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Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. We call a subset $A$ of the vertex set $V(G)$ \emph{$k$-small} if, for every vertex $v \in A$, $\deg(v) \le n - |A| + k$. A subset $B \subseteq V(G)$ is called \emph{$k$-large} if, for every vertex $u \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Asen Bojilov , Yair Caro , Adriana Hansberg , Nedyalko Nenov

This article investigates the properties of order-divisor graphs associated with finite groups. An order-divisor graph of a finite group is an undirected graph in which the set of vertices includes all elements of the group, and two…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Shafiq ur Rehman , Raheela Tahir , Farhat Noor

In a graph $G$, a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V(G)$ is said to be cyclable if there is a cycle containing the vertices in some order. $G$ is said to be $k$-cyclable if any subset of $k \geq 2$ vertices is cyclable. If any $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Niranjan Balachandran , Anish Hebbar

We generalise structure tree theory, which is based on removing finitely many edges, to removing finitely many vertices. This gives a significant generalization of Tutte's tree decomposition of 2-connected graphs into 3-connected blocks.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody , B. Krön

Let s1, t1,. . . sk, tk be vertices in a graph G embedded on a surface \sigma of genus g. A vertex v of G is "redundant" if there exist k vertex disjoint paths linking si and ti (1 \lequal i \lequal k) in G if and only if such paths also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Frédéric Mazoit

Menger's theorem says that, for $k\ge0$, if $S, T$ are sets of vertices in a graph $G$, then either there are $k + 1$ vertex-disjoint paths between $S$ and $T$, or there is a set X of at most $k$ vertices such that every $S$-$T$ path passes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We prove that if an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is non-extremal and $T$ is a bounded degree tree on $n$ vertices, then $T\subset G$ even when the minimum degree of $G$ is less than $n/2$ by a linear term. We avoid the use of the Regularity lemma,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Béla Csaba

A regular graph $G = (V,E)$ is an $(\varepsilon,\gamma)$ small-set expander if for any set of vertices of fractional size at most $\varepsilon$, at least $\gamma$ of the edges that are adjacent to it go outside. In this paper, we give a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Mark Braverman , Dor Minzer

An infinite graph is quasi-transitive if its vertex set has finitely many orbits under the action of its automorphism group. In this paper we obtain a structure theorem for locally finite quasi-transitive graphs avoiding a minor, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Louis Esperet , Ugo Giocanti , Clément Legrand-Duchesne

Menger's theorem tells us that if $S,T$ are sets of vertices in a graph $G$, then (for $k\ge0$) either there are $k+1$ vertex-disjoint paths between $S$ and $T$, or there is a set of $k$ vertices separating $S$ and $T$. But what if we want…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We prove a quantitative, finitary version of Trofimov's result that a connected, locally finite vertex-transitive graph G of polynomial growth admits a quotient with finite fibres on which the action of Aut(G) is virtually nilpotent with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Romain Tessera , Matthew Tointon

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph where $V$ and $E$ are the vertex and edge sets, respectively. For two disjoint subsets $A$ and $B$ of $V$, we say $A$ \textit{dominates} $B$ if every vertex of $B$ is adjacent to at least one vertex of $A$ in $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Kamal Santra

We consider the problem of computing identifying codes of graphs and its fractional relaxation. The ratio between the size of optimal integer and fractional solutions is between 1 and 2 ln(|V|)+1 where V is the set of vertices of the graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Sylvain Gravier , Aline Parreau , Sara Rottey , Leo Storme , Elise Vandomme

A recent development in graph-minor theory is to study local separators, vertex-sets that separate graphs locally but not necessarily globally. The local separators of a graph roughly correspond to the genuine separators of its local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Johannes Carmesin , George Kontogeorgiou , Jan Kurkofka , Will J. Turner

We generalise the standard constructions of a Cayley graph in terms of a group presentation by allowing some vertices to obey different relators than others. The resulting notion of presentation allows us to represent every vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Matthias Hamann , Alex Wendland

For a vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G(V,E)$ and a subset $S$ of $V$, the distance between $v$ and $S$ is defined by $d(v,S)=min\{d(v,x):x \in S \}.$ For an ordered \emph{k}-partition $\Pi=\{S_1,S_2\ldots S_k\}$ of $V$, the representation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Cyriac Grigorious , Sudeep Stephen , Bharati Rajan , Mirka Miller , Paul Manuel

Vertex splitting is a graph modification operation in which a vertex is replaced by multiple vertices such that the union of their neighborhoods equals the neighborhood of the original vertex. We introduce and study vertex splitting as a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Dipayan Chakraborty , Lucas Isenmann , Nacim Oijid

The separation dimension of a graph $G$, written $\pi(G)$, is the minimum number of linear orderings of $V(G)$ such that every two nonincident edges are "separated" in some ordering, meaning that both endpoints of one edge appear before…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Sarah J. Loeb , Douglas B. West

We say that a finite subset of the unit sphere in $\mathbf{R}^d$ is transitive if there is a group of isometries which acts transitively on it. We show that the width of any transitive set is bounded above by a constant times $(\log…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Ben Green

The Graph Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour implies a finite set of obstructions for any minor closed graph property. We show that there are only three obstructions to knotless embedding of size 23, which is far fewer than the 92 of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Hyoungjun Kim , Thomas W. Mattman