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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-04 Daniel Král' , Chun-Hung Liu , Jean-Sébastien Sereni , Peter Whalen , Zelealem Yilma

Bollob\'{a}s and Nikiforov (J. Combin. Theory Ser. B. 97 (2007) 859-865) conjectured that for a graph $G$ with $e(G)$ edges and the clique number $\omega(G)$, then $ \lambda_{1}^{2}+\lambda_{2}^{2}\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Chunmeng Liu , Changjiang Bu

Thomassen's chord conjecture from 1976 states that every longest cycle in a $3$-connected graph has a chord. This is one of the most important unsolved problems in graph theory. We pose a new conjecture which implies Thomassen's conjecture.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Xingzhi Zhan

Let $G$ be a bridgeless cubic graph. In 2023, the three authors solved a conjecture (also known as the $S_4$-Conjecture) made by Mazzuoccolo in 2013: there exist two perfect matchings of $G$ such that the complement of their union is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 František Kardoš , Edita Máčajová , Jean Paul Zerafa

Sidorenko's conjecture states that the number of copies of any given bipartite graph in another graph of given density is asymptotically minimized by a random graph. The forcing conjecture further strengthens this, claiming that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Aldo Kiem , Olaf Parczyk , Christoph Spiegel

The Harary reconstruction conjecture states that any graph with more than four edges can be uniquely reconstructed from its set of maximal edge-deleted subgraphs. In 1977, M\"uller verified the conjecture for graphs with $n$ vertices and $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Anthony E. Pizzimenti , Umarkhon Rakhimov

Menger's Edge Theorem asserts that there exist $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint paths between two vertices in an undirected graph if and only if a deletion of any $k-1$ or less edges does not disconnect these two vertices. Alternatively, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Avraham Goldstein

The 1-2-3 conjecture has been solved positively in 2024 for finite graphs and by extension for infinite graphs which are locally finite. The solution is non-constructive, and finding explicit solutions for large (or infinite) graphs is very…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Alison Charlesworth , Christopher Ramsey , Nicolae Strungaru

An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph for short) is called linear if every pair of vertices belong to at most one edge. A linear $r$-graph is complete if every pair of vertices are in exactly one edge. The famous Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Asaf Shapira , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

A proper total weighting of a graph $G$ is a mapping $\phi$ which assigns to each vertex and each edge of $G$ a real number as its weight so that for any edge $uv$ of $G$, $\sum_{e \in E(v)}\phi(e)+\phi(v) \ne \sum_{e \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yu-Chang Liang , Tsai-Lien Wong , Xuding Zhu

Let ${\cal G}=(G,w)$ be a weighted simple finite connected graph, that is, let $G$ be a simple finite connected graph endowed with a function $w$ from the set of the edges of $G$ to the set of real numbers. For any subgraph $G'$ of $G$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Elena Rubei

Let $(P,\leq)$ be a finite poset (partially ordered set), where $P$ has cardinality $n$. Consider linear extensions of $P$ as permutations $x_1x_2\cdots x_n$ in one-line notation. For distinct elements $x,y\in P$, we define…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Emily J. Olson , Bruce E. Sagan

In 2007, Dmytrenko, Lazebnik and Williford posed two related conjectures about polynomials over finite fields. Conjecture~1 is a claim about the uniqueness of certain monomial graphs. Conjecture~2, which implies Conjecture~1, deals with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Xiang-dong Hou

Let $r,k,\ell$ be integers such that $0\le\ell\le\binom{k}{r}$. Given a large $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$, we consider the fraction of $k$-vertex subsets which span exactly $\ell$ edges. If $\ell$ is 0 or $\binom{k}{r}$, this fraction can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Vishesh Jain , Matthew Kwan , Dhruv Mubayi , Tuan Tran

We show the quarter of a century old conjecture that every $K_4$-free graph with $n$ vertices and $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor +k$ edges contains $k$ pairwise edge disjoint triangles.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ervin Győri , Balázs Keszegh

A graph is diameter two edge-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion of any edge increases the diameter. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number of edges in a diameter two edge-critical graph on $n$ vertices is at most $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Tao Wang , Ping Wang , Qinglin Yu

Let $m:=|E(G)|$ sufficiently large and $s:=(m-1)/3$. We show that unless the maximum degree $\Delta > 2s$, there is a weighting $w:E\cup V\to \{0,1,...,s\}$ so that $w(uv)+w(u)+w(v)\ne w(u'v')+w(u')+w(v')$ whenever $uv\ne u'v'$ (such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-24 Florian Pfender

Frankl's union-closed sets conjecture states that in every finite union-closed set of sets, there is an element that is contained in at least half of the member-sets (provided there are at least two members). The conjecture has an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Henning Bruhn , Oliver Schaudt

We define the notion of a twisted topological graph algebra associated to a topological graph and a $1$-cocycle on its edge set. We prove a stronger version of a Vasselli's result. We expand Katsura's results to study twisted topological…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hui Li

Erd\H{o}s, Gallai, and Tuza posed the following problem: given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $\tau_1(G)$ denote the smallest size of a set of edges whose deletion makes $G$ triangle-free, and let $\alpha_1(G)$ denote the largest size of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Gregory J. Puleo