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Recently, Ezra and Sharir [ES22a] showed an $O(n^{3/2+\sigma})$ space and $O(n^{1/2+\sigma})$ query time data structure for ray shooting among triangles in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This improves the upper bound given by the classical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Peyman Afshani , Pingan Cheng

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

A family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ is $H$-intersecting if the edge intersection of any two graphs in $\mathcal{F}$ contains a copy of a fixed graph $H$. A fundamental problem is to determine the maximum size of such a family. The trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Paul Hamrick , Gary Hu

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

A graph $G$ has $p$-intersection number at most $d$ if it is possible to assign to every vertex $u$ of $G$, a subset $S(u)$ of some ground set $U$ with $|U|=d$ in such a way that distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ are adjacent in $G$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Claudson F. Bornstein , Jose W. C. Pinto , Dieter Rautenbach , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

Graph spanners are sparse subgraphs which approximately preserve all pairwise shortest-path distances in an input graph. The notion of approximation can be additive, multiplicative, or both, and many variants of this problem have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Manuel Fernandez , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

We obtain new lower and upper bounds for the maximum multiplicity of some weighted and, respectively, non-weighted common geometric graphs drawn on n points in the plane in general position (with no three points collinear): perfect…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Adrian Dumitrescu , André Schulz , Adam Sheffer , Csaba D. Tóth

The hypergraph Zarankiewicz's problem, introduced by Erd\H{o}s in 1964, asks for the maximum number of hyperedges in an $r$-partite hypergraph with $n$ vertices in each part that does not contain a copy of $K_{t,t,\ldots,t}$. Erd\H{o}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Timothy M. Chan , Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky

We initiate the study of diameter computation in geometric intersection graphs from the fine-grained complexity perspective. A geometric intersection graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to some shapes in $d$-dimensional Euclidean…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser , Zahra Parsaeian

An \emph{obstacle representation} of a graph $G$ is a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane together with a collection of connected subsets of the plane, called \emph{obstacles}, that block all non-edges of $G$ while not blocking any of…

Graph separators are a ubiquitous tool in graph theory and computer science. However, in some applications, their usefulness is limited by the fact that the separator can be as large as $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ in graphs with $n$ vertices. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, an {\em $(\alpha,\beta)$-spanner} $H=(V,E')$ is a subgraph that approximately preserves distances; for every $u,v\in V$, $d_H(u,v)\le \alpha\cdot d_G(u,v)+\beta$. An $(\alpha,\beta)$-hopset is a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ofer Neiman , Idan Shabat

For an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $h(G)$ denote the smallest size of a subset of $V(G)$ such that it intersects every maximum independent set of $G$. A conjecture posed by Bollob\'{a}s, Erd\H{o}s and Tuza in early 90s remains widely open,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Xinbu Cheng , Xinqi Huang , Mingyuan Rong , Zixiang Xu

We give a natural sufficient condition for an intersection graph of compact convex sets in R^d to have a balanced separator of sublinear size. This condition generalizes several previous results on sublinear separators in intersection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Zdenek Dvorak , Rose McCarty , Sergey Norin

Given a convex $n$-gon, we can draw $n$ disks (called side disks) where each disk has a different side of the polygon as diameter and the midpoint of the side as its center. The intersection graph of such disks is the undirected graph with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Luis H. Herrera , Pablo Pérez-Lantero

We prove crossing number inequalities for geometric graphs whose vertex sets are taken from a d-dimensional grid of volume N and give applications of these inequalities to counting the number of non-crossing geometric graphs that can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-23 Vida Dujmovic , Pat Morin , Adam Sheffer

An $f(d)$-spanner of an unweighted $n$-vertex graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subgraph $H$ satisfying that $dist_H(u, v)$ is at most $f(dist_G(u, v))$ for every $u,v \in V$. We present new spanner constructions that achieve a nearly optimal stretch of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Uri Ben-Levy , Merav Parter

A recent upper bound by Le and Solomon [STOC '23] has established that every $n$-node graph has a $(1+\varepsilon)(2k-1)$-spanner with lightness $O(\varepsilon^{-1} n^{1/k})$. This bound is optimal up to its dependence on $\varepsilon$; the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Greg Bodwin , Jeremy Flics

A graph whose edges only appear at certain points in time is called a temporal graph (among other names). Such a graph is temporally connected if each ordered pair of vertices is connected by a path which traverses edges in chronological…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Arnaud Casteigts , Michael Raskin , Malte Renken , Viktor Zamaraev

$t$-spanners are used to approximate the pairwise distances between a set of points in a metric space. They have only a few edges compared to the total number of pairs and they provide a $t$-approximation on the distance of any two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-29 David Eppstein , Hadi Khodabandeh