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In this paper, a proof of the cycle double cover conjecture is presented. The cycle double cover conjecture purports that if a graph is bridgeless, then there exists a list of cycles in the graph such that every edge in the graph appears in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 P. Clarke

Reed conjectured that the chromatic number of any graph is closer to its clique number than to its maximum degree plus one. We consider a recolouring version of this conjecture, with respect to Kempe changes. Namely, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Lucas De Meyer , Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Jared León , Tim Planken , Youri Tamitegama

The Petersen colouring conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph admits an edge-colouring with $5$ colours such that for every edge $e$, the set of colours assigned to the edges adjacent to $e$ has cardinality either $2$ or $4$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-11 François Pirot , Jean-Sébastien Sereni , Riste Škrekovski

An $r$-regular graph is an $r$-graph, if every odd set of vertices is connected to its complement by at least $r$ edges. Seymour [On multicolourings of cubic graphs, and conjectures of Fulkerson and Tutte.~\emph{Proc.~London…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yulai Ma , Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf , Junxue Zhang

Affirming a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Renyi we prove that for any (real number) c_1>0 for some c_2>0, if a graph G has no c_1(log n) nodes on which the graph is complete or edgeless (i.e. G exemplifies |G| not-> (c_1 log n)^2_2) then G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Saharon Shelah

A conjecture of Verstra\"ete states that for any fixed $\ell < k$ there exists a positive constant $c$ such that any $C_{2k}$-free graph $G$ contains a $C_{2\ell}$-free subgraph with at least $c |E(G)|$ edges. For $\ell = 2$, this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 David Conlon , Eion Mulrenin , Cosmin Pohoata

Let G be a bridgeless cubic graph. A well-known conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson can be stated as follows: there exist five perfect matchings of G such that each edge of G is contained in at least one of them. Here, we prove that in each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every graph with chromatic number $k$ contains a complete graph on $k$ vertices as a minor. This conjecture is a tremendous strengthening of the Four-Colour Theorem and is regarded as one of the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jofre Costa , Eric Luu , David R. Wood , Jung Hon Yip

If $f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ is a function, then let us say that $f$ is sublinear if \[\lim_{n\rightarrow +\infty}\frac{f(n)}{n}=0.\] If $G=(V,E)$ is a cubic graph and $c:E\rightarrow \{1,...,k\}$ is a proper $k$-edge-coloring of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Davide Mattiolo , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Vahan Mkrtchyan

The Fan-Raspaud Conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph has three 1-factors with empty intersection. A weaker one than this conjecture is that every bridgeless cubic graph has two 1-factors and one join with empty intersection.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Ligang Jin , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Eckhard Steffen

Reed's $\omega$, $\Delta$, $\chi$ conjecture proposes that every graph satisfies $\chi\leq \lceil\frac 12(\Delta+1+\omega)\rceil$; it is known to hold for all claw-free graphs. In this paper we consider a local strengthening of this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Maria Chudnovsky , Andrew D. King , Matthieu Plumettaz , Paul Seymour

Let $G$ be a graph. We say that $G$ is perfectly divisible if for each induced subgraph $H$ of $G$, $V(H)$ can be partitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(H[B])<\omega(H)$. We use $P_t$ and $C_t$ to denote a path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Wei Dong , Baogang Xu , Yian Xu

Let $G$ be a bridgeless graph, $C$ is a circuit of $G$. Fan proposed a conjecture that if $G/C$ admits a nowhere-zero 4-flow, then $G$ admits a 4-flow $(D,f)$ such that $E(G)-E(C)\subseteq$ supp$(f)$ and $|\textrm{supp}(f)\cap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Deping Song , Shuang Li , Xiao Wang

A path in an edge-colored graph is called proper if no two consecutive edges of the path receive the same color. For a connected graph $G$, the proper connection number $pc(G)$ of $G$ is defined as the minimum number of colors needed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Fei Huang , Xueliang Li , Zhongmei Qin , Colton Magnant , Kenta Ozeki

Thomassen [Problem 1 in Factorizing regular graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 141 (2020), 343-351] asked whether every $r$-edge-connected $r$-regular graph of even order has $r-2$ pairwise disjoint perfect matchings. We show that this is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Yulai Ma , Davide Mattiolo , Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf

By finding orthogonal representation for a family of simple connected called $\delta$-graphs it is possible to show that $\delta$-graphs satisfy delta conjecture. An extension of the argument to graphs of the form…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Pedro Díaz Navarro

Using an intuition from metric geometry, we prove that any flag and normal simplicial complex satisfies the non-revisiting path conjecture. As a consequence, the diameter of its facet-ridge graph is smaller than the number of vertices minus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Karim Alexander Adiprasito , Bruno Benedetti

The Reconstruction Conjecture due to Kelly and Ulam states that every graph with at least 3 vertices is uniquely determined by its multiset of subgraphs $\{G-v: v\in V(G)\}$. Let $diam(G)$ and $\kappa(G)$ denote the diameter and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Alexander Clifton , Xiaonan Liu , Reem Mahmoud , Abhinav Shantanam

A 1983 conjecture of Bouchet states that every flow-admissible signed graph has a nowhere-zero six-flow. We prove this conjecture for cyclically five-edge-connected, cubic signed graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Kathryn Nurse

In the paper we complete a case by case proof of Reeder's Conjecture started in our previous work, proving the conjecture for simple Lie algebras of type $D$ and for the exceptional cases.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Sabino Di Trani