The path VC-dimension of a graph G is the size of the largest set U of vertices of G such that each subset of U is the intersection of U with a subpath of G. The VC-dimension for graphs was introduced by Kranakis, et al. [KKR97], building on an idea of Haussler and Welzl [HW87]. We show that computing the path VC-dimension of a graph is Σp3-complete. This adds a rare natural Σ p 3-complete prob...

We study the following two graph modification problems: given a graph G and an integer k, decide whether G can be transformed into a tree or into a path, respectively, using at most k edge contractions. These problems, which we call Tree Contraction and Path Contraction, respectively, are known to be NP-complete in general. We show that on chordal graphs these problems can be solved in O(n + m)...

A graph associahedron is a simple polytope whose face lattice encodes the nested structure of the connected subgraphs of a given graph. In this paper, we study certain graph properties of the 1-skeleta of graph associahedra, such as their diameter and their Hamiltonicity. Our results extend known results for the classical associahedra (path associahedra) and permutahedra (complete graph associa...

the noncommuting graph $nabla (g)$ of a group $g$ is asimple graph whose vertex set is the set of noncentral elements of$g$ and the edges of which are the ones connecting twononcommuting elements. we determine here, up to isomorphism, thestructure of any finite nonabeilan group $g$ whose noncommutinggraph is a split graph, that is, a graph whose vertex set can bepartitioned into two sets such t...

In this paper we focus on the map matching problem where the goal is to find a path through a planar graph such that the path through the vertices closely matches a given polygonal curve. The map matching problem is usually approached with the Fréchet distance matching the edges of the path as well. Here, we formally define the discrete map matching problem based on the discrete Fréchet distanc...

An edge-colored graph H is properly colored if no two adjacent edges of H have the same color. In 1997, J. Bang-Jensen and G. Gutin conjectured that an edgecolored complete graph G has a properly colored Hamilton path if and only if G has a spanning subgraph consisting of a properly colored path C0 and a (possibly empty) collection of properly colored cycles C1, C2, . . . , Cd such that V (Ci) ...

The paper presents a path planning algorithm for a non-circular shaped mobile robot to autonomously navigate in an unknown area for humanitarian demining. For that purpose the path planning problem comes down to planning a path from some starting location to a final location in an area so that the robot covers all the reachable positions in the area while following the planned path. Based on ou...

The optimal path cover problem is to find a minimum number of vertex disjoint paths which together cover all the vertices of the graph. Finding an optimal path cover for an arbitrary graph is known to be NP-complete [3]. However, polynornial-time algorithms exist for trees [4], cacti [4] and for interval graphs [9]. The solution presented in [2] For circular-arc graphs is known to be wrong. In ...

In $1994,$ degree distance  of a graph was introduced by Dobrynin, Kochetova and Gutman. And Gutman proposed the Gutman index of a graph in $1994.$ In this paper, we introduce the concepts of  multiplicative version of degree distance and the multiplicative version of Gutman index of a graph. We find the sharp upper bound for the  multiplicative version of degree distance and multiplicative ver...