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The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal Conjecture states that for every $H$ there exists a constant $\epsilon(H)>0$ such that every graph $G$ that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or a stable set of size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Krzysztof Choromanski

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture says that any graph without a fixed induced subgraph $H$ contains a very large homogeneous set. A direct analog of this conjecture is not true for hypergraphs. In this paper we present two natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Fabian Arnold , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

An oriented graph is called $k$-anti-traceable if the subdigraph induced by every subset with $k$ vertices has a hamiltonian anti-directed path. In this paper, we consider an anti-traceability conjecture. In particular, we confirm this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Bin Chen , Stefanie Gerke , Gregory Gutin , Hui Lei , Heis Parker-Cox , Yacong Zhou

We consider the class of graphs containing no odd hole, no odd antihole, and no configuration consisting of three paths between two nodes such that any two of the paths induce a hole, and at least two of the paths are of length 2. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Frédéric Maffray , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$. The path decomposition of $G$ is a set of disjoint paths, say $\mathcal{P}$, which cover all vertices of $G$. If all paths are induced paths in $G$, then we say $\mathcal{P}$ is an induced path decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 S. Akbari , H. R. Maimani , A. Seify

Reed and Wood and independently Norine, Seymour, Thomas, and Wollan proved that for each positive integer $t$ there is a constant $c(t)$ such that every graph on $n$ vertices with no $K_t$-minor has at most $c(t)n$ cliques. Wood asked in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Jacob Fox , Fan Wei

We prove that a connected graph contains a circuit---a closed walk that repeats no edges---through any $k$ prescribed edges if and only if it contains no odd cut of size at most $k$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

It was proved by Scott that for every $k\ge2$, there exists a constant $c(k)>0$ such that for every bipartite $n$-vertex graph $G$ without isolated vertices, there exists an induced subgraph $H$ of order at least $c(k)n$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Zach Hunter

A conjecture of Verstra\"ete states that for any fixed $\ell < k$ there exists a positive constant $c$ such that any $C_{2k}$-free graph $G$ contains a $C_{2\ell}$-free subgraph with at least $c |E(G)|$ edges. For $\ell = 2$, this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-24 David Conlon , Eion Mulrenin , Cosmin Pohoata

Let $D_2$ denote the $3$-uniform hypergraph with $4$ vertices and $2$ edges. Answering a question of Alon and Shapira, we prove an induced removal lemma for $D_2$ having polynomial bounds. We also prove an Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal-type result:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Lior Gishboliner , István Tomon

The path eccentricity of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ has a path such that every vertex is at distance at most $k$ from the path. A result of Duffus, Jacobson, and Gould from 1981 states that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Sylwia Cichacz , Claire Hilaire , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Masaříková , Martin Milanič

Tibor Gallai conjectured that the edge set of every connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices can be partitioned into $\lceil n/2\rceil$ paths. Let $\mathcal{G}_{k}$ be the class of all $2k$-regular graphs of girth at least $2k-2$ that admit a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Fábio Botler , Andrea Jiménez

Informally, the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture (shortly EH-conjecture) asserts that if a sufficiently large host clique on $n$ vertices is edge-coloured avoiding a copy of some fixed edge-coloured clique, then there is a large homogeneous set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Maria Axenovich , Lea Weber

Given a graph $G(V, E)$ and a positive integer $k$ ($k \geq 1$), a simple path on $k$ vertices is a sequence of $k$ vertices in which no vertex appears more than once and each consecutive pair of vertices in the sequence are connected by an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Thai Bui

Using techniques in \cite{chudnovsky2023erdHos} and substitution in \cite{alon2001ramsey}, we show that there is $\epsilon>0$ such that for any graph $G$ with VC-dimension $\leq 2$, $G$ has a clique or an anti-clique of size $\geq…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Yayi Fu

Menger's theorem says that, for $k\ge0$, if $S, T$ are sets of vertices in a graph $G$, then either there are $k + 1$ vertex-disjoint paths between $S$ and $T$, or there is a set X of at most $k$ vertices such that every $S$-$T$ path passes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A celebrated unresolved conjecture of Erd\"{o}s and Hajnal states that for every undirected graph $H$ there exists $ \epsilon(H) > 0 $ such that every undirected graph on $ n $ vertices that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Salman Ghazal , Soukaina Zayat

We prove that for all nonnegative integers k,s there exists c with the following property. Let G be a graph with clique number at most k and chromatic number more than c. Then for every vertex-colouring (not necessarily optimal) of G, some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

Paths $P^1,\ldots,P^k$ in a graph $G=(V,E)$ are mutually induced if any two distinct $P^i$ and $P^j$ have neither common vertices nor adjacent vertices. For a fixed integer $k$, the $k$-Induced Disjoint Paths problem is to decide if a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We prove that for all $r\geq2$ and c>0, every graph of order n with at least cn^{r} cliques of order r contains a complete r-partite graph with each part of size $\lfloor c^{r}\log n \rfloor.$ This result implies a concise form of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Vladimir Nikiforov