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A field of combinatorics relating to the study of vertices and the edges that connect them

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Find shortest path around a cylinder represented by 3d triangular mesh

Suppose I have a 3d triangular mesh with the topology of a finite cylinder. Let $C$ be a vertex on that mesh. How can I find the shortest path from $C$ to itself that goes around the cylinder? By ...
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Controllability - Maximum Matching

I found this image on wikipedia referring to Barabasi's work on Network Controllability. I tried to verify it. We have a A matrix of dimensions (20 by 20) made as the image suggests. According to the '...
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Find all recurring subgraphs/patterns of maximal size in a single undirected, labeled, connected graph

I would like to identify all subgraphs of maximal size (maximum number of nodes) that are recurrent in a single undirected, labeled, connected graph. I provide exemples of input and expected output ...
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Efficient algorithm to decide if a graph is a cactus?

A cactus is a connected graph in which every edge belongs to at most one simple cycle. How should one modify the Depth First Search algorithm to obtain an efficient algorithm that determines if a ...
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Finding a shortest path in a graph

If each edge of a graph $G$ is unweighted or has equal weights, then the shortest path between two nodes in that graph is the path that contains the fewest number of edges. Such a path can be obtained ...
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Vehicle Route assignment with capacity constraint

Problem Background I'm trying to find a solution/model to the following problem: Let's consider a cellular network (mobile network, ie., hexagonal cells) denoted $N$ composed of $|N|$ cells. Each ...
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How to reorder/cluster adjacency matrix to maximize the interaction along the super diagonal?

I have the following code which takes a DataFrame and plot the pdist matrix. ...
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Factorize laplacian in terms of first derivative matrix

I am trying to factorize the following Laplacian matrix in terms of $ D^TD$, D is the first derivative matrix. The tridiagonal form of the secon derivative matrix using Neumann boundary condition is ...
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Splittable and non-splittable flows in the network flow problem

I am working on a multi-commodity flow problem where for a graph $G=(V, E)$, some flows are permitted to be split and some flows should strictly follow one path. I have formulated this problem as ...
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Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of singular rank degenerate matrix

I am trying to attain the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of a very large, very sparse, rank-degenerate, singular, and square matrix. ($75000 \times 75000$, near rank). The matrix is a graph Laplacian and ...
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Software for finding a minimum vertex cover for a hypergraph

A hypergraph $H = (V,E)$ consists of a finite set of vertices, say $V=\{1, \dots, n\}$ and a set of hyperedges $E \subseteq \mathcal{P}(V)$. We call $H$ a $k$-hypergraph if all $|e| = k$ for all $e\in ...
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Find connected circles

I have a problem as follows: We have a set of circles (we know the radius r and the center point c in Rd of each circle) We ...
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Hypergraph matching -> adjacency matrix?

I need to do a matching on a hypergraph. I read that in the case of a hypergraph there is no adjacency matrix. How do I represent edges then?
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simple and fast graph-clustering for paralelization of finite element simulations

I'm learning to use OpenCL to optimize some of my simulations. I realized that I need some sort of Graph-clustering or graph-partitioning to exploit efficiently local memory for un-ordered meshes. ...
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First approximation to the TSP in a non-complete Graph

I'm trying to solve the Travelling Salesman Problem in a non-complete graph $(G,E)$ using genetic algorithms. My problem is that I can't find a good first approximation by the usual greedy algorithms,...
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Efficiently generate a random subgraph (Gs) with maximum degree K, using only edges from an existing graph G

I am looking find a way of efficiently generating a random, undirected subgraph $G_s$ with $N$ vertices, using a subset of edges from an exisiting undirected graph $G$, also of size $N$, where the ...
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Can a Depth first traversal of a graph visit node more than once? [closed]

Is there a way in which Depth First Traversal will put a node into the stack more than once using the general algorithm as shown here. Also, is it compulsory for all nodes to be entered into the ...
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Does the box-covering algorithm work also for directed graphs?

According to this article from Wikipedia, the box-covering algorithm calculates the fractal dimension of a graph. The algorithm is based on the concept of distance between nodes; see for example the ...
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PageRank using Inverse Iteration Method by Cleve Moler

I was trying to understand how to use the inverse interation method to compute the page rank as an exercise. In this chapter (page 4) about page rank (by Cleve Moler), the author suggests to use the ...
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Chinese character component-based layout engine algorithms [closed]

I am looking for a PDF describing Chinese character component-based layout engine algorithms. These should allow for recursive encodings of radical and non-radical components, and the encodings should ...
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Updating factorization of Laplacian (add/remove edges)

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, recall that the unweighted Laplacian is $L:=D^\top D$, where $D\in\{-1,0,1\}^{|E|\times|V|}$ is the graph "gradient" operator that subtracts adjacent vertex values onto edges. ...
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What is a common file/data format for a mesh (for FEM)?

I'm developing an FEM simulation. For early testing, I will use simple self-written mesher and visualisation of the mesh graph. But I want to prepare my program to use data generated by an existing ...
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Alternative to two “for” loops in finding best neighborhoods for TSP?

I am trying to solve Travelling Salesman Problems using tabu search. I have been able to successfully find "near enough" optimal solutions (as well as one optimal, yay!). For the moment I am using ...
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Interior nodes of a closed graph?

Does anybody know if any graph partitioner library such as Metis, Scotch, or Zoltan can (besides splitting a domain), differentiate between internal (i) and boundary (b) nodes?
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Optimal partitioning of a graph

Consider a planar graph, where each node is associated with a weight. I would like to partition the graph such that the sum of the node weights in each group satisfy a minimum requirement. However, I ...
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Sparse Matrix Reordering

Matrix reorderings are important for many direct solvers. Sometimes the objective is to reduce the bandwith or the generated fill in by LU Decomposition. I am interested in a reordering which reduces ...
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Graph optimization for parallel processing

Consider the following example structure of overlapping images marked A,B,C,D. The possible overlaps are marked by gray color: The structure can be represented by a weighted undirected graph (images ...
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Minimization of non-linear function

Problem Summary I am trying to estimate the (x,y) coordinates of each node in a graph, where I know the distances between connected nodes. For example Given this ...
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Measure the differences in vertices density in a graph?

Lets say in Graph $G$ we have two vertices $v$ and $u$, each vertex is connected to several neighbors by edges describing the distances $d_{ij}$ from these neighbors. The neighbors themselves are also ...
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How to calculate efficiently mesh edges midpoints?

I have a 2D mesh of triangles used in Finite Element method to discretize the domain. I want to calculate the midpoints of all the edges because I want to use $\mathbb{P}^2$ elements. I am using ...
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Finding Common Side of Triangle

Given a triangulation (geometry), are there known algorithm in finding common side of triangles, that is O(N) or better?
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how to partition a graph(matrix) into subdomains with different sizes

i am studying the solver for PageRank problems which drived from the web link graph. I have tried using METIS to divided the matrix into subdomains, but METIS can only produce subdomains with nearly ...
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Absorbing BC's / PML on a graph

The wave equation, $$\ddot{u} = c^2 \Delta u,$$ can be generalized to abstract graphs by using the negative graph Laplacian in place of the physical Laplacian. Is there a graph-theoretic analog of ...
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Graph drawing with constraints

I have a (cyclic undirected) graph stored in a suitable structure (which depends on the language chosen). Nodes represent places in the real world and edges represent connection between them, so I ...
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How to represent molecules and compare equality

I originally asked this question at StackOverflow, and was suggested to bring it here. I've seen this question about the representation of molecules in memory, and it makes sense to me (tl;dr ...
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graph theory operations to explore structure of a graph

I'm analyzing experimental data, and I've produced graphs that look similar to the attached sketch. When I look at the graph, I see structure in the connections (connections tend to be local, there is ...
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Efficient way to compute the cumulative weights of all subtrees rooted at each node in a tree?

I have a tree data structure (rooted, unbalanced, with unbounded branching factor), where each individual node has an associated 'weight'. For every node $n$ in the tree, I'd like to compute the ...
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Algorithm for optimizing graph interconnectivity

I have a partiuclar kind of graph problem and (not having a background in graph algorithms) I would like to know how this kind of problem is called in the literature and what algorithms exist for ...
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Rearrange a dense distance matrix to a 2x2 non-perfect block diagonal form

I have a distance matrix (square, symmetrical, non-negative, dense). I want to split the objects into two well-connected groups. Mathematically speaking, I want to group (re-arrange) the rows/columns ...
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Algorithm to equalize the area of random tessellation of various polygons

I am looking for an algorithm that I can apply for a random tessellation of polygons with different areas. The algorithm can relax the geometry of the polygons to a condition that all of them would ...
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The traveling salesman problem - Using Space Renormalization

Image attached is where I am at the moment. Blue dots=points/cities, Black x's represent central points in each box that contains at least one city, and pink dots represent the midpoint of these ...
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sparse matrix format with fast row and column access

Is there an efficient storage format for general, non-symmetric sparse matrices for which one can find all non-zero entries in a given row or column in $O(d)$ time? ($d$ is the max number of non-zero ...
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Minimizing expression DAGs

Say I have an expression involving adds, subtractions, and multiplications. I know that it is safe to assume commutativity, associativity, distributivity, etc., and would like to automatically ...
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k-splittable flow problem

The maximum k-splittable s-t flow problem(MkSF) that aims to find a maximum k-splittable flow between a given source and sink node is NP-hard. We do not require the paths to be disjoint, not even ...
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Optimal Scheduling of Parallel Tasks with Known Dependencies

This is maybe a trivial question, but I am stuck with the problem. Suppose we have a general graph: $$G=(V,E)$$ Each edge represents a task, each vertex represents a data for the task (hence each ...
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Testing if two 12x12 matrices have the same determinant

I am given a $12 \times 12$ matrix $Q$ that is symmetric, invertible, positive definite and dense. I need to test if $$\det(Q) = \det(12I-Q-J) \; \; (1)$$ where $J$ is the all ones matrix. I am ...
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Evolutionary algorithm - Traveling Salesman -fitness function

I'm trying to solve this problem using genetic algorithms and am having difficulty choosing the fitness function. My problem is a little different than the original Traveling Salesman Problem, since ...
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Unique Partition of a Graph

Given an undirected graph, is it possible to find a criteria that leads to a unique partition of the nodes? The graph is not weighted.
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Finding two shortest path that are 'distant' in the graph

The problem is as follows: We are given a graph with each edge length 1 and two pairs of vertices (a,b) and (c,d). How to find shortest paths between from a to b and from c to d, with assumption that ...
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Finding the distribution (histogram) of eigenvalues for large sparse matrices

Are there any existing programs that are able to compute the (approximate) distribution of eigenvalues for very large (symmetric) sparse matrices? Note that I do not need the eigenvalues themselves, ...

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