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The codegree threshold $\mathrm{ex}_2(n, F)$ of a $3$-graph $F$ is the minimum $d=d(n)$ such that every $3$-graph on $n$ vertices in which every pair of vertices is contained in at least $d+1$ edges contains a copy of $F$ as a subgraph. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Victor Falgas-Ravry , Oleg Pikhurko , Emil R. Vaughan , Jan Volec

We propose the following conjecture extending Dirac's theorem: if $G$ is a graph with $n\ge 3$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta(G)\ge n/2$, then in every orientation of $G$ there is a Hamilton cycle with at least $\delta(G)$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one another edge. In this work we prove that each 1-planar graph of minimum degree at least $3$ contains an edge with degrees of its endvertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Bei Niu , Xin Zhang

Erd\H{o}s asked whether for any $n$-vertex graph $G$, the parameter $p^*(G)=\min \sum_{i\ge 1} (|V(G_i)|-1)$ is at most $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor$, where the minimum is taken over all edge decompositions of $G$ into edge-disjoint cliques $G_i$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jialin He , Jie Ma , Yan Wang , Chunlei Zu

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph is $t$-colourable. It is widely considered to be one of the most important conjectures in graph theory. If every $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph has minimum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-25 David R. Wood

We prove that every $n$ vertex linear triple system with $m$ edges has at least $m^6/n^7$ copies of a pentagon, provided $m>100 \, n^{3/2}$. This provides the first nontrivial bound for a question posed by Jiang and Yepremyan. More…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Dhruv Mubayi , Jozsef Solymosi

We prove that among all flag 3-manifolds on $n$ vertices, the join of two circles with $\left\lceil{\frac{n}{2}}\right \rceil$ and $\left\lfloor{\frac{n}{2}}\right \rfloor$ vertices respectively is the unique maximizer of the face numbers.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Hailun Zheng

A famous conjecture by Thomassen from 1983 asserts that for any given $k,g\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists some $d=d(k,g)\in \mathbb{N}$ such that every graph of minimum degree at least $d$ contains a subgraph of minimum degree at least $k$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Micha Christoph , Barnabás Janzer , Kalina Petrova , Raphael Steiner

We use Razborov's flag algebra method to show an asymptotic upper bound for the maximal induced density $i(\vec P_3)$ of the orgraph $\vec P_3$ in an arbitrary orgraph. A conjecture of Thomass\'e states that $i(\vec P_3)=2/5$. The hitherto…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-24 Konrad Sperfeld

The Heilbronn triangle problem asks for the placement of $n$ points in a unit square that maximizes the smallest area of a triangle formed by any three of those points. In $1972$, Schmidt considered a natural generalization of this problem.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Rishikesh Gajjala , Jayanth Ravi

An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of polygonal obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are connected by an edge in $G$ if and only if the line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Martin Balko , Josef Cibulka , Pavel Valtr

In 1995 Kim famously proved the Ramsey bound R(3,t) \ge c t^2/\log t by constructing an n-vertex graph that is triangle-free and has independence number at most C \sqrt{n \log n}. We extend this celebrated result, which is best possible up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 He Guo , Lutz Warnke

A directed graph is oriented if it can be obtained by orienting the edges of a simple, undirected graph. For an oriented graph $G$, let $\beta(G)$ denote the size of a minimum feedback arc set, a smallest subset of edges whose deletion…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Jacob Fox , Zoe Himwich , Nitya Mani

The segment number of a planar graph $G$ is the smallest number of line segments needed for a planar straight-line drawing of $G$. Dujmovi\'c, Eppstein, Suderman, and Wood [CGTA'07] introduced this measure for the visual complexity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Ina Goeßmann , Jonathan Klawitter , Boris Klemz , Felix Klesen , Stephen Kobourov , Myroslav Kryven , Alexander Wolff , Johannes Zink

In 2003, Bohman, Frieze, and Martin initiated the study of randomly perturbed graphs and digraphs. For digraphs, they showed that for every $\alpha>0$, there exists a constant $C$ such that for every $n$-vertex digraph of minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Igor Araujo , József Balogh , Robert A. Krueger , Simón Piga , Andrew Treglown

An orientation of $G$ is a digraph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge by exactly one of two possible arcs with the same endpoints. We call an orientation \emph{proper} if neighbouring vertices have different in-degrees. The proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 J. Ai , S. Gerke , G. Gutin , Y. Shi , Z. Taoqiu

We prove that every $k$-list-critical graph ($k \ge 7$) on $n \ge k+2$ vertices has at least $\frac12 \left(k-1 + \frac{k-3}{(k-c)(k-1) + k-3}\right)n$ edges where $c = (k-3)\left(\frac12 - \frac{1}{(k-1)(k-2)}\right)$. This improves the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Hal Kierstead , Landon Rabern

Extremal problems concerning the number of independent sets or complete subgraphs in a graph have been well studied in recent years. Cutler and Radcliffe proved that among graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $r$, where $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

Tuza famously conjectured in 1981 that in a graph without k+1 edge-disjoint triangles, it suffices to delete at most 2k edges to obtain a triangle-free graph. The conjecture holds for graphs with small treewidth or small maximum average…

A graph whose vertices are points in the plane and whose edges are noncrossing straight-line segments of unit length is called a \emph{matchstick graph}. We prove two somewhat counterintuitive results concerning the maximum number of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Panna Gehér , János Pach , Konrad Swanepoel , Géza Tóth