A new decomposition technique for maximal clique enumeration for sparse graphs

Given a graph, we are interested in the question of finding all its maximal cliques. This question models the community detection problem and has been extensively studied. Here, we approach it under the light of an important graph parameter. The degeneracy of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that every subgraph of G contains a vertex of degree at most k. Using a new decomposition technique, we present two output sensitive algorithms for...