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A general position set S is a set S of vertices in G(V,E) such that no three vertices of S lie on a shortest path in G. Such a set of maximum size in G is called a gpset of G and its cardinality is called the gp-number of G denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 R. Prabha , S. Renukaa Devi , Paul Manuel

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

The general position problem for graphs asks for the largest number of vertices in a subset $S \subseteq V(G)$ of a graph $G$ such that for any $u,v \in S$ and any shortest $u,v$-path $P$ we have $S \cap V(P) = \{ u,v\} $, whereas the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Ethan Shallcross , James Tuite , Aoise Evans , Aditi Krishnakumar , Sumaiyah Boshar

The famous Erd\H{o}s distinct distances problem asks the following: how many distinct distances must exist between a set of $n$ points in the plane? There are many generalisations of this question that ask one to consider different spaces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Sean Dewar , Nora Frankl , Samuel Mansfield , Anthony Nixon , Jonathan Passant , Audie Warren

The general position problem in graphs is to find the maximum number of vertices that can be selected such that no three vertices lie on a common shortest path. The mutual-visibility problem in graphs is to find the maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dhanya Roy , Sandi Klavžar , Aparna Lakshmanan

This paper is an in-depth analysis of the generalized $\vartheta$-number of a graph. The generalized $\vartheta$-number, $\vartheta_k(G)$, serves as a bound for both the $k$-multichromatic number of a graph and the maximum $k$-colorable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Lennart Sinjorgo , Renata Sotirov

Given an underlying undirected simple graph, we consider the set of all acyclic orientations of its edges. Each of these orientations induces a partial order on the vertices of our graph and, therefore, we can count the number of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Benjamin Iriarte Giraldo

In this thesis we consider ordered graphs (that is, graphs with a fixed linear ordering on their vertices). We summarize and further investigations on the number of edges an ordered graph may have while avoiding a fixed forbidden ordered…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Craig Weidert

The ring of graph invariants is spanned by the basic graph invariants which calculate the number of subgraphs isomorphic to a given graph in other graphs. These subgraphs counting invariants are not algebraically independent. In our view…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Tomi Mikkonen

A geodesic is a shortest path which connects a pair of vertices of a graph G. In this paper we define the geodesic subpath number gpn(G) of a graph G as the number of geodesics in G. The number of subtrees and subpaths are already studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The \emph{general position problem} in graphs asks for a largest set of vertices in which no three lie on a common shortest path. The \emph{mutual-visibility problem} seeks a largest set of vertices such that every pair is connected by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Haritha S. , Ullas Chandran S.

In this paper, we study the computational complexity of finding the \emph{geodetic number} of graphs. A set of vertices $S$ of a graph $G$ is a \emph{geodetic set} if any vertex of $G$ lies in some shortest path between some pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Harmender Gahlawat , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Bodhayan Roy

A fundamental and challenging problem in spectral graph theory is to characterize which graphs are uniquely determined by their spectra. In Wang [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, 122 (2017): 438-451], the author proved that an $n$-vertex graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei Wang , Wei Wang , Fuhai Zhu

The vertices of a $k$-token graph of a graph $G$ correspond to $k$ indistinguishable tokens placed on $k$ different vertices of $G$. Changing some conditions on both the nature of the tokens and the number of tokens allowed in each vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Xiaodi Song , Cristina Dalfó , Miquel Àngel Fiol , Mercè Mora , Shenggui Zhang

In this paper, we study two graph convexity parameters: iteration time and general position number. The iteration time was defined in 1981 in the geodesic convexity, but its computational complexity was so far open. The general position…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Julio Araujo , Mitre C. Dourado , Fábio Protti , Rudini Sampaio

A labelling of a graph is an assignment of labels to its vertex or edge sets (or both), subject to certain conditions, a well established concept. A labelling of a graph G of order n is termed a numbering when the set of integers {1,...,n}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Les Foulds , Humberto J. Longo

The strong geodetic problem is a recent variation of the geodetic problem. For a graph $G$, its strong geodetic number ${\rm sg}(G)$ is the cardinality of a smallest vertex subset $S$, such that each vertex of $G$ lies on a fixed shortest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

A recent variation of the classical geodetic problem, the strong geodetic problem, is defined as follows. If $G$ is a graph, then ${\rm sg}(G)$ is the cardinality of a smallest vertex subset $S$, such that one can assign a fixed geodesic to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Sandi Klavžar , Paul Manuel

A graph $G$ is defined encapsulating the number theoretic notion of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. We then provide a graph theoretic approach to the fundamental results on the coprimality of two natural numbers, through the use of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Xandru Mifsud

In the geodetic convexity, a set of vertices $S$ of a graph $G$ is $\textit{convex}$ if all vertices belonging to any shortest path between two vertices of $S$ lie in $S$. The cardinality $con(G)$ of a maximum proper convex set $S$ of $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Diane Castonguay , Erika M. M. Coelho , Hebert Coelho , Julliano R. Nascimento