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Straight-line drawing of regular polyhedra

Find the minimum number of straight lines needed to cover a crossing-free straight-line drawing of the icosahedron $(13\dots 15)$ and of the dodecahedron $(9\dots 10)$ (in the plane). For example, ...
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Upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in $K_{3,3}$-free graphs

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph with an even number of vertices $|V|=2n$. Assume that $G$ is $K_{3,3}$-free i.e. it does not contain a graph isomorphic to biclique $K_{3,3}$. A perfect matching of $G$ is a ...
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Combinatorial region-halfplane incidence structures

I've seen a bunch of similar MO questions, yet hopefully this is not a complete duplicate. Consider $n$ halfplanes in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with their borders in general position, that is, no point of $\...
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Complexity of finding three perfect matchings with no edge in common in a bridgeless cubic graph

According to a conjecture: Conjecture (Fan & Raspaud, 1994) Every bridgeless cubic graph contains three perfect matchings with no edge in common. Equivalent statement here Main question: ...
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Complexity of counting colorings of co-bipartite graphs?

A graph is co-bipartite if it is the complement of bipartite graph. What is the complexity of counting colorings of co-bipartite graphs? Unlike split graphs, the chromatic polynomial isn't of ...
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What is known about the complexity of this covering problem?

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A vertex set $X\subseteq V$ is called critical if $X\neq\emptyset$ and no vertex in $V\setminus X$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $X$. The problem is to find a vertex ...
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Is the $d$-dimensional Arrangement of Trees still $NP$-hard?

The $d$-dimensional Arrangement Problem for general graphs is known to be $NP$-hard since the special case $d=1$ (OLA) already is (Garey et al, [1976]). For Trees however, the one dimensional case can ...
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Is the Graph Isomorphism problem in βP class?

βP is the limited nondeterminism NP, cf. https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo:B#betap Last year Laslo Babai proved that the GI problem can be solved in (deterministic) time $\exp(\log^c(...
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Hypergraph edge colouring

I'm interested in knowing if finding the edge-chromatic number of a $k$-uniform $k$-partite hypergraph is NP-hard for $k\geq 3$ Could anyone provide a reference for the result? By edge-chromatic ...
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Blind construction of planar graph with additive spanning tree count

Suppose we have two planar graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ with number of spanning tree count $P_1$ and $P_2$ respectively then there is an easy construction which gives a planar graph with spanning tree count ...
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Isomorphism preserving transformation graph to graph of logarithmic boolean width and bounded degeneracy

The paper On graph classes with logarithmic boolean-width claims that some graph problems are fixed parameter tractable with parameter the boolean width. In particular, boolean-width of the complement ...
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maximum independent set in d-regular graphs

Does anyone know whether the maximum independent set problem is NP-hard in triangle free d-regular graphs and if it's NP-hard for all d larger than some threshold t? Can anyone provide a reference ...
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NP hard problems on geometric graphs

I have posted this question before but i don't feel i expressed my confusion clearly enough. So i would like to try and explain again. This is a proof of the minimum vertex cover for unit disk graphs ...
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Hamiltonian paths in subgraphs of rectangular lattice graphs

Is following decision problem NP-hard / NP-complete: Having vertex-induced subgraph of rectangular lattice graph determine if any Hamiltonian path exists Having vertex-induced subgraph of rectangular ...
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Maximum independent set in dense graphs

Let $0 < A < 1$ and $G$ be connected d-regular graph with degree $d=[A n]$. The density of $G$ is about $A$. Q1 Are there constraints on $A$ such that finding maximum independent set of $G$ is ...
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Subgraph isomorphism problem with linear map

I am working on proving the NP-hardness of a problem by reducing it from the subgraph isomorphism problem. Currently, I can reduce it from the following problem: Problem 1: Given two graphs $G=(V, E)$ ...
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Reduction graph isomorphism to maximum independent set in very dense graph

We got a reduction graph isomorphism to MIS in a very dense graph, or alternatively negative monotone 2-CNF to MAX-ONEs with a formula with many clauses. Let $G,H$ be graphs of order $n$ and adjacency ...
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The chromatic polynomial of a line graph

Is there a way to obtain the chromatic polynomial of the line graph of a regular simple graph, having known the chromatic polynomial of the graph? There already exist characterizations of line graph ...
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Bipartite clustering is NP-hard?

Let $G = (A\cup B, E)$ be a bipartite graph with edge weights $w: E\to \mathbb{R}$. Find a partition $B_1, B_2$ of $B$ and a nonempty disjoint subsets $A_1, A_2$ of $A$ such that $w(A_1,B_1) + w(A_2, ...
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bounded degree graph colouring.

I was wondering if anyone could provide references on the following: Is determining the chromatic number of a bounded degree graph APX-complete? 2.I've seen the result that states it is NP-hard to ...
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Some confusion regarding the definition of NPO reduction

I've seen the following definition in a paper on approximation preserving reductions. Definition:Let $\pi_{1}$ and $\pi_{2}$ be two NPO maximization problems. Then we say that $\pi_{1} \leq_{R} \pi_{...
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Polynomial problems in graph classes defined by forbidden induced cyclic subgraphs

Let $C$ be a graph class defined by a finite number of forbidden induced subgraphs, all of which are cyclic (contain at least one cycle). Are there graph problems that can be solved in polynomial ...
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Proving Vizing's and Brooks' theorem using the polynomial approach

It is known that the graph polynomial defined by $\prod_{i<j}(x_i-x_j)$ where the vertices $x_k\ \ , \ \ k=\{1,2\ldots,n\}$ are ordered with respect to some order; can be used to verify the proper ...
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Is 3-coloring bounded degree graphs subexponential: $O(\exp{(\sqrt{n}\log^2{n})})$?

We got an argument that 3-coloring bounded degree graphs is subexponential with complexity $O(\exp{(\sqrt{n}\log^2{n})})$. The treewidth of a planar graphs on $n$ vertices is $O(\sqrt{n})$ and 3-...
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maximum weight k-edge problem

Given positive integer $k$ and an undirected graph $(V,E)$, with nonnegative (non-uniform) weights on the nodes. Find $k$ edges whose spanning nodes have the maximum weight. Is this in P or NP? I ...
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What is the computationally simplest way to universally index the set of simple graphs?

If given a simple, integer-labeled, but not necessarily connected, graph $G := (V,E)$ consisting of at least one vertex, i.e. $\lvert \rvert V \lvert \rvert \geq 1$, then is there a function to ...
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