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Motivated by a conjecture of Gy\'arf\'as, recently B\"ottcher, Hladk\'y, Piguet, and Taraz showed that every collection $T_1,\dots,T_t$ of trees on $n$ vertices with $\sum_{i=1}^te(T_i)\leq \binom{n}{2}$ and with bounded maximum degree, can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Silvia Messuti , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

The Pathwidth Theorem states that if a class of graphs has unbounded pathwidth, then it contains all trees as graph minors. We prove a similar result for dense graphs. More precisely, we give a finite family of tree-like patterns and prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Pierre Ohlmann

Building on prior work that established Matrix Quasi-tree Theorems for special embedded graphs, in this paper, we develop a comprehensive theory applicable to all embedded graphs. We introduce symbolic skew-adjacency matrices and reduction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qingying Deng , Xian'an Jin , Qi Yan , Yexiang Yan

A subgraph of an edge-coloured complete graph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colours. The study of rainbow decompositions has a long history, going back to the work of Euler on Latin squares. In this paper we discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

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

We generalise structure tree theory, which is based on removing finitely many edges, to removing finitely many vertices. This gives a significant generalization of Tutte's tree decomposition of 2-connected graphs into 3-connected blocks.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody , B. Krön

We prove that the existence of a non-special tree of size $\lambda$ is equivalent to the existence of an uncountably chromatic graph with no $K_{\omega_1}$ minor of size $\lambda$, establishing a connection between the special tree number…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Dávid Uhrik

It is conjectured that every edge-colored complete graph $G$ on $n$ vertices satisfying $\Delta^{mon}(G)\leq n-3k+1$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint properly edge-colored cycles. We confirm this conjecture for $k=2$, prove several additional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Ruonan Li , Hajo Broersma , Shenggui Zhang

Mayer's theory of cluster integrals allows one to write the partition function of a gas model as a generating function of weighted graphs. Recently, Labelle, Leroux and Ducharme have studied the graph weights arising from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Olivier Bernardi

Suppose that $(x_s)_{s\in S}$ is a normalized family in a Banach space indexed by the dyadic tree $S$. Using Stern's combinatorial theorem we extend important results from sequences in Banach spaces to tree-families. More precisely,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Costas Poulios , Athanasios Tsarpalias

Complement-reducible graphs (or cographs) are the graphs formed from the single-vertex graph by the operations of complement and disjoint union. By combining the Johnson-Newman theorem on generalized cospectrality with the standard tools in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wei Wang , Ximei Huang

A recent result of Condon, Kim, K\"{u}hn and Osthus implies that for any $r\geq (\frac{1}{2}+o(1))n$, an $n$-vertex almost $r$-regular graph $G$ has an approximate decomposition into any collections of $n$-vertex bounded degree trees. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jaehoon Kim , Younjin Kim , Hong Liu

Chris Lambie-Hanson proved recently that for every function $ f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N} $ there is an $ \aleph_1 $-chromatic graph $ G $ of size $ 2^{\aleph_1} $ such that every $ (n+3) $-chromatic subgraph of $ G $ has at least $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Attila Joó

Considering systems of separations in a graph that separate every pair of a given set of vertex sets that are themselves not separated by these separations, we determine conditions under which such a separation system contains a nested…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Johannes Carmesin , Reinhard Diestel , Fabian Hundertmark , Maya Stein

We extend Edmonds' Branching Theorem to locally finite infinite digraphs. As examples of Oxley or Aharoni and Thomassen show, this cannot be done using ordinary arborescences, whose underlying graphs are trees. Instead we introduce the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-06 J. Pascal Gollin , Karl Heuer

Halin showed that every thick end of every graph contains an infinite grid. We extend Halin's theorem to digraphs. More precisely, we show that for every infinite family $\mathcal{R}$ of disjoint equivalent out-rays there is a grid whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Florian Reich

A rainbow spanning tree in an edge-colored graph is a spanning tree in which each edge is a different color. Carraher, Hartke, and Horn showed that for $n$ and $C$ large enough, if $G$ is an edge-colored copy of $K_n$ in which each color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Paul Horn , Lauren M. Nelsen

The aim of this chapter is to provide an adequate graph theoretic framework for the description of periodic bifurcations which have recently been discovered in descendant trees of finite p-groups. The graph theoretic concepts of rooted…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Daniel C. Mayer

In this paper, we explore some interesting applications of the matrix tree theorem. In particular, we present a combinatorial interpretation of a distribution of $(n-1)^{n-1}$, in the context of uprooted spanning trees of the complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Nayana Shibu Deepthi , Chanchal Kumar

We give new decomposition theorems for classes of graphs that can be transduced in first-order logic from classes of sparse graphs -- more precisely, from classes of bounded expansion and from nowhere dense classes. In both cases, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Jan Dreier , Jakub Gajarský , Sandra Kiefer , Michał Pilipczuk , Szymon Toruńczyk