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The Known Menger's theorem states that in a finite graph, the size of a minimum separator set of any pair of vertices is equal to the maximum number of disjoint paths that can be found between these two vertices. In this paper, we study the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Mouhamad El Joubbeh

For a graph whose vertices are points in $\mathbb R^d$, consider the closed balls with diameters induced by its edges. The graph is called a Tverberg graph if these closed balls intersect. A max-sum tree of a finite point set $X \subset…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Polina Barabanshchikova , Alexandr Polyanskii

Let $G$ be a finite, connected graph and $v$ a vertex of $G$. The average distance and the eccentricity of $v$ in $G$ are defined as the arithmetic mean and the maximum, respectively, of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu

In this note we show that there is a cubic graph of girth $5$ that is not a subgraph of any minimal Cayley graph. On the other hand, we show that any Generalized Petersen Graph $G(n,k)$ with $\gcd(n,k)=1$ is an induced subgraph of a minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Kolja Knauer , Alvaro Soto Gomez

A package for the Sage computer algebra system is developed for checking feasibility of a given intersection array for a distance-regular graph. We use this tool to show that there is no distance-regular graph with intersection array…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Janoš Vidali

In this note we present eleven unit distance embeddings of the Heawood graph, i.e. the point-line incidence graph of the finite projective plane of order two, by way of pictures and 15 digit approximations of the coordinates of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Eberhard H. -A. Gerbracht

A 4-regular planar graph $G$ is said to be circle representable if there exists a collection of circles drawn on the plane such that the touching and crossing points correspond to the vertices of $G$, and the circular arcs between those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Jane Tan

It is easy to see that in a connected graph any 2 longest paths have a vertex in common. For k>=7, Skupien in [7] obtained a connected graph in which some k longest paths have no common vertex, but every k-1 longest paths have a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-04 Jan Ekstein , Shinya Fujita , Adam Kabela , Jakub Teska

A graph $G$ with four or more vertices is called bicritical if the removal of any pair of distinct vertices of $G$ results in a graph with a perfect matching. A bicritical graph is minimal if the deletion of each edge results in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jing Guo , Hailun Wu , Heping Zhang

For the set of graphs with a given degree sequence, consisting of any number of $2's$ and $1's$, and its subset of bipartite graphs, we characterize the optimal graphs who maximize and minimize the number of $m$-matchings. We find the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-16 S. Friedland , E. Krop , K. Markström

Let $C_{s,t}$ be the complete bipartite geometric graph, with $s$ and $t$ vertices on two distinct parallel lines respectively, and all $s t$ straight-line edges drawn between them. In this paper, we show that every complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Balázs Keszegh , Andrew Suk , Gábor Tardos , Ji Zeng

Every finite graph admits a \emph{simple (topological) drawing}, that is, a drawing where every pair of edges intersects in at most one point. However, in combination with other restrictions simple drawings do not universally exist. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Michael Hoffmann , Chih-Hung Liu , Meghana M. Reddy , Csaba D. Tóth

In this article we have derived the minimum order of an odd regular graph such that the graph has no matching. We have observed that how it is different from the case of even regular graphs. We have checked the consistency of the derived…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Anirban Banerjee , Saptarshi Bej

A non-complete \drg $\Gamma$ is called geometric if there exists a set $\mathcal{C}$ of Delsarte cliques such that each edge of $\Gamma$ lies in a unique clique in $\mathcal{C}$. In this paper, we determine the non-complete distance-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Sejeong Bang

Median graphs are connected graphs in which for all three vertices there is a unique vertex that belongs to shortest paths between each pair of these three vertices. In this paper we provide several novel characterizations of planar median…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Carsten R. Seemann , Vincent Moulton , Peter F. Stadler , Marc Hellmuth

We determine the vertex-minor Ramsey number $\Rvm(4)=11$, where $\Rvm(k)$ is the smallest~$n$ such that every $n$-vertex graph contains the edgeless graph~$E_k$ as a vertex-minor. We prove this by an exhaustive classification of the graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ji Ho Bae

We determine the minimum degree sum of two adjacent vertices that ensures a perfect matching in a 3-graph without isolated vertex. More precisely, suppose that $H$ is a 3-uniform hypergraph whose order $n$ is sufficiently large and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Yi Zhang , Yi Zhao , Mei Lu

A {\em resolving set} for a graph $\Gamma$ is a collection of vertices $S$, chosen so that for each vertex $v$, the list of distances from $v$ to the members of $S$ uniquely specifies $v$. The {\em metric dimension} of $\Gamma$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Robert F. Bailey

A graph is called matching covered if for its every edge there is a maximum matching containing it. It is shown that minimal matching covered graphs contain a perfect matching.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-07-16 V. V. Mkrtchyan

A graph G is weakly 4-connected if it is 3-connected, has at least five vertices, and for every pair of sets (A,B) with union V(G) and intersection of size three such that no edge has one end in A-B and the other in B-A, one of the induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Rajneesh Hegde , Robin Thomas