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Chv\'{a}tal conjectured in 1973 the existence of some constant $t$ such that all $t$-tough graphs with at least three vertices are hamiltonian. While the conjecture has been proven for some special classes of graphs, it remains open in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Andrew Hatfield , Elizabeth Grimm

Nut graphs are graphs whose adjacency matrix is singular with one-dimensional null space spanned by a vector with no zero entries. In a recent paper, Ba\v{s}i\'c, Fowler and Pisanski proved that the automorphism group of a nut graph has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ksenija Rozman , Primož Šparl

By studying the weak closure of multidimensional off-diagonal self-joinings we provide a criterion for non-isomorphism of a flow with its inverse, hence the non-reversibility of a flow. This is applied to special flows over rigid…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 K. Fraczek , J. Kulaga , M. Lemanczyk

We offer a new structural basis for the theory of 3-connected graphs, providing a unique decomposition of every such graph into parts that are either quasi 4-connected, wheels, or thickened $K_{3,m}$'s. Our construction is explicit,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Johannes Carmesin , Jan Kurkofka

In this paper we investigate orders, longest cycles and the number of cycles of automorphisms of finite vertex-transitive graphs. In particular, we show that the order of every automorphism of a connected vertex-transitive graph with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Primoz Potocnik , Micael Toledo , Gabriel Verret

We survey known results related to nowhere-zero flows and related topics, such as circuit covers and the structure of circuits of signed graphs. We include an overview of several different definitions of signed graph colouring.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Tomáš Kaiser , Edita Rollová , Robert Lukot'ka

In contrast to ordinary graphs, the number of the nowhere-zero group-flows in a signed graph may vary with different groups, even if the groups have the same order. In fact, for a signed graph $G$ and non-negative integer $d$, it was shown…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Jianguo Qian

The Fan-Raspaud Conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph has three 1-factors with empty intersection. A weaker one than this conjecture is that every bridgeless cubic graph has two 1-factors and one join with empty intersection.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Ligang Jin , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Eckhard Steffen

We compare three transitivity properties of finite graphs, namely, for a positive integer $s$, $s$-distance transitivity, $s$-geodesic transitivity and $s$-arc transitivity. It is known that if a finite graph is $s$-arc transitive but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Alice Devillers , Wei Jin , Cai Heng Li , Cheryl E. Praeger

We show that the automorphism group of every zero entropy infinite shift admits a "drift" homomorphism to $(\mathbb{R},+)$ that maps the shift map to 1. This homomorphism arises as the expectation, under an invariant measure, of a cocycle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Omer Tamuz

We give an exact characterization of 3-colorability of triangle-free graphs drawn in the torus, in the form of 186 "templates" (graphs with certain faces filled by arbitrary quadrangulations) such that a graph from this class is not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Zdeněk Dvořák , Jakub Pekárek

A graph $\Ga=(V,E)$ is called a Cayley graph of some group $T$ if the automorphism group $\Aut(\Ga)$ contains a subgroup $T$ which acts on regularly on $V$. If the subgroup $T$ is normal in $\Aut(\Ga)$ then $\Ga$ is called a normal Cayley…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jing Jian Li , Zai Ping Lu

For integers $a\ge 2b>0$, a \emph{circular $a/b$-flow} is a flow that takes values from $\{\pm b, \pm(b+1), \dots, \pm(a-b)\}$. The Planar Circular Flow Conjecture states that every $2k$-edge-connected planar graph admits a circular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Daniel W. Cranston , Jiaao Li

We investigate properties which ensure that a given finite graph is the commuting graph of a group or semigroup. We show that all graphs on at least two vertices such that no vertex is adjacent to all other vertices is the commuting graph…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Michael Giudici , Bojan Kuzma

Let $s$ be a positive integer. A graph is $s$-transitive if its automorphism group is transitive on s-arcs but not on $(s + 1)$-arcs. In this paper, we study all tetravalent s-transitive graphs of order $6p^2$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Mohsen Ghasemi , AliAsghar Talebi , Narges Mehdipoor

We analyze the Brill-Noether theory of trivalent graphs and multigraphs having largest possible automorphism group in a fixed genus. For trivalent multigraphs with loops of genus at least 3, we show that there exists a graph with maximal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Timothy Leake , Dhruv Ranganathan

An (r,alpha)-bounded excess flow ((r,alpha)-flow) in an orientation of a graph G=(V,E) is an assignment of a real "flow value" between 1 and r-1 to every edge. Rather than 0 as in an actual flow, some flow excess, which does not exceed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Michael Tarsi

Consider the triangle-free graph process, which starts from the empty graph on $n$ vertices and a random ordering of the possible ${n \choose 2}$ edges; the edges are added in this ordering provided the graph remains triangle free. We will…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-12 Stefanie Gerke , Tamás Makai

A graph embedded in the 3-sphere is called irreducible if it is non-splittable and for any 2-sphere embedded in the 3-sphere that intersects the graph at one point the graph is contained in one of the 3-balls bounded by the 2-sphere. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kouki Taniyama

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