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A graph is called {\em arc-transitive} (or {\em symmetric}) if its automorphism group has a single orbit on ordered pairs of adjacent vertices, and 2-arc-transitive its automorphism group has a single orbit on ordered paths of length 2. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Marston D. E. Conder , Cai-Heng Li , Primoz Potocnik

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of colors that is needed to color the vertices of $G$ such that the only color preserving automorphism is the identity. For infinite graphs $D(G)$ is bounded by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Svenja Hüning , Wilfried Imrich , Judith Kloas , Hannah Schreiber , Thomas W. Tucker

We focus our attention on well-covered graphs that are vertex decomposable. We show that for many known families of these vertex decomposable graphs, the set of shedding vertices forms a dominating set. We then construct three new infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Jonathan Baker , Kevin N. Vander Meulen , Adam Van Tuyl

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

A graph is prime (with respect to the split decomposition) if its vertex set does not admit a partition (A,B) (called a split) with |A|, |B| >= 2 such that the set of edges joining A and B induces a complete bipartite graph. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-24 O-joung Kwon , Sang-il Oum

A graph is closed when its vertices have a labeling by [n] with a certain property first discovered in the study of binomial edge ideals. In this article, we prove that a connected graph has a closed labeling if and only if it is chordal,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 David A. Cox , Andrew Erskine

A graph is said to be uniquely hamiltonian if it has a unique hamiltonian cycle. For a natural extension of this concept to infinite graphs, we find all uniquely hamiltonian vertex-transitive graphs with finitely many ends, and also discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Babak Miraftab , Dave Witte Morris

A classical vertex Ramsey result due to Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and R\"odl states that given a finite family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $A$ and a positive integer $r$, if every graph $B\in\mathcal{F}$ has a $2$-vertex-connected subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Sahar Diskin , Ilay Hoshen , Michael Krivelevich , Maksim Zhukovskii

The famous Gallai's Conjecture states that any connected graph with n vertices has a path decomposition containing at most (n+1)/2 paths. In this note, we explore graphs generated from removing edges from complete graphs. We first provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Hua Wang , Andrew Zhang

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 2023-10-18 Xiaohong Chen , Baoyindureng Wu

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

We generalise a fundamental graph-theoretical fact, stating that every element of the cycle space of a graph is a sum of edge-disjoint cycles, to arbitrary continua. To achieve this we replace graph cycles by topological circles, and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-10-28 Agelos Georgakopoulos

Kriz and Thomas showed that every (finite or infinite) graph of tree-width $k \in \mathbb{N}$ admits a lean tree-decomposition of width $k$. We discuss a number of counterexamples demonstrating the limits of possible generalisations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Sandra Albrechtsen , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

We classify trivalent vertex-transitive graphs whose edge sets have a partition into a 2-factor composed of two cycles and a 1-factor that is invariant under the action of the automorphism group.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Brian Alspach , Ted Dobson , Afsaneh Khodadadpour , Primoz Šparl

The rainbow arborescence conjecture posits that if the arcs of a directed graph with $n$ vertices are colored by $n-1$ colors such that each color class forms a spanning arborescence, then there is a spanning arborescence that contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

A directed graph is set-homogeneous if, whenever U and V are isomorphic finite subdigraphs, there is an automorphism g of the digraph with U^g=V. Here, extending work of Lachlan on finite homogeneous digraphs, we classify finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Robert Gray , Dugald Macpherson , Cheryl E. Praeger , Gordon F. Royle

We present results on partitioning the vertices of $2$-edge-colored graphs into monochromatic paths and cycles. We prove asymptotically the two-color case of a conjecture of S\'ark\"ozy: the vertex set of every $2$-edge-colored graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Jozsef Balogh , Janos Barat , Daniel Gerbner , Andras Gyarfas , GAbor N. Sarkozy

A classic result of Asplund and Gr\"unbaum states that intersection graphs of axis-aligned rectangles in the plane are $\chi$-bounded. This theorem can be equivalently stated in terms of path-decompositions as follows: There exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Stefan Felsner , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , William T. Trotter , Veit Wiechert

A crossing-free straight-line drawing of a graph is monotone if there is a monotone path between any pair of vertices with respect to some direction. We show how to construct a monotone drawing of a tree with $n$ vertices on an $O(n^{1.5})…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Philipp Kindermann , André Schulz , Joachim Spoerhase , Alexander Wolff

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