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Edge connectivity of a graph is one of the most fundamental graph-theoretic concepts. The celebrated tree packing theorem of Tutte and Nash-Williams from 1961 states that every $k$-edge connected graph $G$ contains a collection $\cal{T}$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Julia Chuzhoy , Merav Parter , Zihan Tan

In an oriented graph $\overrightarrow{G}$, the inversion of a subset $X$ of vertices is the operation that reverses the orientation of all arcs with both end-vertices in $X$. The inversion graph of a graph $G$, denoted by $\mathcal{I}(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yichen Wang , Haozhe Wang , Yuxuan Yang , Mei Lu

Cohen-Addad, Le, Pilipczuk, and Pilipczuk [CLPP23] recently constructed a stochastic embedding with expected $1+\varepsilon$ distortion of $n$-vertex planar graphs (with polynomial aspect ratio) into graphs of treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Hsien-Chih Chang , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Jonathan Conroy , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

The {\sc Directed Maximum Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) in a given digraph with the maximum number of leaves. In this paper, we improve known parameterized algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-10 Noga Alon , Fedor V. Fomin , Gregory Gutin , Michael Krivelevich , Saket Saurabh

In 1989, Zehavi and Itai conjectured that every $k$-connected graph contains $k$ independent spanning trees rooted at any prescribed vertex $r$. That is, for each vertex $v$, the unique $r$-$v$ paths within these $k$ spanning trees are…

Let $G$ be a connected graph in which almost all vertices have linear degrees and let $T$ be a uniform spanning tree of $G$. For any fixed rooted tree $F$ of height $r$ we compute the asymptotic density of vertices $v$ for which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Jan Hladký , Asaf Nachmias , Tuan Tran

We introduce H-clique-width, a new structural measure of graphs that aims to provide a hereditary analogue of the traditional graph product structure. The definition naturally generalises the ordinary clique-width concept. As a result, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Petr Hliněný , Jan Jedelský

Graphs with bounded highway dimension were introduced by Abraham et al. [SODA 2010] as a model of transportation networks. We show that any such graph can be embedded into a distribution over bounded treewidth graphs with arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Wai Shing Fung , Jochen Könemann , Ian Post

We study the notion of local treewidth in sparse random graphs: the maximum treewidth over all $k$-vertex subgraphs of an $n$-vertex graph. When $k$ is not too large, we give nearly tight bounds for this local treewidth parameter; we also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hermish Mehta , Daniel Reichman

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices and at most $n(1+\epsilon)$ edges with bounded maximum degree, and $F$ a graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $n-k$, where $\epsilon$ is a constant depending on $k$. In this paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ting Huang , Yanbo Zhang , Yaojun Chen

The independence number of a tree decomposition is the size of a largest independent set contained in a single bag. The tree-independence number of a graph $G$ is the minimum independence number of a tree decomposition of $G$. As shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

The Directed Grid Theorem, stating that there is a function $f$ such that a directed graphs of directed treewidth at least $f(k)$ contains a directed grid of size at least $k$ as a butterfly minor, after being a conjecture for nearly 20…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski , Manuel Sorge

The $k$-expansion of a graph $G$ is the $k$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $G$ by adding $k-2$ new vertices to every edge. We determine, for all $k > d \geq 1$, asymptotically optimal $d$-degree conditions that ensure the existence of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Mengjiao Rao , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala , Lin Sun , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou

A graph is $k$-degenerate if every subgraph has minimum degree at most $k$. We provide lower bounds on the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate subgraph in a triangle-free planar graph. We denote the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Zdeněk Dvořák , Tom Kelly

A bramble in an undirected graph $G$ is a family of connected subgraphs of $G$ such that for every two subgraphs $H_1$ and $H_2$ in the bramble either $V(H_1) \cap V(H_2) \neq \emptyset$ or there is an edge of $G$ with one endpoint in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Meike Hatzel , Pawel Komosa , Marcin Pilipczuk , Manuel Sorge

Graph embedding, especially as a subgraph of a grid, is an old topic in VLSI design and graph drawing. In this paper, we investigate related questions concerning the complexity of embedding a graph $G$ in a host graph that is the strong…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Therese Biedl , David Eppstein , Torsten Ueckerdt

Given two $n$-vertex graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ of bounded treewidth, is there an $n$-vertex graph $G$ of bounded treewidth having subgraphs isomorphic to $G_1$ and $G_2$? Our main result is a negative answer to this question, in a strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Bogdan Alecu , Vadim Lozin , Daniel A. Quiroz , Roman Rabinovich , Igor Razgon , Viktor Zamaraev

We say that a graph $F$ can be embedded into a graph $G$ if $G$ contains an isomorphic copy of $F$ as a subgraph. Guo and Volkmann \cite{GV} conjectured that if $G$ is a connected graph with at least $n$ vertices and minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Zilong Yan , Yuejian Peng

We prove the following theorem. Given a planar graph $G$ and an integer $k$, it is possible in polynomial time to randomly sample a subset $A$ of vertices of $G$ with the following properties: (i) $A$ induces a subgraph of $G$ of treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

The connected tree-width of a graph is the minimum width of a tree-decomposition whose parts induce connected subgraphs. Long cycles are examples of graphs that have small tree-width but large connected tree-width. We show that a graph has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Reinhard Diestel , Malte Müller