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In this paper we continue the study of a natural generalization of Tur\'an's forbidden subgraph problem and the Ruzsa-Szemer\'edi problem. Let $ex_F(n,G)$ denote the maximum number of edge-disjoint copies of a fixed simple graph $F$ that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Benedek Kovács , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

For a connected $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $\iota(G,\mathcal{F})$ denote the size of a smallest set $D$ of vertices of $G$ such that the graph obtained from $G$ by deleting the closed neighbourhood of $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Peter Borg

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex of $G$ is either in $S$ or is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. Nordhaus-Gaddum inequailties relate a graph $G$ to its complement $\bar{G}$. In this spirit Wagner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Lauren Keough , David Shane

A theorem of Nosal and Nikiforov states that if $G$ is a triangle-free graph with $m$ edges, then $\lambda (G)\le \sqrt{m}$, where the equality holds if and only if $G$ is a complete bipartite graph. A well-known spectral conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs. A graph is called $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any member of $\mathcal{F}$. Generalized Tur\'{a}n problems aim to maximize the number of copies of a graph $H$ in an $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Rajat Adak , L. Sunil Chandran

For graphs $G$ and $F$, the saturation number $\textit{sat}(G,F)$ is the minimum number of edges in an inclusion-maximal $F$-free subgraph of $G$. In 2017, Kor\'andi and Sudakov initiated the study of saturation in random graphs. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Sahar Diskin , Ilay Hoshen , Maksim Zhukovskii

For any $\epsilon > 0$, we show that if $G$ is a regular graph on $n \gg_\epsilon 1$ vertices that is $\epsilon$-far (differs by at least $\epsilon n^2$ edges) from any Tur\'{a}n graph, then its second eigenvalue $\lambda_2$ satisfies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shengtong Zhang

Suppose that $R$ (red) and $B$ (blue) are two graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$, and $H$ is some graph with a red-blue coloring of its edges. How large can $R$ and $B$ be if $R\cup B$ does not contain a copy of $H$? Call the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Ander Lamaison , Alp Müyesser , Michael Tait

In this paper, we address problems related to parameters concerning edge mappings of graphs. The quantity $h(n,G)$ is defined to be the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph $H$ such that there exists a mapping $f: E(H)\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Yair Caro , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté Vizer

This introduction to graphs and graph algebras provides the optimal bound for the number of all paths of length $k$ in a graph with $N\geq k$ edges and no loops. Our proof relies on a construction of a number of terminating algorithms that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Piotr M. Hajac , Mariusz Tobolski

Motivated by an old question of Gallai (1966) on the intersection of longest paths in a graph and the well-known conjectures of Lov\'{a}sz (1969) and Thomassen (1978) on the maximum length of paths and cycles in vertex-transitive graphs, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sergey Norin , Raphael Steiner , Stephan Thomassé , Paul Wollan

The track number $\tau(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of interval graphs whose union is $G$. We show that the track number of the line graph $L(G)$ of a triangle-free graph $G$ is at least $\lg \lg \chi(G) + 1$, where $\chi(G)$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Deepak Rajendraprasad

Erd\H{o}s, Harary, and Tutte defined the dimension of a graph $G$ as the smallest natural number $n$ such that $G$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with each edge a straight line segment of length 1. Since the proposal of this definition,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Thomas Giardina , Joel Foisy

While investigating odd-cycle free hypergraphs, Gy\H{o}ri and Lemons introduced a colored version of the classical theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Gallai on $P_k$-free graphs. They proved that any graph $G$ with a proper vertex coloring and no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

The well-known Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph $F$, there exists $\epsilon>0$ such that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ that contains no induced copy of $F$ has a homogeneous set of size at least $n^{\epsilon}$. We consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Maria Axenovich , Domagoj Bradač , Lior Gishboliner , Dhruv Mubayi , Lea Weber

In recent years there has been increased interest in extremal problems for "counting" parameters of graphs. For example, the Kahn-Zhao theorem gives an upper bound on the number of independent sets in a $d$-regular graph. In the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-08 L. Keough , A. J. Radcliffe

A fundamental problem of extremal graph theory is to ask, 'What is the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices?' Recently Alon and Shikhelman proposed a more general, subgraph counting, version of this question. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Jamie Radcliffe , Andrew Uzzell

Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if it is $\mathcal{F}$-free but the addition of any missing edge creates a copy of some $F \in \mathcal{F}$. The study of the minimum number of edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Xiaoteng Zhou , Kazuya Haraguchi , Hanchun Yuan

A long-standing conjecture of Zsolt Tuza asserts that the triangle covering number $\tau(G)$ is at most twice the triangle packing number $\nu(G)$, where the triangle packing number $\nu(G)$ is the maximum size of a set of edge-disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Patrick Bennett , Ryan Cushman , Andrzej Dudek

In this paper, we prove a problem proposed by Bre\v{s}ar: for any graphs $G$ and $H$, $\Gamma(G\square H)\ge\Gamma(G)\Gamma(H)+ \min\{|V(G)|-\Gamma(G),|V(H)|-\Gamma(H)\}$, where $\Gamma(G)$ denotes the upper domination number of $G$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Yu-Yen Chien