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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Sandeep Gupta

Let $G$ be a finite simple graph with edge ideal $I(G)$. Let $J(G)$ denote the Alexander dual of $I(G)$. We show that a description of all induced cycles of odd length in $G$ is encoded in the associated primes of $J(G)^2$. This result…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Christopher A. Francisco , Huy Tai Ha , Adam Van Tuyl

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple graphs, trees, graphs with m edges, graphs with loops,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Greg Brockman , Bill Kay , Emma E. Snively

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ with a signature $\sigma$ labeling each edge with a positive or negative sign. Two signatures of $G$ are switching equivalent if one is obtained from the other by changing the signs of all edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Zhiqian Wang

Circular arc graphs are graphs whose vertices can be represented as arcs on a circle such that any two vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding arcs intersect. Proper circular arc graphs are graphs which have a circular arc…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naveen Belkale , L. Sunil Chandran

We prove that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with no isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of size at least $n/10000$ with all degrees odd. This solves an old and well-known conjecture in graph theory.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich

The problem of modifying a given graph to satisfy certain properties has been one of the central topics in parameterized tractability study. In this paper, we study the cycle contraction problem, which makes a graph into a cycle by edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Bin Sheng , Yuefang Sun

A walk $W$ in edge-colored graphs is called properly colored (PC) if every pair of consecutive edges in $W$ is of different color. We introduce and study five types of PC acyclicity in edge-colored graphs such that graphs of PC acyclicity…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Bin Sheng , Magnus Wahlstrom , Anders Yeo

This paper proves that for any positive integer $k$, every essentially $(2k+1)$-unbalanced $(12k-1)$-edge connected signed graph has circular flow number at most $2+\frac 1k$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Xuding Zhu

Consider the family of graphs without $ k $ node-disjoint odd cycles, where $ k $ is a constant. Determining the complexity of the stable set problem for such graphs $ G $ is a long-standing problem. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Michele Conforti , Samuel Fiorin , Tony Huynh , Gwenaël Joret , Stefan Weltge

In a signed graph, each link is labeled with either a positive or a negative sign. This is particularly appropriate to model polarized systems. Such a graph can be characterized through the notion of structural balance, which relies on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Nejat Arinik , Rosa Figueiredo , Vincent Labatut

A mixed graph can be seen as a type of digraph containing some edges (two opposite arcs). Here we introduce the concept of sequence mixed graphs, which is a generalization of both sequence graphs and iterated line digraphs. These structures…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-13 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , N. López

We say that a digraph is essentially cyclic if its Laplacian spectrum is not completely real. The essential cyclicity implies the presence of directed cycles, but not vice versa. The problem of characterizing essential cyclicity in terms of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Rafig Agaev , Pavel Chebotarev

A hole in a graph G is an induced cycle of length at least four; an antihole is a hole in the complement of G. In 2005, Chudnovsky, Cornuejols, Liu, Seymour and Vuskovic showed that it is possible to test in polynomial time whether a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

We characterise the form of all simple, finite graphs for which the girth of the graph is equal to the circumference of the graph. We apply this to prove a bound on the number of edges in such a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Lewis Stanton , Jeffrey Thompson

We study the inverse eigenvector centrality problem on connected undirected graphs, namely, whether a given positive vector can be realized by assigning suitable edge weights. We provide a complete characterization in terms of stable sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mauro Passacantando , Fabio Raciti

Let $\Gamma=(K_{n},H^-)$ be a signed complete graph whose negative edges induce a subgraph $H$. The index of $\Gamma$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper we study the index of $\Gamma$ when $H$ is a unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-08 N. Kafai , F. Heydari , N. Jafari Rad , M. Maghasedi

An edge colouring of a graph $G$ is called acyclic if it is proper and every cycle contains at least three colours. We show that for every $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a $g=g(\varepsilon)$ such that if $G$ has girth at least $g$ then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Xing Shi Cai , Guillem Perarnau , Bruce Reed , Adam Bene Watts

In this thesis we consider ordered graphs (that is, graphs with a fixed linear ordering on their vertices). We summarize and further investigations on the number of edges an ordered graph may have while avoiding a fixed forbidden ordered…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Craig Weidert

A graph is "$\ell$-holed" if all its induced cycles of length at least four have length exactly $\ell$. We give a complete description of the $\ell$-holed graphs for each $\ell\ge 7$.