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Let $G$ be a simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$ and chromatic index $\chi'(G)$. A classic result of Vizing indicates that either $\chi'(G )=\Delta(G)$ or $\chi'(G )=\Delta(G)+1$. The graph $G$ is called $\Delta$-critical if $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Yan Cao , Guantao Chen , Guangming Jing , Songling Shan

A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is overfull if $ |E(H) | > \Delta(G) \lfloor |V(H)|/2 \rfloor$. Analogous to the Overfull Conjecture proposed by Chetwynd and Hilton in 1986, Stiebitz et al. in 2012 formed the multigraph version of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Michael J. Plantholt , Songling Shan

Let $D=(V,A)$ be a digraph. We define $\Delta_{\max}(D)$ as the maximum of $\{ \max(d^+(v),d^-(v)) \mid v \in V \}$ and $\Delta_{\min}(D)$ as the maximum of $\{ \min(d^+(v),d^-(v)) \mid v \in V \}$. It is known that the dichromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta

A graph $G$ is said to have \textit{bandwidth} at most $b$, if there exists a labeling of the vertices by $1,2,..., n$, so that $|i - j| \leq b$ whenever $\{i,j\}$ is an edge of $G$. Recently, B\"{o}ttcher, Schacht, and Taraz verified a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Hao Huang , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

We prove that the dimension of every poset whose comparability graph has maximum degree $\Delta$ is at most $\Delta\log^{1+o(1)} \Delta$. This result improves on a 30-year old bound of F\"uredi and Kahn, and is within a $\log^{o(1)}\Delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Alex Scott , David R. Wood

An edge $e$ of a matching covered graph $G$ is removable if $G-e$ is also matching covered. Carvalho, Lucchesi, and Murty showed that every brick $G$ different from $K_4$ and $\overline{C_6}$ has at least $\Delta-2$ removable edges, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Deyu Wu , Yipei Zhang , Xiumei Wang

Kostochka and Yancey proved that every 5-critical graph G satisfies: |E(G)|>= (9/4)|V(G)| - 5/4. A construction of Ore gives an infinite family of graphs meeting this bound. We prove that there exists e,d > 0 such that if G is a 5-critical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Luke Postle

For a graph $G$, we show that if $mad(G)<m$, then $\chi'_\ell(G)\leq \Delta+1$ where $m$ depends upon $\Delta$ and $\chi'_\ell(G)$ is the list-chromatic index of $G$. When $\Delta\leq 20$ the value of $m$ is close to $\frac{1}{2}\Delta$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Joshua Harrelson

For a graph $H$, the {\em extremal number} $ex(n,H)$ is the maximum number of edges in a graph of order $n$ not containing a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Let $\delta(H)>0$ and $\Delta(H)$ denote the minimum degree and maximum degree of $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Noga Alon , Raphael Yuster

Given a graph $G$ and a non trivial partition $(V_1,V_2)$ of its vertex-set, the satisfaction of a vertex $v\in V_i$ is the ratio between the size of it's closed neighborhood in $V_i$ and the size of its closed neighborhood in $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Valentin Bouquet , François Delbot , Christophe Picouleau

We prove that constant minimum degree already forces cycles with almost linearly many chords. Specifically, every graph $G$ with $\delta(G)\ge C$ contains a cycle of length $\ell\ge 4$ with $\Omega(\ell/\log^{C}\ell)$ chords for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Nemanja Draganić , António Girão

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set such that the two resulting parts differ in size by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges that connect vertices in the two parts. The perfect matching condition and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jianfeng Hou , Shufei Wu , Yuanyuan Zhong

Let $H$ be a graph with $\Delta(H) \leq 2$, and let $G$ be obtained from $H$ by gluing in vertex-disjoint copies of $K_4$. We prove that if $H$ contains at most one odd cycle of length exceeding $3$, or if $H$ contains at most $3$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Jessica McDonald , Gregory J. Puleo

Let $a,b,n$ be three positive integers such that $a\equiv b\pmod 2$ and $n\geq b(a+b)(a+b+2)/(2a)$. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ with minimum degree at least $a+b/a-1$. We show that $G$ has an $(a,b)$-parity factor, if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Haodong Liu , Hongliang Lu

Zykov showed in 1949 that among graphs on $n$ vertices with clique number $\omega(G) \le \omega$, the Tur\'an graph $T_{\omega}(n)$ maximizes not only the number of edges but also the number of copies of $K_t$ for each size $t$. The problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-08 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$, maximum degree at most $\Delta$, and no component of order $2$. Inspired by the famous 1-2-3-conjecture, Bensmail, Marcille, and Orenga define a proper pushing scheme of $G$ as a function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Dieter Rautenbach , Laurin Schwartze , Florian Werner

Let $r\geq 3$ be an integer and $G$ be a graph. Let $\delta(G), \Delta(G)$, $\alpha(G)$ and $\mu(G)$ denotes minimum degree, maximum degree, independence number and matching number of $G$, respectively. Recently, Caro, Davila and Pepper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongliang Lu , Xixuan yang

The "slope-number" of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane. We prove that for $\Delta\geq5$ and all large $n$, there is a $\Delta$-regular $n$-vertex graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Vida Dujmovic' , Matthew Suderman , David R. Wood

A proper edge colouring of a graph is adjacent vertex distinguishing if no two adjacent vertices see the same set of colours. Using a clever application of the Local Lemma, Hatami (2005) proved that every graph with maximum degree $\Delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Gwenaël Joret , William Lochet

Recently, Behr introduced a notion of the chromatic index of signed graphs and proved that for every signed graph $(G$, $\sigma)$ it holds that \[ \Delta(G)\leq\chi'(G\text{, }\sigma)\leq\Delta(G)+1\text{,} \] where $\Delta(G)$ is the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Robert Janczewski , Krzysztof Turowski , Bartłomiej Wróblewski