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We prove that if a graph contains the complete bipartite graph $K_{134, 12}$ as an induced minor, then it contains a cycle of length at most~12 or a theta as an induced subgraph. With a longer and more technical proof, we prove that if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Meike Hatzel , Tuukka Korhonen , Nicolas Trotignon , Sebastian Wiederrecht

A nut graph is a nontrivial graph whose adjacency matrix has a one-dimensional null space spanned by a vector without zero entries. Recently, it was shown that a nut graph has more edge orbits than vertex orbits. It was also shown that for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Nino Bašić , Ivan Damnjanović

We construct a family of maximal linklessly embeddable graphs on $n$ vertices and $3n-5$ edges for all $n\ge 10$, and another family on $n$ vertices and $m< \frac{25n}{12}-\frac{1}{4}$ edges for all $n\ge 13$. The latter significantly…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Ramin Naimi , Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

This thesis focuses on theoretical and algorithmic tools for determining the numbers of induced subgraphs in strongly regular graphs, SRGs, and on further applications of such numbers. We consider in more detail a restricted class of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Kristína Kováčiková

The complete bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$ is called a claw. The properties of claw-free graphs have attracted considerable attention, with research on claw-free planar graphs tracing back to Plummer's work in 1989. In this paper, we extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Licheng Zhang , Zhangdong Ouyang , Yuanqiu Huang

We exhibit a new construction of edge-regular graphs with regular cliques that are not strongly regular. The infinite family of graphs resulting from this construction includes an edge-regular graph with parameters $(24,8,2)$. We also show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Gary R. W. Greaves , J. H. Koolen

We construct a graph G such that any embedding of G into R^{3} contains a nonsplit link of two components, where at least one of the components is a nontrivial knot. Further, for any m < n we produce a graph H so that every embedding of H…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Fleming

A graph with chromatic number $k$ is called $k$-chromatic. Using computational methods, we show that the smallest triangle-free 6-chromatic graphs have at least 32 and at most 40 vertices. We also determine the complete set of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Jan Goedgebeur

Let $\Gamma(n,k)$ be the set of $2$-connected $n$-vertex graphs containing an edge that is not on any cycle of length at least $k+1.$ Let $g_s(n,k)$ denote the maximum number of $s$-cliques in a graph in $\Gamma(n,k).$ Recently, Ji and Ye…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Leilei Zhang

We find all maximal linklessly embeddable graphs of order up to 11, and verify that for every graph $G$ of order 11 either $G$ or its complement $cG$ is intrinsically linked. We give an example of a graph $G$ of order 11 such that both $G$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Ramin Naimi , Ryan Odeneal , Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

We show that, for each fixed $k$, an $n$-vertex graph not containing a cycle of length $2k$ has at most $80\sqrt{k}\log k\cdot n^{1+1/k}+O(n)$ edges.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Boris Bukh , Zilin Jiang

In a graph $G$, a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V(G)$ is said to be cyclable if there is a cycle containing the vertices in some order. $G$ is said to be $k$-cyclable if any subset of $k \geq 2$ vertices is cyclable. If any $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Niranjan Balachandran , Anish Hebbar

We consider the problem of how much edge connectivity is necessary to force a graph G to contain a fixed graph H as an immersion. We show that if the maximum degree in H is D, then all the examples of D-edge connected graphs which do not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Daniel Marx , Paul Wollan

A simple graph G is k-ordered (respectively, k-ordered hamiltonian) if, for any sequence of k distinct vertices v_1, ..., v_k of G, there exists a cycle (respectively, a hamiltonian cycle) in G containing these k vertices in the specified…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karola Meszaros

A bridgeless graph $G$ is called $3$-flow-critical if it does not admit a nowhere-zero $3$-flow, but $G/e$ has for any $e\in E(G)$. Tutte's $3$-flow conjecture can be equivalently stated as that every $3$-flow-critical graph contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Jiaao Li , Yulai Ma , Yongtang Shi , Weifan Wang , Yezhou Wu

Chernyshev, Rauch and Rautenbach [Discrete Math., 2025] introduce forest cuts, i.e., vertex separators that induce a forest. They conjecture that, similar to a result by Chen and Yu [Discrete Math., 2002], every $n$-vertex graph with less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Samuel Schneider , Torsten Ueckerdt

We exhibit several families of planar graphs that are minor-minimal intrinsically spherical $3$-linked. A graph is intrinsically spherical 3-linked if it is planar graph that has, in every spherical embedding, a non-split 3-link consisting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Madeleine Burkhart , Andrew Castillo , Jonathan Doane , Joel Foisy , Cristopher Negron

We characterise the structure of those graphs of a given order which maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs for seven different graph classes, each with other prescribed parameters like minimum degree, independence number,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

We say that a graph G is $(k,\ell)$-stable if removing $k$ vertices from it reduces its independence number by at most $\ell$. We say that G is tight $(k,\ell)$-stable if it is $(k,\ell)$-stable and its independence number equals…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Dingding Dong , Sammy Luo

We introduce and study so-called self-indexed graphs. These are (oriented) finite graphs endowed with a map from the set of edges to the set of vertices. Such graphs naturally arise from classical knot and link diagrams. In fact, the graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matias Graña , Vladimir Turaev