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The $H$-Coloring problem is a well-known generalization of the classical NP-complete problem $k$-Coloring where the task is to determine whether an input graph admits a homomorphism to the template graph $H$. This problem has been the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

Several problems that are NP-hard on general graphs are efficiently solvable on graphs with bounded treewidth. Efforts have been made to generalize treewidth and the related notion of pathwidth to digraphs. Directed treewidth, DAG-width and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shiva Kintali , Nishad Kothari , Akash Kumar

It is known that any planar graph with diameter D has treewidth O(D), and this fact has been used as the basis for several planar graph algorithms. We investigate the extent to which similar relations hold in other graph families. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-21 David Eppstein

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

Structural graph parameters, such as treewidth, pathwidth, and clique-width, are a central topic of study in parameterized complexity. A main aim of research in this area is to understand the "price of generality" of these widths: as we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Rémy Belmonte , Eun Jung Kim , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Yota Otachi

We study the tractability of the maximum independent set problem from the viewpoint of graph width parameters, with the goal of defining a width parameter that is as general as possible and allows to solve independent set in polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Tuukka Korhonen , Igor Razgon

Structural measures of graphs, such as treewidth, are central tools in computational complexity resulting in efficient algorithms when exploiting the parameter. It is even known that modern SAT solvers work efficiently on instances of small…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yasir Mahmood , Markus Hecher , Johanna Groven , Johannes K. Fichte

Parameterized complexity seeks to use input structure to obtain faster algorithms for NP-hard problems. This has been most successful for graphs of low treewidth: Many problems admit fast algorithms relative to treewidth and many of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

Consider a drawing of a graph $G$ in the plane such that crossing edges are coloured differently. The minimum number of colours, taken over all drawings of $G$, is the classical graph parameter "thickness". By restricting the edges to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Vida Dujmović , David R. Wood

A \emph{matching} is a subset of edges in a graph $G$ that do not share an endpoint. A matching $M$ is a \emph{$\mathcal{P}$-matching} if the subgraph of $G$ induced by the endpoints of the edges of $M$ satisfies property $\mathcal{P}$. For…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Juhi Chaudhary , Meirav Zehavi

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

The twin-width of a graph measures its distance to co-graphs and generalizes classical width concepts such as tree-width or rank-width. Since its introduction in 2020 (Bonnet et. al. 2020), a mass of new results has appeared relating twin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Irene Heinrich , Simon Raßmann

Tree-width has been proven to be a useful parameter to design fast and efficient algorithms for intractable problems. However, while tree-width is low on relatively sparse graphs can be arbitrary high on dense graphs. Therefore, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Chris Aronis

Characterisations of interval graphs, comparability graphs, co-comparability graphs, permutation graphs, and split graphs in terms of linear orderings of the vertex set are presented. As an application, it is proved that interval graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-05 David R. Wood

Let $k$ be an integer. Two vertex $k$-colorings of a graph are \emph{adjacent} if they differ on exactly one vertex. A graph is \emph{$k$-mixing} if any proper $k$-coloring can be transformed into any other through a sequence of adjacent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet

Cop-width and flip-width are new families of graph parameters introduced by Toru\'nczyk (2023) that generalise treewidth, degeneracy, generalised colouring numbers, clique-width and twin-width. In this paper, we bound the cop-width and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Robert Hickingbotham

An $(m, n)$-colored mixed graph is a graph having arcs of $m$ different colors and edges of $n$ different colors. A graph homomorphism of an $(m, n$)-colored mixed graph $G$ to an $(m, n)$-colored mixed graph $H$ is a vertex mapping such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sandip Das , Soumen Nandi , Debdeep Roy , Sagnik Sen

We identify a sufficient condition, treewidth-pliability, that gives a polynomial-time algorithm for an arbitrarily good approximation of the optimal value in a large class of Max-2-CSPs parameterised by the class of allowed constraint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Miguel Romero , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

Given a finite field, one can form a directed graph using the field elements as vertices and connecting two vertices if their difference lies in a fixed subgroup of the multiplicative group. If -1 is contained in this fixed subgroup, then…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Csaba Schneider , Ana Silva

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković