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In 1984, Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits conjectured the following: given a bipartite graph $H$, there exist constants $\beta, C > 0$ such that any graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $pn^2\geq C \mathrm{ex}(n, H)$ edges contains at least $\beta…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Zihao Jin , Sean Longbrake , Liana Yepremyan

A family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ is $H$-intersecting if the edge intersection of any two graphs in $\mathcal{F}$ contains a copy of a fixed graph $H$. A fundamental problem is to determine the maximum size of such a family. The trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Paul Hamrick , Gary Hu

A graph $G$ is $k$-locally sparse if for each vertex $v \in V(G)$, the subgraph induced by its neighborhood contains at most $k$ edges. Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov showed that for $f > 0$ if a graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 James Anderson , Abhishek Dhawan , Aiya Kuchukova

The Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits stability theorem is one of the most widely used theorems in extremal graph theory. We obtain an Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits type stability theorem in multi-partite graphs. Different from the Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits stability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wanfang Chen , Changhong Lu , Long-Tu Yuan

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a set of given connected graphs. A graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{H}$-free if $G$ contains no $H$ as an induced subgraph for any $H\in \mathcal{H}$. The graph $G$ is super-edge-connected if each minimum edge-cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Hazhe Ye , Yingzhi Tian

For a connected graph $G$, a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ is called a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (HIST) if $T$ has no vertices of degree $2$. In this paper, we show that if $G$ is a graph of order $n\ge 270$ and $|N(u)\cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Yibo Li , Fengming Dong , Xiaolan Hu , Huiqing Liu

Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{H}$, a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-free if any subset of $V(G)$ does not induce a subgraph of $G$ that is isomorphic to any graph in $\mathcal{H}$. We present sufficient and necessary conditions for a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Hany Ibrahim , Peter Tittmann

For a graph $G$ with at least two vertices, the maximum local edge-connectivity of $G$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint $(u,v)$-paths over all distinct pairs of vertices $(u,v)$ in $G$. Stiebitz and Toft (2018) proved a Brooks-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Sam Bastida , Nick Brettell

A secure coalition in a graph $G$ consists of two disjoint vertex sets $V_1$ and $V_2$, neither of which is a secure dominating set, but whose union $V_1 \cup V_2$ forms a secure dominating set. A secure coalition partition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Swathi Shetty , Sayinath Udupa N. V. , B. R. Rakshith

Given a hereditary family $\mathcal{G}$ of admissible graphs and a function $\lambda(G)$ that linearly depends on the statistics of order-$\kappa$ subgraphs in a graph $G$, we consider the extremal problem of determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Oleg Pikhurko , Jakub Sliacan , Konstantinos Tyros

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph is an open packing if (open) neighborhoods of any two distinct vertices in $S$ are disjoint. In this paper, we consider the graphs that have a unique maximum open packing. We characterize the trees with this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Boštjan Brešar , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

A set $X \subseteq V(G)$ in a graph $G$ is $(q,k)$-unbreakable if every separation $(A,B)$ of order at most $k$ in $G$ satisfies $|A \cap X| \leq q$ or $|B \cap X| \leq q$. In this paper, we prove the following result: If a graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph with the vertex-set $V$ and the edge-set $E$. Let $N(v)$ denote the set of neighbors of the vertex $v$ of $G.$ The graph $G$ is called $ irreducible $ whenever for every $v,w \in V$ if $v \neq w$, then $N(v)\neq…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-24 S. Morteza Mirafzal

One of the more recent generalizations of the Erd\"os-Ko-Rado theorem, formulated by Holroyd, Spencer and Talbot, defines the Erd\"os-Ko-Rado property for graphs in the following manner: for a graph G and a positive integer r, G is said to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Glenn Hurlbert , Vikram Kamat

A coalition in a graph $G$ with vertex set $V$ consists of two disjoint sets $V_1, V_2\subset V$ such that neither $V_1$ nor $V_2$ is a dominating set, but the union $V_1\cup V_2$ is a dominating set in $G$. A partition of graph vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Andrey A. Dobrynin , Hamidreza Golmohammadi

In this paper, we extend and refine previous Tur\'an-type results on graphs with a given circumference. Let $W_{n,k,c}$ be the graph obtained from a clique $K_{c-k+1}$ by adding $n-(c-k+1)$ isolated vertices each joined to the same $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Jie Ma , Bo Ning

A family $F$ of graphs on a fixed set of $n$ vertices is called triangle-intersecting if for any $G_1,G_2 \in F$, the intersection $G_1 \cap G_2$ contains a triangle. More generally, for a fixed graph $H$, a family $F$ is $H$-intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex not in $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. If, in addition, $S$ is an independent set, then $S$ is an independent dominating set. The independent domination number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-10 A. Akbari , S. Akbari , A. Doosthosseini , Z. Hadizadeh , Michael A. Henning , A. Naraghi

Recently, settling a question of Erd\H{o}s, Balogh and Pet\v{r}\'{i}\v{c}kov\'{a} showed that there are at most $2^{n^2/8+o(n^2)}$ $n$-vertex maximal triangle-free graphs, matching the previously known lower bound. Here we characterize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-07 József Balogh , Hong Liu , Šárka Petříčková , Maryam Sharifzadeh

For a graph property $\mathcal{P}$ and a common vertex set $V = \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$, a family of graphs on $V$ is \emph{$\mathcal{P}$-intersecting} iff $G \cap H$ satisfies $\mathcal{P}$ for all $G,H$ in the family. Addressing a question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Aaron Berger , Ross Berkowitz , Pat Devlin , Michael Doppelt , Sonali Durham , Tessa Murthy , Harish Vemuri