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Nancy G. Kinnersley and Michael A. Langston has determined the excluded minors for the class of graphs with path-width at most two by computer. Their list consisted of 110 graphs. Such a long list is difficult to handle and gives no insight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-27 János Barát , Péter Hajnal , Yixun Lin , Aifeng Yang

In this paper, we give definitions of three kinds of minimal charts, and we investigate properties of minimal charts and establish fundamental theorems characterizing minimal charts. To classify charts with two or three crossings we use the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Teruo Nagase , Akiko Shima

We determine a lower bound for the number of edges of a 2-connected maximal nontraceable graph, and present a construction of an infinite family of maximal nontraceable graphs that realize this bound.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marietjie Frick , Joy Singleton

We study inequalities between integer-valued knot invariants arising from classical knot theory, four-dimensional topology, knot homologies, and knot polynomials. We present a directed graph consisting of 48 inequalities between 33 knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Michal Jablonowski

The subgraph number of a vertex in a graph is defined as the number of connected subgraphs containing that vertex. The graph and its vertex which correspond to the minimum subgraph number among all graphs on $n$ vertices and $k$ cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Dinesh Pandey , Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi

Computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph is a notoriously difficult problem. Towards this goal, for graphs that are minimally rigid in the plane, we take advantage of a recently published algorithm, which is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Elias Tsigaridas

We classify which complete multipartite graphs are intrinsically chiral.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Erica Flapan , Will Fletcher

For a positive integer $k$, a graph is $k$-knitted if for each $k$-subset $S$ of vertices, and every partition of $S$ into disjoint parts $S_1, \ldots, S_t$ for some $t\ge 1$, one can find disjoint connected subgraphs $C_1, \ldots, C_t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Runrun Liu , Martin Rolek , Gexin Yu

The graph parameter treedepth is minor-monotone; hence, the class of graphs with treedepth at most $k$ is minor-closed. By the Graph Minor Theorem, such a class is characterized by a finite set of forbidden minors. A conjecture of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kolja Kühn

A graph is k-linked if any k disjoint vertex-pairs can be joined by k disjoint paths. We improve a lower bound on the linkedness of polytopes slightly, which results in exact values for the minimal linkedness of 7-, 10- and 13-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-22 Axel Werner , Ronald F. Wotzlaw

A graph G is weakly 4-connected if it is 3-connected, has at least five vertices, and for every pair of sets (A,B) with union V(G) and intersection of size three such that no edge has one end in A-B and the other in B-A, one of the induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Rajneesh Hegde , Robin Thomas

A graph is called matching covered if for its every edge there is a maximum matching containing it. It is shown that minimal matching covered graphs contain a perfect matching.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-07-16 V. V. Mkrtchyan

In this paper we study underlying graphs corresponding to a set of halving lines. We establish many properties of such graphs. In addition, we tighten the upper bound for the number of halving lines.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Tanya Khovanova , Dai Yang

We show that there are four infinite prime graphs such that every infinite prime graph with no infinite clique embeds one of these graphs. We derive a similar result for infinite prime posets with no infinite chain or no infinite antichain.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Maurice Pouzet , Imed Zaguia

In the study of full bubble model graphs of bounded clique-width and bounded linear clique-width, we determined complete sets of forbidden induced subgraphs, that are minimal in the class of full bubble model graphs. In this note, we show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Daniel Meister , Udi Rotics

We say that a graph is intrinsically non-trivial if every spatial embedding of the graph contains a non-trivial spatial subgraph. We prove that an intrinsically non-trivial graph is intrinsically linked, namely every spatial embedding of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ryo Nikkuni

We prove that any $11$-colorable knot is presented by an $11$-colored diagram where exactly five colors of eleven are assigned to the arcs. The number five is the minimum for all non-trivially $11$-colored diagrams of the knot. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Takuji Nakamura , Yasutaka Nakanishi , Shin Satoh

It is well known that every sufficiently large connected graph has, as an induced subgraph, $K_n$, $K_{1,n}$, or an $n$-vertex path. A 2023 paper of Allred, Ding, and Oporowski identified a set of unavoidable induced subgraphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wayne Ge , James Oxley

In this paper, under the assumption of Gauss curvature vanishing at infinity, we will prove Meeks' conjecture: the number of disjointly supported minimal graphs in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is at most two.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Linfeng Zhou

This paper, to be regularly updated, lists those prime knots with the fewest possible number of crossings for which values of basic knot invariants, such as the unknotting number or the smooth 4-genus, are unknown. This list is being…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Jae Choon Cha , Charles Livingston