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A graph is said to be edge-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on its edges. It is known that edge-transitive graphs are either vertex-transitive or bipartite. In this paper we present a complete classification of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Heather A. Newman , Hector Miranda , Darren A. Narayan

A biased graph consists of a graph $G$ together with a collection of distinguished cycles of $G$, called balanced cycles, with the property that no theta subgraph contains exactly two balanced cycles. Perhaps the most natural biased graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Matt DeVos , Daryl Funk , Irene Pivotto

This paper is the first from a series of papers that establish a common analogue of the strong component and basilica decompositions for bidirected graphs. A bidirected graph is a graph in which a sign $+$ or $-$ is assigned to each end of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Nanao Kita

Given a $t$-$(v, k, \lambda)$ design, $\mathcal{D}=(X,\mathcal{B})$, a zero-sum $n$-flow of $\mathcal{D}$ is a map $f : \mathcal{B}\longrightarrow \{\pm1,\ldots, \pm(n-1)\}$ such that for any point $x\in X$, the sum of $f$ over all blocks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Saieed Akbari , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd , Ian M. Wanless

Connectivity (or equivalently, unweighted maximum flow) is an important measure in graph theory and combinatorial optimization. Given a graph $G$ with vertices $s$ and $t$, the connectivity $\lambda(s,t)$ from $s$ to $t$ is defined to be…

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A 2-edge-colored graph or a signed graph is a simple graph with two types of edges. A homomorphism from a 2-edge-colored graph $G$ to a 2-edge-colored graph $H$ is a mapping $\varphi: V(G) \rightarrow V(H)$ that maps every edge in $G$ to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Christopher Duffy , Fabien Jacques , Mickael Montassier , Alexandre Pinlou

An antimagic labeling of a directed graph $D$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs is a bijection from the set of arcs of $D$ to the integers $\{1, \cdots, m\}$ such that all $n$ oriented vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where an oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Songling Shan

Given a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and a designated source vertex $s\in V$, we consider the question of finding a sparse subgraph $H$ of $G$ that preserves the flow from $s$ up to a given threshold $\lambda$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shivam Bansal , Keerti Choudhary , Harkirat Dhanoa , Harsh Wardhan

We consider cell colorings of drawings of graphs in the plane. Given a multi-graph $G$ together with a drawing $\Gamma(G)$ in the plane with only finitely many crossings, we define a cell $k$-coloring of $\Gamma(G)$ to be a coloring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Christoph Hertrich , Felix Schröder , Raphael Steiner

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $\sigma$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yiting Cai , Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

An antimagic labelling of a graph is a bijection from the set of edges to $\{1, 2, \ldots , m\}$, such that all vertex-sums are pairwise distinct, where the vertex-sum of a vertex is the sum of labels on the edges incident to it. We say a…

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An undirected graph $G$ is said to admit an antimagic orientation if there exist an orientation $D$ and a bijection between $E(G)$ and $\{1,2,\ldots,|E(G)|\}$ such that any two vertices have distinct vertex sums, where the vertex sum of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Eranda Dhananjaya , Wei-Tian Li

We examine the conditions under which a signed graph contains an edge or a vertex that is contained in a unique negative circle or a unique positive circle. For an edge in a unique signed circle, the positive and negative case require the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Richard Behr

It is well known that \textit{every} Eulerian orientation of an Eulerian $2k$-edge connected (undirected) graph is strongly $k$-edge connected. An important goal in the area is to obtain analogous results for other types of connectivity,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Maxwell Levit , L. Sunil Chandran , Joseph Cheriyan

We study the Seifert surfaces of a link by relating the embeddings of graphs by using induced graphs. As applications, we prove that every link $L$ is the boundary of an oriented surface which is obtained from a graph embedding of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Dongseok Kim

Zero forcing is an iterative graph coloring process where at each discrete time step, a colored vertex with a single uncolored neighbor forces that neighbor to become colored. The zero forcing number of a graph is the cardinality of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Boris Brimkov , Caleb C. Fast , Illya V. Hicks

A "book" with k pages consists of a straight line (the "spine") and k half-planes (the "pages"), such that the boundary of each page is the spine. If a graph is drawn on a book with k pages in such a way that the vertices lie on the spine,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Etienne de Klerk , Dmitrii V. Pasechnik , Gelasio Salazar

A weighted (directed) graph is a (directed) graph with integer weights assigned to its vertices and edges. The weight of a subgraph is the sum of weights of vertices and edges in the subgraph. The problem of determining the largest order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Ajit A. Diwan

We prove that a connected graph contains a circuit---a closed walk that repeats no edges---through any $k$ prescribed edges if and only if it contains no odd cut of size at most $k$.

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