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In this paper we study three substructures in hypergraphs that generalize the notion of an Euler tour in a graph. A flag-traversing tour of a hypergraph corresponds to an Euler tour of its incidence graph, hence complete characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-04 M. Amin Bahmanian , Mateja Šajna

We show that every complete $n$-vertex simple topological graph contains a topological subgraph on at least $(\log n)^{1/4 - o(1)}$ vertices that is weakly isomorphic to the complete convex geometric graph or the complete twisted graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Andrew Suk , Ji Zeng

The Erd\H{o}s, Gr\"unwald, and Weiszfeld theorem is a characterization of those infinite graphs which are Eulerian. That is, infinite graphs that admit infinite Eulerian paths. In this article we prove an effective version of the Erd\H{o}s,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas

We show that a quasirandom $k$-uniform hypergraph $G$ has a tight Euler tour subject to the necessary condition that $k$ divides all vertex degrees. The case when $G$ is complete confirms a conjecture of Chung, Diaconis and Graham from 1989…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We settle the Path Decomposition Conjecture (P.D.C.) due to Tibor Gallai for minimally connected graphs, i.e. trees. We use this validity for trees and settle the P. D. C. using induction on the number of edges for all connected graphs. We…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Dhananjay P. Mehendale

An even-cycle decomposition of a graph G is a partition of E(G) into cycles of even length. Evidently, every Eulerian bipartite graph has an even-cycle decomposition. Seymour (1981) proved that every 2-connected loopless Eulerian planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Tony Huynh , Sang-il Oum , Maryam Verdian-Rizi

An extension of an induced path $P$ in a graph $G$ is an induced path $P'$ such that deleting the endpoints of $P'$ results in $P$. An induced path in a graph is said to be avoidable if each of its extensions is contained in an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Vladimir Gurvich , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Mikhail Vyalyi

The Tur\'{a}n number of a graph $H$ is the maximum number of edges in any graph of order $n$ that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. In 1959, Erd\H os and Gallai obtained a sharp upper bound of Tur\'{a}n numbers for a path of arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Miao Dong , Bo Ning , Long-Tu Yuan , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A special case of a conjecture by Thomass\'e is that any oriented graph with minimum outdegree k contains a dipath of length 2k. For the sake of proving whether or not a counterexample exists, we present reductions and establish bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Joe DeLong

Menger's well-known theorem from 1927 characterizes when it is possible to find $k$ vertex-disjoint paths between two sets of vertices in a graph $G$. Recently, Georgakopoulos and Papasoglu and, independently, Albrechtsen, Huynh, Jacobs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

Erd\H{o}s and Gy\'arf\'as conjectured in 1994 that every graph with minimum degree at least 3 has a cycle of length a power of 2. In 2022, Gao and Shan (Graphs and Combinatorics) proved that the conjecture is true for $P_8$-free graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Anand Shripad Hegde , R. B. Sandeep , P. Shashank

We present progress on three old conjectures about longest paths and cycles in graphs. The first pair of conjectures, due to Lov\'{a}sz from 1969 and Thomassen from 1978, respectively, states that all connected vertex-transitive graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Carla Groenland , Sean Longbrake , Raphael Steiner , Jérémie Turcotte , Liana Yepremyan

We study edge-decompositions of highly connected graphs into copies of a given tree. In particular we attack the following conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-09 János Barát , Dániel Gerbner

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$. A path decomposition $\mathcal{P}$ of $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint paths that covers all the edges of $G$. Let $p(G)$ denote the minimum number of paths needed in a path decomposition of $G$. Gallai…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Xiaohong Chen , Baoyindureng Wu

A non-complete graph $G$ is said to be $t$-tough if for every vertex cut $S$ of $G$, the ratio of $|S|$ to the number of components of $G-S$ is at least $t$. The toughness $\tau(G)$ of the graph $G$ is the maximum value of $t$ such that $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Kun Cheng , Chengli Li , Feng Liu

The famous Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem on the Tur\'an number of paths states that every graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges contains a path with at least $\frac{2m}{n}$ edges. In this note, we first establish a simple but novel extension of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Bo Ning , Xing Peng

Consider an undirected graph whose edges are labeled invertibly in a group. When does every Eulerian trail from one fixed vertex to another have the same label? We give a precise structural answer to this question. Essentially, we show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Donggyu Kim , Rose McCarty , Caleb McFarland

In 2006 Bar{\'a}t and Thomassen conjectured that every planar $4$-edge-connected $4$-regular simple graph of size divisible by three admits a claw-decomposition. Later, Lai (2007) disproved this conjecture by a family of planar graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Morteza Hasanvand

We consider the problem of traveling among random points in Euclidean space, when only a random fraction of the pairs are joined by traversable connections. In particular, we show a threshold for a pair of points to be connected by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

In this work, we study conditions for the existence of length-constrained path-cycle decompositions, that is, partitions of the edge set of a graph into paths and cycles of a given minimum length. Our main contribution is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Andrea Jiménez , Yoshiko Wakabayashi