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We initiate the study of Hamiltonian cycles up to symmetries of the underlying graph. Our focus lies on the extremal case of Hamiltonian-transitive graphs, i.e., Hamiltonian graphs where, for every pair of Hamiltonian cycles, there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Julia Baligacs , Sofia Brenner , Annette Lutz , Lena Volk

An intense activity is nowadays devoted to the definition of models capturing the properties of complex networks. Among the most promising approaches, it has been proposed to model these graphs via their clique incidence bipartite graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Matthieu Latapy , Thi Ha Duong Phan , Christophe Crespelle , Thanh Qui Nguyen

A coline graph $\text{co}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph with vertex set $E(G)$ for which two vertices $e$ and $e'$ of $\text{co}(G)$ are adjacent if and only if they are not adjacent as edges in $G$. A graph $G$ is tough if the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Adam Mammoliti

In recent work, the authors developed a simple method of constructing topological spaces from certain well-behaved partially ordered sets -- those coming from sequences of relations between finite sets. This method associates a given poset…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Adam Bartoš , Tristan Bice , Alessandro Vignati

We introduce an optimal transport based approach for comparing undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights and general vertex labels, and we study connections between the resulting linear program and the graph isomorphism problem. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Phuong N. Hoàng , Kevin McGoff , Andrew B. Nobel , Yang Xiang , Bongsoo Yi

Call a colouring of a graph distinguishing, if the only colour preserving automorphism is the identity. A conjecture of Tucker states that if every automorphism of a graph $G$ moves infinitely many vertices, then there is a distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

We characterize the connected graphs of given order $n$ and given independence number $\alpha$ that maximize the number of maximum independent sets. For $3\leq \alpha\leq n/2$, there is a unique such graph that arises from the disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-29 E. Mohr , D. Rautenbach

We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia

A graph $G$ is said to be a `set graph' if it admits an acyclic orientation that is also `extensional', in the sense that the out-neighborhoods of its vertices are pairwise distinct. Equivalently, a set graph is the underlying graph of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Milanič , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu

In the Disjoint Paths problem, one is given a graph with a set of $k$ vertex pairs $(s_i,t_i)$ and the task is to connect each $s_i$ to $t_i$ with a path, so that the $k$ paths are pairwise disjoint. In the optimization variant, Max…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Michał Włodarczyk

A Hamiltonian path (cycle) in a graph is a path (cycle, respectively) which passes through all of its vertices. The problems of deciding the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle (path) in an input graph are well known to be NP-complete, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

We present a matching and LP based heuristic algorithm that decides graph non-Hamiltonicity. Each of the $n!$ Hamilton cycles in a complete directed graph on $n+1$ vertices corresponds with each of the $n!$ $n$-permutation matrices $P$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-09 E. R. Swart , S. J. Gismondi , N. R. Swart , C. E. Bell , A. Lee

We study some percolation problems on the complete graph over $\mathbf N$. In particular, we give sharp sufficient conditions for the existence of (finite or infinite) cliques and paths in a random subgraph. No specific assumption on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-29 A. Berarducci , P. Majer , M. Novaga

We reduce the problem of finding an augmenting path in a general graph to a reachability problem in a directed bipartite graph. A slight modification of depth-first search leads to an algorithm for finding such paths. Although this setting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Norbert Blum

Given an undirected graph, $G$, and vertices, $s$ and $t$ in $G$, the tracking paths problem is that of finding the smallest subset of vertices in $G$ whose intersection with any $s$-$t$ path results in a unique sequence. This problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Michael T. Goodrich , Siddharth Gupta , Hadi Khodabandeh , Pedro Matias

In this paper we characterise the graphs containing a $\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}$ grid minor in a similar way as it has been done by Halin for graphs with an $\mathbb{N} \times \mathbb{Z}$ grid minor. Using our characterisation, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Karl Heuer

In this note, we prove that every 4-connected optimal 2-planar graph is Hamiltonian-connected. Furthermore, we show that the 4-connectedness condition is sharp by constructing infinitely many 3-connected optimal 2-planar graphs that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Licheng Zhang , Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang

A set $S$ of vertices in a graph is an open packing if (open) neighborhoods of any two distinct vertices in $S$ are disjoint. In this paper, we consider the graphs that have a unique maximum open packing. We characterize the trees with this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Boštjan Brešar , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

We introduce uniformly vertex-transitive graphs as vertex-transitive graphs satisfying a stronger condition on their automorphism groups, motivated by a problem which arises from a Sinkhorn-type algorithm. We use the derangement graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Simon Schmidt , Chase Vogeli , Moritz Weber

The vertex $k$-partiteness $v_k(G)$ of graph $G$ is defined as the fewest number of vertices whose deletion from $G$ yields a $k$-partite graph. In this paper, we introduce two concepts: monotonic decreasing topological index and monotonic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Fang Gao , Duo Duo Zhao , Xiao-Xin Li , Jia-Bao Liu