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As a discrete analogue of Kac's celebrated question on "hearing the shape of a drum", and towards a practical graph isomorphism test, it is of interest to understand which graphs are determined up to isomorphism by their spectrum (of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Illya Koval , Matthew Kwan

An internal partition of a graph is a partitioning of the vertex set into two parts such that for every vertex, at least half of its neighbors are on its side. We prove that for every positive integer $r$, asymptotically almost every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Nathan Linial , Sria Louis

We study a discrete diffusion process introduced in some combinatorial games called FLOODIT and MADVIRUS that can be played online and whose computational complexity has been recently studied by Arthur et al (FUN'2010). The flooding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-19 Aurelie Lagoutte

A new, constructive proof with a small explicit constant is given to the Erd\H{o}s-Pyber theorem which says that the edges of a graph on $n$ vertices can be partitioned into complete bipartite subgraphs so that every vertex is covered at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-21 László Csirmaz , Péter Ligeti , Gábor Tardos

A tiling is a cover of R^d by tiles such as polygons that overlap only on their borders. A patch is a configuration consisting of finitely many tiles that appears in tilings. From a tiling, we can construct a dynamical system which encodes…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Yasushi Nagai

A graph $G$ is said to be perfectly divisible if for every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ with at least one edge, the vertex set $V(H)$ can be partitioned into two sets $A, B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(B) < \omega(H)$. It is easy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hongzhang Chen , Kaiyang Lan , Wenlong Zhong

We consider a variation of cop vs.\ robber on graph in which the robber is not restricted by the graph edges; instead, he picks a time-independent probability distribution on $V(G)$ and moves according to this fixed distribution. The cop…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-23 Natasha Komarov , Peter Winkler

Jim Propp recently introduced a variant of chip-firing on a line where the chips are given distinct integer labels. Hopkins, McConville, and Propp showed that this process is confluent from some (but not all) initial configurations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Pavel Galashin , Sam Hopkins , Thomas McConville , Alexander Postnikov

A model for diffusion on a cubic lattice with a random distribution of traps is developed. The traps are redistributed at certain time intervals. Such models are useful for describing systems showing dynamic disorder, such as ion-conducting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Mandal , R. Dasgupta

In the 60's Shapley provided an example of a two player fictitious game with periodic behaviour. In this game, player $A$ aims to copy $B$'s behaviour and player $B$ aims to play one ahead of player $A$. In this paper we continue to study a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-03-30 Sebastian van Strien Colin Sparrow

We study \emph{edge-sum distinguishing labeling}, a type of labeling recently introduced by Tuza in [Zs. Tuza, \textit{Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics} 60, (2017), 61-68] in context of labeling games. An \emph{ESD labeling} of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Jan Bok , Nikola Jedličková

A \emph{$k$-radius sequence} for a graph $G$ is a sequence of vertices of $G$ (typically with repetitions) such that for every edge $uv$ of $G$ vertices $u$ and $v$ appear at least once within distance $k$ in the sequence. The length of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Michał Dębski , Zbigniew Lonc , Paweł Rzążewski

Graph burning is a simple model for the spread of social influence in networks. The objective is to measure how quickly a fire (e.g., a piece of fake news) can be spread in a network. The burning process takes place in discrete rounds. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Shahin Kamali , Avery Miller , Kenny Zhang

We prove new theoretical results about several variations of the cop and robber game on graphs. First, we consider a variation of the cop and robber game which is more symmetric called the cop and killer game. We prove for all $c < 1$ that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Espen Slettnes , Carl Joshua Quines , Shen-Fu Tsai , Jesse Geneson

Computing the embedding distribution of a given graph is a fundamental question in topological graph theory. In this article, we extend our viewpoint to a sequence of graphs and consider their asymptotic embedding distributions, which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yichao Chen , Wenjie Fang , Zhicheng Gao , Jinlian Zhang

We look at both the \emph{group labeling lights out game} and the \emph{neighborhood lights out game}. Our main focus is to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for when the group labeling lights out game on path graphs, cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Brittany Doherty , Christian J. Miller , Darren B. Parker

Existing approaches for diffusion on graphs, e.g., for label propagation, are mainly focused on isotropic diffusion, which is induced by the commonly-used graph Laplacian regularizer. Inspired by the success of diffusivity tensors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Kwang In Kim , James Tompkin , Hanspeter Pfister , Christian Theobalt

We study a new algorithmic process of graph growth which starts from a single initial vertex and operates in discrete time-steps, called \emph{slots}. In every slot, the graph grows via two operations (i) vertex generation and (ii) edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-20 George B. Mertzios , Othon Michail , George Skretas , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

We present a general approach to study the flooding time (a measure of how fast information spreads) in dynamic graphs (graphs whose topology changes with time according to a random process). We consider arbitrary converging Markovian…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Andrea Clementi , Riccardo Silvestri , Luca Trevisan

Atomic diffusion is usually understood as a succession of random, independent displacements of an adatom over the surface's potential energy landscape. Nevertheless, an analysis of Molecular Dynamics simulations of self-diffusion on Cu(111)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 J. Ferrón , L. Gómez , J. J. de Miguel , R. Miranda