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The closure of a graph $G$ is the graph $G^*$ obtained from $G$ by repeatedly adding edges between pairs of non-adjacent vertices whose degree sum is at least $n$, where $n$ is the number of vertices of $G$. The well-known Closure Lemma…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Chinh T. Hoang , Cleophee Robin

Robertson and Seymour proved that the relation of graph immersion is well-quasi-ordered for finite graphs. Their proof uses the results of graph minors theory. Surprisingly, there is a very short proof of the corresponding rough structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Bojan Mohar , Diego Scheide

A graph $G$ is perfectly divisible if, for every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$, either $V(H)$ is a stable set or admits a partition into two sets $X_1$ and $X_2$ such that $\omega(H[X_1]) < \omega(H)$ and $H[X_2]$ is a perfect graph. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 David Scholz

Networks are inherently vulnerable to vertex failures, making the analysis of their structural robustness a fundamental problem in graph theory. In this study, we investigate the closeness and vertex residual closeness of graphs, with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hande Tuncel Golpek , Mehmet Ali Bilici , Aysun Aytac

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the notions of geometric and sequential convexity within a graph-theoretic framework, with the aim of examining various structural properties and exploring the connection between these…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Angshuman R. Goswami

A $biased\ graph$ is a pair $(G,\mathcal{B})$, where $G$ is a graph and $\mathcal{B}$ is a collection of `balanced' circuits of $G$ such that no $\Theta$-subgraph of $G$ contains precisely two balanced circuits. We prove a Ramsey-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Peter Nelson , Sophia Park

A graph is well-covered if all its maximal independent sets are of the same size (M. D. Plummer, 1970). A well-covered graph is 1-well-covered if the deletion of every vertex leaves a graph which is well-covered as well (J. W. Staples,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

A consistent path system in a graph $G$ is an intersection-closed collection of paths, with exactly one path between any two vertices in $G$. We call $G$ metrizable if every consistent path system in it is the system of geodesic paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Maria Chudnovsky , Daniel Cizma , Nati Linial

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

A graph is a mathematical object consisting of a set of vertices and a set of edges connecting vertices. Graphs can be drawn on paper in various ways, but until recently all published methods of drawing graphs have had undesirable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Bob Blakley , G R Blakley , Sean M Blakley

What can be said about the structure of graphs that do not contain an induced copy of some graph H? Rodl showed in the 1980s that every H-free graph has large parts that are very dense or very sparse. More precisely, let us say that a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Call a simple graph $H$ of order $n$ well-separable, if by deleting a separator set of size $o(n)$ the leftover will have components of size at most $o(n)$. We prove, that bounded degree well-separable spanning subgraphs are easy to embed:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-18 Béla Csaba

For a degree sequence, we define the set of edges that appear in every labeled realization of that sequence as forced, while the edges that appear in none as forbidden. We examine structure of graphs whose degree sequences contain either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Brian Cloteaux

In this paper we study fundamental connectivity properties of hypergraphs from a graph-theoretic perspective, with the emphasis on cut edges, cut vertices, and blocks. To prepare the ground, we define various types of subhypergraphs, as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 M. Amin Bahmanian , Mateja Šajna

For a positive integer $k$ and a graph $H$ on $k$ vertices, we are interested in the inducibility of $H$, denoted $\mathrm{ind}(H)$, which is defined as the maximum possible probability that choosing $k$ vertices uniformly at random from a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Richard Ueltzen

We study structural conditions in dense graphs that guarantee the existence of vertex-spanning substructures such as Hamilton cycles. It is easy to see that every Hamiltonian graph is connected, has a perfect fractional matching and,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Richard Lang , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

In the final paper of the Graph Minors series N. Robertson and P. Seymour proved that graphs are well-quasi-ordered under the immersion ordering. A direct implication of this theorem is that each class of graphs that is closed under taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Iosif Salem , Dimitris Zoros

One of the main questions that arise when studying random and quasi-random structures is which properties P are such that any object that satisfies P "behaves" like a truly random one. In the context of graphs, Chung, Graham, and Wilson…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-03 Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster

A "folklore conjecture, probably due to Tutte" (as described in [P.D. Seymour, Sums of circuits, Graph theory and related topics (Proc. Conf., Univ. Waterloo, 1977), pp. 341-355, Academic Press, 1979]) asserts that every bridgeless cubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-14 Bojan Mohar

A digraph is connected-homogeneous if any isomorphism between finite connected induced subdigraphs extends to an automorphism of the digraph. We consider locally-finite connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. In the case that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Robert Gray , Rognvaldur G. Moller