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We show that if $G$ is a $d$--regular graph on $n$ vertices, then the number of spanning forests $F(G)$ satisfies $F(G)\leq d^n$. The previous best bound due to Kahale and Schulman gave $(d+1/2+O(1/d))^n$. We also have the more precise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Ferenc Bencs , Péter Csikvári

Deciding whether a graph can be embedded in a grid using only unit-length edges is NP-complete, even when restricted to binary trees. However, it is not difficult to devise a number of graph classes for which the problem is polynomial, even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Vinícius G. P. de Sá , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Raphael Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

We introduce a new subclass of chordal graphs that generalizes split graphs, which we call well-partitioned chordal graphs. Split graphs are graphs that admit a partition of the vertex set into cliques that can be arranged in a star…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Jungho Ahn , Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Paloma T. Lima

The problem of when a given digraph contains a subdivision of a fixed digraph $F$ is considered. Bang-Jensen et al. laid out foundations for approaching this problem from the algorithmic point of view. In this paper we give further support…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Frédéric Havet , A. Karolinna Maia , Bojan Mohar

We investigate string graphs through the lens of graph product structure theory, which describes complicated graphs as subgraphs of strong products of simpler building blocks. A graph $G$ is called a string graph if its vertices can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Nikolai Karol

Dirac's theorem states that any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with even integer $n$ satisfying $\delta(G) \geq n/2$ contains a perfect matching. We generalize this to $k$-uniform linear hypergraphs by proving the following. Any $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Seonghyuk Im , Hyunwoo Lee

In this paper, we are interested in algorithms that take in input an arbitrary graph $G$, and that enumerate in output all the (inclusion-wise) maximal "subgraphs" of $G$ which fulfil a given property $\Pi$. All over this paper, we study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Caroline Brosse , Aurélie Lagoutte , Vincent Limouzy , Arnaud Mary , Lucas Pastor

The undirected power graph (or simply power graph) of a group $G$, denoted by $P(G)$, is a graph whose vertices are the elements of the group $G$, in which two vertices $u$ and $v$ are connected by an edge between if and only if either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Pallabi Manna , Peter J. Cameron , Ranjit Mehatari

Given a multigraph $G$ and function $f : V(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 2}$ on its vertices, a degree-$f$ subgraph of $G$ is a spanning subgraph in which every vertex $v$ has degree at most $f(v)$. The degree-$f$ arboricity $a_f(G)$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Ronen Wdowinski

We study spanning diverging forests of a digraph and related matrices. It is shown that the normalized matrix of out forests of a digraph coincides with the transition matrix in a specific observation model for Markov chains related to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafig Agaev , Pavel Chebotarev

An out-(in-)branching B_s^+ (B_s^-) rooted at s in a digraph D is a connected spanning subdigraph of D in which every vertex x != s has precisely one arc entering (leaving) it and s has no arcs entering (leaving) it. We settle the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-22 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Sven Simonsen

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, its exact-distance square, $G^{[\sharp 2]}$, is the graph with vertex set $V$ and with an edge between vertices $x$ and $y$ if and only if $x$ and $y$ have distance (exactly) $2$ in $G$. The graph $G$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Yandong Bai , Pedro P. Cortés , Reza Naserasr , Daniel A. Quiroz

Let $F(G)$ be the number of spanning forests in a graph $G$ and $\mathcal{C}(n,d)$ be the set of all connected $d$-regular simple graphs of order $n$. Define $\widehat{f}_{d}=\liminf_{n\rightarrow \infty}\{F(G)^{1/n}:G\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Shaohan Xu , Kexiang Xu

In their 1997 paper titled ``Fruit Salad", Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s posed the following conjecture: there exists a constant $k$ such that if each path of a graph spans a $3$-colourable subgraph, then the graph is $k$-colourable. It is noted that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Ben Cameron , Alexander Clow

Simon's factorization theorem is a celebrated tool in algebraic automata theory, providing bounded-depth decompositions of words with respect to morphisms into finite semigroups. We develop an analogue of Simon's theorem for \emph{forests}…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shaull Almagor , Michaël Cadilhac , Asaf Shoham

For some $k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}\cup \infty$, we call a linear forest $k$-bounded if each of its components has at most $k$ edges. We will say a $(k,\ell)$-bounded linear forest decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of $E(G)$ into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Rutger Campbell , Florian Hörsch , Benjamin Moore

In 1998, Broersma and Tuinstra [J. Graph Theory \textbf{29} (1998), 227-237] proved that if $G$ is a connected graph satisfying $\sigma_2(G) \geq |G|-k+1$ then $G$ has a spanning $k-$ended tree. They also gave an example to show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Pham Hoang Ha

Let $G = (V,E)$ denote a simple graph with the vertex set $V$ and the edge set $E$. The profile of a vertex set $V'\subseteq V$ denotes the multiset of pairwise distances between the vertices of $V'$. Two disjoint subsets of $V$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Radoslav Fulek , Slobodan Mitrović

For a graph $G = (V, E)$ with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$, a subset $F$ of $E$ is called an $\emph{edge dominating set}$ (resp. a $\emph{total edge dominating set}$) if every edge in $E\backslash F$ (resp. in $E$) is adjacent to at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Zhuo Pan , Yu Yang , Xianyue Li , Shou-Jun Xu

We study subgraphs that appear in large Ramsey graphs for a given graph $F$. The recent girth Ramsey theorem of the first two authors asserts that there are Ramsey graphs such that all small subgraphs are `forests of copies of $F$'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht