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The 'separation dimension' of a graph $G$ is the smallest natural number $k$ for which the vertices of $G$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^k$ such that any pair of disjoint edges in $G$ can be separated by a hyperplane normal to one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Noga Alon , Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran , Rogers Mathew , Deepak Rajendraprasad

We consider the NP-complete problem of tracking paths in a graph, first introduced by Banik et. al. [3]. Given an undirected graph with a source $s$ and a destination $t$, find the smallest subset of vertices whose intersection with any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , James A. Liu , Pedro Matias

Our main result is that every graph $G$ on $n\ge 10^4r^3$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge (1 - 1 / 10^4 r^{3/2} ) n$ has a fractional $K_r$-decomposition. Combining this result with recent work of Barber, K\"uhn, Lo and Osthus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ben Barber , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

Let $c\in (0, 1]$ be a real number and let $n$ be a sufficiently large integer. We prove that every $n$-vertex $c n$-regular graph $G$ contains a collection of $\lfloor 1/c \rfloor$ paths whose union covers all but at most $o(n)$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jie Han

A biclique of a graph $G$ is a maximal induced complete bipartite subgraph of $G$. The biclique graph of $G$ denoted by $KB(G)$, is the intersection graph of all the bicliques of $G$. The biclique graph can be thought as an operator between…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Marina Groshaus , André Guedes , Leandro Montero

We give algorithms with running time $2^{O({\sqrt{k}\log{k}})} \cdot n^{O(1)}$ for the following problems. Given an $n$-vertex unit disk graph $G$ and an integer $k$, decide whether $G$ contains (1) a path on exactly/at least $k$ vertices,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

A graph is called pseudo-outerplanar if each block has an embedding on the plane in such a way that the vertices lie on a fixed circle and the edges lie inside the disk of this circle with each of them crossing at most one another. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

In this paper we construct a class of bounded degree bipartite graphs with a small separator and large bandwidth. Furthermore, we also prove that graphs from this class are spanning subgraphs of graphs with minimum degree just slightly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Béla Csaba , Bálint Vásárhelyi

Our main result is that the Steiner Point Removal (SPR) problem can always be solved with polylogarithmic distortion, which answers in the affirmative a question posed by Chan, Xia, Konjevod, and Richa (2006). Specifically, we prove that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Lior Kamma , Robert Krauthgamer , Huy L. Nguyen

We study the Steiner Tree problem on the intersection graph of most natural families of geometric objects, e.g., disks, squares, polygons, etc. Given a set of $n$ objects in the plane and a subset $T$ of $t$ terminal objects, the task is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sujoy Bhore , Baris Can Esmer , Daniel Marx , Karol Wegrzycki

A directed graph is semi-transitive if and only if it is acyclic and for any directed path $u_1\rightarrow u_2\rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow u_t$, $t \geq 2$, either there is no edge from $u_1$ to $u_t$ or all edges $u_i\rightarrow u_j$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

We consider the problem of dynamically maintaining (approximate) all-pairs effective resistances in separable graphs, which are those that admit an $n^{c}$-separator theorem for some $c<1$. We give a fully dynamic algorithm that maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

We present an algorithm that computes the girth of the intersection graph of $n$ given line segments in the plane in $O(n^{1.483})$ expected time. This is the first such algorithm with $O(n^{3/2-\varepsilon})$ running time for a positive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Timothy M. Chan , Yuancheng Yu

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph, and $s,t$ vertices of $G$. We present an efficient algorithm which enumerates the set of minimal $st$-separators of $G$ in ascending order of cardinality, with a delay of $O(n^{3.5})$ per separator. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Batya Kenig

An $r$-quasiplanar graph is a graph drawn in the plane with no $r$ pairwise crossing edges. Let $s \geq 3$ be an integer and $r=2^s$. We prove that there is a constant $C$ such that every $r$-quasiplanar graph with $n \geq r$ vertices has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

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

The (unweighted) point-separation problem asks, given a pair of points $s$ and $t$ in the plane, and a set of candidate geometric objects, for the minimum-size subset of objects whose union blocks all paths from $s$ to $t$. Recent work has…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jayson Lynch , Jack Spalding-Jamieson

In this paper we give upper bounds on the number of minimal separators and potential maximal cliques of graphs w.r.t. two graph parameters, namely vertex cover ($\operatorname{vc}$) and modular width ($\operatorname{mw}$). We prove that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Mathieu Liedloff , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

Given a bichromatic point set $P=\textbf{R} \cup \textbf{B}$ of red and blue points, a separator is an object of a certain type that separates $\textbf{R}$ and $\textbf{B}$. We study the geometric separability problem when the separator is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Abidha V P , Pradeesha Ashok