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The extremal number of a graph $H$, denoted by $\mbox{ex}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in a graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain $H$. The celebrated K\H{o}v\'ari-S\'os-Tur\'an theorem says that for a complete bipartite graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Benny Sudakov , István Tomon

The chromatic threshold delta_chi(H) of a graph H is the infimum of d>0 such that there exists C=C(H,d) for which every H-free graph G with minimum degree at least d|G| satisfies chi(G)<C. We prove that delta_chi(H) \in {(r-3)/(r-2),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Simon Griffiths , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Robert Morris

We prove inequalities between the densities of various bipartite subgraphs in signed graphs and graphons. One of the main inequalities is that the density of any bipartite graph with girth r cannot exceed the density of the r-cycle. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-20 László Lovász

We prove that if $G$ is a graph and $f(v) \leq 1/(d(v) + 1/2)$ for each $v\in V(G)$, then either $G$ has an independent set of size at least $\sum_{v\in V(G)}f(v)$ or $G$ contains a clique $K$ such that $\sum_{v\in K}f(v) > 1$. This result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Tom Kelly , Luke Postle

For graphs $H$ and $F$, let $\text{ex}(n,H,F)$ be the maximum possible number of copies of $H$ in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices. The study of this function, which generalizes the well-known Tur\'{a}n number of graphs, was systematically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tao Zhang , Gennian Ge

We prove that every $3$-graph $H$ on $n$ vertices with minimum codegree $\delta_2(H) \geq 7n/9 + o(n)$ contains the square of a tight Hamilton cycle. This strengthens a theorem of Bedenknecht and Reiher that $\delta_2(H) \geq 4n/5 + o(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Debmalya Bandyopadhyay , Allan Lo , Richard Mycroft

In 1968, Erd\"os and Lov\'asz conjectured that for every graph $G$ and all integers $s,t\geq 2$ such that $s+t-1=\chi(G) > \omega(G)$, there exists a partition $(S,T)$ of the vertex set of $G$ such that $\chi(G|S)\geq s$ and $\chi(G|T)\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-05 Maria Chudnovsky , Alexandra Fradkin , Matthieu Plumettaz

Let $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that is regular and does not contain $F$ as a subgraph. We give lower bounds on $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$, that are best possible up to a constant factor, when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Michael Tait , Craig Timmons

A set $R\subseteq E(G)$ of a graph $G$ is $k$-removable if $G-R$ has a nowhere-zero $k$-flow. We prove that every graph $G$ admitting a nowhere-zero $4$-flow has a $3$-removable subset consisting of at most $\frac{1}{6}|E(G)|$ edges. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Davide Mattiolo

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $(H,+)$ be an abelian group. What is the minimum size ${\sf S}_H(G)$ of the set of all sums $A(u)+A(v)$ over all injections $A:V(G)\to H$? In 2012, the first author, Angel, the second author, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Noga Alon , Itai Benjamini , Georgii Zakharov , Maksim Zhukovskii

A graph $G$ is $H$-free, if it contains no $H$ as a subgraph. A graph is said to be \emph{$H$-minor free}, if it does not contain $H$ as a minor. In recent years, Nikiforov asked that what is the maximum spectral radius of an $H$-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Yuan Ren , Jing Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang

A graph $G$ is $\textit{universal}$ for a (finite) family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs if every $H \in \mathcal{H}$ is a subgraph of $G$. For a given family $\mathcal{H}$, the goal is to determine the smallest number of edges an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Noga Alon , Natalie Dodson , Carmen Jackson , Rose McCarty , Rajko Nenadov , Lani Southern

A stability result due to Ren, Wang, Wang and Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)] shows that if $3\le r \le 2k$ and $n\ge 318 (r-2)^2k$, and $G$ is a $C_{2k+1}$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $e(G)\ge \lfloor {(n-r+1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +{r…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Lantao Zou , Yongtao Li , Yuejian Peng

Let $n, d$ be integers with $1 \leq d \leq \left \lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \right \rfloor$, and set $h(n,d):={n-d \choose 2} + d^2$. Erd\H{o}s proved that when $n \geq 6d$, each nonhamiltonian graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Zoltán Füredi , Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

Ryser's conjecture says that for every $r$-partite hypergraph $H$ with matching number $\nu(H)$, the vertex cover number is at most $(r-1)\nu(H)$. This far reaching generalization of K\"onig's theorem is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Louis DeBiasio , Yigal Kamel , Grace McCourt , Hannah Sheats

Fix an integer $k \ge 3$. A $k$-uniform hypergraph is simple if every two edges share at most one vertex. We prove that there is a constant $c$ depending only on $k$ such that every simple $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with maximum degree $\D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-21 Alan Frieze , Dhruv Mubayi

The classical Erd\H{o}s-P\'{o}sa theorem states that for each positive integer k there is an f(k) such that, in each graph G which does not have k+1 disjoint cycles, there is a blocker of size at most f(k); that is, a set B of at most f(k)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Valentas Kurauskas , Colin McDiarmid

Let $H$ be a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices where $n$ is a sufficiently large integer not divisible by $k$. We prove that if the minimum $(k-1)$-degree of $H$ is at least $\lfloor n/k \rfloor$, then $H$ contains a matching with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Jie Han

A vertex of a graph is bisimplicial if the set of its neighbors is the union of two cliques; a graph is quasi-line if every vertex is bisimplicial. A recent result of Chudnovsky and Seymour asserts that every non-empty even-hole-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Zi-Xia Song

Let $G$ be a $k$-partite graph with $n$ vertices in parts such that each vertex is adjacent to at least $\delta^*(G)$ vertices in each of the other parts. Magyar and Martin \cite{MaMa} proved that for $k=3$, if $\delta^*(G)\ge 2/3n $ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Jie Han , Yi Zhao