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Let $D$ be a digraph. Given a set of vertices $S \subseteq V(D)$, an $S$-path partition $\mathcal{P}$ of $D$ is a collection of paths of $D$ such that $\{V(P) \colon P \in \mathcal{P}\}$ is a partition of $V(D)$ and $|V(P) \cap S| = 1$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Cândida Nunes da Silva , Orlando Lee , Maycon Sambinelli

An out-branching $B^+_u$ (in-branching $B^-_u$) in a digraph $D$ is a connected spanning subdigraph of $D$ in which every vertex except the vertex $u$, called the root, has in-degree (out-degree) one. It is well-known that there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Yun Wang

Let $B$ be a bidirected multigraph with signing $\sigma$, let $X$ be a set of vertices in $B$, and let $k$ be a non-negative integer. For any pair of vertex sets $S,T\subset V(B)$ satisfying $X\cap S = X\cap T$, we denote by $B_{S,T}$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Jana K. Nickel

A graph is concave-round if its vertices can be circularly enumerated so that the closed neighbourhood of each vertex is an interval in the enumeration. In this work, we give a minimal forbidden induced subgraph characterization for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Martín D. Safe

We generalize the class of split graphs to the directed case and show that these split digraphs can be identified from their degree sequences. The first degree sequence characterization is an extension of the concept of splittance to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-25 M. Drew LaMar

The dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ of a digraph $D$ is the least integer $k$ for which $D$ has a coloring with $k$ colors such that there is no monochromatic directed cycle in $D$. The digraphs considered here are finite and may have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Michael Stiebitz

Let $H = (V_H, A_H)$ be a digraph which may contain loops, and let $D = (V_D, A_D)$ be a loopless digraph with a coloring of its arcs $c: A_D \to V_H$. An $H$-walk of $D$ is a walk $(v_0, \dots, v_n)$ of $D$ such that $(c(v_{i-1}, v_i),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez , César Hernández-Cruz

A cograph is a simple graph which contains no path on 4 vertices as an induced subgraph. The vicinal preorder on the vertex set of a graph is defined in terms of inclusions among the neighborhoods of vertices. The minimum number of chains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Ebrahim Ghorbani

For many types of graphs, criteria have been discovered that give necessary and sufficient conditions for an integer sequence to be the degree sequence of such a graph. These criteria tend to take the form of a set of inequalities, and in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Jeffrey W. Miller

A {\bf strong arc decomposition} of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is a partition of its arc set $A$ into two sets $A_1,A_2$ such that the digraph $D_i=(V,A_i)$ is strong for $i=1,2$. Bang-Jensen and Yeo (2004) conjectured that there is some $K$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Yun Wang

A set $X$ of vertices of an acyclic digraph $D$ is convex if $X\neq \emptyset$ and there is no directed path between vertices of $X$ which contains a vertex not in $X$. A set $X$ is connected if $X\neq \emptyset$ and the underlying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-12-18 P. Balister , S. Gerke , G. Gutin , A. Johnstone , J. Reddington , E. Scott , A. Soleimanfallah , A. Yeo

Let $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $d_1 \geq d_2 \geq d_n\geq 1$ be integers. There is characterization of when $(d_1, d_1, \ldots, d_n)$ is the degree sequence of a graph containing a perfect matching, due to results of Lov\'{a}sz (1974) and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Joseph Briggs , Jessica McDonald , Songling Shan

A conjecture by Lichiardopol states that for every $k \ge 1$ there exists an integer $g(k)$ such that every digraph of minimum out-degree at least $g(k)$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint directed cycles of pairwise distinct lengths. Motivated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Raphael Steiner

To determine that two given undirected graphs are isomorphic, we construct for them auxiliary graphs, using the breadth-first search. This makes capability to position vertices in each digraph with respect to each other. If the given graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

A sequence of nonnegative integers \pi =(d_1,d_2,...,d_n) is graphic if there is a (simple) graph G with degree sequence \pi. In this case, G is said to realize or be a realization of \pi. Degree sequence results in the literature generally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Michael Ferrara , Timothy D. LeSaulnier , Casey K. Moffatt , Paul S. Wenger

Let $ H $ be a multi-digraph on $ h $ vertices with $ q $ arcs. An \textbf{$H$-subdivision} in a digraph $D$ is a subdigraph obtained by replacing every arc $uv$ of $H$ with a path from $u$ to $v$ in $D$ such that these paths are pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Jia Zhou , Jin Yan

Understanding how the cycles of a graph or digraph behave in general has always been an important point of graph theory. In this paper, we study the question of finding a set of $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles (resp. directed cycles) of distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Ngoc Khang Le , Binlong Li , Nicolas Lichiardopol

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given a graph $G$ and a directed graph $\vec{H}$, how many ways are there to orient the edges of $G$ such that it does not contain $\vec{H}$ as a subgraph? We denote this value by $D(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Hannah Sheats

We characterize the graphs with loops whose degree sequences have no repeated values and find their adjacency spectrum. In the case of simple graphs, such graphs are called anti-regular graphs and are examples of threshold graphs. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Cesar O. Aguilar

Let $W(G)$ be the Wiener index of a graph $G$. We say that a vertex $v \in V(G)$ is a \v{S}olt\'es vertex in $G$ if $W(G - v) = W(G)$, i.e. the Wiener index does not change if the vertex $v$ is removed. In 1991, \v{S}olt\'es posed the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Nino Bašić , Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski