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A graph $G=(V,E)$ is geometrically embeddable into a normed space $X$ when there is a mapping $\zeta: V\to X$ such that $\|\zeta(v)-\zeta(w)\|_X\leqslant 1$ if and only if $\{v,w\}\in E$, for all distinct $v,w\in V$. Our result is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Dylan J. Altschuler , Pandelis Dodos , Konstantin Tikhomirov , Konstantinos Tyros

For a graph $G$, let $c_k(G)$ be the number of spanning trees of $G$ with maximum degree at most $k$. For $k \ge 3$, it is proved that every connected $n$-vertex $r$-regular graph $G$ with $r \ge \frac{n}{k+1}$ satisfies $$ c_k(G)^{1/n} \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Raphael Yuster

An identifying code $C$ of a graph $G$ is a dominating set of $G$ such that any two distinct vertices of $G$ have distinct closed neighbourhoods within $C$. The smallest size of an identifying code of $G$ is denoted $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Florent Foucaud , Tuomo Lehtilä

A linear forest is a union of vertex-disjoint paths, and the linear arboricity of a graph $G$, denoted by $\operatorname{la}(G)$, is the minimum number of linear forests needed to partition the edge set of $G$. Clearly,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Guantao Chen , Yanli Hao , Guoning Yu

We introduce the concept of Most, and Least, Compact Spanning Trees - denoted respectively by $T^*(G)$ and $T^\#(G)$ - of a simple, connected, undirected and unweighted graph $G(V, E, W)$. For a spanning tree $T(G) \in \mathcal{T}(G)$ to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Gyan Ranjan , Nishant Saurabh , Amit Ashutosh

The toughness of a graph $G$ is defined as the largest real number $t$ such that for any set $S\subseteq V(G)$ such that $G-S$ is disconnected, $S$ has at least $t$ times more elements than $G-S$ has components (unless $G$ is complete, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 J. Pascal Gollin , Martin Milanič , Laura Ogrin

A (molecular) graph in which all vertices have the same degree is known as a regular graph. According to Gutman, Hansen, and M\'elot [J. Chem. Inf. Model. 45 (2005) 222-230], it is of interest to measure the irregularity of nonregular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Akbar Ali , Darko Dimitrov , Tamás Réti , Abeer M. Albalahi , Amjad E. Hamza

Let ${\cal G}=(G,w)$ be a weighted graph , that is, a graph $G$ endowed with a function $w$ from the edge set of $G$ to the set of real numbers; for any subset $S$ of the vertex set of $G$, we define $D_S({\cal G})$ to be the minimum of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Agnese Baldisserri , Elena Rubei

A vertex set $S$ is a generalized $k$-independent set if the induced subgraph $G[S]$ contains no tree on $k$ vertices. The generalized $k$-independence number $\alpha_k(G)$ is the maximum size of such a set. For a tree $T$ with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Jing Huang , Jiaxin Tang

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. A subset $I$ of $V(G)$ is an independent vertex subset if no two vertices in $I$ are adjacent in $G$. We study the number, $\sigma_1(G)$, of all subsets of $v(G)$ that contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Eric Ould Dadah Andriantiana , Zekhaya B. Shozi

A graph in which all minimal zero forcing sets are in fact minimum size is called ``well-forced." This paper characterizes well-forced trees and presents an algorithm for determining which trees are well-forced. Additionally, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Cheryl Grood , Ruth Haas , Bonnie Jacob , Erika King , Shahla Nasserasr

We prove that for every graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, the treewidth of $G$ plus the treewidth of the complement of $G$ is at least $n-2$. This bound is tight.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

For an integer $k$ at least $2$, and a graph $G$, let $f_k(G)$ be the minimum cardinality of a set $X$ of vertices of $G$ such that $G-X$ has either $k$ vertices of maximum degree or order less than $k$. Caro and Yuster (Discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 M. Fürst , M. Gentner , M. A. Henning , S. Jäger , D. Rautenbach

For intractable problems on graphs of bounded treewidth, two graph parameters treedepth and vertex cover number have been used to obtain fine-grained complexity results. Although the studies in this direction are successful, we still need a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Let G = (V,E) be a finite, simple and undirected graph. For $S \subseteq V$, let $\delta(S,G) = \{(u,v) \in E : u \in S \mbox {and} v \in V-S \}$ be the edge boundary of $S$. Given an integer $i$, $1 \leq i \leq | V |$, let the edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-09 B. V. Subramanya Bharadwaj , L. Sunil Chandran

In this paper we investigate the bipartite analogue of the strong Erdos-Hajnal property. We prove that for every forest $H$ and every $\tau>0$ there exists $\epsilon>0$, such that if $G$ has a bipartition $(A,B)$ and does not contain $H$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

The total graph of $G$, $\mathcal T(G)$ is the graph whose set of vertices is the union of the sets of vertices and edges of $G$, where two vertices are adjacent if and only if they stand for either incident or adjacent elements in $G$. Let…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Eber Lenes , Exequiel Mallea-Zepeda , María Robbiano , Jonnathan Rodríguez

Let ${\mathcal T}(n,m)$ and ${\mathcal F}(n,m)$ denote the classes of weighted trees and forests, respectively, of order $n$ with the positive integral weights and the fixed total weight sum $m$, respectively. In this paper, we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-30 Richard A. Brualdi , Jia-Yu Shao , Shi-Cai Gong , Chang-Qing Xu , Guang-Hui Xu

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc. 1983] claimed to prove that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $ \frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges that contains every $n$-vertex tree as a subgraph. Frati, Hoffmann and T\'oth [Combin.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Neel Kaul , Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim , David R. Wood

Let G be a group, let T be an (oriented) G-tree with finite edge stabilizers, and let VT denote the vertex set of T. We show that, for each G-retract V' of the G-set VT, there exists a G-tree whose edge stabilizers are finite and whose…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Warren Dicks , M. J. Dunwoody