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A long-standing conjecture of Thomassen says that every longest cycle of a $3$-connected graph has a chord. Thomassen (2018) proved that if $G$ is $2$-connected and cubic, then any longest cycle must have a chord. He also showed that if $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Haidong Wu , Shunzhe Zhang

In this paper we are interested in an intrinsic property of graphs which is derived from their embeddings into the Euclidean 3-space $\mathbb{R}^3$. An embedding of a graph into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is said to be linear, if it sends every edge to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Youngsik Huh , Jung Hoon Lee

Necessary condition to have Hamiltonian cycle in planar graph is given. Examples of regular planar graphs degree three without Hamiltonian cycle are built.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-19 Emanuels Grinbergs

An anagram is a word of the form $WP$ where $W$ is a non-empty word and $P$ is a permutation of $W$. A vertex colouring of a graph is anagram-free if no subpath of the graph is an anagram. Anagram-free graph colouring was independently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Tim E. Wilson , David R. Wood

The $3$-colorability problem is a well-known NP-complete problem and it remains NP-complete for $(claw, diamond, K_4)$-free graphs. Recently, $3$-colorability has been also considered for $(claw, N_{1,1,1})$-free graphs. Here, a generalised…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Nadzieja Hodur , Monika Pilśniak , Magdalena Prorok , Ingo Schiermeyer

A $(c_1,c_2,...,c_k)$-coloring of $G$ is a mapping $\varphi:V(G)\mapsto\{1,2,...,k\}$ such that for every $i,1 \leq i \leq k$, $G[V_i]$ has maximum degree at most $c_i$, where $G[V_i]$ denotes the subgraph induced by the vertices colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Runrun Liu , Xiangwen Li , Gexin Yu

We call a graph $G$ pancyclic if it contains at least one cycle of every possible length $m$, for $3\le m\le |V(G)|$. In this paper, we define a new property called chorded pancyclicity. We explore forbidden subgraphs in claw-free graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Megan Cream , Ronald J. Gould , Victor Larsen

Tutte's 3-flow conjecture asserts that every 4-edge-connected graph has a nowhere-zero 3-flow. In this note we prove that every regular graph of valency at least four admitting a solvable arc-transitive group of automorphisms admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Xiangwen Li , Sanming Zhou

Solving a long standing conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits, Brandt and Thomass\'e proved that the chromatic number of each triangle-free graph $G$ such that $\delta(G)>|V(G)|/3$ is at most four. In fact, they showed the much stronger…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Tomasz Łuczak , Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher

The simple connected graphs may be classified by their cycle composition (number and lengths of cycles). This work derives the counting series of the simple connected graphs that have cycles of unrestricted number and length, but no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Richard J. Mathar

A graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if $\chi(G)=k$, but $\chi(G')<k$ for every proper induced subgraph $G'$ of $G$. For a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, $G$ is $\mathcal{F}$-free if no graph $F \in \mathcal{F}$ is an induced subgraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Yidong Zhou , Jorik Jooken , Baoyuan Shan , Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang

Let $W$ be any wheel graph and $\mathcal{G}$ the class of all countable graphs not containing $W$ as a minor. We show that there exists a graph in $\mathcal{G}$ which contains every graph in $\mathcal{G}$ as an induced subgraph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Thilo Krill

A {\it dynamic $k$-coloring} of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex of degree at least 2 in $G$ will be adjacent to vertices with at least 2 different colors. The smallest number $k$ for which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-11-20 Xueliang Li , Wenli Zhou

Considering connected $K_{1,3}$-free graphs with independence number at least $3$, Chudnovsky and Seymour (2010) showed that every such graph, say $G$, is $2\omega$-colourable where $\omega$ denotes the clique number of $G$. We study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Christoph Brause , Přemysl Holub , Adam Kabela , Zdeněk Ryjáček , Ingo Schiermeyer , Petr Vrána

A hypergraph is called an r by r grid if it is isomorphic to a pattern of r horizontal and r vertical lines. Three sets form a triangle if they pairwise intersect in three distinct singletons. A hypergraph is linear if every pair of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Zoltán Füredi , Miklós Ruszinkó

A theta is a graph consisting of two non-adjacent vertices and three internally disjoint paths between them, each of length at least two. For a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, we say a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-free if no induced subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

A graph $H$ is said to be positive if the homomorphism density $t_H(G)$ is non-negative for all weighted graphs $G$. The positive graph conjecture proposes a characterisation of such graphs, saying that a graph is positive if and only if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 David Conlon , Joonkyung Lee , Leo Versteegen

Odd coloring is a proper coloring with an additional restriction that every non-isolated vertex has some color that appears an odd number of times in its neighborhood. The minimum number of colors $k$ that can ensure an odd coloring of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Fangyu Tian , Yuxue Yin

A complete structural characterization of graphs with no $K_{3,4}$ minor is obtained, and the following consequences are established. Every $4$-connected non-planar graph with at least seven vertices and minimum degree at least five…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 On-Hei Solomon Lo

We show that the edges of every 3-connected planar graph except $K_4$ can be colored with two colors in such a way that the graph has no color preserving automorphisms. Also, we characterize all graphs which have the property that their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Erica Flapan , Sarah Rundell , Madeline Wyse