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A graph drawing is $\textit{greedy}$ if, for every ordered pair of vertices $(x,y)$, there is a path from $x$ to $y$ such that the Euclidean distance to $y$ decreases monotonically at every vertex of the path. Greedy drawings support a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Giordano Da Lozzo , Anthony D'Angelo , Fabrizio Frati

Inspired by Lelek's idea from [Disjoint mappings and the span of spaces, Fund. Math. 55 (1964), 199 -- 214], we introduce the novel notion of the span of graphs. Using this, we solve the problem of determining the \emph{maximal safety…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Iztok Banič , Andrej Taranenko

The problem of finding the maximum number of vertex-disjoint uni-color paths in an edge-colored graph (called MaxCDP) has been recently introduced in literature, motivated by applications in social network analysis. In this paper we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Riccardo Dondi , Florian Sikora

A bond in a graph is a minimal nonempty edge-cut. A connected graph $G$ is dual Hamiltonian if the vertex set can be partitioned into two subsets $X$ and $Y$ such that the subgraphs induced by $X$ and $Y$ are both trees. There is much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Emily Ren

A connected matching in a graph $G$ is a matching contained in a connected component of $G$. A well-known method due to {\L}uczak reduces problems about monochromatic paths and cycles in complete graphs to problems about monochromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Shoham Letzter

A well-known theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Gallai asserts that a graph with no path of length $k$ contains at most $\frac{1}{2}(k-1)n$ edges. Recently Gy\H{o}ri, Katona and Lemons gave an extension of this result to hypergraphs by determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Akbar Davoodi , Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

In 1959 Erd\H{o}s and Gallai proved the asymptotically optimal bound for the maximum number of edges in graphs not containing a path of a fixed length. Here we study a rainbow version of their theorem, in which one considers $k \geq 1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Sebastian Babiński , Andrzej Grzesik

We prove that if an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $3$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle, then it contains another cycle of length $n-o(n)$; this implies, in particular, that a well-known conjecture of Sheehan from 1975 holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 António Girão , Teeradej Kittipassorn , Bhargav Narayanan

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called a \emph{vertex-monochromatic path} if its internal vertices have the same color. A vertex-coloring of a graph is a \emph{monochromatic vertex-connection coloring} (\emph{MVC-coloring} for short),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Di Wu

The celebrated Erdos, Faber and Lovasz conjecture may be stated as follows: Any linear hypergraph on v points has chromatic index at most v. We will introduce the linear intersection number of a graph, and use this number to give an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hauke Klein , Marian Margraf

The Frechet distance is often used to measure distances between paths, with applications in areas ranging from map matching to GPS trajectory analysis to handwriting recognition. More recently, the Frechet distance has been generalized to a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Erin Chambers , Brittany Fasy , Benjamin Holmgren , Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

The longstanding open problem of approximating all singular vertex couplings in a quantum graph is solved. We present a construction in which the edges are decoupled; an each pair of their endpoints is joined by an edge carrying a $\delta$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Taksu Cheon , Pavel Exner , Ondrej Turek

A tuple (s1,t1,s2,t2) of vertices in a simple undirected graph is 2-linked when there are two vertex-disjoint paths respectively from s1 to t1 and s2 to t2. A graph is 2-linked when all such tuples are 2-linked. We give a new and simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

Let $\Theta_{k_1,\cdots,k_\ell}$ denote the generalized theta graph, which consists of $\ell$ internally disjoint paths with lengths $k_1,\cdots, k_{\ell}$, connecting two fixed vertices. We estimate the corresponding extremal number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Xiao-Chuan Liu , Xu Yang

We study the $P_3$-convexity, the path convexity generated by all three-vertex paths, and focus on the problem of counting the $P_3$-convex vertex sets of a graph $G$, denoted by $\noc(G)$. First, we settle the associated extremal question:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Min Chih Lin , Fábio Protti

In 2003, it was claimed that the following problem was solvable in polynomial time: do there exist k edge-disjoint paths of length exactly 3 between vertices s and t in a given graph? The proof was flawed, and we show that this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Hannah Alpert , Jennifer Iglesias

Given a graph $G$, we associate a path matrix $P$ whose $(i, j)$ entry represents the maximum number of vertex disjoint paths between the vertices $i$ and $j$, with zeros on the main diagonal. In this note, we resolve four conjectures from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Aleksandar Ilic , Milan Basic

We prove that there exist functions $f$ and $g$ such that for all positive integers $k$ and $d$, for every graph $G$ and every subset $A$ of the vertices of $G$, either $G$ contains $k$ $A$-paths such that vertices of different $A$-paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Marc Distel , Ugo Giocanti , Jędrzej Hodor , Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Piotr Micek

In 2008, Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured that in every finite metric space of $n$ points, there are at least $n$ distinct lines, or the whole set of points is a line. This is a generalization of a classical result in the Euclidean plane. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Martín Matamala , Luciano Villarroel-Sepúlveda

In several recent papers, the maximal safety distance that two players can maintain while moving through a graph has been defined and studied using three different spans of the graph, each with different movement conditions. Mainly, vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Aljoša Šubašić , Tanja Vojković