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We derive tight bounds on the expected weights of several combinatorial optimization problems for random point sets of size $n$ distributed among the leaves of a balanced hierarchically separated tree. We consider {\it monochromatic} and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Béla Csaba , Thomas A. Plick , Ali Shokoufandeh

Maximum parsimony distance is a measure used to quantify the dissimilarity of two unrooted phylogenetic trees. It is NP-hard to compute, and very few positive algorithmic results are known due to its complex combinatorial structure. Here we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mark Jones , Steven Kelk , Leen Stougie

We consider $2$-colourings $f : E(G) \rightarrow \{ -1 ,1 \}$ of the edges of a graph $G$ with colours $-1$ and $1$ in $\mathbb{Z}$. A subgraph $H$ of $G$ is said to be a zero-sum subgraph of $G$ under $f$ if $f(H) := \sum_{e\in E(H)} f(e)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Yair Caro , Adriana Hansberg , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

For graphs $G$ and $H$, an $H$-coloring of $G$ is an adjacency preserving map from the vertices of $G$ to the vertices of $H$. $H$-colorings generalize such notions as independent sets and proper colorings in graphs. There has been much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-21 John Engbers , David Galvin

We present efficient algorithms for computing a maximum agreement forest (MAF) of a pair of multifurcating (nonbinary) rooted trees. Our algorithms match the running times of the currently best algorithms for the binary case. The size of an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Chris Whidden , Robert G. Beiko , Norbert Zeh

In a proper edge-coloring the edges of every color form a matching. A matching is induced if the end-vertices of its edges induce a matching. A strong edge-coloring is an edge-coloring in which the edges of every color form an induced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hervé Hocquard , Dimitri Lajou , Borut Lu{ž}ar

A rainbow matching in an edge-colored graph is a matching in which no two edges have the same color. The color degree of a vertex v is the number of different colors on edges incident to v. Kritschgau [Electron. J. Combin. 27(2020)] studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Wenling Zhou

A {\it rainbow matching} in an edge-colored graph is a matching in which all the edges have distinct colors. Wang asked if there is a function f(\delta) such that a properly edge-colored graph G with minimum degree \delta and order at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Jennifer Diemunsch , Michael Ferrara , Casey Moffatt , Florian Pfender , Paul S. Wenger

An edge-colored graph $G$ is called properly colored if every two adjacent edges are assigned different colors. A monochromatic triangle is a cycle of length 3 with all the edges having the same color. Given a tree $T_0$, let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Ruonan Li , Ruhui Lu , Xueli Su , Shenggui Zhang

We prove that for any positive integer $k$, the edges of any graph whose fractional arboricity is at most $k + 1/(3k+2)$ can be decomposed into $k$ forests and a matching.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Tomas Kaiser , Mickael Montassier , Andre Raspaud

We prove that, with high probability, in every $2$-edge-colouring of the random tournament on $n$ vertices there is a monochromatic copy of every oriented tree of order $O (n / \sqrt{\log n})$. This generalises a result of the first, third…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Matija Bucic , Sven Heberle , Shoham Letzter , Benny Sudakov

A spanning tree of an edge-colored graph is rainbow provided that each of its edges receives a distinct color. In this paper we consider the natural extremal problem of maximizing and minimizing the number of rainbow spanning trees in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Matthew DeVilbiss , Bradley Fain , Amber Holmes , Paul Horn , Sonwabile Mafunda , K. E. Perry

A widely used method for determining the similarity of two labeled trees is to compute a maximum agreement subtree of the two trees. Previous work on this similarity measure is only concerned with the comparison of labeled trees of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Kao , Tak-Wah Lam , Wing-Kin Sung , Hing-Fung Ting

We prove a sharp structural result concerning finite colorings of pairs in well-founded trees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-17 R. M. Causey , C. Doebele

The existence of a rainbow matching given a minimum color degree, proper coloring, or triangle-free host graph has been studied extensively. This paper, generalizes these problems to edge colored graphs with given total color degree. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-09 J\''{u}rgen Kritschgau

In this paper we show how to find nearly optimal embeddings of large trees in several natural classes of graphs. The size of the tree T can be as large as a constant fraction of the size of the graph G, and the maximum degree of T can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Benny Sudakov , Jan Vondrak

We address several related problems on combinatorial discrepancy of trees in a setting introduced by Erd\H{o}s, F\"{u}redi, Loebl and S\'{o}s. Given a fixed tree $T$ on $n$ vertices and an edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Lawrence Hollom , Lyuben Lichev , Adva Mond , Julien Portier

An edge-colored rooted directed tree (aka arborescence) is path-monochromatic if every path in it is monochromatic. Let $k,\ell$ be positive integers. For a tournament $T$, let $f_T(k)$ be the largest integer such that every $k$-edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Raphael Yuster

We say a proper coloring of a graph is distance-$k$ fall if every vertex is within distance $k$ of at least one vertex of every color. We show that if $G$ is a connected graph of order at least $3$ that is $3$-colorable, thenit has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Wayne Goddard , Sonwabile Mafunda

We show that for any fixed integer $m \geq 1$, a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has a coloring with $O(\Delta^{(m+1)/m})$ colors in which every connected bicolored subgraph contains at most $m$ edges. This result unifies previously known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Peter Bradshaw