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At the core of the Robertson-Seymour theory of graph minors lies a powerful structure theorem which captures, for any fixed graph H, the common structural features of all the graphs not containing H as a minor. Robertson and Seymour prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-13 R. Diestel , K. Kawarabayashi , T. Müller , P. Wollan

We prove that, for each circle graph $H$, every graph with sufficiently large rank-width contains a vertex-minor isomorphic to $H$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jim Geelen , O-Joung Kwon , Rose McCarty , Paul Wollan

We provide proofs certifying that the structure theorem for vertex sets of bounded bidimensionality holds with polynomial bounds. The bidimensionality of vertex sets is a common generalisation of both treewidth and the face-cover-number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Maximilian Gorsky , Evangelos Protopapas , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Neighborhood-prime labeling is a variation of prime labeling. A labeling $f:V(G) \to [|V(G)|]$ is a neighborhood-prime labeling if for each vertex $v\in V(G)$ with degree greater than $1$, the greatest common divisor of the set of labels in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 John Asplund , N. Bradley Fox , Arran Hamm

A self-contained graph is an infinite graph which is isomorphic to one of its proper induced subgraphs. In this paper, these graphs are studied by presenting some examples and defining some of their sub-structures such as removable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz , Madjid Mirzavaziri

Suppose one needs to change the direction of at least $\epsilon n^2$ edges of an $n$-vertex tournament $T$, in order to make it $H$-free. A standard application of the regularity method shows that in this case $T$ contains at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Jacob Fox , Lior Gishboliner , Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster

A graph covering projection, also referred to as a locally bijective homomorphism, is a mapping between the vertices and edges of two graphs that preserves incidences and is a local bijection. This concept originates in topological graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

The famous Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture states that every graph of average degree more than $t-1$ must contain every tree on $t+1$ vertices. In this paper, we study a spectral version of this conjecture. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

A cornerstone theorem in the Graph Minors series of Robertson and Seymour is the result that every graph $G$ with no minor isomorphic to a fixed graph $H$ has a certain structure. The structure can then be exploited to deduce far-reaching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Robin Thomas , Paul Wollan

The nearest-neighbor rule is a well-known classification technique that, given a training set P of labeled points, classifies any unlabeled query point with the label of its closest point in P. The nearest-neighbor condensation problem aims…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Alejandro Flores-Velazco

Local Irregularity Conjecture states that every simple connected graph, except special cacti, can be decomposed into at most three locally irregular graphs, i.e., graphs in which adjacent vertices have different degrees. The connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Igor Grzelec , Alfréd Onderko , Mariusz Woźniak

We say that a (di)graph $G$ has a perfect $H$-packing if there exists a set of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ which cover all the vertices in $G$. The seminal Hajnal--Szemer\'edi theorem characterises the minimum degree that ensures a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Andrew Treglown

An independent vertex subset $S$ of the directed graph $G$ is a kernel if the set of out-neighbors of $S$ is $V(G)\setminus S$. An independent vertex subset $Q$ of $G$ is a quasi-kernel if the union of the first and second out-neighbors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Péter L. Erdős , Ervin Győri , Tamás Róbert Mezei , Nika Salia , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

A set $S$ of vertices of a digraph $D$ is called an open neighbourhood locating-dominating set if every vertex in $D$ has an in-neighbour in $S$, and for every pair $u,v$ of vertices of $D$, there is a vertex in $S$ that is an in-neighbour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Florent Foucaud , Narges Ghareghani , Pouyeh Sharifani

Existence of a perfect matching in a random bipartite digraph with bipartition $(V_1, V_2)$, $|V_i|=n$, is studied. The graph is generated in two rounds of random selections of a potential matching partner such that the average number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Michal Karoński , Ed Overman , Boris Pittel

Popular matchings provide a model of matching under preferences in which a solution corresponds to a Condorcet winner in voting systems. In a bipartite graph in which the vertices have preferences over their neighbours, a matching is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuga Kanaya , Kenjiro Takazawa

Menger's Theorem is a fundamental result in graph theory. It states that if in a graph $G$ with distinguished sets of terminal vertices $S$ and $T$ there are no $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint $S$-$T$ paths, then there is a set of less than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Václav Blažej , Michał Pilipczuk , Evangelos Protopapas

The {\em distinguishing number} of a group $G$ acting faithfully on a set $V$ is the least number of colors needed to color the elements of $V$ so that no non-identity element of the group preserves the coloring. The {\em distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Simon M. Smith , Thomas W. Tucker , Mark E. Watkins

By the Grid Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour, every graph of sufficiently large tree-width contains a large grid as a minor. Tree-width may therefore be regarded as a measure of 'grid-likeness' of a graph. The grid contains a long…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Daniel Weißauer

A concept of neighborhood in complex networks is addressed based on the criterion of the minimal number os steps to reach other vertices. This amounts to, starting from a given network $R_1$, generating a family of networks $R_\ell,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. S. Andrade , J. G. V. Miranda , Thierry Petit Lobao