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Erd\H{o}s, Fajtlowicz and Staton asked for the least integer $f(k)$ such that every graph with more than $f(k)$ vertices has an induced regular subgraph with at least $k$ vertices. Here we consider the following relaxed notions. Let $g(k)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

A graph $G$ is $H$-saturated if it contains no copy of $H$ as a subgraph but the addition of any new edge to $G$ creates a copy of $H$. In this paper we are interested in the function sat$_{t}(n,p)$, defined to be the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 A. Nicholas Day

Given a function $p : V(G)\to \mathbb N$ and an integer $k\ge 0$, define $p_k(G)$ as the number of vertices with $p(v)\ge k$. We say that $p_k(G)$ is bounded for all $\HH$-free graphs if there exists a constant $c=c(\HH)$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Jin Sun , Xinmin Hou

Reed and Wood and independently Norine, Seymour, Thomas, and Wollan proved that for each positive integer $t$ there is a constant $c(t)$ such that every graph on $n$ vertices with no $K_t$-minor has at most $c(t)n$ cliques. Wood asked in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Jacob Fox , Fan Wei

In this note we prove that for every integer $k$, there exist constants $g_{1}(k)$ and $g_{2}(k)$ such that the following holds. If $G$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree $\Delta$ then it contains an induced subgraph $H$ on at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-26 António Girão , Kamil Popielarz

A graph of order $n$ is said to be $k$-\emph{factor-critical} $(0\le k<n)$ if the removal of any $k$ vertices results in a graph with a perfect matching. A $k$-factor-critical graph $G$ is \emph{minimal} if $G-e$ is not $k$-factor-critical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Kevin Pereyra

Let H = (H,V) be a hypergraph with edge set H and vertex set V. Then hypergraph H is invertible iff there exists a permutation pi of V such that for all E belongs to H(edges) intersection of(pi(E) and E)=0. H is invertibility critical if H…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Emanuel Knill

We say that a graph G has a perfect H-packing (also called an H-factor) if there exists a set of disjoint copies of H in G which together cover all the vertices of G. Given a graph H, we determine, asymptotically, the Ore-type degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-02 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Treglown

A graph $G$ is $m$-joined if there is an edge between every two disjoint $m$-sets of vertices. In this paper, we prove that for any $\varepsilon>0$ and sufficiently large $m, n\in \mathbb{N}$ with $m \le n^{1-\varepsilon}$, every $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Xia Wang , Donglei Yang

We study sufficient conditions for the generic rigidity of a graph $G$ expressed in terms of (i) its minimum degree $\delta(G)$, or (ii) the parameter $\eta(G)=\min_{uv\notin E}(\deg(u)+\deg(v))$. For each case, we seek the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Tibor Jordán , Xuemei Liu , Soma Villányi

We prove for every graph H there exists a>0 such that, for every graph G with at least two vertices, if no induced subgraph of G is a subdivision of H, then either some vertex of G has at least a|G| neighbours, or there are two disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

We show that every graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ and sufficiently large order has a vertex cutset $S$ of order at most $\Delta$ that induces a subgraph $G[S]$ of maximum degree at most $\Delta-3$. For $\Delta\in \{ 4,5\}$, we refine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Stéphane Bessy , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

Immersion minor is an important variant of graph minor, defined through an injective mapping from vertices in a smaller graph $H$ to vertices in a larger graph $G$ where adjacent elements of the former are connected in the latter by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiangyi Meng , Yu Tian

We prove that any graph $G$ of minimum degree greater than $2k^2-1$ has a $(k+1)$-connected induced subgraph $H$ such that the number of vertices of $H$ that have neighbors outside of $H$ is at most $2k^2-1$. This generalizes a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Irena Penev , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon

A subset $M$ of the edges of a graph or hypergraph is hitting if $M$ covers each vertex of $H$ at least once, and $M$ is $t$-shallow if it covers each vertex of $H$ at most $t$ times. We consider the existence of shallow hitting edge sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Tim Planken , Torsten Ueckerdt

We prove that if a graph contains the complete bipartite graph $K_{134, 12}$ as an induced minor, then it contains a cycle of length at most~12 or a theta as an induced subgraph. With a longer and more technical proof, we prove that if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Meike Hatzel , Tuukka Korhonen , Nicolas Trotignon , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Mader proved that for every integer $t$ there is a smallest real number $c(t)$ such that any graph with average degree at least $c(t)$ must contain a $K_t$-minor. Fiorini, Joret, Theis and Wood conjectured that any graph with $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Richard Montgomery

Extremal properties of sparse graphs, randomly perturbed by the binomial random graph are considered. It is known that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ contains a complete minor of order $\Omega(n/\alpha(G))$. We prove that adding $\xi n$ random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-15 Elad Aigner-Horev , Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich

We prove a structural characterization of graphs that forbid a fixed graph $H$ as an immersion and can be embedded in a surface of Euler genus $\gamma$. In particular, we prove that a graph $G$ that excludes some connected graph $H$ as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Marcin Kaminski , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

According to the classic Chv{\'{a}}tal's Lemma from 1977, a graph of minimum degree $\delta(G)$ contains every tree on $\delta(G)+1$ vertices. Our main result is the following algorithmic "extension" of Chv\'{a}tal's Lemma: For any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov