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We consider graphs $G$ with $\Delta=3$ such that $\chi'(G)=4$ and $\chi'(G-e)=3$ for every edge $e$, so-called \emph{critical} graphs. Jakobsen noted that the Petersen graph with a vertex deleted, $P^*$, is such a graph and has average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Daniel W. Cranston , Landon Rabern

A connected nontrivial graph $G$ is {\it matching covered} if every edge of $G$ is contained in some perfect matching of $G$. A matching covered graph $G$ is {\it minimal} if $G-e$ is not matching covered for each edge $e$ of $G$. A graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Liwen Lian , Jinfeng Liu , Mengyuan Niu , Xiumei Wang

A topological graph drawn on a cylinder whose base is horizontal is \emph{angularly monotone} if every vertical line intersects every edge at most once. Let $c(n)$ denote the maximum number $c$ such that every simple angularly monotone…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Radoslav Fulek

The critical ideals of a graph are the determinantal ideals of the generalized Laplacian matrix associated to a graph. A basic property of the critical ideals of graphs asserts that the graphs with at most k trivial critical ideals,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-21 Carlos A. Alfaro , Carlos E. Valencia

A graph is said to be edge-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its edges. It is known that edge-transitive graphs are either vertex-transitive or bipartite. In this paper we present a complete classification of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Heather A. Newman , Hector Miranda , Darren A. Narayan

A mixed graph is a graph with undirected and directed edges. Guo and Mohar in 2017 determined all mixed graphs whose Hermitian spectral radii are less than $2$. In this paper, we give a sufficient condition which can make Hermitian spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Bo-Jun Yuan , Yi Wang , Shi-Cai Gong , Yun Qiao

A strong edge coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper edge coloring in which each color class is an induced matching of $G$. In 1993, Brualdi and Quinn Massey proposed a conjecture that every bipartite graph without $4$-cycles and with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Borut Lužar , Martina Mockovčiaková , Roman Soták , Riste Škrekovski

Over the past half century, the rigidity of graphs in $R^2$ has aroused a great deal of interest. Lov\'{a}sz and Yemini (1982) proved that every $6$-connected graph is rigid in $R^2$. Jackson and Jord\'{a}n (2005) provided a similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Dandan Fan , Xueyi Huang , Huiqiu Lin

A geometric graph is a graph drawn in the plane so that its vertices and edges are represented by points in general position and straight line segments, respectively. A vertex of a geometric graph is called pointed if it lies outside of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Nikita Chernega , Alexandr Polyanskii , Rinat Sadykov

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

We prove diameter bounds for graphs having positive Ricci-curvature bound in Bakry-Emery sense. One result using only curvature and maximal vertex degree is sharp in case of hypercubes. The other result depends on an additional dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

A finite simple connected graph $G$ with maximum degree $k$ is $k$-critical if it has chromatic index $\chi'(G)=k+1$ and $\chi'(G-e)=k$ for every edge $e\in E(G)$. Bej and the first author raised the question whether every $k$-critical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf

For an $r$-graph $H$, the anti-Ramsey number ${\rm ar}(n,r,H)$ is the minimum number $c$ of colors such that for any edge-coloring of the complete $r$-graph on $n$ vertices with at least $c$ colors, there is a copy of $H$ whose edges have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Tong Li , Yucong Tang , Guiying Yan

Karonski, Luczak, and Thomason (2004) conjectured that, for any connected graph G on at least three vertices, there exists an edge weighting from {1,2,3} such that adjacent vertices receive different sums of incident edge weights.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Ben Seamone , Brett Stevens

In the past decades, many scholars concerned which edge-extremal problems have spectral analogues? Recently, Wang, Kang and Xue showed an interesting result on $F$-free graphs [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 159 (2023) 20--41]. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zhenzhen Lou , Changxiang He

Asymptotic properties of random regular graphs are object of extensive study in mathematics. In this note we argue, based on theory of spin glasses, that in random regular graphs the maximum cut size asymptotically equals the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-25 Lenka Zdeborová , Stefan Boettcher

Gallai's path decomposition conjecture states that if $G$ is a connected graph on $n$ vertices, then the edges of $G$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil \frac{n }{2} \rceil$ paths. A graph is said to be an odd semi-clique if it can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Nevil Anto , Manu Basavaraju

We characterise the form of all simple, finite graphs for which the girth of the graph is equal to the circumference of the graph. We apply this to prove a bound on the number of edges in such a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Lewis Stanton , Jeffrey Thompson

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without isolated edges can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general, while it is known to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jakub Przybyło

A graph is pseudo 2-factor isomorphic if all of its 2-factors have the same parity of number of cycles. Abreu et al. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B. 98 (2008) 432--442] conjectured that $K_{3,3}$, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Marien Abreu , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , Federico Romaniello , Tibo Van den Eede