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We investigate the number of maximal cliques, i.e., cliques that are not contained in any larger clique, in three network models: Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs, inhomogeneous random graphs (also called Chung-Lu graphs), and geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Thomas Bläsius , Maximillian Katzmann , Clara Stegehuis

The coloring problem is a well-research topic and its complexity is known for several classes of graphs. However, the question of its complexity remains open for the class of antiprismatic graphs, which are the complement of prismatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Cléophée Robin , Eileen Robinson

Given an infinite word over the alphabet $\{0,1,2,3\}$, we define a class of bipartite hereditary graphs $\mathcal{G}^\alpha$, and show that $\mathcal{G}^\alpha$ has unbounded clique-width unless $\alpha$ contains at most finitely many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Robert Brignall , Daniel Cocks

We study how the relationship between non-equivalent width parameters changes once we restrict to some special graph class. As width parameters, we consider treewidth, clique-width, twin-width, mim-width, sim-width and tree-independence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nick Brettell , Andrea Munaro , Daniël Paulusma , Shizhou Yang

A graph is perfectly divisible if for each of its induced subgraph $H$, $V(H)$ can be partitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(H[B]) < \omega(H)$, and a graph $G$ is perfectly weight divisible if for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Qiming Hu , Baogang Xu , Miaoxia Zhuang

We consider Colouring on graphs that are $H$-subgraph-free for some fixed graph $H$, which are graphs that do not contain $H$ as a subgraph. To classify the complexity of Colouring on $H$-subgraph-free graphs for connected $H$, it remains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Tala Eagling-Vose , Jorik Jooken , Felicia Lucke , Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a set of given connected graphs. A graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{H}$-free if $G$ contains no $H$ as an induced subgraph for any $H\in \mathcal{H}$. The graph $G$ is super-edge-connected if each minimum edge-cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Hazhe Ye , Yingzhi Tian

Even-hole-free graphs are a graph class of much interest. Foley et al. [Graphs Comb. 36(1): 125-138 (2020)] have recently studied $(4K_1, C_4, C_6)$-free graphs, which form a subclass of even-hole-free graphs. Specifically, Foley et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Martin Koutecký

A clique of a graph is a maximal set of vertices of size at least 2 that induces a complete graph. A $k$-clique-colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertices with at most $k$ colours such that no clique is monochromatic. D\'efossez…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Hélio B. Macêdo Filho , Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

We study graphs whose chromatic number is close to the order of the graph (the number of vertices). Both when the chromatic number is a constant multiple of the order and when the difference of the chromatic number and the order is a small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-14 Csaba Biró

We construct a hereditary class of triangle-free graphs with unbounded chromatic number, in which every non-trivial graph either contains a pair of non-adjacent twins or has an edgeless vertex cutset of size at most two. This answers in the…

Classes with bounded rankwidth are MSO-transductions of trees and classes with bounded linear rankwidth are MSO-transductions of paths -- a result that shows a strong link between the properties of these graph classes considered from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

The smallest number of cliques, covering all edges of a graph $ G $, is called the (edge) clique cover number of $ G $ and is denoted by $ cc(G) $. It is an easy observation that for every line graph $ G $ with $ n $ vertices, $cc(G)\leq n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ramin Javadi , Sepehr Hajebi

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

A graph $G$ is $H$-free if any subset of $V(G)$ does not induce a subgraph of $G$ that is isomorphic to $H$. Given a graph $H$, we present sufficient and necessary conditions for a graph $G$ such that $G/e$ is $H$-free for any edge $e$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Hany Ibrahim , Peter Tittmann

We consider the class of (C4, diamond)-free graphs; graphs in this class do not contain a C4 or a diamond as an induced subgraph. We provide an efficient recognition algorithm for this class. We count the number of maximal cliques in a (C4,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Elaine M. Eschen , Chinh T. Hoang , Jeremy P. Spinrad , R. Sritharan

Given two graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, a graph $G$ is $(H_1,H_2)$-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$. A $P_t$ is the path on $t$ vertices. A chair is a $P_4$ with an additional vertex adjacent to one of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Shenwei Huang , Zeyu Li

A graph is chordal if it contains no induced cycle of length four or more. While finite chordal graphs are precisely those admitting tree-decompositions into cliques, this fails for infinite graphs. We establish two results extending the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Max Pitz , Lucas Real , Roman Schaut

In this paper we obtain some upper bounds for $b$-chromatic number of $K_{1,t}$ -free graphs, graphs with given minimum clique partition and bipartite graphs. These bounds are in terms of either clique number or chromatic number of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mekkia Kouider , Manouchehr Zaker

We say a graph has property $\mathcal{P}_{g,p}$ when it is an induced subgraph of the curve graph of a surface of genus $g$ with $p$ punctures. Two well-known graph invariants, the chromatic and clique numbers, can provide obstructions to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Edgar A. Bering , Gabriel Conant , Jonah Gaster