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May the $\mathit{triforce}$ be the 3-uniform hypergraph on six vertices with edges $\{123',12'3,1'23\}$. We show that the minimum triforce density in a 3-uniform hypergraph of edge density $\delta$ is $\delta^{4-o(1)}$ but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Jacob Fox , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , David Stoner , Yufei Zhao

We study a combinatorial problem called Minimum Maximal Matching, where we are asked to find in a general graph the smallest that can not be extended. We show that this problem is hard to approximate with a constant smaller than 2, assuming…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Szymon Dudycz , Mateusz Lewandowski , Jan Marcinkowski

A tessellation of a graph is a partition of its vertices into vertex disjoint cliques. A tessellation cover of a graph is a set of tessellations that covers all of its edges, and the tessellation cover number, denoted by $T(G)$, is the size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Alexandre Abreu , Luís Cunha , Celina de Figueiredo , Luis Kowada , Franklin Marquezino , Renato Portugal , Daniel Posner

$\Theta_6$-Graphs graphs are important geometric graphs that have many applications especially in wireless sensor networks. They are equivalent to Delaunay graphs where empty equilateral triangles take the place of empty circles. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Therese Biedl , Ahmad Biniaz , Veronika Irvine , Kshitij Jain , Philipp Kindermann , Anna Lubiw

Hasunuma [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023) 423-435] conjectured that for any tree $T$ of order $m$, every $k$-connected (or $k$-edge-connected) graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+m-1$ contains a tree $T'\cong T$ such that $G-E(T')$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Qing Yang , Yingzhi Tian

A well-known theorem of Vizing states that if $G$ is a simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, then the chromatic index $\chi'(G)$ of $G$ is $\Delta$ or $\Delta+1$. A graph $G$ is class 1 if $\chi'(G)=\Delta$, and class 2 if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Gang Chen , Zhengke Miao , Zi-Xia Song , Jingmei Zhang

A set S of vertices in a graph G is a dominating set of G if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S . The domination number of G, denoted by $\gamma$(G), is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set in G. In a breakthrough…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Paul Dorbec , Michael Antony Henning

A conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson (1971) states that every cubic bridgeless graph contains 6 perfect matchings covering each edge precisely twice, which easily implies that every cubic bridgeless graph has three perfect matchings with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Louis Esperet , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

A graph $ G $ is minimally $ t $-tough if the toughness of $ G $ is $ t $ and deletion of any edge from $ G $ decreases its toughness. Katona et al. conjectured that the minimum degree of any minimally $ t $-tough graph is $ \lceil 2t\rceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Hui Ma , Xiaomin Hu , Weihua Yang

Ellis, Filmus, and Friedgut proved an old conjecture of Simonovits and S\'os showing that the maximum size of a triangle-intersecting family of graphs on $n$ vertices has size at most $2^{\binom{n}{2} - 3}$, with equality for the family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Aaron Berger , Yufei Zhao

The geometric thickness of a graph G is the minimum integer k such that there is a straight line drawing of G with its edge set partitioned into k plane subgraphs. Eppstein [Separating thickness from geometric thickness. In: Towards a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Janos Barat , Jiri Matousek , David R. Wood

Reiher, R\"odl, Sales, and Schacht initiated the study of relative Tur\'an densities of ordered graphs and showed that it is more subtle and interesting than the unordered case. For an ordered graph $F$, its relative Tur\'an density,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Freddie Illingworth , Arjun Ranganathan , Leo Versteegen , Ella Williams

Given a minor-closed class $\mathcal{A}$ of graphs, let $\beta_{\mathcal{A}}$ denote the supremum over all graphs in $\mathcal{A}$ of the ratio of edges to vertices. We investigate the set $B$ of all such values $\beta_{\mathcal{A}}$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Colin McDiarmid , Michał Przykucki

In 1995 Kim famously proved the Ramsey bound R(3,t) \ge c t^2/\log t by constructing an n-vertex graph that is triangle-free and has independence number at most C \sqrt{n \log n}. We extend this celebrated result, which is best possible up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 He Guo , Lutz Warnke

Kriesel conjectured that every minimally $1$-tough graph has a vertex with degree precisely $2$. Katona and Varga (2018) proposed a generalized version of this conjecture which says that every minimally $t$-tough graph has a vertex with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Morteza Hasanvand

Erd\H{o}s asked whether for any $n$-vertex graph $G$, the parameter $p^*(G)=\min \sum_{i\ge 1} (|V(G_i)|-1)$ is at most $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor$, where the minimum is taken over all edge decompositions of $G$ into edge-disjoint cliques $G_i$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jialin He , Jie Ma , Yan Wang , Chunlei Zu

Let $G$ be a simple graph with a perfect matching. Deng and Zhang showed that the maximum anti-forcing number of $G$ is no more than the cyclomatic number. In this paper, we get a novel upper bound on the maximum anti-forcing number of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Lingjuan Shi , Heping Zhang

The uniform Tur\'an density $\pi_{u}(F)$ of a $3$-uniform hypergraph (or $3$-graph) $F$ is the supremum of all $d$ such that there exist infinitely many $F$-free $3$-graphs $H$ in which every induced subhypergraph on a linearly sized vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hao Lin , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou , Yiming Zhou

A long-standing conjecture of Berge suggests that every bridgeless cubic graph can be expressed as a union of at most five perfect matchings. This conjecture trivially holds for $3$-edge-colourable cubic graphs, but remains widely open for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Ján Karabáš , Edita Máčajová , Roman Nedela , Martin Škoviera

Let v(G) be the number of vertices and t(G,k) the maximum number of disjoint k-edge trees in G. In this paper we show that (a1) if G is a graph with every vertex of degree at least two and at most s, where s > 3, then t(G,2) is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kelmans