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A graph is pseudo 2-factor isomorphic if all of its 2-factors have the same parity of number of cycles. Abreu et al. [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B. 98 (2008) 432--442] conjectured that $K_{3,3}$, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph are the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Marien Abreu , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , Federico Romaniello , Tibo Van den Eede

Let $k,r \geq 2$ be two integers. We consider the problem of partitioning the hyperedge set of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ into the minimum number $\chi_k'(H)$ of edge-disjoint subhypergraphs in which every vertex has either degree $0$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Gaia Carenini , Samuel Coulomb

(see paper for full abstract) We show that the Edge-Disjoint Paths problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by the number $k$ of terminal pairs, even when the input graph is a planar directed acyclic graph (DAG). This answers a question of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Rajesh Chitnis

Karo\'nski, {\L}uczak and Thomason conjectured in 2004 that for every finite graph without isolated edge, the edges can be assigned weights from $\{1,2,3\}$ in such a way that the endvertices of each edge have different sums of incident…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Marcin Stawiski

In 1963, Corr\'adi and Hajnal settled a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s by proving that, for all $k \geq 1$, any graph $G$ with $|G| \geq 3k$ and minimum degree at least $2k$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles. In 2008, Finkel proved that for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Theodore Molla , Michael Santana , Elyse Yeager

Let $G$ be a simple, connected graph on $n$ vertices, and further assume that $G$ has disjoint cycles. Let $h$ be a real symmetric matrix supported on $G$ (for example, a discrete Schr\"odinger operator). The eigenvalues of $h$ are ordered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Lior Alon , Mark Goresky

For a real constant $\alpha$, let $\pi_3^\alpha(G)$ be the minimum of twice the number of $K_2$'s plus $\alpha$ times the number of $K_3$'s over all edge decompositions of $G$ into copies of $K_2$ and $K_3$, where $K_r$ denotes the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Adam Blumenthal , Bernard Lidický , Yanitsa Pehova , Florian Pfender , Oleg Pikhurko , Jan Volec

Gallai asked in 1984 if any $k$-critical graph on $n$ vertices contains at least $n$ distinct $(k-1)$-critical subgraphs. The answer is trivial for $k\leq 3$. Improving a result of Stiebitz, Abbott and Zhou proved in 1995 that for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

Let $G$ be a cubic graph admitting a $2$-factor consisting of exactly two odd circuits, and let the complementary $1$-factor contain precisely three spokes (along with an arbitrary number of chords). We show that four perfect matchings can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ján Karabáš , Edita Máčajová

We call a set $\mathcal S$ of graphs an "even subdivison-factor" of a cubic graph $G$ if $G$ contains a spanning subgraph $H$ such that every component of $H$ has an even number of vertices and is a subdivision of an element of $\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof

We call a finite undirected graph minimally k-matchable if it has at least k distinct perfect matchings but deleting any edge results in a graph which has not. An odd subdivision of some graph G is any graph obtained by replacing every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Gasper Fijavz , Matthias Kriesell

It is shown that for a constant $t\in \mathbb{N}$, every simple topological graph on $n$ vertices has $O(n)$ edges if it has no two sets of $t$ edges such that every edge in one set is disjoint from all edges of the other set (i.e., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Andres J. Ruiz-Vargas , Andrew Suk , Csaba D. Tóth

As the main theorem, it is proved that a collection of minimal $PI$-flows with a common phase group and satisfying a certain algebraic condition is multiply disjoint if and only if the collection of the associated maximal equicontinuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Juho Rautio

Motivated to find the answers to some of the questions that have occurred in recent papers dealing with Hamiltonian cycles (abbreviated HCs) in some special classes of grid graphs we started the investigation of spanning unions of cycles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jelena Djokić , Olga Bodroža-Pantić , Ksenija Doroslovački

We consider cubic graphs formed with $k \geq 2$ disjoint claws $C_i \sim K_{1, 3}$ ($0 \leq i \leq k-1$) such that for every integer $i$ modulo $k$ the three vertices of degree 1 of $\ C_i$ are joined to the three vertices of degree 1 of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Jean-Luc Fouquet , Henri Thuillier , Jean-Marie Vanherpe

Let $G$ be a graph and $h: E(G)\rightarrow [0,1]$ be a function. For any two positive integers $a$ and $b$ with $a\leq b$, a fractional $[a,b]$-factor of $G$ with the indicator function $h$ is a spanning subgraph with vertex set $V(G)$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ao Fan , Ruifang Liu , Guoyan Ao

We extend the edge version of the classical Menger's Theorem for undirected graphs to $n$-dimensional simplicial complexes with chains over the field $\mathbb{F}_2$. The classical Menger's Theorem states that two different vertices in an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Avraham Goldstein , Yonah Cherniavsky

Let $\mathcal{G}$ be the set of simple graphs (or multigraphs) $G$ such that for each $G \in \mathcal{G}$ there exists at least two non-empty disjoint proper subsets $V_{1},V_{2}\subseteq V(G)$ satisfying $V(G)\setminus(V_{1} \cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Cunxiang Duan , Ligong Wang , Xiangxiang Liu

We consider a number $\nu_n$ of components in a random graph $G(n,p)$ with $n$ vertices, where the probability of an edge is equal to $p$. By operating with special generating functions we shows the next asymptotic relation for factorial…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Nikolay Kazimirow

The Tur\'{a}n number of a graph $H$, $ex(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in a simple graph of order $n$ which does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $k\cdot P_3$ denote $k$ disjoint copies of a path on $3$ vertices. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Long-Tu Yuan , Xiao-Dong Zhang