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If a graph has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H_1$ or $H_2$ then it is said to be ($H_1,H_2$)-free. Dabrowski and Paulusma found 13 open cases for the question whether the clique-width of ($H_1,H_2$)-free graphs is bounded. One of them…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Andreas Brandstadt , Suhail Mahfud , Raffaele Mosca

The spectral analogue of the Tur\'{a}n type problem for hypergraphs is to determine the maximum spectral radius for the hypergraphs of order $n$ that do not contain a given hypergraph. For the hypergraphs among the set of the connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Wen-Huan Wang , Lou-Jun Yu

For each $t \ge 1$ let $W_t$ denote the class of graphs other than stars that have diameter $2$ and contain neither a triangle nor a $K_{2,t}$. The famous Hoffman--Singleton Theorem implies that $W_2$ is finite. Recently Wood suggested the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Sean Eberhard , Vladislav Taranchuk , Craig Timmons

Let G be a simple graph without isolated vertices. For a vertex i in G, the degree d_i is the number of vertices adjacent to i and the average 2-degree m_i is the mean of the degrees of the vertices which are adjacent to i. The sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Yu-pei Huang , Chia-an Liu , Chih-wen Weng

This paper continues a series of papers investigating the following question: which hereditary graph classes have bounded treewidth? We call a graph $t$-clean if it does not contain as an induced subgraph the complete graph $K_t$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

Let $\ell$ denote a positive integer. A connected graph $\G$ of diameter at least $\ell$ is said to be $\ell${\it -distance-balanced} whenever for any pair of vertices $u,v$ of $\G$ such that $d(u,v)=\ell$, the number of vertices closer to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Stefko Miklavic , Primoz Sparl

In this short note it is shown that every graph of diameter 2 and minimum degree at least 3 contains a cycle of length 4 or 8. This result contributes to the study of the Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'arf\'as Conjecture by confirming it for the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Avery Carr

For each integer $n\geq 3$, let $W_n$ denote the wheel graph obtained by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of a cycle of length $n$. In particular, $W_6$ is obtained from the Petersen graph by contracting three edges incident with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Zijun Chen , Yuqi Xu , Weihua Yang

We develop a sparse graph regularity method that applies to graphs with few 4-cycles, including new counting and removal lemmas for 5-cycles in such graphs. Some applications include: * Every $n$-vertex graph with no 5-cycle can be made…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov , Yufei Zhao

A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Brandst\"adt, Engelfriet, Le and Lozin proved that the class of chordal graphs with independence number at most 3 has unbounded clique-width. Brandst\"adt, Le and Mosca…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Andreas Brandstädt , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Shenwei Huang , Daniël Paulusma

Let $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that is regular and does not contain $F$ as a subgraph. We give lower bounds on $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$, that are best possible up to a constant factor, when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Michael Tait , Craig Timmons

A well known theorem in graph theory states that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and minimum degree at least $d$ contains a path of length at least $d$, and if $G$ is connected and $n\ge 2d+1$ then $G$ contains a path of length at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao

Given a graph $G$, let $\mathrm{diam}(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$ which lie in the same connected component, and let $\mathrm{diam}^+(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$; so…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Louigi Addario-Berry , Gabriel Crudele

We prove that $G_{n,p=c/n}$ whp has a $k$-regular subgraph if $c$ is at least $e^{-\Theta(k)}$ above the threshold for the appearance of a subgraph with minimum degree at least $k$; i.e. an non-empty $k$-core. In particular, this pins down…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Dieter Mitsche , Michael Molloy , Pawel Pralat

In this paper we enumerate $k$-noncrossing tangled-diagrams. A tangled-diagram is a labeled graph whose vertices are $1,...,n$ have degree $\le 2$, and are arranged in increasing order in a horizontal line. Its arcs are drawn in the upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-26 William Y. C. Chen , Jing Qin , Christian M. Reidys , Doron Zeilberger

In this paper, we study self-complementary distance-regular Cayley graphs over abelian groups. We prove that if a regular graph is self-complementary distance-regular, then it is self-complementary strongly regular. We also deal with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Mojtaba Jazaeri

Distance labeling schemes are schemes that label the vertices of a graph with short labels in such a way that the distance between any two vertices $u$ and $v$ can be determined efficiently by merely inspecting the labels of $u$ and $v$,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Victor Chepoi , Arnaud Labourel , Sebastien Ratel

A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t.$ We prove that every $2$-connected $[4,2]$-graph of order at least $7$ is pancyclic. This strengthens existing results. There are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Xingzhi Zhan

We review the nearly complete classification project for finite distance-transitive graphs and compile a list of all known graphs. Interestingly, we find that those graphs with diameter larger than 4, apart from a small finite number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Pei Ce Hua

We construct highly edge-connected $r$-regular graph which do not contain $r-2$ pairwise disjoint perfect matchings. The results partially answer a question stated by Thomassen [Factorizing regular graphs, J. Comb. Theory Ser. B (2019),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Davide Mattiolo , Eckhard Steffen