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A conjecture attributed to Smith states that every pair of longest cycles in a $k$-connected graph intersect each other in at least $k$ vertices. In this paper, we show that every pair of longest cycles in a~$k$-connected graph on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Juan Gutiérrez , Christian Valqui

Let $G$ be a connected nonregular graphs of order $n$ with maximum degree $\Delta$ that attains the maximum spectral radius. Liu and Li (2008) proposed a conjecture stating that $G$ has a degree sequence $(\Delta,\ldots,\Delta,\delta)$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Zejun Huang , Jiahui Liu , Chenxi Yang

The girth of a graph is defined as the length of a shortest cycle in the graph. A $(k; g)$-cage is a graph of minimum order among all $k$-regular graphs with girth $g$. A cycle $C$ in a graph $G$ is termed nonseparating if the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Xiang-Feng Pan , Jing-Zhong Mao , Hui-Qing Liu

Beineke, Harary and Ringel discovered a formula for the minimum genus of a torus in which the $n$-dimensional hypercube graph can be embedded. We give a new proof of the formula by building this surface as a union of certain faces in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Richard H. Hammack , Paul C. Kainen

The total domination number $\gamma_{t}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the cardinality of a smallest set $D\subseteq V(G)$ such that each vertex of $G$ has a neighbor in $D$. The annihilation number $a(G)$ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hongbo Hua , Xinying Hua , Sandi Klavžar , Kexiang Xu

The Gamma-Theta Conjecture states that if the domination number of a graph is equal to its eternal domination number, then it is also equal to its clique covering number. This conjecture is known to be true for several graph classes, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Dmitrii Taletskii

The family of snarks -- connected bridgeless cubic graphs that cannot be 3-edge-coloured -- is well-known as a potential source of counterexamples to several important and long-standing conjectures in graph theory. These include the cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Jan Goedgebeur , Edita Máčajová , Martin Škoviera

A famous conjecture of Tuza \cite{tuza} is that the minimal number of edges needed to cover all triangles in a graph is at most twice the maximal number of edge-disjoint triangles. We propose a wider setting for this conjecture. For a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Ron Aharoni , Shira Zerbib

Seymour conjectured that every oriented simple graph contains a vertex whose second neighborhood is at least as large as its first. In this note, we put forward a conjecture that we prove is actually equivalent: every oriented simple graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Tyler Seacrest

An old and well-known conjecture of Frankl and F\"{u}redi states that the Lagrangian of an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges is maximised by an initial segment of colex. In this paper we disprove this conjecture by finding an infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Vytautas Gruslys , Shoham Letzter , Natasha Morrison

Kuratowski proved that a finite graph embeds in the plane if it does not contain a subdivision of either K_5 or K_{3,3}, called Kuratowski subgraphs. A conjectured generalization of this result to all nonorientable surfaces says that a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-08-05 Suhkjin Hur

We investigate Hadwiger's conjecture for graphs with no stable set of size 3. Such a graph on at least 2t-1 vertices is not t-1 colorable, so is conjectured to have a $K_t$ minor. There is a strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonah Blasiak

Let $k_r(n,\delta)$ be the minimum number of $r$-cliques in graphs with $n$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta$. We evaluate $k_r(n,\delta)$ for $\delta \leq 4n/5$ and some other cases. Moreover, we give a construction, which we conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Allan Lo

The famous Goldbach conjecture remains open for nearly three centuries. Recently Goldbach graphs are introduced to relate the problem with the literature of Graph Theory. It is shown that the connectedness of the graphs is equivalent to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Shamik Ghosh

A long-standing Conjecture of S. Negami states that a connected graph has a finite planar cover if and only if it embeds in the projective plane. It is known that the Conjecture is equivalent to the fact that \emph{the graph $K_{1,2, 2, 2}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Dickson Annor , Yuri Nikolayevsky , Michael Payne

We study upper bounds on the size of optimum locating-total dominating sets in graphs. A set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a locating-total dominating set if every vertex of $G$ has a neighbor in $S$, and if any two vertices outside $S$…

Any simple group-grading of a finite dimensional complex algebra induces a natural family of digraphs. We prove that $|E\circ E^{\text{op}}\cup E^{\text{op}}\circ E|\geq |E|$ for any digraph $\Gamma =(V,E)$ without parallel edges, and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Yuval Ginosar , Ofir Schnabel

We study the class of all finite directed graphs up to primitive positive constructability. The resulting order has a unique greatest element, namely the graph $P_1$ with one vertex and no edges. The graph $P_1$ has a unique greatest lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Florian Starke , Manuel Bodirsky

A well-known conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and S\'os states that every graph with average degree exceeding $m-1$ contains every tree with $m$ edges as a subgraph. We propose a variant of this conjecture, which states that every graph of maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Frédéric Havet , Bruce Reed , Maya Stein , David R. Wood

The 1-2-3 Conjecture asks whether almost all graphs can be (edge-)labelled with $1,2,3$ so that no two adjacent vertices are incident to the same sum of labels. In the last decades, several aspects of this problem have been studied in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Julien Bensmail , Hervé Hocquard , Dimitri Lajou , Éric Sopena