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Let $G$ be a connected graph. The average distance of a vertex $v$ of $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The proximity and remoteness of $G$ are defined as the minimum and maximum,…

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

In a book embedding of a graph G, the vertices of G are placed in order along a straight-line called spine of the book, and the edges of G are drawn on a set of half-planes, called the pages of the book, such that two edges drawn on a page…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Franz J. Brandenburg , Stephen G. Kobourov

A graph with chromatic number $k$ is called $k$-chromatic. Using computational methods, we show that the smallest triangle-free 6-chromatic graphs have at least 32 and at most 40 vertices. We also determine the complete set of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Jan Goedgebeur

A longest path in a graph is called a detour. It is easy to see that a connected graph of minimum degree at least $2$ and order at least $4$ has at least $4$ detours. We prove that if the number of detours in such a graph of order at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Xingzhi Zhan

Given two graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, a graph is $(H_1,\,H_2)$-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$. For a positive integer $t$, $P_t$ is the chordless path on $t$ vertices. A paraglider is the graph that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Shenwei Huang , T. Karthick

We prove that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with no isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of size at least $n/10000$ with all degrees odd. This solves an old and well-known conjecture in graph theory.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich

It is well-known that 1-planar graphs have minimum degree at most 7, and not hard to see that some 1-planar graphs have minimum degree exactly 7. In this note we show that any such 1-planar graph has at least 24 vertices, and this is tight.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Therese Biedl

For a graph whose vertex set is a finite set of points in the Euclidean $d$-space consider the closed (open) balls with diameters induced by its edges. The graph is called a (an open) Tverberg graph if these closed (open) balls intersect.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Olimjoni Pirahmad , Alexandr Polyanskii , Alexey Vasilevskii

Twin-width is a recently introduced graph parameter for finite graphs. It is an open problem to determine whether there is an $n$-vertex graph having twin-width at least $n/2$ (due to J. Ahn, K. Hendrey, D. Kim and S. Oum). In an earlier…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Kajal Das

The $F$-sum is a new graph operation defined by combining four graph transformation operations with the Cartesian product operation. A matching book embedding of a graph $G$ is a book embedding in which the vertices of $G$ are placed on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Zeling Shao , Ruxing Sun , Zhiguo Li

A graph $G$ is hypohamiltonian if $G$ is non-hamiltonian and $G - v$ is hamiltonian for every $v \in V(G)$. In the following, every graph is assumed to be hypohamiltonian. Aldred, Wormald, and McKay gave a list of all graphs of order at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Jan Goedgebeur , Carol T. Zamfirescu

In this paper, we study the outerplanarity of planar graphs, i.e., the number of times that we must (in a planar embedding that we can initially freely choose) remove the outerface vertices until the graph is empty. It is well-known that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Therese Biedl , Debajyoti Mondal

We prove that, for every positive integer k, there is an integer N such that every 4-connected non-planar graph with at least N vertices has a minor isomorphic to K_{4,k}, the graph obtained from a cycle of length 2k+1 by adding an edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Guoli Ding , Bogdan Oporowski , Robin Thomas , Dirk Vertigan

A \v{S}olt\'es' hypergraph is a hypergraph for which the removal of any of its vertices does not change its total distance. We prove that every uniform \v{S}olt\'es' hypergraph has order at least $10$, there exist uniform \v{S}olt\'es'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Stijn Cambie , Ajay Tiwari

We investigate which planar point sets allow simultaneous straight-line embeddings of all planar graphs on a fixed number of vertices. We first show that $(1.293-o(1))n$ points are required to find a straight-line drawing of each $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Manfred Scheucher , Hendrik Schrezenmaier , Raphael Steiner

A planar orthogonal drawing of a planar 4-graph G (i.e., a planar graph with vertex-degree at most four) is a crossing-free drawing that maps each vertex of G to a distinct point of the plane and each edge of $G$ to a sequence of horizontal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Walter Didimo , Michael Kaufmann , Giuseppe Liotta , Giacomo Ortali

Unitary graphs are arc-transitive graphs with vertices the flags of Hermitian unitals and edges defined by certain elements of the underlying finite fields. They played a significant role in a recent classification of a class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Sanming Zhou

For a given graph $H$, a graph $G$ is $H$-linked if, for every injection $\varphi: V(H) \to V(G)$, the graph $G$ contains a subdivision of $H$ with $\varphi(v)$ corresponding to $v$, for each $v\in V(H)$. Let $f(H)$ be the minimum integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Chris Stephens , Dong Ye

Given a connected graph, the principal eigenvector of the adjacency matrix (often called the Perron vector) can be used to assign positive weights to the vertices. A natural way to measure the homogeneousness of this vector is by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Péter Csikvári , Viktor Harangi

In 2017, Qiao and Koolen showed that for any fixed integer $D\geq 3$, there are only finitely many such graphs with $\theta_{\min}\leq -\alpha k$, where $0<\alpha<1$ is any fixed number. In this paper, we will study non-bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Zhi Qiao , Yifan Jing , Jack Koolen