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We show that the vertices of every planar graph can be partitioned into two sets, each inducing a so-called triangle-forest, i.e., a graph with no cycles of length more than three. We further discuss extensions to locally planar graphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Kolja Knauer , Clément Rambaud , Torsten Ueckerdt

We introduce a comprehensive data structure, tangle structure trees, which simultaneously displays all the $\mathcal{F}$-tangles of an abstract separation system for very general obstruction sets $\mathcal{F}$. It simultaneously also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Hanno von Bergen , Reinhard Diestel

A graph is one-ended if it contains a ray (a one way infinite path) and whenever we remove a finite number of vertices from the graph then what remains has only one component which contains rays. A vertex $v$ {\em dominates} a ray in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Johannes Carmesin , Florian Lehner , Rögnvaldur G. Möller

Generalizing a well known theorem for finite matroids, we prove that for every (infinite) connected matroid M there is a unique tree T such that the nodes of T correspond to minors of M that are either 3-connected or circuits or cocircuits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Elad Aigner-Horev , Reinhard Diestel , Luke Postle

We introduce and study the Separation Problem for infinite graphs, which involves determining whether a connected graph splits into at least two infinite connected components after the removal of a given finite set of edges. We prove that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas , Valentino Delle Rose , Cristóbal Rojas

A $k$-block in a graph $G$ is a maximal set of at least $k$ vertices no two of which can be separated in $G$ by removing less than $k$ vertices. It is separable if there exists a tree-decomposition of adhesion less than $k$ of $G$ in which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Johannes Carmesin , Pascal Gollin

Generalizing the classical matrix-tree theorem we provide a formula counting subgraphs of a given graph with a fixed 2-core. We use this generalization to obtain an analog of the matrix-tree theorem for the root system $D_n$ (the classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yurii Burman , Boris Shapiro

Quasi-trees generalize trees in that the unique "path" between two nodes may be infinite and have any countable order type. They are used to define the rank-width of a countable graph in such a way that it is equal to the least upper-bound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bruno Courcelle

We give a technical result that implies a straightforward necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph of groups with virtually cyclic edge groups to be one ended. For arbitrary graphs of groups, we show that if their fundamental group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nicholas Touikan

In this article we investigate the structure of uniformly $k$-connected and uniformly $k$-edge-connected graphs. Whereas both types have previously been studied independent of each other, we analyze relations between these two classes. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Frank Göring , Tobias Hofmann , Manuel Streicher

Tangle structure trees, introduced in [3], offer a unified data structure that displays all the tangles of a graph or data set together with certificates for the non-existence of any other tangles, either locally or overall. In this paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hanno von Bergen , Reinhard Diestel

We adapt the classical 3-decomposition of any 2-connected graph to the case of simple graphs (no loops or multiple edges). By analogy with the block-cutpoint tree of a connected graph, we deduce from this decomposition a bicolored tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Andrei Gagarin , Gilbert Labelle , Pierre Leroux , Timothy Walsh

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

In this (mostly) survey article, we give a synopsis of a number of results relating to Brill--Noether theory on curves and metric graphs, together with some speculations about the behavior of one-dimensional linear series on a class of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Ethan Cotterill

Given a graph or a matroid, a tree of tangles is a tree decomposition that displays the structure of the connectivity: every edge of the decomposition tree induces a separation, that is, a way to divide the graph or matroid into two parts;…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ann-Kathrin Elm

We apply a recent duality theorem for tangles in abstract separation systems to derive tangle-type duality theorems for width-parameters in graphs and matroids. We further derive a duality theorem for the existence of clusters in large data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Reinhard Diestel , Sang-il Oum

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

Planar locally finite graphs which are almost vertex transitive are discussed. If the graph is 3-connected and has at most one end then the group of automorphisms is a planar discontinuous group and its structure is well-known. A general…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-08 M. J. Dunwoody

The 3-Decomposition Conjecture states that every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a 2-regular subgraph and a matching. We show that this conjecture holds for the class of connected plane cubic graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof , Tomáš Kaiser , Kenta Ozeki

Just how many different connected shapes result from slicing a cube along some of its edges and unfolding it into the plane? In this article we answer this question by viewing the cube both as a surface and as a graph of vertices and edges.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Richard Goldstone , Robert Suzzi Valli