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Given an integer $\ell\ge 1$, a $(1,\le \ell)$-identifying code in a digraph is a dominating subset $C$ of vertices such that all distinct subsets of vertices of cardinality at most $\ell$ have distinct closed in-neighbourhood within $C$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-20 C. Balbuena , C. Dalfó , B. Martínez-Barona

Over all graphs (or unicyclic graphs) of a given order, we characterise those graphs that minimise or maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs. For each of these classes, we find that the graphs that minimise the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

Call a colouring of a graph distinguishing, if the only colour preserving automorphism is the identity. A conjecture of Tucker states that if every automorphism of a graph $G$ moves infinitely many vertices, then there is a distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

A graph $G$ is said to be $d$-distinguishable if there is a labeling of the vertices with $d$ labels so that only the trivial automorphism preserves the labels. The smallest such $d$ is the distinguishing number, Dist($G$). A subset of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Debra Boutin , Sally Cockburn

A set $S$ of vertices of a digraph $D$ is called an open neighbourhood locating-dominating set if every vertex in $D$ has an in-neighbour in $S$, and for every pair $u,v$ of vertices of $D$, there is a vertex in $S$ that is an in-neighbour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Florent Foucaud , Narges Ghareghani , Pouyeh Sharifani

We consider the problem of computing identifying codes of graphs and its fractional relaxation. The ratio between the size of optimal integer and fractional solutions is between 1 and 2 ln(|V|)+1 where V is the set of vertices of the graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Sylvain Gravier , Aline Parreau , Sara Rottey , Leo Storme , Elise Vandomme

A set S of vertices of a graph G is a dominating set of G if every vertex u of G is either in S or it has a neighbour in S. In other words, S is dominating if the sets S\cap N[u] where u \in V(G) and N[u] denotes the closed neighbourhood of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-20 M. Ghebleh , L. Niepel

A set $C$ of vertices in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is an identifying code if it is dominating and any two vertices of $V$ are dominated by distinct sets of codewords. This paper presents a survey of Iiro Honkala's contributions to the study of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Olivier Hudry , Ville Junnila , Antoine Lobstein

A dissociation set in a graph is a subset of vertices which induces a subgraph with maximum degree at most one. The dissociation number of a graph is the maximum cardinality of its dissociation sets. In this paper, we consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Zejun Huang , Jiahui Liu , Chenxi Yang

The main purpose of this paper is to prove the uniqueness of a graph attaining the maximum of the number of independent sets over all $k$-regular graphs on $n$ vertices for $2k|n$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Alexei Dmitriev , Alex Dainiak

The binding number $b(G)$ of a graph, introduced by Woodall [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 1973], is a central topic of both structural and extremal graph theory. It is closely related to fundamental combinatorial and structural properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Ruifang Liu , Hongyu Chen , Ao Fan

We introduce a variant of the vertex-distinguishing edge coloring problem, where each edge is assigned a subset of colors. The label of a vertex is the union of the sets of colors on edges incident to it. In this paper we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Hamamache Kheddouci , Aline Parreau

Graph theoretical problems based on shortest paths are at the core of research due to their theoretical importance and applicability. This paper deals with the geodetic number which is a global measure for simple connected graphs and it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ahmad T. Anaqreh , Boglarka G. -Toth , Tamas Vinko

The \emph{distance-number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge-lengths over all straight-line drawings of $G$ in the plane. This definition generalises many well-known concepts in combinatorial geometry. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Paz Carmi , Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

A labelling of a graph is an assignment of labels to its vertex or edge sets (or both), subject to certain conditions, a well established concept. A labelling of a graph G of order n is termed a numbering when the set of integers {1,...,n}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Les Foulds , Humberto J. Longo

The distinguishing number of a graph $G$, denoted $D(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to produce a coloring of the vertices of $G$ so that every nontrivial isomorphism interchanges vertices of different colors. A list assignment…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Michael Ferrara , Zoltan Furedi , Sogol Jahanbekam , Paul Wenger

For an edge-colored graph $G$, the minimum color degree of $G$ means the minimum number of colors on edges which are adjacent to each vertex of $G$. We prove that if $G$ is an edge-colored graph with minimum color degree at least $5$ then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Ruonan Li , Shinya Fujita , Guanghui Wang

We study the problem of finding a maximum cardinality minimal separator of a graph. This problem is known to be NP-hard even for bipartite graphs. In this paper, we strengthen this hardness by showing that for planar bipartite graphs, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Tsuyoshi Yagita

A graph $G$ of order $n$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical for integers $1\leq k < n$, if the removal of any $k$ vertices results in a graph with a perfect matching. A $k$-factor-critical graph $G$ is called minimal if for any edge $e\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Jing Guo , Heping Zhang