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We consider the algorithmic decision problem that takes as input an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with minimum codegree at least $m-c$ and decides whether it has a matching of size $m$. We show that this decision problem is fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Jie Han , Peter Keevash

Let $G$ be an undirected graph. An edge of $G$ dominates itself and all edges adjacent to it. A subset $E'$ of edges of $G$ is an edge dominating set of $G$, if every edge of the graph is dominated by some edge of $E'$. We say that $E'$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Min Chih Lin , Vadim Lozin , Veronica A. Moyano , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph which maximizes a given function evaluated at its degree sequence. While the problem is intractable already for convex functions, we show that it can be solved in polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Shmuel Onn

The Lagrangian density of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $F$ is $r!$ multiplying the supremum of the Lagrangians of all $F$-free $r$-uniform hypergraphs. For an $r$-graph $H$ with $t$ vertices, it is clear that $\pi_{\lambda}(H)\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Yuejian Peng , Zilong Yan

We present several sparsification lower and upper bounds for classic problems in graph theory and logic. For the problems 4-Coloring, (Directed) Hamiltonian Cycle, and (Connected) Dominating Set, we prove that there is no polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Bart M. P. Jansen , Astrid Pieterse

We investigate extremal problems for hypergraphs satisfying the following density condition. A $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V, E)$ is $(d, \eta,P_2)$-dense if for any two subsets of pairs $P$, $Q\subseteq V\times V$ the number of pairs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

The exponential-time hypothesis (ETH) states that 3-SAT is not solvable in subexponential time, i.e. not solvable in O(c^n) time for arbitrary c > 1, where n denotes the number of variables. Problems like k-SAT can be viewed as special…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Peter Jonsson , Victor Lagerkvist , Biman Roy

Parameterized complexity theory has enabled a refined classification of the difficulty of NP-hard optimization problems on graphs with respect to key structural properties, and so to a better understanding of their true difficulties. More…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-19 David Coudert , Guillaume Ducoffe , Alexandru Popa

We study the connection between the degree sequence of a $k$-uniform hypergraph and the size of its largest matching. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and let $d_1 \ge d_2 \ge \dots \ge d_n$ be the vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Haixiang Zhang , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu

For $n\geq 3$ and $r=r(n) \geq 3$, let $\boldsymbol{k} =\boldsymbol{k}(n)=(k_1, \ldots, k_n)$ be a sequence of non-negative integers with sum $M(\boldsymbol{k})=\sum_{j=1}^{n} k_j$. We assume that $M(\boldsymbol{k})$ is divisible by $r$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Haya S. Aldosari , Catherine Greenhill

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

A set $S\subseteq V$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a dominating set if each vertex has a neighbor in $S$ or belongs to $S$. Dominating Set is the problem of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k\geq 1$, if $G$ has a dominating set of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Valentin Bouquet , François Delbot , Christophe Picouleau , Stéphane Rovedakis

Partial vertex cover and partial dominating set are two well-investigated optimization problems. While they are $\rm W[1]$-hard on general graphs, they have been shown to be fixed-parameter tractable on many sparse graph classes, including…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jakub Balabán , Daniel Mock , Peter Rossmanith

In this paper we consider the problem to reconstruct a $k$-uniform hypergraph from its line graph. In general this problem is hard. We solve this problem when the number of hyperedges containing any pair of vertices is bounded. Given an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Amitava Bhattacharya , Aloysius Godinho , Pritam Majumder , Navin Singhi

We prove a complexity dichotomy for complex-weighted Holant problems with an arbitrary set of symmetric constraint functions on Boolean variables. This dichotomy is specifically to answer the question: Is the FKT algorithm under a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Jin-Yi Cai , Zhiguo Fu , Heng Guo , Tyson Williams

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for Holant problems over an arbitrary set of complex-valued symmetric constraint functions F on Boolean variables. This extends and unifies all previous dichotomies for Holant problems on symmetric…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Jin-Yi Cai , Heng Guo , Tyson Williams

Two major milestones on the road to the full complexity dichotomy for finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems were Bulatov's proof of the dichotomy for conservative templates, and the structural dichotomy for smooth digraphs of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Johanna Brunar , Marcin Kozik , Tomáš Nagy , Michael Pinsker

The complexity of graph homomorphism problems has been the subject of intense study. It is a long standing open problem to give a (decidable) complexity dichotomy theorem for the partition function of directed graph homomorphisms. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

We study the problem of query evaluation on probabilistic graphs, namely, tuple-independent probabilistic databases over signatures of arity two. We focus on the class of queries closed under homomorphisms, or, equivalently, the infinite…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Antoine Amarilli , İsmail İlkan Ceylan

A stable cutset is a set of vertices $S$ of a connected graph, that is pairwise non-adjacent and when deleting $S$, the graph becomes disconnected. Determining the existence of a stable cutset in a graph is known to be NP-complete. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mats Vroon , Hans L. Bodlaender