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We give a sharp bound on the number of triangles in a graph with fixed number of edges. We also characterize graphs that achieve the maximum number of triangles. Using the upper bound on number of triangles, we prove that if $G$ is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Tony N. Mavely , Viji Z. Thomas

We give an upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in simple graphs with a given number of vertices and edges. We apply this result to give an upper bound on the number of 2-factors in a directed complete bipartite balanced graph on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 M. Aaghabali , S. Akbari , S. Friedland , K. Markstrom , Z. Tajfirouz

In this note we prove a lower bound for the rank of 2-dimensional generic rigidity matroid for regular graphs of degree four and five. Also, we give examples to show the order of the bound we give is sharp.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Shisen Luo

A path in an edge-colored graph is called a proper path if no two adjacent edges of the path receive the same color. For a connected graph $G$, the proper connection number $pc(G)$ of $G$ is defined as the minimum number of colors needed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Fei Huang , Xueliang Li , Zhongmei Qin , Colton Magnant

In this note we confirm a conjecture raised by Benjamini et al. \cite{BST} on the acquaintance time of graphs, proving that for all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices it holds that $\AC(G) = O(n^{3/2})$, which is tight up to a multiplicative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Omer Angel , Igor Shinkar

The fascinating question of the maximum value of twin-width on planar graphs is nowadays not far from the final resolution; there is a lower bound of 7 coming from a construction by Kr\'al' and Lamaison [arXiv, September 2022], and an upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Petr Hliněný

A conjecture of the first two authors is that $n$ matchings of size $n$ in any graph have a rainbow matching of size $n-1$. We prove a lower bound of $\frac{2}{3}n-1$, improving on the trivial $\frac{1}{2}n$, and an analogous result for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Maria Chudnovsky , Shira Zerbib

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph on $n$ vertices. The minimum color degree of $G$, denoted by $\delta^c(G)$, is defined as the minimum number of colors assigned to the edges incident to a vertex in $G$. In 2013, H. Li proved that an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Xueliang Li , Bo Ning , Yongtang Shi , Shenggui Zhang

Let $G$ be a finite group, the enhanced power graph of $G$, denoted by $\Gamma_G^e$, is the graph with vertex set $G$ and two vertices $x,y$ are edge connected in $\Gamma_{G}^e$ if there exist $z\in G$ such that $x,y\in\langle z\rangle$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Luis A. Dupont , Daniel G. Mendoza , Miriam Rodríguez

A strong edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that any two edges on a path of length three receive distinct colors. We denote the strong chromatic index by $\chi_{s}'(G)$ which is the minimum number of colors that allow a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Baochen Zhang , Yulin Chang , Jie Hu , Meijie Ma , Donglei Yang

Let G be a bridgeless cubic graph. A well-known conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson can be stated as follows: there exist five perfect matchings of G such that each edge of G is contained in at least one of them. Here, we prove that in each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

We call an edge-colored graph rainbow if all of its edges receive distinct colors. An edge-colored graph $\Gamma$ is called $H$-rainbow saturated if $\Gamma$ does not contain a rainbow copy of $H$ and adding an edge of any color to $\Gamma$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Kevin Hendrey , Ben Lund , Casey Tompkins

Let $G$ be a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ which does not contain isolated vertices. An edge coloring $c$ of $G$ is called conflict-free if each edge's closed neighborhood includes a uniquely colored element. The least number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

An edge-colored graph $G$ is conflict-free connected if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The conflict-free connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Jing Wang , Meng Ji

A path $P$ in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called \emph{a proper path} if no two adjacent edges of $P$ are colored the same, and $G$ is \emph{proper connected} if every two vertices of $G$ are connected by a proper path in $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Yaping Mao , Fengnan Yanling , Zhao Wang , Chengfu Ye

The concept of rainbow connection was introduced by Chartrand et al. in 2008. It is fairly interesting and recently quite a lot papers have been published about it. In this survey we attempt to bring together most of the results and papers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

Let $\Lambda(T)$ denote the set of leaves in a tree $T$. One natural problem is to look for a spanning tree $T$ of a given graph $G$ such that $\Lambda(T)$ is as large as possible. This problem is called maximum leaf number, and it is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Peter Bradshaw , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Ladislav Stacho

The \emph{minimum leaf number} $\hbox{ml} (G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is defined as the minimum number of leaves of the spanning trees of $G$. We present new results concerning the minimum leaf number of cubic graphs: we show that if $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Jan Goedgebeur , Kenta Ozeki , Nico Van Cleemput , Gábor Wiener

A rainbow neighbourhood of a graph $G$ with respect to a proper colouring $\C$ of $G$ is the closed neighbourhood $N[v]$ of a vertex $v$ in $G$ such that $N[v]$ consists of vertices from all colour classes in $G$ with respect to $\C$. The…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Johan Kok , Sudev Naduvath , Orville Buelban

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The minimum number of colors required to color the edges of $G$ such that every pair of vertices are connected by at least $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian