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A graph $G$ is {\em matching-decyclable} if it has a matching $M$ such that $G-M$ is acyclic. Deciding whether $G$ is matching-decyclable is an NP-complete problem even if $G$ is 2-connected, planar, and subcubic. In this work we present…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Fábio Protti , Uéverton S. Souza

For many algorithmic problems on graphs of treewidth $t$, a standard dynamic programming approach gives an algorithm with time and space complexity $2^{\mathcal{O}(t)}\cdot n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$. It turns out that when one considers the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Jesper Nederlof , Michał Pilipczuk , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis , Karol Węgrzycki

The Hamiltonian cycle problem in digraph is mapped into a matching cover bipartite graph. Based on this mapping, it is proved that determining existence a Hamiltonian cycle in graph is $O(n^3)$.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-20 Guohun Zhu

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

A Hamilton cycle is a cycle containing every vertex of a graph. A graph is called Hamiltonian if it contains a Hamilton cycle. The Hamilton cycle problem is to find the sufficient and necessary condition that a graph is Hamiltonian. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Heping Jiang

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph obtained by adding chords to a cycle of length $n$. Markstr\"{o}m asked for the maximum number of edges in $G$ if there are no two cycles in $G$ with the same length. A simple counting argument shows that such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Joey Lee , Craig Timmons

We prove that computing a single pair of vertices that are mapped onto each other by an isomorphism $\phi$ between two isomorphic graphs is as hard as computing $\phi$ itself. This result optimally improves upon a result of G\'{a}l et al.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 André Grosse , Joerg Rothe , Gerd Wechsung

Addressing a quest by Gupta et al. [ICALP'14], we provide a first, comprehensive study of finding a short s-t path in the multistage graph model, referred to as the Multistage s-t Path problem. Herein, given a sequence of graphs over the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Till Fluschnik , Rolf Niedermeier , Carsten Schubert , Philipp Zschoche

A matching is a set of edges in a graph with no common endpoint. A matching M is called acyclic if the induced subgraph on the endpoints of the edges in M is acyclic. Given a graph G and an integer k, Acyclic Matching Problem seeks for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sahab Hajebi , Ramin Javadi

We prove two dichotomy results for detecting long paths as patterns in a given graph. The NP-hard problem Longest Induced Path is to determine the longest induced path in a graph. The NP-hard problem Longest Path Contractibility is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Walter Kern , Daniel Paulusma

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 graph $G$ of order $n>2$ is pancyclic if $G$ contains a cycle of length $l$ for each integer $l$ with $3 \leq l \leq n $ and it is called vertex-pancyclic if every vertex is contained in a cycle of length $l$ for every $3 \leq l \leq n $.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-24 S. Morteza Mirafzal , Sara Kouhi

The dominating graph of a graph $H$ has as its vertices all dominating sets of $H$, with an edge between two dominating sets if one can be obtained from the other by the addition or deletion of a single vertex of $H$. In this paper we prove…

A resolving set $S$ of a graph $G$ is a subset of its vertices such that no two vertices of $G$ have the same distance vector to $S$. The Metric Dimension problem asks for a resolving set of minimum size, and in its decision form, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Édouard Bonnet , Nidhi Purohit

For finite graphs, path-width is an interesting and useful concept, but if we extend it to infinite graphs in the most obvious way (by making the indexing path infinite), it does not work nicely. The simplest extension that works nicely is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the Isometric Path Partition problem when parameterized by the treewidth ($\mathrm{tw}$) of the input graph, arguably one of the most widely studied parameters. Courcelle's theorem shows that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Oscar Defrain , Florent Foucaud , Mathieu Mari , Prafullkumar Tale

In 1999, Jacobson and Lehel conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-regular Hamiltonian graph has cycles of at least linearly many different lengths. This was further strengthened by Verstra\"{e}te, who asked whether the regularity can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Matija Bucić , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

In 1973, Chv\'atal conjectured that there exists a constant $t_0$ such that every $t_0$-tough graph on at least three vertices is Hamiltonian. While this conjecture is still open, work has been done to confirm it for several graph classes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Songling Shan , Arthur Tanyel

In this paper, we study long paths and Hamiltonian paths in inhomogenous random graphs. In the first part of the paper, we consider an inhomogenous Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G_E$ with average edge density $p_n.$ We prove that if…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

Counting the number of Hamiltonian cycles that are contained in a geometric graph is {\bf \#P}-complete even if the graph is known to be planar \cite{lot:refer}. A relaxation for problems in plane geometric graphs is to allow the geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hazim Michman Trao