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A fundamental problem in pattern avoidance is describing the asymptotic behavior of the extremal function and its generalizations. We prove an equivalence between the asymptotics of the graph extremal function for a class of bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-09 William Zhang

A $d$-dimensional hypercube drawing of a graph represents the vertices by distinct points in $\{0,1\}^d$, such that the line-segments representing the edges do not cross. We study lower and upper bounds on the minimum number of dimensions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David R. Wood

We study the following problem - How many arbitrary edges can be removed from a complete geometric graph with 2n vertices such that the resulting graph always contains a perfect non-crossing matching? We first address the case where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Aviv Sheyn , Ran J. Tessler

We introduce a method to embed edge-colored graphs into families of expander graphs, which generalizes a framework developed by Dragani\'c, Krivelevich, and Nenadov (2022). As an application, we show that each family of sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Ben Lund , Chuandong Xu

The degree diameter problem asks for the maximum possible number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ and diameter $D$. In this paper, we focus on planar graphs of diameter $3$. Fellows, Hell and Seyffarth (1995) proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Antoine Dailly , Sasha Darmon , Ugo Giocanti , Claire Hilaire , Petru Valicov

Let $\binom{[n]}{k}$ denote the collection of all $k$-subsets of the standard $n$-set $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Let $n>2k$ and let $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$ be an {\it intersecting} $k$-graph, i.e., $F\cap F'\neq \emptyset$ for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Peter Frankl , Jian Wang

Let $K_{r_1,\ldots,r_s}$ denote the complete multipartite graph with class sizes $r_1,\ldots,r_s$ and let $K_s$ denote the complete graph of order $s$. In 2018, Luo determined the maximum number of $K_s$ in 2-connected graphs with a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Leilei Zhang

The "separation dimension" of a graph $G$ is the minimum positive integer $d$ for which there is an embedding of $G$ into $\mathbb{R}^d$, such that every pair of disjoint edges are separated by some axis-parallel hyperplane. We prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Alex Scott , David R. Wood

A drawing of a graph in the plane is a thrackle if every pair of edges intersects exactly once, either at a common vertex or at a proper crossing. Conway's conjecture states that a thrackle has at most as many edges as vertices. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Oswin Aichholzer , Linda Kleist , Boris Klemz , Felix Schröder , Birgit Vogtenhuber

In 2018, Dankelmann, Gao, and Surmacs [J. Graph Theory, 88(1): 5--17, 2018] established sharp bounds on the oriented diameter of a bridgeless undirected graph and a bridgeless undirected bipartite graph in terms of vertex degree. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Ran An , Hengzhe Li , Jianbing Liu , Gaoxing Sun

The threshold-$k$ metric dimension ($\mathrm{Tmd}_k$) of a graph is the minimum number of sensors -- a subset of the vertex set -- needed to uniquely identify any vertex in the graph, solely based on its distances from the sensors, when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Zsolt Bartha , Júlia Komjáthy , Järvi Raes

We say that $k$ graphs $G_1,G_2,\dots,G_k$ on a common vertex set of size $n$ contain a rainbow copy of a graph $H$ if their union contains a copy of $H$ with each edge belonging to a distinct $G_i$. We provide a counterexample to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Peter Frankl , Ervin Győri , Zhen He , Zequn Lv , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Kitti Varga , Xiutao Zhu

A queue layout of a graph consists of a linear order on the vertices and an assignment of the edges to queues, such that no two edges in a single queue are nested. The minimum number of queues needed in a queue layout of a graph is called…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Veit Wiechert

The problem of finding the largest connected subgraph of a given undirected host graph, subject to constraints on the maximum degree $\Delta$ and the diameter $D$, was introduced in \cite{maxddbs}, as a generalization of the Degree-Diameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Mirka Miller , Hebert Perez-Roses , Joe Ryan

This paper generalizes and unifies the existing spectral bounds on the $k$-independence number of a graph, which is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. The previous bounds known in the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 A. Abiad , G. Coutinho , M. A. Fiol

The classical Zarankiewicz's problem asks for the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph on $n$ vertices which does not contain the complete bipartite graph $K_{t,t}$. In one of the cornerstones of extremal graph theory, K\H{o}v\'ari…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky

A $k$-fault-tolerant connectivity preserver of a directed $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ such that, for any edge set $F \subseteq E(G)$ of size $|F| \le k$, the strongly connected components of $G - F$ and $H - F$ are the same.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Gary Hoppenworth , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

Given an undirected graph $G$ and integers $c$ and $k$, the Maximum Edge-Colorable Subgraph problem asks whether we can delete at most $k$ edges in $G$ to obtain a graph that has a proper edge coloring with at most $c$ colors. We show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Niels Grüttemeier , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$. The edges of $G$ can be colored with at most $\frac{3}{2}\Delta$ colors by Shannon's theorem. We study lower bounds on the size of subgraphs of $G$ that can be colored with $\Delta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Michał Farnik , Łukasz Kowalik , Arkadiusz Socała

Let $f(d)$ be the smallest value for which every bridgeless graph $G$ with diameter $d$ admits a strong orientation $\overrightarrow{G}$ such that the diameter of $\overrightarrow{G}$ is at most $f(d)$. Chv\'atal and Thomassen (JCT-B, 1978)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jifu Lin , Lihua You