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most citedRevisiting a theorem by Folkman on graph colouring

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cs.DS2026

Parameterized Complexity of Isometric Path Cover: Treewidth and Diameter

Dibyayan Chakraborty, Oscar Defrain, Florent Foucaud +2

We study the fixed-parameter tractability of the \textsc{Isometric Path Cover} problem where, given an integer and a simple, undirected, and unweighted graph , the objective…

math.CO2026

Generating minimal redundant and maximal irredundant sets in incidence graphs

Emanuel Castelo, Jérémie Chalopin, Oscar Defrain +1

It has been proved by Boros and Makino that there is no output-polynomial-time algorithm enumerating the minimal redundant sets or the maximal irredundant sets of a hypergraph, unl…

cs.DS2025

Parameterized complexity of isometric path partition: treewidth and diameter

Dibyayan Chakraborty, Oscar Defrain, Florent Foucaud +2

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the Isometric Path Partition problem when parameterized by the treewidth () of the input graph, arguably one of the most…

math.CO2025

A quasi-optimal upper bound for induced paths in sparse graphs

Basile Couëtoux, Oscar Defrain, Jean-Florent Raymond

In 2012, Nešetřil and Ossona de Mendez proved that graphs of bounded degeneracy that have a path of order also have an induced path of order . In this paper we…

cs.DS2025

Translating between the representations of an acyclic convex geometry of bounded degree

Oscar Defrain, Arthur Ohana, Simon Vilmin

We consider the problem of translating between irreducible closed sets and implicational bases in closure systems. To date, the complexity status of this problem is widely open, an…

cs.DS2025

Enumerating minimal dominating sets and variants in chordal bipartite graphs

Emanuel Castelo, Oscar Defrain, Guilherme C. M. Gomes

Enumerating minimal dominating sets with polynomial delay in bipartite graphs is a long-standing open problem. To date, even the subcase of chordal bipartite graphs is open, with t…

cs.DS2024

On the enumeration of signatures of XOR-CNF's

Nadia Creignou, Oscar Defrain, Frédéric Olive +1

Given a CNF formula with clauses over a set of variables , a truth assignment generates a binary sequence $σ_φ(\mathbf{a})=(C…

cs.DM2023

Local certification of geometric graph classes

Oscar Defrain, Louis Esperet, Aurélie Lagoutte +2

The goal of local certification is to locally convince the vertices of a graph that satisfies a given property. A prover assigns short certificates to the vertices of the g…

cs.DM2023

Enumerating minimal solution sets for metric graph problems

Benjamin Bergougnoux, Oscar Defrain, Fionn Mc Inerney

Problems from metric graph theory like Metric Dimension, Geodetic Set, and Strong Metric Dimension have recently had a strong impact in parameterized complexity by being the first…

cs.DM2023

On the hardness of inclusion-wise minimal separators enumeration

Caroline Brosse, Oscar Defrain, Kazuhiro Kurita +3

Enumeration problems are often encountered as key subroutines in the exact computation of graph parameters such as chromatic number, treewidth, or treedepth. In the case of treedep…

cs.DS2023

Hypergraph dualization with FPT-delay parameterized by the degeneracy and dimension

Valentin Bartier, Oscar Defrain, Fionn Mc Inerney

At STOC 2002, Eiter, Gottlob, and Makino presented a technique called ordered generation that yields an -delay algorithm listing all minimal transversals of an -vertex…

math.CO2023

Sparse graphs without long induced paths

Oscar Defrain, Jean-Florent Raymond

Graphs of bounded degeneracy are known to contain induced paths of order when they contain a path of order , as proved by Nešetřil and Ossona de Mendez (2012).…

math.CO2022

On digraphs without onion star immersions

Łukasz Bożyk, Oscar Defrain, Karolina Okrasa +1

The -onion star is the digraph obtained from a star with leaves by replacing every edge by a triple of arcs, where in triples we orient two arcs away from the center, a…

cs.DM2021

Connected greedy colourings of perfect graphs and other classes: the good, the bad and the ugly

Laurent Beaudou, Caroline Brosse, Oscar Defrain +4

The Grundy number of a graph is the maximum number of colours used by the "First-Fit" greedy colouring algorithm over all vertex orderings. Given a vertex ordering $σ= v_1,\dots,v_…

math.CO2021

On Vizing's edge colouring question

Marthe Bonamy, Oscar Defrain, Tereza Klimošová +2

Soon after his 1964 seminal paper on edge colouring, Vizing asked the following question: can an optimal edge colouring be reached from any given proper edge colouring through a se…

cs.DM2021

Close relatives (of Feedback Vertex Set), revisited

Hugo Jacob, Thomas Bellitto, Oscar Defrain +1

At IPEC 2020, Bergougnoux, Bonnet, Brettell, and Kwon showed that a number of problems related to the classic Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) problem do not admit a $2^{o(k \log k)} \cdo…

math.CO2021

On objects dual to tree-cut decompositions

Łukasz Bożyk, Oscar Defrain, Karolina Okrasa +1

Tree-cut width is a graph parameter introduced by Wollan that is an analogue of treewidth for the immersion order on graphs in the following sense: the tree-cut width of a graph is…

cs.DM2020

Enumerating minimal dominating sets in the (in)comparability graphs of bounded dimension posets

Marthe Bonamy, Oscar Defrain, Piotr Micek +1

Enumerating minimal transversals in a hypergraph is a notoriously hard problem. It can be reduced to enumerating minimal dominating sets in a graph, in fact even to enumerating min…

cs.DM2019

Avoidable paths in graphs

Marthe Bonamy, Oscar Defrain, Meike Hatzel +1

We prove a recent conjecture of Beisegel et al. that for every positive integer k, every graph containing an induced P_k also contains an avoidable P_k. Avoidability generalises th…

math.CO2019★ 1 cited

Revisiting a theorem by Folkman on graph colouring

Marthe Bonamy, Pierre Charbit, Oscar Defrain +5

We give a short proof of the following theorem due to Jon H. Folkman (1969): The chromatic number of any graph is at most plus the maximum over all subgraphs of the difference…

cs.DM2019

Translating between the representations of a ranked convex geometry

Oscar Defrain, Lhouari Nourine, Simon Vilmin

It is well known that every closure system can be represented by an implicational base, or by the set of its meet-irreducible elements. In Horn logic, these are respectively known…

cs.DM2019★ 1 cited

On the dualization in distributive lattices and related problems

Oscar Defrain, Lhouari Nourine, Takeaki Uno

In this paper, we study the dualization in distributive lattices, a generalization of the well-known hypergraph dualization problem. We in particular propose equivalent formulation…

cs.DM2019

Dualization in lattices given by implicational bases

Oscar Defrain, Lhouari Nourine

It was recently proved that the dualization in lattices given by implicational bases is impossible in output-polynomial time unless P=NP. In this paper, we~show that this result ho…

cs.DM2018

Enumerating minimal dominating sets in -free graphs and variants

Marthe Bonamy, Oscar Defrain, Marc Heinrich +2

It is a long-standing open problem whether the minimal dominating sets of a graph can be enumerated in output-polynomial time. In this paper we investigate this problem in graph cl…