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20232026
most citedA tamed family of triangle-free graphs with unbounded chromatic number

2 citations · 4 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.DS2026

Time-Optimal APSP and Matrix Multiplication in Classes of Linear Neighborhood Complexity

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, Marcin Pilipczuk +2

The notion of linear neighborhood complexity is a very general structural assumption on a graph class, covering most classes of sparse graphs such as planar graphs, graphs excludin…

math.CO2026

Hereditary 2-WQO Graph Classes Have Bounded Clique-Width

Julien Duron, Nikolas Mählmann, Szymon Toruńczyk

A graph class is -WQO if its -labeled graphs are well-quasi-ordered under label-preserving induced subgraph embeddings. We show that every hereditary graph class that is -…

cs.CC2026

Independent Set Hardness in Graphs of Bounded Twin-Width and Low-Radius Merge-Width

Édouard Bonnet, Maël Dumas, Julien Duron

For every , Max Independent Set admits a polynomial-time -approximation algorithm on -vertex graphs of effectively bounded twin-width [Bergé et a…

math.CO2026

Decomposing tournaments into comparability graphs

Pierre Aboulker, Logan Crew, Julien Duron +7

In this note, we introduce the \emph{partial order decomposition number} of a digraph , denoted , defined as the minimum integer such that $A(D)=A(P_1)\cup\cdots\cup…

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.CO2025

Covering graphs by isometric trees

Paul Bastide, Julien Duron, Jędrzej Hodor +2

A connected subgraph of a graph is isometric if it preserves distances. Recently, graphs admitting a vertex or edge covering by a small number of isometric paths have been studied.…

math.CO2025

Planar induced paths via a decomposition into non-crossing ordered graphs

Julien Duron, Hugo Jacob

In any graph, the maximum size of an induced path is bounded by the maximum size of a path. However, in the general case, one cannot find a converse bound, even up to an arbitrary…

cs.CC2025

Mim-Width is paraNP-complete

Benjamin Bergougnoux, Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron

We show that it is NP-hard to distinguish graphs of linear mim-width at most 1211 from graphs of sim-width at least 1216. This implies that Mim-Width, Sim-Width, One-Sided Mim-Widt…

cs.DM2024

Long induced paths and forbidden patterns: Polylogarithmic bounds

Julien Duron, Louis Esperet, Jean-Florent Raymond

Consider a graph with a long path . When is it the case that also contains a long induced path? This question has been investigated in general as well as within a number…

math.CO2024

Long induced paths in sparse graphs and graphs with forbidden patterns

Julien Duron, Louis Esperet, Jean-Florent Raymond

Consider a graph with a path of order . What conditions force to also have a long induced path? As complete bipartite graphs have long paths but no long induced path…

math.CO2024

Adjacency Labeling Schemes for Small Classes

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, John Sylvester +1

A graph class admits an implicit representation if, for every positive integer , its -vertex graphs have a -bit (adjacency) labeling scheme, i.e., their vertices c…

cs.DS2024

Symmetric-Difference (Degeneracy) and Signed Tree Models

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, John Sylvester +1

We introduce a dense counterpart of graph degeneracy, which extends the recently-proposed invariant symmetric difference. We say that a graph has sd-degeneracy (for symmetric-diffe…

math.CO2023

Tight bounds on adjacency labels for monotone graph classes

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, John Sylvester +2

A class of graphs admits an adjacency labeling scheme of size , if the vertices in each of its -vertex graphs can be assigned binary strings (called labels) of length $b(n…

math.CO2023★ 1 cited

Small But Unwieldy: A Lower Bound on Adjacency Labels for Small Classes

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron, John Sylvester +2

We show that for any natural number , there is a constant and a subgraph-closed class having, for any natural , at most graphs on vertices up to isomorphism, bu…

cs.DM2023

Stretch-width

Édouard Bonnet, Julien Duron

We introduce a new parameter, called stretch-width, that we show sits strictly between clique-width and twin-width. Unlike the reduced parameters [BKW '22], planar graphs and polyn…

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…

math.CO2023

On the minimum number of inversions to make a digraph -(arc-)strong

Julien Duron, Frédéric Havet, Florian Hörsch +1

The {\it inversion} of a set of vertices in a digraph consists of reversing the direction of all arcs of . We study (resp. ) whic…

cs.CC2023★ 1 cited

Cutting Barnette graphs perfectly is hard

Édouard Bonnet, Dibyayan Chakraborty, Julien Duron

A perfect matching cut is a perfect matching that is also a cutset, or equivalently a perfect matching containing an even number of edges on every cycle. The corresponding algorith…

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…