2021/03/09 by Benjamin Merlin Bumpus, Bumpus, Benjamin Merlin, Kitty Meeks +1 · 6 citations
Computer Science · #05C99 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #Computational Complexity (cs.CC) #F.2.0 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.05387
openalex publication_date 2021/03/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce a natural temporal analogue of Eulerian circuits and prove that, in contrast with the static case, it is NP-hard to determine whether a given temporal graph is temporally Eulerian even if strong restrictions are placed on the structure of the underlying graph and each edge is active at only three times. However, we do obtain an FPT-algorithm with respect to a new parameter called interval-membership-width which restricts the times assigned to different edges; we believe that this parameter will be of independent interest for other temporal graph problems. Our techniques also allow us to resolve two open question of Akrida, Mertzios and Spirakis [CIAC 2019] concerning a related problem of exploring temporal stars. Furthermore, we introduce a vertex-variant of interval-membership-width (which can be arbitrarily larger than its edge-counterpart) and use it to obtain an FPT-time algorithm for a natural vertex-exploration problem that remains hard even when interval-membership-width is bounded.