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Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes of a network according to their participation in shortest paths. Since an exact computation is prohibitive in large networks, several approximation algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke

Consider a setting where possibly sensitive information sent over a path in a network is visible to every {neighbor} of the path, i.e., every neighbor of some node on the path, thus including the nodes on the path itself. The exposure of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Shiri Chechik , M. P. Johnson , Merav Parter , David Peleg

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$. The {\em domination polynomial} of $G$ is the polynomial ${D(G, x)=\sum_{i=0}^{n} d(G,i) x^{i}}$, where $d(G,i)$ is the number of dominating sets of $G$ of size $i$. Let $n$ be any positive integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-29 Saeid Alikhani , Jason Brown , Somayeh Jahari

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

In this paper, we completely characterize the graphs with third largest distance eigenvalue at most $-1$ and smallest distance eigenvalue at least $-3$. In particular, we determine all graphs whose distance matrices have exactly two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Lu Lu , Qiongxiang Huang , Xueyi Huang

The Sitting Closer to Friends than Enemies (SCFE) problem is to find an embedding in a metric space for the vertices of a given signed graph so that, for every pair of incident edges with different sign, the positive edge is shorter (in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Felipe Benítez , Julio Aracena , Christopher Thraves Caro

In this paper, we propose a new type of graph, denoted as "embedded-graph", and its theory, which employs a distributed representation to describe the relations on the graph edges. Embedded-graphs can express linguistic and complicated…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Atsushi Yokoyama

A new tur\'an-type problem on distances on graphs was introduced by Tyomkyn and Uzzell. In this paper, we focus on the case that the distance is two. We primely show that for any value of $n$, a graph on $n$ vertices without three vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Xueliang Li , Jing Ma , Yongtang Shi , Jun Yue

We offer a solution to a long-standing problem in the physics of networks, the creation of a plausible, solvable model of a network that displays clustering or transitivity -- the propensity for two neighbors of a network node also to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 M. E. J. Newman

We discuss a link between graph theory and geometry that arises when considering graph dynamical systems with odd interactions. The equilibrium set in such systems is not a collection of isolated points, but rather a union of manifolds,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Davide Sclosa

A median graph is a connected graph, such that for any three vertices $u,v,w$ there is exactly one vertex $x$ that lies simultaneously on a shortest $(u,v)$-path, a shortest $(v,w)$-path and a shortest $(w,u)$-path. Examples of median…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Konstantinos Stavropoulos

We study maps from a 2D world-sheet to a 2D target space which include folds. The geometry of folds is discussed and a metric on the space of folded maps is written down. We show that the latter is not invariant under area preserving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 O. Ganor , J. Sonnenschein , S. Yankielowicz

Random intersection graphs have received much interest and been used in diverse applications. They are naturally induced in modeling secure sensor networks under random key predistribution schemes, as well as in modeling the topologies of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jun Zhao , Osman Yağan , Virgil Gligor

A graph is edge-distance-regular when it is distance-regular around each of its edges and it has the same intersection numbers for any edge taken as a root. In this paper we give some (combinatorial and algebraic) proofs of the fact that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 M. Cámara , C. Dalfó , C. Delorme , M. A. Fiol , H. Suzuki

Succinct representations of a graph have been objects of central study in computer science for decades. In this paper, we study the operation called \emph{Distance Preserving Graph Contractions}, which was introduced by Bernstein et al.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Siddhartha Jain

In this paper, we study random embeddings of polymer networks distributed according to any potential energy which can be expressed in terms of distances between pairs of monomers. This includes freely jointed chains, steric effects,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-19 Jason Cantarella , Tetsuo Deguchi , Clayton Shonkwiler , Erica Uehara

In this note we define and study graph invariants generalizing to higher dimension the maximum degree of a vertex and the vertex-connectivity (our $0$-dimensional cases). These are known to coincide almost surely in any regime for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Eric Babson , Volkmar Welker

A graph $X$ is said to be {\it distance--balanced} if for any edge $uv$ of $X$, the number of vertices closer to $u$ than to $v$ is equal to the number of vertices closer to $v$ than to $u$. A graph $X$ is said to be {\it strongly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Kutnar , A. Malnic , D. Marusic , S. Miklavic

In this paper, we generalize the notion of functional graph. Specifically, given an equation $E(X,Y) = 0$ with variables $X$ and $Y$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of odd characteristic, we define a digraph by choosing the elements in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Bernard Mans , Min Sha , Jeffrey Smith , Daniel Sutantyo

Twin-width is a recently introduced graph parameter based on the repeated contraction of near-twins. It has shown remarkable utility in algorithmic and structural graph theory, as well as in finite model theory -- particularly since…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Irene Heinrich , Ferdinand Ihringer , Simon Raßmann , Lena Volk