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Let $u_k(G,p)$ be the maximum over all $k$-vertex graphs $F$ of by how much the number of induced copies of $F$ in $G$ differs from its expectation in the binomial random graph with the same number of vertices as $G$ and with edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Humberto Naves , Oleg Pikhurko , Alex Scott

We consider the problem of estimating the edge density of densest $K$-node subgraphs of an Erd\"os-R\'{e}nyi graph $\mathbb{G}(n,1/2)$. The problem is well-understood in the regime $K=\Theta(\log n)$ and in the regime $K=\Theta(n)$. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Houssam El Cheairi , David Gamarnik

For a graph $G$ and $e\in [0,1]$, denote by $I_G(e)$ the supremum of densities of $G$ over $n$-vertex graphs with edge density $e$ as $n$ goes to infinity. Liu, Mubayi and Reiher asked if there exists a graph $G$, where $I_G(e)$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 József Balogh , Bernard Lidický

A bridgeless graph $G$ is called $3$-flow-critical if it does not admit a nowhere-zero $3$-flow, but $G/e$ has for any $e\in E(G)$. Tutte's $3$-flow conjecture can be equivalently stated as that every $3$-flow-critical graph contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Jiaao Li , Yulai Ma , Yongtang Shi , Weifan Wang , Yezhou Wu

For a graph $G$, let $\nu_s(G)$ be the induced matching number of $G$. We prove the sharp bound $\nu_s(G)\geq \frac{n(G)}{9}$ for every graph $G$ of maximum degree at most $4$ and without isolated vertices that does not contain a certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Felix Joos

We study some properties of the Cayley graph of the R.Thompson's group F in generators $x_0$, $x_1$. We show that the density of this graph, that is, the least upper bound of the average vertex degree of its finite subgraphs is at least 3.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Guba

Say a digraph is k-free if it has no directed cycles of length at most k, for positive integers k. Thomasse conjectured that the number of induced 3-vertex directed paths in a simple 2-free digraph on n vertices is at most (n-1)n(n+1)/15.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Paul Seymour , Blair D. Sullivan

Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$ without isolated edges and with maximum degree $\Delta$. Given a colouring $c:E\to\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$, the weighted degree of a vertex $v\in V$ is the sum of its incident colours, i.e., $\sum_{e\ni v}c(e)$. For any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Jakub Przybyło

Kostochka and Yancey resolved a famous conjecture of Ore on the asymptotic density of $k$-critical graphs by proving that every $k$-critical graph $G$ satisfies $|E(G)| \geq (\frac{k}{2} - \frac{1}{k-1})|V(G)| - \frac{k(k-3)}{2(k-1)}$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Wenbo Gao , Luke Postle

In this article the extremal structures for the mean order of connected induced subgraphs of cographs are determined. It is shown that among all connected cographs of order $n \ge 7$, the star $K_{1,n-1}$ has maximum mean connected induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Matthew E. Kroeker , Lucas Mol , Ortrud R. Oellermann

Let $f_r(n,v,e)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices, in which the union of any $e$ distinct edges contains at least $v+1$ vertices. The study of $f_r(n,v,e)$ was initiated by Brown, Erd{\H{o}}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Gennian Ge , Chong Shangguan

The maximum number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta\ge 3$ and fixed diameter $k\ge 2$ is upper bounded by $(1+o(1))(\Delta-1)^{k}$. If we restrict our graphs to certain classes, better upper bounds are known. For instance,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Eran Nevo , Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , David R. Wood

Let $H$ be a graph on $h$ vertices. The number of induced copies of $H$ in a graph $G$ is denoted by $i_H(G)$. Let $i_H(n)$ denote the maximum of $i_H(G)$ taken over all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices. Let $f(n,h) = \Pi_{i}^h a_i$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Raphael Yuster

Let $\mad(G)$ denote the maximum average degree (over all subgraphs) of $G$ and let $\chi_i(G)$ denote the injective chromatic number of $G$. We prove that if $\Delta\geq 4$ and $\mad(G)<\frac{14}5$, then $\chi_i(G)\leq\Delta+2$. When…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Daniel W. Cranston , Seog-Jin Kim , Gexin Yu

For a real c \geq 1 and an integer n, let f(n,c) denote the maximum integer f so that every graph on n vertices contains an induced subgraph on at least f vertices in which the maximum degree is at most c times the minimum degree. Thus, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Noga Alon , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

In this paper, we make progress on a question related to one of Galvin that has attracted substantial attention recently. The question is that of determining among all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices and $\Delta(G)\leq r$, which has the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Jonathan Cutler , A. J. Radcliffe

Consider a `dense' Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph model $G=G_{n,M}$ with $n$ vertices and $M$ edges, where we assume the edge density $M/\binom{n}{2}$ is bounded away from 0 and 1. Fix $k=k(n)$ with $k/n$ bounded away from 0 and~1, and let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Paul Balister , Emil Powierski , Alex Scott , Jane Tan

We consider the asymptotic minimum density $f(s,k)$ of monotone $k$-subwords of words over a totally ordered alphabet of size $s$. The unrestricted alphabet case, $f(\infty,k)$, is well-studied, known for $f(\infty,3)$ and $f(\infty,4)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Raphael Yuster

A problem proposed by Erd\H{o}s, Fajtlowicz and Staton asks for the smallest $n$ for which every graph on $n$ vertices contains a regular induced subgraph of order at least $k$. A variation is to ask for a regular induced subgraph of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Paul W. Dyson , Brendan D. McKay

We show that for any constant $\Delta \ge 2$, there exists a graph $G$ with $O(n^{\Delta / 2})$ vertices which contains every $n$-vertex graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ as an induced subgraph. For odd $\Delta$ this significantly improves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Noga Alon , Rajko Nenadov