28 Search Results for "Martin, Barnaby"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.WG.2026.16
Colouring Graphs Without a Subdivided H-Graph: A Full Complexity Classification

Authors: Tala Eagling-Vose, Jorik Jooken, Felicia Lucke, Barnaby Martin, and Daniël Paulusma

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 376, 52nd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2026)

Abstract
We consider Colouring on graphs that are H-subgraph-free for some fixed graph H, which are graphs that do not contain H as a subgraph. To classify the complexity of Colouring on H-subgraph-free graphs for connected H, it remains to consider when H is a tree of maximum degree 4 with exactly one vertex of degree 4, or a tree of maximum degree 3 with at least two vertices of degree 3. We let H be a so-called subdivided "H"-graph, which is either a subdivided ℍ₀: a tree of maximum degree 4 that is a star, or a subdivided ℍ₁: a tree of maximum degree 3 with exactly two vertices of degree 3. We develop new decomposition theorems resulting in polynomial-time algorithms, and in combination with known results, fully classify all cases ℍ₀ and ℍ₁. To illustrate the wider applicability of our techniques, we also employ them to obtain similar new polynomial-time results for two other classic graph problems: Stable Cut and, in part, Feedback Vertex Set.
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Tala Eagling-Vose, Jorik Jooken, Felicia Lucke, Barnaby Martin, and Daniël Paulusma. Colouring Graphs Without a Subdivided H-Graph: A Full Complexity Classification. In 52nd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 376, pp. 16:1-16:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{eaglingvose_et_al:LIPIcs.WG.2026.16,
  author =	{Eagling-Vose, Tala and Jooken, Jorik and Lucke, Felicia and Martin, Barnaby and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l},
  title =	{{Colouring Graphs Without a Subdivided H-Graph: A Full Complexity Classification}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2026)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-430-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{376},
  editor =	{Goedgebeur, Jan and Rz\k{a}\.{z}ewski, Pawe{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WG.2026.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-261827},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WG.2026.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: colouring, forbidden subgraph, complexity dichotomy}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.1
Triangle Detection in H-Free Graphs

Authors: Amir Abboud, Ron Safier, and Nathan Wallheimer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)

Abstract
We initiate the study of combinatorial algorithms for Triangle Detection in H-free graphs. The goal is to decide if a graph that forbids a fixed pattern H as a subgraph contains a triangle, using only "combinatorial" methods that notably exclude fast matrix multiplication. Our work aims to classify which patterns admit a subcubic speedup, working towards a dichotomy theorem. On the lower bound side, we show that if H is not 3-colorable or contains more than one triangle, the complexity of the problem remains unchanged, and no combinatorial speedup is likely possible. On the upper bound side, we develop an embedding approach that results in a strongly subcubic, combinatorial algorithm for a rich class of "embeddable" patterns. Specifically, for an embeddable pattern of size k, our algorithm runs in Õ(n^{3-1/(2^{k-3)}}) time, where Õ(⋅) hides poly-logarithmic factors. This algorithm also extends to listing all the triangles within the same time bound. We supplement this main result with two generalizations: - A generalization to patterns that are embeddable up to a single obstacle that arises from a triangle in the pattern. This completes our classification for small patterns, yielding a dichotomy theorem for all patterns of size up to eight. - An H-sensitive algorithm for embeddable patterns, which runs faster when the number of copies of H is significantly smaller than the maximum possible Ω(n^{k}). Finally, we focus on the special case of odd cycles. We present specialized Triangle Detection algorithms that are very efficient: - A combinatorial algorithm for C_{2k+1}-free graphs that runs in Õ(m+n^{1+2/k}) time for every k ≥ 2, where m is the number of edges in the graph. - A combinatorial C₅-sensitive algorithm that runs in Õ(n² + n^{4/3} t^{1/3}) time, where t is the number of 5-cycles in the graph.
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Amir Abboud, Ron Safier, and Nathan Wallheimer. Triangle Detection in H-Free Graphs. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 1:1-1:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{abboud_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.1,
  author =	{Abboud, Amir and Safier, Ron and Wallheimer, Nathan},
  title =	{{Triangle Detection in H-Free Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252885},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: fine-grained complexity, triangle detection, H-free graphs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.43
A Finer View of the Parameterized Landscape of Labeled Graph Contractions

Authors: Yashaswini Mathur and Prafullkumar Tale

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 360, 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)

Abstract
We study the Labeled Contractibility problem, where the input consists of two vertex-labeled graphs G and H, and the goal is to determine whether H can be obtained from G via a sequence of edge contractions. Lafond and Marchand [WADS 2025] initiated the parameterized complexity study of this problem, showing it to be W[1]-hard when parameterized by the number k of allowed contractions. They also proved that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the tree-width tw of G, via an application of Courcelle’s theorem resulting in a non-constructive algorithm. In this work, we present a constructive fixed-parameter algorithm for Labeled Contractibility with running time 2^{𝒪(tw²)} ⋅ |V(G)|^{𝒪(1)}. We also prove that unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis ({ETH}) fails, it does not admit an algorithm running in time 2^{o(tw²)} ⋅ |V(G)|^{𝒪(1)}. This result adds Labeled Contractibility to a small list of problems that admit such a lower bound and matching algorithm. We further strengthen existing hardness results by showing that the problem remains NP-complete even when both input graphs have bounded maximum degree. We also investigate parameterizations by (k + δ(G)) where δ(G) denotes the degeneracy of G, and rule out the existence of subexponential-time algorithms. This answers question raised in Lafond and Marchand [WADS 2025]. We additionally provide an improved FPT algorithm with better dependence on (k + δ(G)) than previously known. Finally, we analyze a brute-force algorithm for Labeled Contractibility with running time |V(H)|^{𝒪(|V(G)|)}, and show that this running time is optimal under {ETH}.
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Yashaswini Mathur and Prafullkumar Tale. A Finer View of the Parameterized Landscape of Labeled Graph Contractions. In 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 360, pp. 43:1-43:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{mathur_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.43,
  author =	{Mathur, Yashaswini and Tale, Prafullkumar},
  title =	{{A Finer View of the Parameterized Landscape of Labeled Graph Contractions}},
  booktitle =	{45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)},
  pages =	{43:1--43:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-406-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{360},
  editor =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mehta, Ruta and Roy, Subhajit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.43},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251237},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.43},
  annote =	{Keywords: Labeled Contraction, ETH Lower-bound, Treewidth, NP-hard}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.4
Finding d-Cuts in Claw-Free Graphs

Authors: Jungho Ahn, Tala Eagling-Vose, Felicia Lucke, Daniël Paulusma, and Siani Smith

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 359, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)

Abstract
The Matching Cut problem is to decide if the vertex set of a connected graph can be partitioned into two non-empty sets B and R such that the edges between B and R form a matching, that is, every vertex in B has at most one neighbour in R, and vice versa. If for some integer d ≥ 1, we allow every vertex in B to have at most d neighbours in R, and vice versa, we obtain the more general problem d-Cut. It is known that d-Cut is NP-complete for every d ≥ 1. However, for claw-free graphs, it is only known that d-Cut is polynomial-time solvable for d = 1 and NP-complete for d ≥ 3. We resolve the missing case d = 2 by proving NP-completeness. This follows from our more general study, in which we also bound the maximum degree. That is, we prove that for every d ≥ 2, d-Cut, restricted to claw-free graphs of maximum degree p, is constant-time solvable if p ≤ 2d+1 and NP-complete if p ≥ 2d+3. Moreover, in the former case, we can find a d-cut in linear time. We also show how our positive results for claw-free graphs can be generalized to S_{1^t,𝓁}-free graphs where S_{1^t,𝓁} is the graph obtained from a star on t+2 vertices by subdividing one of its edges exactly 𝓁 times.
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Jungho Ahn, Tala Eagling-Vose, Felicia Lucke, Daniël Paulusma, and Siani Smith. Finding d-Cuts in Claw-Free Graphs. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 4:1-4:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{ahn_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.4,
  author =	{Ahn, Jungho and Eagling-Vose, Tala and Lucke, Felicia and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Smith, Siani},
  title =	{{Finding d-Cuts in Claw-Free Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-408-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{359},
  editor =	{Chen, Ho-Lin and Hon, Wing-Kai and Tsai, Meng-Tsung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249121},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: matching cut, d-cut, claw-free, maximum degree}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.83
Three Fundamental Questions in Modern Infinite-Domain Constraint Satisfaction

Authors: Michael Pinsker, Jakub Rydval, Moritz Schöbi, and Christoph Spiess

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)

Abstract
The Feder-Vardi dichotomy conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) with finite templates, confirmed independently by Bulatov and Zhuk, has an extension to certain well-behaved infinite templates due to Bodirsky and Pinsker which remains wide open. We provide answers to three fundamental questions on the scope of the Bodirsky-Pinsker conjecture. Our first two main results provide two simplifications of this scope, one of structural, and the other one of algebraic nature. The former simplification implies that the conjecture is equivalent to its restriction to templates without algebraicity, a crucial assumption in the most powerful classification methods. The latter yields that the higher-arity invariants of any template within its scope can be assumed to be essentially injective, and any algebraic condition characterizing any complexity class within the conjecture closed under Datalog reductions must be satisfiable by injections, thus lifting the mystery of the better applicability of certain conditions over others. Our third main result uses the first one to show that any non-trivially tractable template within the scope serves, up to a Datalog-computable modification of it, as the witness of the tractability of a non-finitely tractable finite-domain Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) by the so-called sandwich method. This generalizes a recent result of Mottet and provides a strong hitherto unknown connection between the Bodirsky-Pinsker conjecture and finite-domain PCSPs.
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Michael Pinsker, Jakub Rydval, Moritz Schöbi, and Christoph Spiess. Three Fundamental Questions in Modern Infinite-Domain Constraint Satisfaction. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 83:1-83:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{pinsker_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.83,
  author =	{Pinsker, Michael and Rydval, Jakub and Sch\"{o}bi, Moritz and Spiess, Christoph},
  title =	{{Three Fundamental Questions in Modern Infinite-Domain Constraint Satisfaction}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{83:1--83:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.83},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241903},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.83},
  annote =	{Keywords: (Promise) Constraint Satisfaction Problem, dichotomy conjecture, polymorphism, identity, algebraicity, homogeneity, \omega-categoricity, finite boundedness, Datalog}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.24
Temporal Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Authors: Manuel Bodirsky, Édouard Bonnet, and Žaneta Semanišinová

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)

Abstract
We study the computational complexity of the valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP) for every valued structure over ℚ that is preserved by all order-preserving bijections. Such VCSPs will be called temporal, in analogy to the (classical) constraint satisfaction problem: a relational structure is preserved by all order-preserving bijections if and only if all its relations have a first-order definition in (ℚ; <), and the CSPs for such structures are called temporal CSPs. Many optimization problems that have been studied intensively in the literature can be phrased as a temporal VCSP. We prove that a temporal VCSP is in P, or NP-complete. Our analysis uses the concept of fractional polymorphisms. This is the first dichotomy result for VCSPs over infinite domains which is complete in the sense that it treats all valued structures that contain a given automorphism group.
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Manuel Bodirsky, Édouard Bonnet, and Žaneta Semanišinová. Temporal Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 24:1-24:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bodirsky_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.24,
  author =	{Bodirsky, Manuel and Bonnet, \'{E}douard and Semani\v{s}inov\'{a}, \v{Z}aneta},
  title =	{{Temporal Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241311},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint Satisfaction Problems, valued CSPs, temporal CSPs, fractional polymorphisms, complexity dichotomy, min CSPs}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.21
Multiparty Communication Complexity of Collision-Finding and Cutting Planes Proofs of Concise Pigeonhole Principles

Authors: Paul Beame and Michael Whitmeyer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
We prove several results concerning the communication complexity of a collision-finding problem, each of which has applications to the complexity of cutting-plane proofs, which make inferences based on integer linear inequalities. In particular, we prove an Ω(n^{1-1/k} log k /2^k) lower bound on the k-party number-in-hand communication complexity of collision-finding. This implies a 2^{n^{1-o(1)}} lower bound on the size of tree-like cutting-planes refutations of the bit pigeonhole principle CNFs, which are compact and natural propositional encodings of the negation of the pigeonhole principle, improving on the best previous lower bound of 2^{Ω(√n)}. Using the method of density-restoring partitions, we also extend that previous lower bound to the full range of pigeonhole parameters. Finally, using a refinement of a bottleneck-counting framework of Haken and Cook and Sokolov for DAG-like communication protocols, we give a 2^{Ω(n^{1/4})} lower bound on the size of fully general (not necessarily tree-like) cutting planes refutations of the same bit pigeonhole principle formulas, improving on the best previous lower bound of 2^{Ω(n^{1/8})}.
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Paul Beame and Michael Whitmeyer. Multiparty Communication Complexity of Collision-Finding and Cutting Planes Proofs of Concise Pigeonhole Principles. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 21:1-21:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{beame_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.21,
  author =	{Beame, Paul and Whitmeyer, Michael},
  title =	{{Multiparty Communication Complexity of Collision-Finding and Cutting Planes Proofs of Concise Pigeonhole Principles}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233982},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Proof Complexity, Communication Complexity}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.158
Restricted CSPs and F-Free Digraph Algorithmics

Authors: Santiago Guzmán-Pro and Barnaby Martin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
In recent years, much attention has been placed on the complexity of graph homomorphism problems when the input is restricted to ℙ_k-free and ℙ_k-subgraph-free graphs. We consider the directed version of this research line, by addressing the question is it true that digraph homomorphism problems CSP(H) have a P versus NP-complete dichotomy when the input is restricted to ℙ→_k-free (resp. ℙ→_k-subgraph-free) digraphs? Our main contribution in this direction shows that if CSP(H) is NP-complete, then there is a positive integer N such that CSP(H) remains NP-hard even for ℙ→_N-subgraph-free digraphs. Moreover, CSP(H) becomes polynomial-time solvable for ℙ→_{N-1}-subgraph-free acyclic digraphs. We then verify the questions above for digraphs on three vertices and a family of smooth tournaments. We prove these results by establishing a connection between F-(subgraph)-free algorithmics and constraint satisfaction theory. On the way, we introduce restricted CSPs, i.e., problems of the form CSP(H) restricted to yes-instances of CSP(H') - these were called restricted homomorphism problems by Hell and Nešetřil. Another main result of this paper presents a P versus NP-complete dichotomy for these problems. Moreover, this complexity dichotomy is accompanied by an algebraic dichotomy in the spirit of the finite domain CSP dichotomy.
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Santiago Guzmán-Pro and Barnaby Martin. Restricted CSPs and F-Free Digraph Algorithmics. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 158:1-158:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{guzmanpro_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.158,
  author =	{Guzm\'{a}n-Pro, Santiago and Martin, Barnaby},
  title =	{{Restricted CSPs and F-Free Digraph Algorithmics}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{158:1--158:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.158},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-235352},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.158},
  annote =	{Keywords: Digraph homomorphisms, constraint satisfaction problems, subgraph-free algorithmics}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.60
Modular Counting CSP: Reductions and Algorithms

Authors: Amirhossein Kazeminia and Andrei A. Bulatov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 327, 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)

Abstract
The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics and computer science. Many of its variations have been studied including the Counting CSP, where the goal is to find the number of solutions to a CSP instance. The complexity of finding the exact number of solutions of a CSP is well understood (Bulatov, 2013, and Dyer and Richerby, 2013) and the focus has shifted to other variations of the Counting CSP such as counting the number of solutions modulo an integer. This problem has attracted considerable attention recently. In the case of CSPs based on undirected graphs Bulatov and Kazeminia (STOC 2022) obtained a complexity classification for the problem of counting solutions modulo p for arbitrary prime p. In this paper we report on the progress made towards a similar classification for the general CSP, not necessarily based on graphs. We identify several features that make the general case very different from the graph case such as a stronger form of rigidity and the structure of automorphisms of powers of relational structures. We provide a solution algorithm in the case p = 2 that works under some additional conditions and prove the hardness of the problem under some assumptions about automorphisms of the powers of the relational structure. We also reduce the general CSP to the case that only uses binary relations satisfying strong additional conditions.
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Amirhossein Kazeminia and Andrei A. Bulatov. Modular Counting CSP: Reductions and Algorithms. In 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 327, pp. 60:1-60:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{kazeminia_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.60,
  author =	{Kazeminia, Amirhossein and Bulatov, Andrei A.},
  title =	{{Modular Counting CSP: Reductions and Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)},
  pages =	{60:1--60:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-365-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{327},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.60},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228853},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.60},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Modular Counting}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.47
Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs II: Edge Subdivision and the "H"-Graphs

Authors: Vadim Lozin, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Mark Siggers, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 322, 35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)

Abstract
For a fixed set H of graphs, a graph G is H-subgraph-free if G does not contain any H ∈ H as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. A recent framework gives a complete classification on H-subgraph-free graphs (for finite sets H) for problems that are solvable in polynomial time on graph classes of bounded treewidth, NP-complete on subcubic graphs, and whose NP-hardness is preserved under edge subdivision. While a lot of problems satisfy these conditions, there are also many problems that do not satisfy all three conditions and for which the complexity in H-subgraph-free graphs is unknown. We study problems for which only the first two conditions of the framework hold (they are solvable in polynomial time on classes of bounded treewidth and NP-complete on subcubic graphs, but NP-hardness is not preserved under edge subdivision). In particular, we make inroads into the classification of the complexity of four such problems: Hamilton Cycle, k-Induced Disjoint Paths, C₅-Colouring and Star 3-Colouring. Although we do not complete the classifications, we show that the boundary between polynomial time and NP-complete differs among our problems and also from problems that do satisfy all three conditions of the framework, in particular when we forbid certain subdivisions of the "H"-graph (the graph that looks like the letter "H"). Hence, we exhibit a rich complexity landscape among problems for H-subgraph-free graph classes.
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Vadim Lozin, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Mark Siggers, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen. Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs II: Edge Subdivision and the "H"-Graphs. In 35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 322, pp. 47:1-47:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{lozin_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.47,
  author =	{Lozin, Vadim and Martin, Barnaby and Pandey, Sukanya and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Siggers, Mark and Smith, Siani and van Leeuwen, Erik Jan},
  title =	{{Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs II: Edge Subdivision and the "H"-Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)},
  pages =	{47:1--47:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-354-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{322},
  editor =	{Mestre, Juli\'{a}n and Wirth, Anthony},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.47},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-221747},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.47},
  annote =	{Keywords: forbidden subgraph, complexity dichotomy, edge subdivision, treewidth}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.29
Edge Multiway Cut and Node Multiway Cut Are Hard for Planar Subcubic Graphs

Authors: Matthew Johnson, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 294, 19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024)

Abstract
It is known that the weighted version of Edge Multiway Cut (also known as Multiterminal Cut) is NP-complete on planar graphs of maximum degree 3. In contrast, for the unweighted version, NP-completeness is only known for planar graphs of maximum degree 11. In fact, the complexity of unweighted Edge Multiway Cut was open for graphs of maximum degree 3 for over twenty years. We prove that the unweighted version is NP-complete even for planar graphs of maximum degree 3. As weighted Edge Multiway Cut is polynomial-time solvable for graphs of maximum degree at most 2, we have now closed the complexity gap. We also prove that (unweighted) Node Multiway Cut (both with and without deletable terminals) is NP-complete for planar graphs of maximum degree 3. By combining our results with known results, we can apply two meta-classifications on graph containment from the literature. This yields full dichotomies for all three problems on H-topological-minor-free graphs and, should H be finite, on H-subgraph-free graphs as well. Previously, such dichotomies were only implied for H-minor-free graphs.
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Matthew Johnson, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen. Edge Multiway Cut and Node Multiway Cut Are Hard for Planar Subcubic Graphs. In 19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 294, pp. 29:1-29:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{johnson_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.29,
  author =	{Johnson, Matthew and Martin, Barnaby and Pandey, Sukanya and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Smith, Siani and van Leeuwen, Erik Jan},
  title =	{{Edge Multiway Cut and Node Multiway Cut Are Hard for Planar Subcubic Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-318-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{294},
  editor =	{Bodlaender, Hans L.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-200699},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: multiway cut, planar subcubic graph, complexity dichotomy, graph containment}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.57
Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs III: When Problems Are Tractable on Subcubic Graphs

Authors: Matthew Johnson, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 272, 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)

Abstract
For any finite set ℋ = {H_1,…,H_p} of graphs, a graph is ℋ-subgraph-free if it does not contain any of H_1,…,H_p as a subgraph. In recent work, meta-classifications have been studied: these show that if graph problems satisfy certain prescribed conditions, their complexity can be classified on classes of ℋ-subgraph-free graphs. We continue this work and focus on problems that have polynomial-time solutions on classes that have bounded treewidth or maximum degree at most 3 and examine their complexity on H-subgraph-free graph classes where H is a connected graph. With this approach, we obtain comprehensive classifications for (Independent) Feedback Vertex Set, Connected Vertex Cover, Colouring and Matching Cut. This resolves a number of open problems. We highlight that, to establish that Independent Feedback Vertex Set belongs to this collection of problems, we first show that it can be solved in polynomial time on graphs of maximum degree 3. We demonstrate that, with the exception of the complete graph on four vertices, each graph in this class has a minimum size feedback vertex set that is also an independent set.
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Matthew Johnson, Barnaby Martin, Sukanya Pandey, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Erik Jan van Leeuwen. Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs III: When Problems Are Tractable on Subcubic Graphs. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 57:1-57:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{johnson_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.57,
  author =	{Johnson, Matthew and Martin, Barnaby and Pandey, Sukanya and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Smith, Siani and van Leeuwen, Erik Jan},
  title =	{{Complexity Framework for Forbidden Subgraphs III: When Problems Are Tractable on Subcubic Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-292-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{272},
  editor =	{Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Lombardy, Sylvain and Peleg, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185914},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: forbidden subgraphs, independent feedback vertex set, treewidth}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.24
Depth Lower Bounds in Stabbing Planes for Combinatorial Principles

Authors: Stefan Dantchev, Nicola Galesi, Abdul Ghani, and Barnaby Martin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 219, 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)

Abstract
Stabbing Planes is a proof system introduced very recently which, informally speaking, extends the DPLL method by branching on integer linear inequalities instead of single variables. The techniques known so far to prove size and depth lower bounds for Stabbing Planes are generalizations of those used for the Cutting Planes proof system established via communication complexity arguments. Rank lower bounds for Cutting Planes are also obtained by geometric arguments called protection lemmas. In this work we introduce two new geometric approaches to prove size/depth lower bounds in Stabbing Planes working for any formula: (1) the antichain method, relying on Sperner’s Theorem and (2) the covering method which uses results on essential coverings of the boolean cube by linear polynomials, which in turn relies on Alon’s combinatorial Nullenstellensatz. We demonstrate their use on classes of combinatorial principles such as the Pigeonhole principle, the Tseitin contradictions and the Linear Ordering Principle. By the first method we prove almost linear size lower bounds and optimal logarithmic depth lower bounds for the Pigeonhole principle and analogous lower bounds for the Tseitin contradictions over the complete graph and for the Linear Ordering Principle. By the covering method we obtain a superlinear size lower bound and a logarithmic depth lower bound for Stabbing Planes proof of Tseitin contradictions over a grid graph.
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Stefan Dantchev, Nicola Galesi, Abdul Ghani, and Barnaby Martin. Depth Lower Bounds in Stabbing Planes for Combinatorial Principles. In 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 219, pp. 24:1-24:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{dantchev_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2022.24,
  author =	{Dantchev, Stefan and Galesi, Nicola and Ghani, Abdul and Martin, Barnaby},
  title =	{{Depth Lower Bounds in Stabbing Planes for Combinatorial Principles}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-222-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{219},
  editor =	{Berenbrink, Petra and Monmege, Benjamin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-158349},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: proof complexity, computational complexity, lower bounds, cutting planes, stabbing planes}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.21
Partitioning H-Free Graphs of Bounded Diameter

Authors: Christoph Brause, Petr Golovach, Barnaby Martin, Daniël Paulusma, and Siani Smith

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 212, 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)

Abstract
A natural way of increasing our understanding of NP-complete graph problems is to restrict the input to a special graph class. Classes of H-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some graph H as an induced subgraph, have proven to be an ideal testbed for such a complexity study. However, if the forbidden graph H contains a cycle or claw, then these problems often stay NP-complete. A recent complexity study (MFCS 2019) on the k-Colouring problem shows that we may still obtain tractable results if we also bound the diameter of the H-free input graph. We continue this line of research by initiating a complexity study on the impact of bounding the diameter for a variety of classical vertex partitioning problems restricted to H-free graphs. We prove that bounding the diameter does not help for Independent Set, but leads to new tractable cases for problems closely related to 3-Colouring. That is, we show that Near-Bipartiteness, Independent Feedback Vertex Set, Independent Odd Cycle Transversal, Acyclic 3-Colouring and Star 3-Colouring are all polynomial-time solvable for chair-free graphs of bounded diameter. To obtain these results we exploit a new structural property of 3-colourable chair-free graphs.
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Christoph Brause, Petr Golovach, Barnaby Martin, Daniël Paulusma, and Siani Smith. Partitioning H-Free Graphs of Bounded Diameter. In 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 212, pp. 21:1-21:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{brause_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.21,
  author =	{Brause, Christoph and Golovach, Petr and Martin, Barnaby and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Smith, Siani},
  title =	{{Partitioning H-Free Graphs of Bounded Diameter}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-214-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{212},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154543},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: vertex partitioning problem, H-free, diameter, complexity dichotomy}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.58
QCSP on Reflexive Tournaments

Authors: Benoît Larose, Petar Marković, Barnaby Martin, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Stanislav Živný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 204, 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)

Abstract
We give a complexity dichotomy for the Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem QCSP(H) when H is a reflexive tournament. It is well-known that reflexive tournaments can be split into a sequence of strongly connected components H₁,…,H_n so that there exists an edge from every vertex of H_i to every vertex of H_j if and only if i < j. We prove that if H has both its initial and final strongly connected component (possibly equal) of size 1, then QCSP(H) is in NL and otherwise QCSP(H) is NP-hard.
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Benoît Larose, Petar Marković, Barnaby Martin, Daniël Paulusma, Siani Smith, and Stanislav Živný. QCSP on Reflexive Tournaments. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 58:1-58:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{larose_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.58,
  author =	{Larose, Beno\^{i}t and Markovi\'{c}, Petar and Martin, Barnaby and Paulusma, Dani\"{e}l and Smith, Siani and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{QCSP on Reflexive Tournaments}},
  booktitle =	{29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)},
  pages =	{58:1--58:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-204-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{204},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.58},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146392},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.58},
  annote =	{Keywords: computational complexity, algorithmic graph theory, quantified constraints, universal algebra, constraint satisfaction}
}
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