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For an undirected graph G, we consider the following problems: given a fixed graph H, can we partition the vertices of G into two non-empty sets A and B such that neither the induced graph G[A] nor G[B] contain H (i) as a subgraph? (ii) as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Anjeneya Swami Kare

An elimination tree of a connected graph $G$ is a rooted tree on the vertices of $G$ obtained by choosing a root $v$ and recursing on the connected components of $G-v$ to obtain the subtrees of $v$. The graph associahedron of $G$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Luís Felipe I. Cunha , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Mario Valencia-Pabon

The problem of determining whether a graph $G$ contains another graph $H$ as a minor, referred to as the minor containment problem, is a fundamental problem in the field of graph algorithms. While it is NP-complete when $G$ and $H$ are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tatsuya Gima , Soh Kumabe , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

A spanning tree $T$ of graph $G$ is a $\rho$-approximate universal Steiner tree (UST) for root vertex $r$ if, for any subset of vertices $S$ containing $r$, the cost of the minimal subgraph of $T$ connecting $S$ is within a $\rho$ factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Costas Busch , Da Qi Chen , Arnold Filtser , Daniel Hathcock , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Rajmohan Rajaraman

In this paper we propose and study a new complexity model for approximation algorithms. The main motivation are practical problems over large data sets that need to be solved many times for different scenarios, e.g., many multicast trees…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Marcin Mucha , Marcin Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper, we investigate Hamiltonian path problem in the context of split graphs, and produce a dichotomy result on the complexity of the problem. Our main result is a deep investigation of the structure of $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. For $i\in \{0,1\}$ and a connected graph $G$, a spanning forest $F$ of $G$ is called an $i$-perfect forest if every tree in $F$ is an induced subgraph of $G$ and exactly $i$ vertices of $F$ have even…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Gregory Gutin , Anders Yeo

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

We consider the complexity of finding weighted homomorphisms from intersection graphs of curves (string graphs) with $n$ vertices to a fixed graph $H$. We provide a complete dichotomy for the problem: if $H$ has no two vertices sharing two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Karolina Okrasa , Paweł Rzążewski

Trigraph list homomorphism problems (also known as list matrix partition problems) have generated recent interest, partly because there are concrete problems that are not known to be polynomial time solvable or NP-complete. Thus while…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Tomás Feder , Pavol Hell , David G. Schell , Juraj Stacho

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

This paper presents the novel `uniqueness tree' algorithm, as one possible method for determining whether two finite, undirected graphs are isomorphic. We prove that the algorithm has polynomial time complexity in the worst case, and that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Jonathan Gorard

In the Steiner Forest problem, we are given a graph and a collection of source-sink pairs, and the goal is to find a subgraph of minimum total length such that all pairs are connected. The problem is APX-Hard and can be 2-approximated by,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Martin Groß , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Jannik Matuschke , Daniel R. Schmidt , Melanie Schmidt , José Verschae

For a graph property $\Pi$, Subgraph Complementation to $\Pi$ is the problem to find whether there is a subset $S$ of vertices of the input graph $G$ such that modifying $G$ by complementing the subgraph induced by $S$ results in a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dhanyamol Antony , Sagartanu Pal , R. B. Sandeep , R. Subashini

We study the space complexity of four variants of the standard subgraph finding problem in the streaming model. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex input graph and a fixed-size pattern graph, we consider two settings: undirected simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu-Sheng Shih , Meng-Tsung Tsai , Yen-Chu Tsai , Ying-Sian Wu

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

The CSP dichotomy conjecture has been recently established, but a number of other dichotomy questions remain open, including the dichotomy classification of list homomorphism problems for signed graphs. Signed graphs arise naturally in many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková , Arash Rafiey

We show that every $H$-minor-free graph that also excludes a $(k \times k)$-grid as a minor has treewidth/branchwidth bounded from above by a function $f(t,k)$ that is linear in $k$ and polynomial in $t := |V(H)|$. Such a result was proven…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Maximilian Gorsky , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht