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Robertson and Seymour proved two fundamental theorems about tangles in graphs: the tree-of-tangles theorem, which says that every graph has a tree-decomposition such that distinguishable tangles live in different nodes of the tree, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Sandra Albrechtsen

The graph reconstruction conjecture asserts that every simple graph on at least three vertices is uniquely determined by its deck of vertex-deleted subgraphs. In this expository article we survey the conjecture and present an…

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Let $G$ be a connected undirected graph on $n$ vertices with no loops but possibly multiedges. Given an arithmetical structure $(\textbf{r}, \textbf{d})$ on $G$, we describe a construction which associates to it a graph $G'$ on $n-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Christopher Keyes , Tomer Reiter

Knots are commonly represented and manipulated via diagrams, which are decorated planar graphs. When such a knot diagram has low treewidth, parameterized graph algorithms can be leveraged to ensure the fast computation of many invariants…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Corentin Lunel , Arnaud de Mesmay

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

A simple probabilistic argument shows that every $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges contains an $r$-partite subhypergraph with at least $\frac{r!}{r^r}m$ edges. The celebrated result of Edwards states that in the case of graphs, that is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Eero Räty , István Tomon

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

In this paper, we present new incremental algorithms for maintaining data structures that represent all connectivity cuts of size one in directed graphs (digraphs), and the strongly connected components that result by the removal of each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

We propose an alternative proof concerning necessary and sufficient conditions to split the problem of searching for d-separators and building the skeleton of a DAG into small problems for every node of a separation tree T. The proof is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mohammad Ali Javidian , Marco Valtorta

One version of Whitehead's famous cut vertex lemma says that if an element of a free group is part of a free basis, then a certain graph associated to its conjugacy class that we call the star graph is either disconnected or has a cut…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Rylee Alanza Lyman

We describe the structure of triconnected graph with the help of its decomposition by 3-cutsets. We divide all 3-cutsets of a triconnected graph into rather small groups with a simple structure, named complexes. The detailed description of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Dmitri Karpov , Alexey Pastor

In this paper we present a proof system that operates on graphs instead of formulas. Starting from the well-known relationship between formulas and cographs, we drop the cograph-conditions and look at arbitrary undirected) graphs. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matteo Acclavio , Ross Horne , Lutz Straßburger

Graph decompositions are the natural generalisation of tree decompositions where the decomposition tree is replaced by a genuine graph. Recently they found theoretical applications in the theory of sparsity, topological graph theory,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Johannes Carmesin , Sarah Frenkel

Graphlets are subgraphs rooted at a fixed vertex. The number of occurrences of graphlets aligned to a particular vertex, called graphlet degree sequence (gds), gives a topological description of the surrounding of the analyzed vertex.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 David Hartman , Aneta Pokorná , Daniel Trlifaj , Lluís Vena

In 2006, Bar\'at and Thomassen posed the following conjecture: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(G)|$ is divisible by $|E(T)|$, then $G$ admits a decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Fabio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

We prove that every graph which admits a tree-decomposition into finite parts has a rooted tree-decomposition into finite parts that is linked, tight and componental. As an application, we obtain that every graph without half-grid minor has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Sandra Albrechtsen , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

We prove several criteria for quasi-isometry between non-locally-finite graphs and their structure trees. Results of M\"oller in \cite{moeller92ends2} for locally finite and transitive graphs are generalized. We also give a criterion which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernhard Krön

We study connected graphs with a fixed degree sequence, in the sparse setting where the number of edges grows linearly in the number of vertices. Using the relation to the configuration model, we identify the number of such connected graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sasha Bell , Serte Donderwinkel , Remco van der Hofstad

We introduce three new cut tree structures of graphs $G$ in which the vertex set of the tree is a partition of $V(G)$ and contractions of tree vertices satisfy sparsification requirements that preserve various types of cuts. Recently,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-04 On-Hei Solomon Lo , Jens M. Schmidt

Robertson and Seymour constructed for every graph $G$ a tree-decomposition that efficiently distinguishes all the tangles in $G$. While all previous constructions of these decompositions are either iterative in nature or not canonical, we…

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