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Let G be a simple graph with vertex set V(G). A subset S of V(G) is independent if no two vertices from S are adjacent. The graph G is known to be a Konig-Egervary if alpha(G) + mu(G)= |V(G)|, where alpha(G) denotes the size of a maximum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Adi Jarden , Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph for short) is called linear if every pair of vertices belong to at most one edge. A linear $r$-graph is complete if every pair of vertices are in exactly one edge. The famous Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Asaf Shapira , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

Let $G$ be a simple graph with vertex set $V(G)$. A set $S\subseteq V(G)$ is independent if no two vertices from $S$ are adjacent. For $X\subseteq V(G)$, the difference of $X$ is $d(X) = |X|-|N(X)|$ and an independent set $A$ is critical if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Taylor Short

Let $i_t(G)$ be the number of independent sets of size $t$ in a graph $G$. Alavi, Erd\H{o}s, Malde and Schwenk made the conjecture that if $G$ is a tree then the independent set sequence $\{i_t(G)\}_{t\geq 0}$ of $G$ is unimodal; Levit and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-27 David Galvin

Let $m$ and $r$ be integers with $m \ge r \ge 3$ and let $G$ be an $r$-regular graph of even order. Let $M$ be a matching in $G$ of size $m$ such that each pair of edges in $M$ is at distance at least $3$. In 2023, Aldred et al. proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Jun Fujisawa

Let G be a simple graph with vertex set V(G). A set S is independent if no two vertices from S are adjacent. The graph G is known to be a Konig-Egervary if alpha(G)+mu(G)= |V(G)|, where alpha(G) denotes the size of a maximum independent set…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

Bollob\'as and Nikiforov [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B. 97 (2007) 859--865] conjectured the following. If $G$ is a $K_{r+1}$-free graph on at least $r+1$ vertices and $m$ edges, then $\lambda^2_1(G)+\lambda^2_2(G)\leq \frac{r-1}{r}\cdot2m$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Huiqiu Lin , Bo Ning , Baoyindureng Wu

A rough structure theorem is proved for graphs $G$ containing no copy of a bounded degree tree $T$: from any such $G$, one can delete $o(|G||T|)$ edges in order to get a subgraph all of whose connected components have a cover of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Alexey Pokrovskiy

For $r \ge 2$ and a graph $G$, let $\alpha_{{r}}(G)$ be the maximum number of vertices in a $K_r$-free subgraph of $G$. We investigate the value $\alpha_{r}(G)$ when $G$ is the random graph $G \sim G_{n, 1/2}$ and discover the following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Tom Bohman , Marcus Michelen , Dhruv Mubayi

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, let $bc(G)$ denote the minimum number of pairwise edge disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs of $G$ so that each edge of $G$ belongs to exactly one of them. It is easy to see that for every graph $G$, $bc(G) \leq n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Noga Alon , Tom Bohman , Hao Huang

We study sufficient conditions for the generic rigidity of a graph $G$ expressed in terms of (i) its minimum degree $\delta(G)$, or (ii) the parameter $\eta(G)=\min_{uv\notin E}(\deg(u)+\deg(v))$. For each case, we seek the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Tibor Jordán , Xuemei Liu , Soma Villányi

Given a connected graph $G$ and a terminal set $R \subseteq V(G)$, the minimum Steiner tree problem (ST) asks for a tree that spans all of $R$ with at most $r$ vertices from $V(G)\backslash R$, for some integer $r\geq 0$. A \emph{split…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jyothish S , Sadagopan Narasimhan

The Kneser hypergraph ${\rm KG}^r_{n,k}$ is an $r$-uniform hypergraph with vertex set consisting of all $k$-subsets of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and any collection of $r$ vertices forms an edge if their corresponding $k$-sets are pairwise disjoint.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Meysam Alishahi , Ali Taherkhani

A bar-joint framework $(G,p)$ in Euclidean $d$-space is rigid if the only edge-length-preserving continuous motions arise from isometries of $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the generic case, rigidity is determined by the generic $d$-dimensional rigidity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Rebecca Monks , Anthony Nixon

We prove for every graph H there exists a>0 such that, for every graph G with at least two vertices, if no induced subgraph of G is a subdivision of H, then either some vertex of G has at least a|G| neighbours, or there are two disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

The conjecture of Bollob\'as and Koml\'os, recently proved by B\"ottcher, Schacht, and Taraz [Math. Ann. 343(1), 175--205, 2009], implies that for any $\gamma>0$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices with bounded degree and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Julia Böttcher , Peter Christian Heinig , Anusch Taraz

For a graph $G$, denote by $t_r(G)$ (resp. $b_r(G)$) the maximum size of a $K_r$-free (resp. $(r-1)$-partite) subgraph of $G$. Of course $t_r(G) \geq b_r(G)$ for any $G$, and Tur\'an's Theorem says that equality holds for complete graphs.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Bobby DeMarco , Jeff Kahn

A $(k,\ell)$-partition is a set partition which has $\ell$ blocks each of size $k$. Two uniform set partitions $P$ and $Q$ are said to be partially $t$-intersecting if there exist blocks $P_{i}$ in $P$ and $Q_{j}$ in $Q$ such that $\left|…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Karen Meagher , Mahsa N. Shirazi , Brett Stevens

Mader [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 40 (1986) 152-158] proved that every $k$-edge-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains a vertex $u$ such that $G-\{u\}$ is still $k$-edge-connected. In this paper, we prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Qing Yang , Yingzhi Tian
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