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Truemper configurations (thetas, pyramids, prisms, and wheels) have played an important role in the study of complex hereditary graph classes (e.g. the class of perfect graphs and the class of even-hole-free graphs), appearing both as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Valerio Boncompagni , Irena Penev , Kristina Vuskovic

Here we prove that a graph without some three induced subgraphs has chromatic number at the most equal to its maximum clique size plus one. Further we show that the bounds are tight and give examples to show that each of the three forbidden…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Medha Dhurandhar

We show that a number of conditions on oriented graphs, all of which are satisfied with high probability by randomly oriented graphs, are equivalent. These equivalences are similar to those given by Chung, Graham and Wilson in the case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Simon Griffiths

We introduce the notion of delineation. A graph class $\mathcal C$ is said delineated if for every hereditary closure $\mathcal D$ of a subclass of $\mathcal C$, it holds that $\mathcal D$ has bounded twin-width if and only if $\mathcal D$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Édouard Bonnet , Dibyayan Chakraborty , Eun Jung Kim , Noleen Köhler , Raul Lopes , Stéphan Thomassé

A result due to Gy\'arf\'as, Hubenko, and Solymosi (answering a question of Erd\"os) states that if a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices does not contain $K_{2,2}$ as an induced subgraph yet has at least $c\binom{n}{2}$ edges, then $G$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Andreas F. Holmsen

We prove that a random Cayley graph on a group of order $N$ has clique number $O(\log N \log \log N)$ with high probability. This bound is best possible up to the constant factor for certain groups, including~$\mathbb{F}_2^n$, and improves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-31 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Huy Tuan Pham , Liana Yepremyan

The implicit graph conjecture states that every sufficiently small, hereditary graph class has a labeling scheme with a polynomial-time computable label decoder. We approach this conjecture by investigating classes of label decoders defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Maurice Chandoo

A clique coloring of a graph is an assignment of colors to its vertices such that no maximal clique is monochromatic. We initiate the study of structural parameterizations of the Clique Coloring problem which asks whether a given graph has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Geevarghese Philip

In this paper, we extend the ideas of graph pebbling to oriented graphs and find a classification for all graphs with fully traversable pebbling assignments that are isomorphic to their assignment graph. We then give some cases in which a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Jared Glassband , Garrison Koch , Sophia Lebiere , Xufei Liu , Evan Sabini

A strongly regular graph is called trivial if it or its complement is a union of disjoint cliques. We prove that every infinite family of nontrivial strongly regular graphs is quasi-random in the sense of Chung, Graham and Wilson.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

In recent years, there has been significant interest in characterizing the induced subgraph obstructions to bounded treewidth and pathwidth. While this has recently been resolved for pathwidth, the case of treewidth remains open, and prior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Maria Chudnovsky , David Fischer , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl , Bartosz Walczak

In this paper, we characterise graphs that are quasi-isometric to graphs with bounded treewidth. Specifically, we prove that a graph is quasi-isometric to a graph with bounded treewidth if and only if it has a tree-decomposition where each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Robert Hickingbotham

Quasi-best match graphs (qBMGs) are a hereditary class of directed, properly vertex-colored graphs. They arise naturally in mathematical phylogenetics as a generalization of best match graphs, which formalize the notion of evolutionary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Annachiara Korchmaros , David Schaller , Marc Hellmuth , Peter F. Stadler

We consider quasirandom properties for Cayley graphs of finite abelian groups. We show that having uniform edge-distribution (i.e., small discrepancy) and having large eigenvalue gap are equivalent properties for such Cayley graphs, even if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

The bandwidth of a graph is the labeling of vertices with minimum maximum edge difference. For many graph families this is NP-complete. A classic result computes the bandwidth for the hypercube. We generalize this result to give sharp lower…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Mitchell A. Harris

In 2022, Holmsen showed that any graph with at least \( c \binom{n}{r} \) \(r\)-cliques but no induced complete $r$-partite graph $K_{2,\ldots, 2}$ must contain a clique of order \(\Omega(c^{2^{r-1}} n)\). In this paper, we study graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Nannan Chen , Yulai Ma , Fan Yang

We prove that if the prime graphs in a graph class have bounded lettericity, then the entire class has bounded lettericity if and only if it does not contain arbitrary large matchings, co-matchings, or a family of graphs that we call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Robert Ferguson , Vincent Vatter

This work provides a structural characterisation of hereditary graph classes that do not contain a star forest, several graphs obtained from star forests by subset complementation, a union of cliques, and the complement of a union of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Aistis Atminas

We show that the identity component of the group of diffeomorphisms of a closed oriented surface of positive genus admits many unbounded quasi-morphisms. As a corollary, we also deduce that this group is not uniformly perfect and its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Jonathan Bowden , Sebastian Hensel , Richard Webb

The sparsity order of a (simple undirected) graph is the highest possible rank (over ${\mathbb R}$ or ${\mathbb C}$) of the extremal elements in the matrix cone that consists of positive semidefinite matrices with prescribed zeros on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-21 S. ter Horst , E. M. Klem