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Recent cognitive experiments have shown that the negative impact of an edge crossing on the human understanding of a graph drawing, tends to be eliminated in the case where the crossing angles are greater than 70 degrees. This motivated the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Evmorfia N. Argyriou , Michael A. Bekos , Antonios Symvonis

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 a $2$-connected cubic graph, then any longest cycle must have a chord. He also showed that in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Haidong Wu , Shunzhe Zhang

In this paper we present a characterisation, by an infinite family of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs, of proper circular arc graphs which are intersection graphs of paths on a grid, where each path has at most one bend (turn).

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Esther Galby , Maria Pia Mazzoleni , Bernard Ries

We study the problem of experimental design for accurately identifying the causal graph structure of a simple structural causal model (SCM), where the underlying graph may include both cycles and bidirected edges induced by latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Haijie Xu , Chen Zhang

A biased graph is a graph with a class of selected circles ("cycles", "circuits"), called balanced, such that no theta subgraph contains exactly two balanced circles. A biased graph $\Omega$ has two natural matroids, the frame matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Rigoberto Flórez , Thomas Zaslavsky

It is well known that the edge vector space of an oriented graph can be decomposed in terms of cycles and cocycles (alias cuts, or bonds), and that a basis for the cycle and the cocycle spaces can be generated by adding and removing edges…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Matteo Polettini

We show that every bridgeless cubic graph $G$ with $m$ edges has a cycle cover of length at most $1.6 m$. Moreover, if $G$ does not contain any intersecting circuits of length $5$, then $G$ has a cycle cover of length $212/135 \cdot m…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Barbora Candráková , Robert Lukoťka

Hadwiger's conjecture asserts that any graph contains a clique minor with order no less than the chromatic number of the graph. We prove that this well-known conjecture is true for all graphs if and only if it is true for squares of split…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-03 L. Sunil Chandran , Davis Issac , Sanming Zhou

A drawing of a graph is said to be a {\em straight-line drawing} if the vertices of $G$ are represented by distinct points in the plane and every edge is represented by a straight-line segment connecting the corresponding pair of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-08 V S Padmini Mukkamala

A digraph $G$ is weightable if its edges can be weighted with real numbers such that the total weight in each directed cycle equals 1. There are several equivalent conditions: that $G$ admits a 0/1-weighting with the same property, or that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Eli Berger , Daniel Carter , Paul Seymour

Given a graph, does there exist an orientation of the edges such that the resulting directed graph is strongly connected? Robbins' theorem [Robbins, Am. Math. Monthly, 1939] states that such an orientation exists if and only if the graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Anders Aamand , Niklas Hjuler , Jacob Holm , Eva Rotenberg

Any directed graph $D=(V(D),A(D))$ in this work is assumed to be finite and without self-loops. A source in a directed graph is a vertex having at least one ingoing arc. A quasi-kernel $Q\subseteq V(D)$ is an independent set in $D$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Allan van Hulst

The problem of packing Hamilton cycles in random and pseudorandom graphs has been studied extensively. In this paper, we look at the dual question of covering all edges of a graph by Hamilton cycles and prove that if a graph with maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Roman Glebov , Michael Krivelevich , Tibor Szabó

A cycle is $2$-colored if its edges are properly colored by two distinct colors. A $(d,s)$-edge colorable graph $G$ is a $d$-regular graph that admits a proper $d$-edge coloring in which every edge of $G$ is in at least $s-1$ $2$-colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Lan Anh Pham

Bidirected graphs are a common generalisation of directed graphs where arcs can also be incoming to both their incident nodes, or outgoing from both their incident nodes. Such arcs allow a walk to change direction. Some algorithms can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sebastian Schmidt , Juha Harviainen , Corentin Moumard , Aleksandr Politov , Francisco Sena , Alexandru I. Tomescu

We demonstrate that when a graph exhibits a specific type of symmetry, it satisfies the Union Closed Conjecture(UCC). Additionally, we show that certain graph classes, such as Cylindrical Grid Graphs and Torus Grid Graphs also satisfy the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Nived J M

Let G be the graph of a triangulated surface $\Sigma$ of genus $g\geq 2$. A cycle of G is splitting if it cuts $\Sigma$ into two components, neither of which is homeomorphic to a disk. A splitting cycle has type k if the corresponding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vincent Despré , Francis Lazarus

Understanding how the cycles of a graph or digraph behave in general has always been an important point of graph theory. In this paper, we study the question of finding a set of $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles (resp. directed cycles) of distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Ngoc Khang Le , Binlong Li , Nicolas Lichiardopol

Consider the random graph process where we start with an empty graph on n vertices, and at time t, are given an edge e_t chosen uniformly at random among the edges which have not appeared so far. A classical result in random graph theory…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-30 Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov , Dan Vilenchik

A vertex in a graph is simplicial if its neighborhood forms a clique. We consider three generalizations of the concept of simplicial vertices: avoidable vertices (also known as \textit{OCF}-vertices), simplicial paths, and their common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Jesse Beisegel , Maria Chudnovsky , Vladimir Gurvich , Martin Milanič , Mary Servatius