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A graph G(V, E) is word-representable if there exists a word w over V such that distinct letters x and y alternate in w iff $xy \in E$. We introduce p-complete squares and p-complete square-free word-representable graphs. A word is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Biswajit Das , Ramesh Hariharasubramanian

An $n$-vertex graph is called pancyclic if it contains a cycle of length $t$ for all $3 \leq t \leq n$. In this paper, we study pancyclicity of random graphs in the context of resilience, and prove that if $p \gg n^{-1/2}$, then the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Choongbum Lee , Wojciech Samotij

We extend the study of link-irregular graphs to directed graphs (digraphs), where a digraph is link-irregular if no two vertices have isomorphic directed links. We establish that link-irregular digraphs exist on $n$ vertices if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

The study of the graph diameter of polytopes is a classical open problem in polyhedral geometry and the theory of linear optimization. In this paper we continue the investigation initiated in [4] by introducing a vast hierarchy of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Steffen Borgwardt , Jesús A. De Loera , Elisabeth Finhold

We introduce the class of interval $H$-graphs, which is the generalization of interval graphs, particularly interval bigraphs. For a fixed graph $H$ with vertices $a_1,a_2,\dots,a_k$, we say that an input graph $G$ with given partition…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haiko Müller , Arash Rafiey

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex (edge) labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. It is known that for every graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

For a graph $G=(V,E),$ a matching $M$ is a set of independent edges. The topic of matchings is well studied in graph theory. In this paper many varieties of matchings are discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Todd Fenstermacher , Soumendra Ganguly , Stephen Hedetniemi , Renu Laskar

An ordered graph $G$ is a graph whose vertex set is a subset of integers. The edges are interpreted as tuples $(u,v)$ with $u < v$. For a positive integer $s$, a matrix $M \in \mathbb{Z}^{s \times 4}$, and a vector $\mathbf{p} =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Maria Axenovich , Jonathan Rollin , Torsten Ueckerdt

The chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$, denoted $P(G,m)$, is equal to the number of proper $m$-colorings of $G$. The list color function of graph $G$, denoted $P_{\ell}(G,m)$, is a list analogue of the chromatic polynomial that has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

F-index of a graph is the sum of the cube of the degrees of the vertices. In this paper, we investigate the F-indices of unicyclic graphs by introducing some transformation, and characterize the unicyclic graphs with the first five largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Ruhul Amin , Sk. Md. Abu Nayeem

This paper studies the following question of Bollob\'as and Scott: Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $p\binom{n}{2}$ edges. What is the smallest $c(p, n)$ such that there is an ordering $v_1, \ldots, v_n$ of the vertices in $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yanling Chen , Shuping Huang , Qinghou Zeng

Introduced by Albertson et al. \cite{albertson}, the distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $r$ such that there is a $r$-labeling of the vertices of $G$ that is not preserved by any nontrivial automorphism of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Sylvain Gravier , Kahina Meslem , Souad Slimani

Proposed as a general framework, Liu and Yu(Discrete Math. 231 (2001) 311-320) introduced $(n,k,d)$-graphs to unify the concepts of deficiency of matchings, $n$-factor-criticality and $k$-extendability. Let $G$ be a graph and let $n,k$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zemin Jin , Huifang Yan , Qinglin Yu

A circle graph is the intersection graph of a set of chords in a circle. Keil [Discrete Applied Mathematics, 42(1):51-63, 1993] proved that Dominating Set, Connected Dominating Set, and Total Dominating Set are NP-complete in circle graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Daniel Gonçalves , George B. Mertzios , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Stéphan Thomassé

A graph $H$ is said to be common if the number of monochromatic labelled copies of $H$ in a red/blue edge colouring of a large complete graph is asymptotically minimized by a random colouring with an equal proportion of each colour. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Natalie Behague , Natasha Morrison , Jonathan A. Noel

Distance-regular graphs are a class of regualr graphs with pretty combinatorial symmetry. In 2007, Miklavi\v{c} and Poto\v{c}nik proposed the problem of charaterizing distance-regular Cayley graphs, which can be viewed as a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Xueyi Huang , Lu Lu , Xiongfeng Zhan

Dirac proved that each $n$-vertex $2$-connected graph with minimum degree at least $k$ contains a cycle of length at least $\min\{2k, n\}$. We consider a hypergraph version of this result. A Berge cycle in a hypergraph is an alternating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo , Grace McCourt

Let G be a graph whose edges are labeled by positive integers. Label each vertex with an integer and suppose if two vertices are joined by an edge, the vertex labels are congruent to each other modulo the edge label. The set of vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Madeline Handschy , Julie Melnick , Stephanie Reinders

In a graph G, cardinality of the smallest ordered set of vertices that distinguishes every element of V (G) is the (vertex) metric dimension of G. Similarly, the cardinality of such a set is the edge metric dimension of G, if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski

In this work we present a version of the so called Chen and Chv\'atal's conjecture for directed graphs. A line of a directed graph D is defined by an ordered pair (u, v), with u and v two distinct vertices of D, as the set of all vertices w…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Martı'n Matamala