure whose size is independent of the size of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Carlos Hoppen , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Richard Lang , Hanno Lefmann , Henrique Stagni

A graph $G$ is $[a,b]$-covered if for each edge $e$ of $G$ there is an $[a,b]$-factor containing it. For $a=b=1$, an $[a,b]$-covered graph is a matching covered graph. The structural theory of matching covered graphs constitutes a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Qixuan Yuan , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan

We study the parameterized complexity of the directed variant of the classical {\sc Steiner Tree} problem on various classes of directed sparse graphs. While the parameterized complexity of {\sc Steiner Tree} parameterized by the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Mark Jones , Daniel Lokshtanov , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Ondřej Suchý

We prove that finding a $k$-edge induced subgraph is fixed-parameter tractable, thereby answering an open problem of Leizhen Cai. Our algorithm is based on several combinatorial observations, Gauss' famous \emph{Eureka} theorem [Andrews,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Bingkai Lin , Yijia Chen

We study kernelization of classic hard graph problems when the input graphs fulfill triadic closure properties. More precisely, we consider the recently introduced parameters closure number $c$ and the weak closure number $\gamma$ [Fox et…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , Frank Sommer

Temporal graphs are introduced to model systems where the relationships among the entities of the system evolve over time. In this paper, we consider the temporal graphs where the edge set changes with time and all the changes are known a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Rinku Kumar , Bodhisatwa Mazumdar , Subhrangsu Mandal

In the Minimum Bisection problem, input is a graph $G$ and the goal is to partition the vertex set into two parts $A$ and $B$, such that $||A|-|B|| \le 1$ and the number $k$ of edges between $A$ and $B$ is minimized. This problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tanmay Inamdar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan

Our work is motivated by the challenges presented in preparing arrays of atoms for use in quantum simulation. The recently-developed process of loading atoms into traps results in approximately half of the traps being filled. To consolidate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Alexandre Cooper , Stephanie Maaz , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

Tensor network contraction is central to problems ranging from many-body physics to computer science. We describe how to approximate tensor network contraction through bond compression on arbitrary graphs. In particular, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden subgraphs, we study $\mathcal{F}$-Free Edge Deletion, where the goal is to remove minimum number of edges such that the resulting graph does not contain any $F\in \mathcal{F}$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

A prototypical graph problem is centered around a graph-theoretic property for a set of vertices and a solution to it is a set of vertices for which the desired property holds. The task is to decide whether, in the given graph, there exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

The $H$-Coloring problem is a well-known generalization of the classical NP-complete problem $k$-Coloring where the task is to determine whether an input graph admits a homomorphism to the template graph $H$. This problem has been the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

Motivated by the role of triadic closures in social networks, and the importance of finding a maximum subgraph avoiding a fixed pattern, we introduce and initiate the parameterized study of the Strong F-closure problem, where F is a fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Paloma T. Lima , Charis Papadopoulos

We introduce graph width parameters, called $\alpha$-edge-crossing width and edge-crossing width. These are defined in terms of the number of edges crossing a bag of a tree-cut decomposition. They are motivated by edge-cut width, recently…

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