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A Meyniel obstruction is an odd cycle with at least five vertices and at most one chord. A graph is Meyniel if and only if it has no Meyniel obstruction as an induced subgraph. Here we give a O(n^2) algorithm that, for any graph, finds…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Kathie Cameron , Jack Edmonds , Benjamin Lévêque , Frédéric Maffray

In this paper, we give spectral conditions to guarantee the existence of two edge disjoint cycles and two cycles of the same length. These two results can be seen as spectral analogues of Erd\H{o}s and Posa's size condition and Erd\H{o}s'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Huiqiu Lin , Mingqing Zhai , Yanhua Zhao

In this note, we provide a proof of a technical result of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal about the existence of disjoint type graphs with no odd cycles. We also prove that this result is sharp in a certain sense.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Chris Lambie-Hanson

A cycle in a graph is called dominating if every edge of the graph is incident with a vertex of the cycle. In this paper, we investigate forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle in 2-connected graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Shuya Chiba , Michitaka Furuya , Shoichi Tsuchiya

Two graphs having the same spectrum are said to be cospectral. Two graphs such that the absolute values of their nonzero eigenvalues coincide are singularly cospectral graphs. Cospectrality implies singular cospectrality, but the converse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cristian M. Conde , Ezequiel Dratman , Luciano N. Grippo , Melina Privitelli

A graph is odd if all of its vertices have odd degrees. In particular, an odd spanning tree in a connected graph is a spanning tree in which all vertices have odd degrees. In this paper we establish a unified technique to enumerate odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shaohan Xu , Kexiang Xu

We conjecture that a 2-connected graph $G$ of order $n$, in which $d(x)+d(y)\geq n-k$ for every pair of non-adjacent vertices $x$ and $y$, contains a cycle of length $n-k$ ($k<n/2$), unless $G$ is bipartite and $n-k$ is odd. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Janusz Adamus

We investigate group-theoretic "signatures" of odd cycles of a graph, and their connections to topological obstructions to 3-colourability. In the case of signatures derived from free groups, we prove that the existence of an odd cycle with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Gord Simons , Claude Tardif , David Wehlau

Consider the family of graphs without $ k $ node-disjoint odd cycles, where $ k $ is a constant. Determining the complexity of the stable set problem for such graphs $ G $ is a long-standing problem. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Michele Conforti , Samuel Fiorin , Tony Huynh , Gwenaël Joret , Stefan Weltge

In this article we have derived the minimum order of an odd regular graph such that the graph has no matching. We have observed that how it is different from the case of even regular graphs. We have checked the consistency of the derived…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Anirban Banerjee , Saptarshi Bej

In this paper, the Sturm-Liouville operators on a graph with a cycle are considered. We study the inverse spectral problem, which consists in the recovery of the potentials from several spectra and a sequence of signs related to the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Natalia P. Bondarenko

The class of closed graphs by a linear ordering on their sets of vertices is investigated. A recent characterization of such a class of graphs is analyzed by using tools from the proper interval graph theory.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Marilena Crupi

We show that the strong odd chromatic number on any proper minor-closed graph class is bounded by a constant. We almost determine the smallest such constant for outerplanar graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Miriam Goetze , Fabian Klute , Kolja Knauer , Irene Parada , Juan Pablo Peña , Torsten Ueckerdt

In this work we investigate the chordality of squares and line graph squares of graphs. We prove a sufficient condition for the chordality of squares of graphs not containing induced cycles of length at least five. Moreover, we characterize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Robert Scheidweiler , Sebastian Wiederrecht

We call an oriented odd cycle alternating if it has exactly one vertex whose in-degree and out-degree are both positive. In this paper, we investigate whether certain graphs admit an orientation that avoids alternating odd cycles as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Nóra Almási , Gábor Simonyi

We examine the conditions under which a signed graph contains an edge or a vertex that is contained in a unique negative circle or a unique positive circle. For an edge in a unique signed circle, the positive and negative case require the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Richard Behr

A pancyclic graph is a graph that contains cycles of all possible lengths from three up to the number of vertices in the graph. In this paper, we establish some new sufficient conditions for a graph to be pancyclic in terms of the edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Guidong Yu , Tao Yu , Axiu Shu , Xiangwei Xia

An odd hole in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of odd length at least five. In 1985, A. Gyarfas made the conjecture that for all t there exists n such that every graph with no K_t subgraph and no odd hole is n-colourable. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We prove a sharp representation stability result for graph complexes with a distinguished vertex, and prove that the chains realizing this sharp bound pass to non-trivial families of graph homology classes. This result may be interpreted as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Enoch Fedah , Benjamin C. Ward

We present quantum graphs with remarkably regular spectral characteristics. We call them {\it regular quantum graphs}. Although regular quantum graphs are strongly chaotic in the classical limit, their quantum spectra are explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. Dabaghian , R. V. Jensen , R. Blümel