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Consider a family $\mathcal F$ of $C_{2r+1}$-free graphs, where $r\geq 2$. Suppose that each graph in $\mathcal F$ has minimum degree linear in its number of vertices. Thomassen showed that such a family has bounded chromatic number, or,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Maya Sankar

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

We study the reconfiguration of odd matchings of combinatorial graphs. Odd matchings are matchings that cover all but one vertex of a graph. A reconfiguration step, or flip, is an operation that matches the isolated vertex and,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Joseph Dorfer

The interest of this paper is a characterization of graphs that induce periodic Grover walks with given periods. In previous studies, Yoshie has shown that the only graphs that induce odd periodic Grover walks are cycle graphs. However,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Sho Kubota , Hiroto Sekido , Kiyoto Yoshino

Coalescing random walks is a fundamental stochastic process, where a set of particles perform independent discrete-time random walks on an undirected graph. Whenever two or more particles meet at a given node, they merge and continue as a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Varun Kanade , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Thomas Sauerwald

We investigate Legendrian graphs in $(\R^3, \xi_{std})$. We extend the classical invariants, Thurston-Bennequin number and rotation number to Legendrian graphs. We prove that a graph can be Legendrian realized with all its cycles Legendrian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Danielle O'Donnol , Elena Pavelescu

A signed graph $\Gamma$ is said to be determined by its spectrum if every signed graph with the same spectrum as $\Gamma$ is switching isomorphic with $\Gamma$. Here it is proved that the path $P_n$, interpreted as a signed graph, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Saieed Akbari , Willem H. Haemers , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd

We prove that any class of graphs with linear neighborhood complexity has bounded improper odd chromatic number. As a result, if $\mathcal{G}$ is the class of all circle graphs, or if $\mathcal{G}$ is any class with bounded twin-width,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 James Davies , Meike Hatzel , Kolja Knauer , Rose McCarty , Torsten Ueckerdt

A graph is called odd (respectively, even) if every vertex has odd (respectively, even) degree. Gallai proved that every graph can be partitioned into two even induced subgraphs, or into an odd and an even induced subgraph. We refer to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Rémy Belmonte , Ararat Harutyunyan , Noleen Köhler , Nikolaos Melissinos

Odd coloring is a proper coloring with an additional restriction that every non-isolated vertex has some color that appears an odd number of times in its neighborhood. The minimum number of colors $k$ that can ensure an odd coloring of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Fangyu Tian , Yuxue Yin

This paper has been withdrawn by the author. Peterson and Woodall previously proved that the list-edge-colouring conjecture holds for graphs without odd cycles of length 5 or longer. D. Peterson and D. R. Woodall, Edge-choosability in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Jessica McDonald

Consider the graph obtained by superposition of an independent pair of uniform infinite non-crossing perfect matchings of the set of integers. We prove that this graph contains at most one infinite path. Several motivations are discussed.

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Nicolas Curien , Gady Kozma , Vladas Sidoravicius , Laurent Tournier

Motivated by a relaxed notion of the celebrated Hamiltonian cycle, this paper investigates its variant, parity Hamiltonian cycle (PHC): A PHC of a graph is a closed walk which visits every vertex an odd number of times, where we remark that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Hiroshi Nishiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yukiko Yamauchi , Shuji Kijima , Masafumi Yamashita

The \emph{blow-up} of a graph $H$ is the graph obtained from replacing each edge in $H$ by a clique of the same size where the new vertices of the cliques are all different. Erd\H{o}s et al. and Chen et al. determined the extremal number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Hong Liu

Odd coloring is a variant of proper coloring and has received wide attention. We study the list-coloring version of this notion in this paper. We prove that if $G$ is a graph embeddable in the torus or the Klein bottle with no cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Rishi Balaji , Victoria Khazhinsky , Chun-Hung Liu , Kevin Qin

We study a generalization of strongly regular graphs. We call a graph strongly walk-regular if there is an $\ell >1$ such that the number of walks of length $\ell$ from a vertex to another vertex depends only on whether the two vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Edwin R. van Dam , Gholamreza Omidi

An even (respectively, odd) hole in a graph is an induced cycle with even (respectively, odd) length that is at least four. Bienstock [DM 1991 and 1992] proved that detecting an even (respectively, odd) hole containing a given vertex is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Hou-Teng Cheong , Hsueh-I Lu

We clarify that coined quantum walk is determined by only the choice of local quantum coins. To do so, we characterize coined quantum walks on graph by disjoint Euler circles with respect to symmetric arcs. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Yusuke Higuchi , Norio Konno , Iwao Sato , Etsuo Segawa

A tree is said to be even if for every pair of distinct leaves, the length of the unique path between them is even. In this paper we discuss the problem of determining whether an input graph has a spanning even tree. Hofmann and Walsh…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yasuko Matsui , Atsuki Nagao , Hirotaka Ono , Kazuhisa Seto

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph, a walk in $G$ is said to be a properly colored walk iff each pair of consecutive edges have different colors, including the first and the last edges in case that the walk be closed. Let $H$ be a graph…