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most citedSparse graphs with bounded induced cycle packing number have logarithmic treewidth

8 citations · 11 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.DM2026

Reducing CMSO to Unbreakable Graphs Cannot be Computable

Colin Geniet, Roohani Sharma

Lokshtanov, Ramanujan, Saurabh, and Zehavi [ICALP 2018] proved that for any CMSO formula , testing on arbitrary graphs can be reduced to testing it on -unbreakable gr…

cs.DS2026

Moderately beyond clique-width: reduced component max-leaf and related parameters

Édouard Bonnet, Yeonsu Chang, Julien Duron +2

Reduced parameters [BKW, JCTB '26; BKRT, SODA '22] are defined via contraction sequences. Based on this framework, we introduce the reduced component max-leaf, denoted by $\operato…

math.CO2026

Variants of Merge-Width and Applications

Karolina Drabik, Maël Dumas, Colin Geniet +3

Merge-width is a recently introduced family of graph parameters that unifies treewidth, clique-width, twin-width, and generalised colouring numbers. We prove the equivalence of sev…

cs.CC2026

Complexity lower bounds for succinct binary structures of bounded clique-width with restrictions

Colin Geniet, Aliénor Goubault-Larrecq, Kévin Perrot

We present a Rice-like complexity lower bound for any MSO-definable problem on binary structures succinctly encoded by circuits. This work extends the framework recently developed…

cs.DS2026

Fast Shortest Path in Graphs With Sparse Signed Tree Models and Applications

Édouard Bonnet, Colin Geniet, Eun Jung Kim +1

A signed tree model of a graph is a compact binary structure consisting of a rooted binary tree whose leaves are bijectively mapped to the vertices of , together with 2-colo…

math.CO2026

Basis Number of Graphs Excluding Minors

Colin Geniet, Ugo Giocanti

The basis number of a graph is the minimum such that the cycle space of is generated by a family of cycles using each edge at most times. A classical result of Mac…

math.CO2026

Transducing Linear Decompositions of Tournaments

Colin Geniet, Fatemeh Ghasemi, Mamadou Moustapha Kanté

Bojańczyk, Pilipczuk, and Grohe [LICS '18] proved that for graphs of bounded linear clique-width, clique-decompositions of bounded width can be produced by a CMSO transduction. We…

cs.DM2025

First-Order Logic and Twin-Width for Some Geometric Graphs

Colin Geniet, Gunwoo Kim, Lucas Meijer

For some geometric graph classes, tractability of testing first-order formulas is precisely characterised by the graph parameter twin-width. This was first proved for interval grap…

math.CO2025

Separability Properties of Monadically Dependent Graph Classes

Édouard Bonnet, Samuel Braunfeld, Ioannis Eleftheriadis +5

A graph class is monadically dependent if one cannot interpret all graphs in colored graphs from using a fixed first-order interpretation. We prove that m…

math.CO2025★ 1 cited

-Boundedness and Neighbourhood Complexity of Bounded Merge-Width Graphs

Marthe Bonamy, Colin Geniet

Merge-width, recently introduced by Dreier and Toruńczyk, is a common generalisation of bounded expansion classes and twin-width for which the first-order model checking problem re…

math.CO2024

Half-integral Erdős-Pósa property for non-null - paths

Vera Chekan, Colin Geniet, Meike Hatzel +4

For a group , a -labelled graph is an undirected graph where every orientation of an edge is assigned an element of so that opposite orientations of the same edge are…

math.CO2023

Factoring Pattern-Free Permutations into Separable ones

Édouard Bonnet, Romain Bourneuf, Colin Geniet +1

We show that for any permutation there exists an integer such that every permutation avoiding as a pattern is a product of at most separable permutations. In ot…

math.CO2023★ 2 cited

A tamed family of triangle-free graphs with unbounded chromatic number

Édouard Bonnet, Romain Bourneuf, Julien Duron +3

We construct a hereditary class of triangle-free graphs with unbounded chromatic number, in which every non-trivial graph either contains a pair of non-adjacent twins or has an edg…

cs.DS2023

Maximum Independent Set when excluding an induced minor: and

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, Colin Geniet +2

Dallard, Milanič, and Štorgel [arXiv '22] ask if for every class excluding a fixed planar graph as an induced minor, Maximum Independent Set can be solved in polynomial time, a…

cs.LO2022

First Order Logic and Twin-Width in Tournaments and Dense Oriented Graphs

Colin Geniet, Stéphan Thomassé

We characterise the classes of tournaments with tractable first-order model checking. For every hereditary class of tournaments , first-order model checking is either f…

math.CO2022★ 8 cited

Sparse graphs with bounded induced cycle packing number have logarithmic treewidth

Marthe Bonamy, Édouard Bonnet, Hugues Déprés +5

A graph is -free if it does not contain pairwise vertex-disjoint and non-adjacent cycles. We prove that "sparse" (here, not containing large complete bipartite g…

math.GR2022

Twin-width VII: groups

Édouard Bonnet, Colin Geniet, Romain Tessera +1

Twin-width is a recently introduced graph parameter with applications in algorithmics, combinatorics, and finite model theory. For graphs of bounded degree, finiteness of twin-widt…

cs.DS2020

Twin-width III: Max Independent Set, Min Dominating Set, and Coloring

Édouard Bonnet, Colin Geniet, Eun Jung Kim +2

We recently introduced the graph invariant twin-width, and showed that first-order model checking can be solved in time for -vertex graphs given with a witness that th…

cs.DM2020

Twin-width II: small classes

Édouard Bonnet, Colin Geniet, Eun Jung Kim +2

The twin-width of a graph is the minimum integer such that has a -contraction sequence, that is, a sequence of iterated vertex identifications for which t…