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For integer $k\geq2$ and prime power $q$, the algebraic bipartite graph $D(k,q)$ proposed by Lazebnik and Ustimenko (1995) is meaningful not only in extremal graph theory but also in coding theory and cryptography. This graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ming Xu , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang

An almost bipartite graph is a graph with a unique odd cycle. Levit and Mandrescu showed that in every non-K\"onig--Egerv\'ary almost bipartite graph the equalities $\textnormal{ker}(G)=\textnormal{core}(G)$, $\textnormal{corona}(G)\cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Kevin Pereyra

We prove that every internally 4-connected non-planar bipartite graph has an odd K_3,3 subdivision; that is, a subgraph obtained from K_3,3 by replacing its edges by internally disjoint odd paths with the same ends. The proof gives rise to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Robin Thomas , Peter Whalen

The extremal number $\mathrm{ex}(n,F)$ of a graph $F$ is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph not containing $F$ as a subgraph. A real number $r \in [1,2]$ is realisable if there exists a graph $F$ with $\mathrm{ex}(n , F) =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Dong Yeap Kang , Jaehoon Kim , Hong Liu

For two integers $k$ and $\ell$, an $(\ell \text{ mod }k)$-cycle means a cycle of length $m$ such that $m\equiv \ell\pmod{k}$. In 1977, Bollob\'{a}s proved a conjecture of Burr and Erd\H{o}s by showing that if $\ell$ is even or $k$ is odd,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hojin Chu , Boram Park , Homoon Ryu

An extremal graph for a graph $H$ on $n$ vertices is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $T_{n,r}$ be the Tur\'{a}n graph, which is the complete $r$-partite graph on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Xinmin Hou , Yu Qiu , Boyuan Liu

Recently, Milani\v{c} and Trotignon introduced the class of equistarable graphs as graphs without isolated vertices admitting positive weights on the edges such that a subset of edges is of total weight $1$ if and only if it forms a maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Endre Boros , Nina Chiarelli , Martin Milanič

Let $t(H;G)$ be the homomorphism density of a graph $H$ into a graph $G$. Sidorenko's conjecture states that for any bipartite graph $H$, $t(H;G)\geq t(K_2;G)^{|E(H)|}$ for all graphs $G$. It is already known that such inequalities cannot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Pranav Garg , Annie Raymond , Amanda Redlich

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $3$-uniform linear hypergraphs. The linear Tur\'an number of $\mathcal F$ is the maximum possible number of edges in a $3$-uniform linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices which contains no member of $\mathcal{F}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Beka Ergemlidze , Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku

An $n$-by-$n$ bipartite graph is $H$-saturated if the addition of any missing edge between its two parts creates a new copy of $H$. In 1964, Erd\H{o}s, Hajnal and Moon made a conjecture on the minimum number of edges in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Wenying Gan , Dániel Korándi , Benny Sudakov

A bipartite graph is called bipancyclic if it contains cycles of every even length from four up to the number of vertices in the graph. A theorem of Schmeichel and Mitchem states that for $n \geq 4$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Peter Bradshaw

We call a $4$-cycle in $K_{n_{1}, n_{2}, n_{3}}$ multipartite, denoted by $C_{4}^{\text{multi}}$, if it contains at least one vertex in each part of $K_{n_{1}, n_{2}, n_{3}}$. The Tur\'an number $\text{ex}(K_{n_{1},n_{2},n_{3}},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Chunqiu Fang , Ervin Győri , Chuanqi Xiao , Jimeng Xiao

We consider a problem proposed by Linial and Wilf to determine the structure of graphs that allows the maximum number of $q$-colorings among graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Let $T_r(n)$ denote the Tur\'{a}n graph - the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Melissa M Fuentes

We prove that for every $k$ and every $\varepsilon>0$, there exists $g$ such that every graph with tree-width at most $k$ and odd-girth at least $g$ has circular chromatic number at most $2+\varepsilon$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Alexandr V. Kostochka , Daniel Kral' , Jean-Sebastien Sereni , Michael Stiebitz

Given a graph $F$, the random Tur\'an problem asks to determine the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of $G_{n,p}$. Prior to this work, the only bipartite graphs $F$ with known tight bounds included certain classes of complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Sean Longbrake , Sam Spiro

The saturation number of a graph $F$, written $\textup{sat}(n,F)$, is the minimum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $F$-saturated graph. One of the earliest results on saturation numbers is due to Erd\H{o}s, Hajnal, and Moon who determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Craig Timmons

Let $F$ and $G$ be simple finite oriented graphs (without symmetric arcs). A graph $G$ is called $F$-irregular if any two distinct vertices in $G$ belong to a different number of subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to $F$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Tatiana Dovzhenok , Ilya Lukashenko , Yahor Filiuta

In [{Structural properties and decomposition of linear balanced matrices}, {\it Mathematical Programming}, 55:129--168, 1992], Conforti and Rao conjectured that every balanced bipartite graph contains an edge that is not the unique chord of…

The famous Sidorenko's conjecture asserts that for every bipartite graph $H$, the number of homomorphisms from $H$ to a graph $G$ with given edge density is minimized when $G$ is pseudorandom. We prove that for any graph $H$, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Seonghyuk Im , Ruonan Li , Hong Liu

A classical result in extremal graph theory is Mantel's Theorem, which states that every maximum triangle-free subgraph of $K_n$ is bipartite. A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem is that, for sufficiently large $p$, every maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 József Balogh , Jane Butterfield , Ping Hu , John Lenz