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Hu and Li investigate the signed graph version of Erd$\ddot{\mathrm{o}}$s problem: Is there a constant $c$ such that every signed planar graph without $k$-cycles, where $4\leq k\leq c$, is $3$-colorable and prove that each signed planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Lan Kaiyang , Liu Feng

We prove that an inseparable graph can have any positive number of cycles with the six exceptions 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 16, and that an inseparable cubic graph has the additional exceptions 1 and 13. The exceptions for simple inseparable cubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ryan McCulloch , Brendan D. McKay , Alireza Salahshoori , Thomas Zaslavsky

The structure of all triangle free graphs G = (V,E) with |E| - 6|V| + 13\alpha(G) = 0 is determined, yielding an affirmative answer to a question of Stanis{\l}aw Radziszowski and Donald Kreher.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Jörgen Backelin

We show that if $G$ is a simple triangle-free graph with $n\geq 3$ vertices, without a perfect matching, and having a minimum degree at least $\frac{n-1}{2}$, then $G$ is isomorphic either to $C_5$ or to $K_{\frac{n-1}{2},\frac{n+1}{2}}$.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Vahan V. Mkrtchyan , Petros A. Petrosyan

For a number $l\geq 2$, let ${\cal{G}}_l$ denote the family of graphs which have girth $2l+1$ and have no odd hole with length greater than $2l+1$. Wu, Xu and Xu conjectured that every graph in $\bigcup_{l\geq 2} {\cal{G}}_{l}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yan Wang , Rong Wu

In 1954, Tutte conjectured that every bridgeless graph has a nowhere-zero 5-flow. Let $\omega$ be the minimum number of odd cycles in a 2-factor of a bridgeless cubic graph. Tutte's conjecture is equivalent to its restriction to cubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Eckhard Steffen

A cubelike graph is a Cayley graph on the product $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\cdots\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ of the integers modulo $2$ with itself finitely many times. In 1992, Payan proved that no cubelike graph can have chromatic number $3$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Jonathan Cervantes , Mike Krebs

This paper proves the following result: Assume $G$ is a triangle free planar graph, $X$ is an independent set of $G$. If $L$ is a list assignment of $G$ such that $\mid L(v)\mid = 4$ for each vertex $v \in V(G)-X$ and $\mid L(v)\mid = 3$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Jianzhang Hu , Xuding Zhu

We define a perfect coloring of a graph $G$ as a proper coloring of $G$ such that every connected induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ uses exactly $\omega(H)$ many colors where $\omega(H)$ is the clique number of $H$. A graph is perfectly colorable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-15 R B Sandeep

A proper edge coloring of a graph without any bichromatic cycles is said to be an acyclic edge coloring of the graph. The acyclic chromatic index of a graph $G$ denoted by $a'(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Nevil Anto , Manu Basavaraju , Shashanka Kulamarva

We show that every ($P_6$, diamond, $K_4$)-free graph is $6$-colorable. Moreover, we give an example of a ($P_6$, diamond, $K_4$)-free graph $G$ with $\chi(G) = 6$. This generalizes some known results in the literature.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-03 T. Karthick , Suchismita Mishra

We show that every $n$-vertex planar graph is 3-colourable with monochromatic components of size $O(n^{4/9})$. The best previous bound was $O(n^{1/2})$ due to Linial, Matou\v{s}ek, Sheffet and Tardos [Combin. Probab. Comput., 2008].

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , Sergey Norin , David R. Wood

A graph H is called common if the total number of copies of H in every graph and its complement asymptotically minimizes for random graphs. A former conjecture of Burr and Rosta, extending a conjecture of Erdos asserted that every graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Hamed Hatami , Jan Hladky , Daniel Kral , Serguei Norine , Alexander Razborov

A hole is a chordless cycle with at least four vertices. A hole is odd if it has an odd number of vertices. A dart is a graph which vertices $a, b, c, d, e$ and edges $ab, bc, bd, be, cd, de$. Dart-free graphs have been actively studied in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Chính T. Hoàng

Shift graphs, introduced by Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal in 1964, form one of the simplest known non-recursive constructions of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number. In this note, we identify a suprising property: for each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Tomáš Kaiser , Matěj Stehlík , Riste Škrekovski

We prove that, in several settings, a graph has exponentially many nowhere-zero flows. These results may be seen as a counting alternative to the well-known proofs of existence of $Z_3$-, $Z_4$-, and $Z_6$-flows. In the dual setting,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bojan Mohar , Robert Šámal

A graph is strongly perfect if every induced subgraph H has a stable set that meets every maximal clique of H. A graph is claw-free if no vertex has three pairwise non-adjacent neighbors. The characterization of claw-free graphs that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek

We investigate the problem of drawing graphs in 2D and 3D such that their edges (or only their vertices) can be covered by few lines or planes. We insist on straight-line edges and crossing-free drawings. This problem has many connections…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Steven Chaplick , Krzysztof Fleszar , Fabian Lipp , Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky , Alexander Wolff

Problem of finding an optimal upper bound for a chromatic no. of 3K1-free graphs is still open and pretty hard. Here we find a tight chromatic upper bound for {3K1, C5}-free graphs. We prove that if G is {3K1, C5}-free, then the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Medha Dhurandhar

A uniquely $k$-colourable graph is a graph with exactly one partition of the vertex set into at most $k$ colour classes. Here, we investigate some constructions of uniquely $k$-colourable graphs and give a construction of $K_k$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Samuel Mohr
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