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Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that for every graph $H$, there exists $c>0$ such that every $H$-free graph $G$ has a clique or a stable set of size at least $|G|^c$ (a graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A clique-coloring of a given graph $G$ is a coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that no maximal clique of size at least two is monocolored. The clique-chromatic number of $G$ is the least number of colors for which $G$ admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Behnaz Omoomi , Maryam Taleb

The "slope-number" of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane. We prove that for $\Delta\geq5$ and all large $n$, there is a $\Delta$-regular $n$-vertex graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Vida Dujmovic' , Matthew Suderman , David R. Wood

Recently, Arag\~{a}o, Marciano, and Mendon\c{c}a [\emph{European J. Combin.}, 2025] conjectured that for any graph $G$ on $n$ vertices satisfying $(r-1)(t-1)k < n \le (r-1)(t-1)(k+1)$, the minimum degree condition $\delta(G) \ge n -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Chunlin You

Dirac (1952) proved that every connected graph of order $n>2k+1$ with minimum degree more than $k$ contains a path of length at least $2k+1$. Erd\H{o}s and Gallai (1959) showed that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with average degree more than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao

We prove a far-reaching strengthening of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma for intersection graphs of pseudo-segments. It shows that the vertex set of such a graph can be partitioned into a bounded number of parts of roughly the same size such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

In a series of four papers we prove the following relaxation of the Loebl-Komlos-Sos Conjecture: For every $\alpha>0$ there exists a number $k_0$ such that for every $k>k_0$ every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $(\frac12+\alpha)n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladký , János Komlós , Diana Piguet , Miklós Simonovits , Maya J. Stein , Endre Szemerédi

The domatic number of a graph $G$, denoted $dom(G)$, is the maximum possible cardinality of a family of disjoint sets of vertices of $G$, each set being a dominating set of $G$. It is well known that every graph without isolated vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Raphael Yuster

A graph $ G $ is minimally $ t $-tough if the toughness of $ G $ is $ t $ and deletion of any edge from $ G $ decreases its toughness. Katona et al. conjectured that the minimum degree of any minimally $ t $-tough graph is $ \lceil 2t\rceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Hui Ma , Xiaomin Hu , Weihua Yang

We provide two novel constructions of $r$ edge-disjoint $K_{k+1}$-free graphs on the same vertex set, each of which has the property that every small induced subgraph contains a complete graph on $k$ vertices. The main novelty of our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yamaan Attwa , Sam Mattheus , Tibor Szabó , Jacques Verstraete

We investigate decompositions of a graph into a small number of low diameter subgraphs. Let P(n,\epsilon,d) be the smallest k such that every graph G=(V,E) on n vertices has an edge partition E=E_0 \cup E_1 \cup ... \cup E_k such that |E_0|…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-22 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

Given a graph $G$, the strong clique number of $G$, denoted $\omega_S(G)$, is the maximum size of a set $S$ of edges such that every pair of edges in $S$ has distance at most $2$ in the line graph of $G$. As a relaxation of the renowned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Eun-Kyung Cho , Ilkyoo Choi , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

One of the most basic results in graph theory states that every graph with at least two vertices has two vertices with the same degree. Since there are graphs without $3$ vertices of the same degree, it is natural to ask if for any fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Yair Caro , Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster

A well-known result of Verstra\"ete \cite{V00} shows that for each integer $k\geq 2$ every graph $G$ with average degree at least $8k$ contains cycles of $k$ consecutive even lengths, the shortest of which is at most twice the radius of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tao Jiang , Jie Ma , Liana Yepremyan

We show that every $3$-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least $4$ has maximum degree at most $7\ell$. As a consequence, we show that every 3-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Nicolas Bousquet , Théo Pierron , Alexandra Wesolek

A k-clique covering of a simple graph G, is an edge covering of G by its cliques such that each vertex is contained in at most k cliques. The smallest k for which G admits a k-clique covering is called local clique cover number of G and is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Ramin Javadi , Zeinab Maleki , Behnaz Omoomi

Let $\mathcal{D}_k$ be the class of graphs for which every minor has minimum degree at most $k$. Then $\mathcal{D}_k$ is closed under taking minors. By the Robertson-Seymour graph minor theorem, $\mathcal{D}_k$ is characterised by a finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Gašper Fijavž , David R. Wood

We prove that the clique graph operator $k$ is divergent on a locally cyclic graph $G$ (i.e. $N_G(v)$ is a circle) with minimum degree $\delta(G)=6$ if and only if $G$ is $6$-regular. The clique graph $kG$ of a graph $G$ has the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Markus Baumeister , Anna M. Limbach

A $K_r$-factor of a graph $G$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint $r$-cliques covering $V(G)$. We prove the following algorithmic version of the classical Hajnal--Szemer\'edi Theorem in graph theory, when $r$ is considered as a constant.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Luyining Gan , Jie Han , Jie Hu

Let $G$ be a graph of order $ n(G) $, local metric dimension $ \dim_l(G) $, and clique number $ \omega(G) $. It has been conjectured that if $ n(G) \geq \omega(G) + 1 \geq 4 $, then $ \dim_l(G) \leq \left( \frac{\omega(G) - 2}{\omega(G) -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Ali Ghalavand , Sandi Klavžar , Xueliang Li