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A graph is a cograph if it does not contain a 4-vertex path as an induced subgraph. An $(s, k)$-polar partition of a graph $G$ is a partition $(A, B)$ of its vertex set such that $A$ induces a complete multipartite graph with at most $s$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-19 F. Esteban Contreras-Mendoza , César Hernández-Cruz

A spanning subgraph $F$ of a graph $G$ is called a $[1,b]$-odd factor if $b\equiv1$ (mod 2) and $d_F(v)\in\{1,3,\ldots,b\}$ for every $v\in V(G)$. A graph $G$ of order $n\geq k+2$ is $k$-critical with respect to $[1,b]$-odd factor if for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Sizhong Zhou

Let $X$ and $Y$ be any two graphs of order $n$. The friends-and-strangers graph $\mathsf{FS}(X,Y)$ of $X$ and $Y$ is a graph with vertex set consisting of all bijections $\sigma :V(X) \mapsto V(Y)$, in which two bijections $\sigma$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Lanchao Wang , Junying Lu , Yaojun Chen

A $k$-uniform hypergraph (or $k$-graph) $H = (V, E)$ is $k$-partite if $V$ can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that each edge in $E$ contains precisely one vertex from each $V_i$. In this note, we consider list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Abhishek Dhawan

The $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$-factor of a graph is a spanning subgraph whose each component is an element of $\{K_{1,1}, K_{1,2},C_m: m\geq3\}$. In this paper, through the graph spectral methods, we establish the lower bound of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fengyun Ren , Shumin Zhang , Ke Wang

For $d \ge 1$, $s \ge 0$ a $(d, d+s)$-{\em graph} is a graph whose degrees all lie in the interval $\{d, d+1, \ldots, d + s\}$. For $r \ge 1$, $a \ge 0$, an $(r, r+a)$-{\em factor} of a graph $G$ is a spanning $(r, r+a)$-subgraph of $G$. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-15 A. J. W. Hilton , A. Rajkumar

Our goal is to investigate a close relative of the independent transversal problem in the class of infinite $K_n$-free graphs: we show that for any infinite $K_n$-free graph $G=(V,E)$ and $m\in \mathbb N$ there is a minimal $r=r(G,m)$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Claude Laflamme , Andres A. Lopez , Daniel T. Soukup , Robert Woodrow

We call a finite undirected graph minimally k-matchable if it has at least k distinct perfect matchings but deleting any edge results in a graph which has not. An odd subdivision of some graph G is any graph obtained by replacing every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Gasper Fijavz , Matthias Kriesell

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$-factor is a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that every component of $H$ is isomorphic to an element of $\{P_3,P_4,P_5\}$. In this paper, we establish a sufficient condition on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Zahoor Iqbal Bhat , S. Pirzada

Let $G$ be a connected graph with minimum degree $\delta(G)$ and vertex-connectivity $\kappa(G)$. The graph $G$ is $k$-connected if $\kappa(G)\geq k$, maximally connected if $\kappa(G) = \delta(G)$, and super-connected (or super-$\kappa$)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Zhen-Mu Hong , Zheng-Jiang Xia , Fuyuan Chen , Lutz Volkmann

A graph $G$ is $k$-factor-critical if $G-S$ has a perfect matching for any $k$-subset $S$ of the vertex set of $G$. In this paper, we investigate the factor-criticality of graphs with fixed minimum degree and provide sufficient conditions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Jin Cai , Bo Zhou

In this paper, we show that every $(3k-3)$-edge-connected graph $G$, under a certain condition on whose degrees, can be edge-decomposed into $k$ factors $G_1,\ldots, G_k$ such that for each vertex $v\in V(G_i)$, $|d_{G_i}(v)-d_G(v)/k|< 1$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Morteza Hasanvand

Computing the permanent of a $(0,1)$-matrix is a well-known $\#P$-complete problem. In this paper, we present an expression for the permanent of a bipartite graph in terms of the determinant of the graph and its subgraphs, obtained by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Surabhi Chakrabartty , Ranveer Singh

We show that every $K_4$-free graph on $n$ vertices can be made balanced bipartite by removing at most $\frac{n^2}{9}$ edges. This proves a conjecture of Balogh, Clemen, and Lidick\'{y}, and generalizes both Sudakov's result on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 József Balogh , Ignacy Buczek , Andrzej Grzesik , Piotr Kuc

Ramsey proved that for every positive integer $n$, every sufficiently large graph contains an induced $K_n$ or $\overline{K}_n$. Among the many extensions of Ramsey's Theorem there is an analogue for connected graphs: for every positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Sarah Allred , Guoli Ding , Bogdan Oporowski

We characterize all graphs for which there are eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian having all their components in {-1,+1} or {-1,0,+ 1}. Graphs having eigenvectors with components in {-1,+1} are called bivalent and are shown to be the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-19 J-G. Caputo , I. Khames , A. Knippel

For integers $k\geq 1$ and $n\geq 2k+1$, the Schrijver graph $S(n,k)$ has as vertices all $k$-element subsets of $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ that contain no two cyclically adjacent elements, and an edge between any two disjoint sets. More…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Torsten Mütze , Namrata

A graph is called $(k,t)$-regular if it is $k$-regular and the induced subgraph on the neighbourhood of every vertex is $t$-regular. We find new conditions on $(k,t)$ for the existence of such graphs and provide a wide range of examples.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Marston Conder , Jeroen Schillewaert , Gabriel Verret

We say that a bipartite graph $G(A, B)$ with fixed parts $A$, $B$ is proximinal if there is a semimetric space $(X, d)$ such that $A$ and $B$ are disjoint proximinal subsets of $X$ and all edges $\{a, b\}$ satisfy the equality $d(a, b) =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Karim Chaira , Oleksiy Dovgoshey , Samih Lazaiz

A connected graph $G$ is said to be $k$-connected if it has more than $k$ vertices and remains connected whenever fewer than $k$ vertices are deleted. In this paper, for a connected graph $G$ with sufficiently large order, we present a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Peng-Li Zhang , Lihua Feng , Weijun Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang