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List colouring is an influential and classic topic in graph theory. We initiate the study of a natural strengthening of this problem, where instead of one list-colouring, we seek many in parallel. Our explorations have uncovered a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang

Until recently, techniques for obtaining lower bounds for kernelization were one of the most sought after tools in the field of parameterized complexity. Now, after a strong influx of techniques, we are in the fortunate situation of having…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Stefan Kratsch

We consider the problem of $q$-colouring a $k$-uniform random hypergraph, where $q,k \geq 3$, and determine the rigidity threshold. For edge densities above the rigidity threshold, we show that almost all solutions have a linear number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Peter Ayre , Catherine Greenhill

A graph is c-closed if every pair of vertices with at least c common neighbors is adjacent. The c-closure of a graph G is the smallest number such that G is c-closed. Fox et al. [ICALP '18] defined c-closure and investigated it in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , Frank Sommer

For a given $\delta \in (0,1)$, the randomly perturbed graph model is defined as the union of any $n$-vertex graph $G_0$ with minimum degree $\delta n$ and the binomial random graph $\mathbf{G}(n,p)$ on the same vertex set. Moreover, we say…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Shoham Letzter , Amedeo Sgueglia

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of a generalized domination problem called the [${\sigma}, {\rho}$] Dominating Set problem. This problem generalizes a large number of problems including the Minimum Dominating Set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Pradeesha Ashok , Rajath Rao , Avi Tomar

The technique of kernelization consists in extracting, from an instance of a problem, an essentially equivalent instance whose size is bounded in a parameter k. Besides being the basis for efficient param-eterized algorithms, this method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Clément Carbonnel , Emmanuel Hébrard

A kernel based procedure for correcting experimental data for distortions due to the finite resolution and limited detector acceptance is presented. The unfolding problem is known to be an ill-posed problem that can not be solved without…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-09-19 N. D. Gagunashvili , M. Schmelling

We study the weighted improper coloring problem, a generalization of defective coloring. We present some hardness results and in particular we show that weighted improper coloring is not fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Bjarki Ágúst Guðmundsson , Tómas Ken Magnússon , Björn Orri Sæmundsson

The 3-\textsc{Hitting Set} problem is also called the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. In this paper, we address kernelizations of the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. We show that this problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-20 Xuan Cai

In a (parameterized) graph edge modification problem, we are given a graph $G$, an integer $k$ and a (usually well-structured) class of graphs $\mathcal{G}$, and ask whether it is possible to transform $G$ into a graph $G' \in \mathcal{G}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Gabriel Bathie , Nicolas Bousquet , Théo Pierron

The reconfiguration graph $\mathcal{C}_k(G)$ for the $k$-colourings of a graph $G$ has a vertex for each proper $k$-colouring of $G$, and two vertices of $\mathcal{C}_k(G)$ are adjacent precisely when those $k$-colourings differ on a single…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Daniel W. Cranston

It has been shown that the maximum stable set problem in some infinite graphs, and the kissing number problem in particular, reduces to a minimization problem over the cone of copositive kernels. Optimizing over this infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Olga Kuryatnikova , Juan C. Vera

We prove lower and upper bounds for the chromatic number of certain hypergraphs defined by geometric regions. This problem has close relations to conflict-free colorings. One of the most interesting type of regions to consider for this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Balázs Keszegh

A proper coloring of a graph is \emph{conflict-free} if, for every non-isolated vertex, some color is used exactly once on its neighborhood. Caro, Petru\v{s}evski, and \v{S}krekovski proved that every graph $G$ has a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Daniel W. Cranston , Chun-Hung Liu

We introduce a new technique for proving kernelization lower bounds, called cross-composition. A classical problem L cross-composes into a parameterized problem Q if an instance of Q with polynomially bounded parameter value can express the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

This paper investigates concurrency-constrained scheduling problems, where the objective is to construct a schedule for a set of jobs subject to concurrency restrictions. Formally, we are given a conflict graph $G$ defined over a set of $n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hans L. Bodlaender , Danny Hermelin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

The number of proper $q$-colorings of a graph $G$, denoted by $P_G(q)$, is an important graph parameter that plays fundamental role in graph theory, computational complexity theory and other related fields. We study an old problem of Linial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Jie Ma , Humberto Naves

Colouring sparse graphs under various restrictions is a theoretical problem of significant practical relevance. Here we consider the problem of maximizing the number of different colours available at the nodes and their neighbourhoods,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-13 K. Y. Michael Wong , David Saad