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A $(\delta\geq k_1,\delta\geq k_2)$-partition of a graph $G$ is a vertex-partition $(V_1,V_2)$ of $G$ satisfying that $\delta(G[V_i])\geq k_i$ for $i=1,2$. We determine, for all positive integers $k_1,k_2$, the complexity of deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Stéphane Bessy

Chung and Graham considered the problem of minimizing the number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph containing all $n$-vertex trees as a subgraph. They showed that such a graph has at least $\frac{1}{2}n \log{n}$ edges. In this note, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Ervin Győri , Binlong Li , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins

1-planar graphs are graphs that can be drawn in the plane such that any edge intersects with at most one other edge. Ackerman showed that the edges of a 1-planar graph can be partitioned into a planar graph and a forest, and claims that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Sam Barr , Therese Biedl

In 2006, Bar\'at and Thomassen posed the following conjecture: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(G)|$ is divisible by $|E(T)|$, then $G$ admits a decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Fabio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph on $n$ vertices, and let $\lambda_1(L(G))\ge \cdots\ge \lambda_{n-1}(L(G))\ge \lambda_n(L(G))=0$ be the eigenvalues of its Laplacian matrix $L(G)$. Brouwer conjectured that for every $1\le k\le n$, $\sum_{i=1}^k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Alan Lew

Chernyshev, Rauch and Rautenbach [Discrete Math., 2025] introduce forest cuts, i.e., vertex separators that induce a forest. They conjecture that, similar to a result by Chen and Yu [Discrete Math., 2002], every $n$-vertex graph with less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Samuel Schneider , Torsten Ueckerdt

For a graph $G = (V, E)$, the $\gamma$-graph of $G$, denoted $G(\gamma) = (V(\gamma), E(\gamma))$, is the graph whose vertex set is the collection of minimum dominating sets, or $\gamma$-sets of $G$, and two $\gamma$-sets are adjacent in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Stephen Finbow , Christopher M. van Bommel

In graph theory, a graceful labeling of a graph with m edges is a labeling of its vertices with a subset of the integers ranging from 0 to m inclusive, such that no two vertices share a label, and each edge is uniquely identified by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Edinah K. Gnang

For a graph $G$, let $a(G)$ denote the maximum size of a subset of vertices that induces a forest. We prove the following. 1. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$, maximum degree $\Delta>0$ and maximum clique size $\omega$. Then \[ a(G) \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Shimon Kogan

We conjecture that any graph $G$ with treewidth~$k$ and maximum degree $\Delta(G)\geq k + \sqrt{k}$ satisfies $\chi'(G)=\Delta(G)$. In support of the conjecture we prove its fractional version. We also show that any graph $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Henning Bruhn , Laura Gellert , Richard Lang

Let $T$ be a distinguished subset of vertices in a graph $G$. A $T$-\emph{Steiner tree} is a subgraph of $G$ that is a tree and that spans $T$. Kriesell conjectured that $G$ contains $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint $T$-Steiner trees provided…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Irene Pivotto

Kriesel conjectured that every minimally $1$-tough graph has a vertex with degree precisely $2$. Katona and Varga (2018) proposed a generalized version of this conjecture which says that every minimally $t$-tough graph has a vertex with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Morteza Hasanvand

The Graceful Tree Conjecture of Rosa from 1967 asserts that the vertices of each tree T of order n can be injectively labelled by using the numbers {1,2,...,n} in such a way that the absolute differences induced on the edges are pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Anna Adamaszek , Peter Allen , Codrut Grosu , Jan Hladky

A path decomposition of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint paths of $G$ that covers the edge set of $G$. Gallai (1968) conjectured that every connected graph on $n$ vertices admits a path decomposition of cardinality at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Fábio Botler , Andrea Jiménez , Maycon Sambinelli

Albertson and Berman conjectured that every planar graph has an induced forest on half of its vertices. The best known lower bound, due to Borodin, is that every planar graph has an induced forest on two fifths of its vertices. In a related…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Glencora Borradaile , Hung Le , Melissa Sherman-Bennett

For a simple graph $G$, denote by $n$, $\Delta(G)$, and $\chi'(G)$ its order, maximum degree, and chromatic index, respectively. A connected class 2 graph $G$ is edge-chromatic critical if $\chi'(G-e)<\Delta(G)+1$ for every edge $e$ of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Yan Cao , Guantao Chen , Songling Shan

Loebl, Komlos, and Sos conjectured that if at least half of the vertices of a graph G have degree at least some natural number k, then every tree with at most k edges is a subgraph of G. Our main result is an approximate version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-10 Diana Piguet , Maya Jakobine Stein

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a dominating set of G if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S . The domination number of G, denoted by $\gamma$(G), is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set in G. In a breakthrough…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Paul Dorbec , Michael Antony Henning

Let $n\geq 6,k\geq 0$ be two integers. Let $H$ be a graph of order $n$ with $k$ components, each of which is an even cycle of length at least $6$ and $G$ be a bipartite graph with bipartition $(X,Y)$ such that $|X|=|Y|\geq n/2$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Shengning Qiao , Bing Chen

The famous Gallai's Conjecture states that any connected graph with n vertices has a path decomposition containing at most (n+1)/2 paths. In this note, we explore graphs generated from removing edges from complete graphs. We first provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Hua Wang , Andrew Zhang