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In this paper, we study a class of graph drawings that arise from bobbin lace patterns. The drawings are periodic and require a combinatorial embedding with specific properties which we outline and demonstrate can be verified in linear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Therese Biedl , Veronika Irvine

We describe an algorithm for the exhaustive generation of non-isomorphic graphs with a given number $k \ge 0$ of hamiltonian cycles, which is especially efficient for small $k$. Our main findings, combining applications of this algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jan Goedgebeur , Barbara Meersman , Carol T. Zamfirescu

We introduce the cycle intersection graph of a graph, an adaptation of the cycle graph of a graph, and use the structure of these graphs to prove an upper bound for the decycling number of all even graphs. This bound is shown to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Michael Cary

It is known that $\Theta(\log n)$ chords must be added to an $n$-cycle to produce a pancyclic graph; for vertex pancyclicity, where every vertex belongs to a cycle of every length, $\Theta(n)$ chords are required. A possibly `intermediate'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Fatima Affif Chaouche , Carrie Rutherford , Robin Whitty

We explore various techniques for counting the number of straight-edge crossing-free graphs that can be embedded on a planar point set. In particular, we derive a lower bound on the ratio of the number of such graphs with $m+1$ edges to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Siddharth Prasad

For families of 4-regular directed circulant graphs with $n$ vertices, we count the number of primitive periodic orbits of length up to at least $n$. The relevant counting techniques are then extended to count the number of primitive pseudo…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Lauren Engelthaler , Isaac Hellerman , Tori Hudgins

A graph is called Dirac if its minimum degree is at least half of the number of vertices in it. Joos and Kim showed that every collection $\mathbb{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_n\}$ of Dirac graphs on the same vertex set $V$ of size $n$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Michael Anastos , Debsoumya Chakraborti

We begin with a review of Tutte's homotopy theory, which concerns the structure of certain graph associated to a matroid (together with some extra data). Concretely, Tutte's path theorem asserts that this graph is connected, and his…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Matthew Baker , Tong Jin , Oliver Lorscheid

We introduce the parametric matroid one-interdiction problem. Given a matroid, each element of its ground set is associated with a weight that depends linearly on a real parameter from a given parameter interval. The goal is to find, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Oliver Bachtler , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer

We establish tight lower and upper bounds on the number of edges in traceable graphs in several classes of dense graphs. A graph is traceable if it has a Hamiltonian path. We show that the bound is: - quadratic for the class of graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Michal Dvořák , Dušan Knop , Michal Opler , Jan Pokorný , Ondřej Suchý , Krisztina Szilágyi

We study a counting version of Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. We discuss why it is more interesting to count circuits (i.e., graphs isomorphic to $C_k$ for some $k$) instead of cycles (graphs with all degrees even). We give an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Radek Hušek , Robert Šámal

The number of homomorphisms from a finite graph $F$ to the complete graph $K_n$ is the evaluation of the chromatic polynomial of $F$ at $n$. Suitably scaled, this is the Tutte polynomial evaluation $T(F;1-n,0)$ and an invariant of the cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Andrew Goodall , Guus Regts , Lluis Vena

Dirac's classical theorem asserts that, for $n \ge 3$, any $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $n/2$ is Hamiltonian. Furthermore, if we additionally assume that such graphs are regular, then, by the breakthrough work of Csaba,…

A biased graph is a graph $G$, together with a distinguished subset $\mathcal{B}$ of its cycles so that no Theta-subgraph of $G$ contains precisely two cycles in $\mathcal{B}$. A large number of biased graphs can be constructed by choosing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Peter Nelson , Jorn van der Pol

We present a deterministic algorithm that given any directed graph on n vertices computes the parity of its number of Hamiltonian cycles in O(1.619^n) time and polynomial space. For bipartite graphs, we give a 1.5^n poly(n) expected time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt

We study the problem of constructing cycle bases of graphs with low maximum edge participation, defined as the maximum number of basis cycles that share any single edge. This quantity, though less studied than total weight or length, plays…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fan Wang , Sandy Irani

The CHY construction naturally associates a vector in $\mathbb{R}^{(n-3)!}$ to every 2-regular graph with $n$ vertices. Partial amplitudes in the biadjoint scalar theory are given by the inner product of vectors associated with a pair of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Freddy Cachazo , Karen Yeats , Samuel Yusim

Hakimi and Schmeichel determined a sharp lower bound for the number of cycles of length 4 in a maximal planar graph with $n$ vertices, $n\geq 5$. It has been shown that the bound is sharp for $n = 5,12$ and $n\geq 14$ vertices. However, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Oscar Zamora

We introduce the minor-closed, dual-closed class of multi-path matroids. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the Tutte polynomial of a multi-path matroid, we describe their basis activities, and we prove some basic structural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Joseph E. Bonin , Omer Gimenez

In 2014, Flynn and the second author bounded the average number of components of the functional graphs of polynomials of fixed degree over a finite field. When the fixed degree was large (relative to the size of the finite field), their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Elisa Bellah , Derek Garton , Erin Tannenbaum , Noah Walton