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### Given a 4-cycle free graph $G$, can we determine if it has a 3-cycle in quadratic time?

Yes, this is known. It appears in one of the must-cite references on triangle finding... Namely, Itai and Rodeh show in SICOMP 1978 how to find, in $O(n^2)$ time, a cycle in a graph that has at most ...
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### What is a natural problem in theory of computation?

To be clear, it's not meant to be formalizable. It's not a theorem, it's an observation about the world -- it's okay if "natural" is subjective here. For analogy, if someone says "differentiation is ...
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### FPT vs W[P] - Parameterized Complexity

This question is tricky as the answer (as far as I know) is still "don't know". To add some weight to this, Flum & Grohe [1] give as open problems (p. 164): Is the $\mathrm{W}$-hierarchy ...
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### Complexity of k-clique for hypergraphs

It is not known if there is an $\varepsilon > 0$, $c > 2$, and $k > c$ such that $(c,k)$ hyperclique is in $n^{k-\varepsilon}$ time. Note that the case of $k \leq c$ is trivial. For years I ...
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### Given a 4-cycle free graph $G$, can we determine if it has a 3-cycle in quadratic time?

It's not quadratic, but Alon Yuster and Zwick ("Finding and counting given length cycles", Algorithmica 1997) give an algorithm for finding triangles in time $O(m^{2\omega/(\omega+1)})$, where $\omega$...
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### Polynomial kernel for $k$-FLIP SAT on $3$-CNF formulas

The problem does not have a polynomial kernel unless NP is in coNP/poly. The cross-composition technique from our paper applies in a nontrivial way. Let me show how the classic Vertex Cover problem ...
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### Best parameterized algorithm for maximum clique

Maximum clique in graphs with degree $d$ can be reduced to $n$ instances of maximum clique in a graph with at most $d$ vertices: for each vertex, compute maximum clique in the induced subgraph of the ...
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### Parametrized complexity of the 2-Long Paths Problem

Your problem is fixed-parameter tractable, which follows from the heavy machinery of Robertson & Seymour. Your problem can be stated in terms of rooted minors. A graph $H$ with designated root ...
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