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Mixed graphs can be seen as digraphs that have both arcs and edges (or digons, that is, two opposite arcs). In this paper, we consider the case in which such graphs are Cayley graphs of Abelian groups. These groups can be constructed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-20 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , N. López

While orthogonal drawings have a long history, smooth orthogonal drawings have been introduced only recently. So far, only planar drawings or drawings with an arbitrary number of crossings per edge have been studied. Recently, a lot of…

A hole is an induced cycle of length at least 4, and an odd hole is a hole of odd length. A full house is a graph composed by a vertex adjacent to both ends of an edge in $K_4$ . Let $H$ be the complement of a cycle on 7 vertices.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jialei Song , Baogang Xu

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $k$-critical graph if $G$ is not $(k -1)$-colorable but $G-e$ is $(k-1)$-colorable for every $e\in E(G)$. In this paper, we construct a family of 4-critical planar graphs with $n$ vertices and $\frac{7n-13}{3}$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Yao Tianxing , Zhou Guofei

Every $K_4$-free graph on $n$ vertices has a set of $\lfloor n/2\rfloor$ vertices spanning at most $n^2/18$ edges.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Christian Reiher

Extremal problems on the $4$-cycle $C_4$ played a heuristic important role in the development of extremal graph theory. A fundamental theorem of F\"uredi states that the Tur\'an number $ex(q^2+q+1, C_4)\leq \frac12 q(q+1)^2$ holds for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Jialin He , Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

The {\em planar Tur\'{a}n number} of $H$, denoted by $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free planar graph. The planar Tur\'{a}n number of $k\geq 3$ vertex-disjoint union of cycles is a trivial value $3n-6$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Ping Li

For fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

An ordered graph $H$ on $n$ vertices is a graph whose vertices have been labeled bijectively with $\{1,...,n\}$. The ordered Ramsey number $r_<(H)$ is the minimum $n$ such that every two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Will Overman , Jeremy F. Alm , Kayla Coffey , Carolyn Langhoff

Petersen's seminal work in 1891 asserts that the edge-set of a cubic graph can be covered by distinct perfect matchings if and only if it is bridgeless. Actually, it is known that for a very large fraction of bridgeless cubic graphs, every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Jan Goedgebeur , Davide Mattiolo , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Jarne Renders , Isaak H. Wolf

A nontrivial connected graph is matching covered if each edge belongs to some perfect matching. For most problems pertaining to perfect matchings, one may restrict attention to matching covered graphs; thus, there is extensive literature on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Rohinee Joshi , Santhosh Raghul , Nishad Kothari

A connected graph is called \emph{geodetic} if there is a unique geodesic between each pair of vertices. In this paper we prove that if a finitely generated group admits a Cayley graph which is geodetic, then the group must be virtually…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Murray Elder , Giles Gardam , Adam Piggott , Davide Spriano , Kane Townsend

A well-known conjecture by Erd\H{o}s states that every triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices can be made bipartite by removing at most $n^2/25$ edges. This conjecture was known for graphs with edge density at least $0.4$ and edge density at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Bernard Lidický

A graph is called odd if all of its vertex degrees are odd. A long-standing conjecture asked whether there exists a positive constant $c$ such that every $n$-vertex graph without isolated vertices contains an odd induced subgraph on at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Jiangdong Ai , Qiwen Guo , Gregory Gutin , Yiming Hao , Anders Yeo

A graph is called odd if there is an orientation of its edges and an automorphism that reverses the sense of an odd number of its edges, and even otherwise. Pontus von Br\"omssen (n\'e Andersson) showed that the existence of such an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Gordon F. Royle , Cheryl E. Praeger , S. P. Glasby , Saul D. Freedman , Alice Devillers

We examine the Maximum Independent Set Problem in an undirected graph. The main result is that this problem can be considered as the solving the same problem in a subclass of the weighted normal twin-orthogonal graphs. The problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

Let $G$ be a bridgeless cubic graph. Consider a list of $k$ 1-factors of $G$. Let $E_i$ be the set of edges contained in precisely $i$ members of the $k$ 1-factors. Let $\mu_k(G)$ be the smallest $|E_0|$ over all lists of $k$ 1-factors of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Ligang Jin , Eckhard Steffen

It is shown that for a constant $t\in \mathbb{N}$, every simple topological graph on $n$ vertices has $O(n)$ edges if it has no two sets of $t$ edges such that every edge in one set is disjoint from all edges of the other set (i.e., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Andres J. Ruiz-Vargas , Andrew Suk , Csaba D. Tóth

A hole is a chordless cycle with at least four vertices. A hole is odd if it has an odd number of vertices. A dart is a graph which vertices $a, b, c, d, e$ and edges $ab, bc, bd, be, cd, de$. Dart-free graphs have been actively studied in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Chính T. Hoàng

For a fixed graph G, a maximal independent set is an independent set that is not a proper subset of any other independent set. P. Erd\"os, and independently, J. W. Moon and L. Moser, and R. E. Miller and D. E. Muller, determined the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Chunwei Song , Bowen Yao