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The circumference of a graph is the length of its longest cycles. Jackson established a conjecture of Bondy by showing that the circumference of a 3-connected cubic graph of order $n$ is $\Omega(n^{0.694})$. Bilinski {\it et al.} improved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Qinghai Liu , Xingxing Yu , Zhao Zhang

In this paper, we will give a structure theory for signed graphs with fixed smallest eigenvalue and investigate signed graphs with smallest eigenvalue greater than $-1-\sqrt{2}$. Given a real number $\lambda\leq -1$, we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jack H. Koolen , Jing-Yuan Liu , Qianqian Yang , Meng-Yue Cao

The maximum cardinality of an induced $2$-regular subgraph of a graph $G$ is denoted by $c_{\rm ind}(G)$. We prove that if $G$ is an $r$-regular graph of order $n$, then $c_{\rm ind}(G) \geq \frac{n}{2(r-1)} + \frac{1}{(r-1)(r-2)}$ and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Michael A. Henning , Felix Joos , Christian Löwenstein , Thomas Sasse

For a graph $G$ and $S\subset V(G)$, if $G - S$ is acyclic, then $S$ is said to be a decycling set of $G$. The size of a smallest decycling set of $G$ is called the decycling number of $G$. The purpose of this paper is a comprehensive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Bau , L. W. Beineke

Chordal graphs are the graphs in which every cycle of length at least four has a chord. A set $S$ is a vertex separator for vertices $a$ and $b$ if the removal of $S$ of the graph separates $a$ and $b$ into distinct connected components. A…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Sérgio H. Nogueira , Vinicius F. dos Santos

For a graph G, a signed domination function of G is a two-colouring of the vertices of G with colours +1 and -1 such that the closed neighbourhood of every vertex contains more +1's than -1's. This concept is closely related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-23 A. Poghosyan , V. Zverovich

Let $G$ be a planar graph and let $C$ be a cycle in $G$. Inside of each finite face of $G$, we write down the number of edges of that face which belong to $C$. This is the signature of $C$ in $G$. The notion of a signature arises naturally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Nikolai Beluhov

A signed graph $\Gamma$ is said to be determined by its spectrum if every signed graph with the same spectrum as $\Gamma$ is switching isomorphic with $\Gamma$. Here it is proved that the path $P_n$, interpreted as a signed graph, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Saieed Akbari , Willem H. Haemers , Hamid Reza Maimani , Leila Parsaei Majd

The study on parity signed graphs was initiated by Acharya and Kureethara very recently and then followed by Zaslavsky etc.. Let $(G,\sigma)$ be a signed graph on $n$ vertices. If $(G,\sigma)$ is switch-equivalent to $(G,+)$ at a set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Ligang Jin , Xiaoyue Chen , Yingli Kang

This paper studies the circular coloring of signed graphs. A signed graph is a graph with a signature that assigns a sign to each edge, either positive or negative. This paper studies circular coloring and a circular chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ebode Atangana Pie Desire

Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if $G$ does not contain a copy of $F$ as a subgraph for any $F\in\mathcal{F}$, but the addition of any edge $e\notin E(G)$ creates at least one copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Yue Ma

A set of vertices of a graph $G$ is said to be decycling if its removal leaves an acyclic subgraph. The size of a smallest decycling set is the decycling number of $G$. Generally, at least $\lceil(n+2)/4\rceil$ vertices have to be removed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Roman Nedela , Michaela Seifrtová , Martin Škoviera

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ be its adjacency matrix. A graph $G$ is invertible if its adjacency matrix $A$ is invertible and the inverse of $G$ is a weighted graph with adjacency matrix $A^{-1}$. A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Isaiah Osborne , Dong Ye

A simple graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $(2,1)$-circuit if $|E|=2|V|$ and $|E(H)|\leq 2|V(H)|-1$ for every proper subgraph $H$ of $G$. Motivated, in part, by ongoing work to understand unique realisations of graphs on surfaces, we derive a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Thomas A McCourt , Anthony Nixon

We prove that a connected graph contains a circuit---a closed walk that repeats no edges---through any $k$ prescribed edges if and only if it contains no odd cut of size at most $k$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

An edge subset \( S \subseteq E(G) \) is called a 3-restricted edge-cut if $G-S$ is disconnected and each component of \( G - S \) contains at least three vertices. The 3-restricted edge-connectivity of a graph \( G \), denoted by \(…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Wenxin Wang , Yingzhi Tian , Jing Wang

It is proved that if $G$ is a $t$-tough graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ with $t>1$ then either $G$ has a cycle of length at least $\min\{n,2\delta+5\}$ or $G$ is the Petersen graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

A signed graph $(G, \Sigma)$ is a graph $G$ and a subset $\Sigma$ of its edges which corresponds to an assignment of signs to the edges: edges in $\Sigma$ are negative while edges not in $\Sigma$ are positive. A closed walk of a signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Laurent Beaudou , Florent Foucaud , Reza Naserasr

Let $G$ be a graph of radius $r$ and diameter $d$ with $d\leq 2r-2$. We give a new proof that $G$ contains a cycle of length at least $4r-2d$, i.e. for its circumference it holds $c(G)\geq 4r-2d$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Pavel Hrnciar

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