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Let us say that a graph $G$ is Ramsey for a tuple $(H_1,\dots,H_r)$ of graphs if every $r$-coloring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H_i$ in color $i$, for some $i \in [r]$. A famous conjecture of Kohayakawa and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Eden Kuperwasser , Wojciech Samotij , Yuval Wigderson

A graph $G$ admiting a $2$-factor is \textit{pseudo $2$-factor isomorphic} if the parity of the number of cycles in all its $2$-factors is the same. In [M. Abreu, A.A. Diwan, B. Jackson, D. Labbate and J. Sheehan. Pseudo $2$-factor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 M. Abreu , M. Funk , D. Labbate , F. Romaniello

Let $k$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$. A subset $D \subseteq V(G)$ is a $k$-dominating set if every vertex outside $D$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $D$. The $k$-domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Gülnaz Boruzanlı Ekinci , Csilla Bujtás

While the problem of determining the representation number of an arbitrary word-representable graph is NP-hard, this problem is open even for bipartite graphs. The representation numbers are known for certain bipartite graphs including all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Khyodeno Mozhui , K. V. Krishna

Scott proved in 1997 that for any tree $T$, every graph with bounded clique number which does not contain any subdivision of $T$ as an induced subgraph has bounded chromatic number. Scott also conjectured that the same should hold if $T$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jérémie Chalopin , Louis Esperet , Zhentao Li , Patrice Ossona de Mendez

A variant of the Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture, posed by Havet, Reed, Stein and Wood, states that every graph with minimum degree at least $\lfloor 2k/3 \rfloor$ and maximum degree at least $k$ contains a copy of every tree with $k$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Leo Versteegen , Ella Williams

A graph is called dispersable if it has a book embedding in which each page has maximum degree 1 and the number of pages is the maximum degree. Bernhart and Kainen conjectured every k-regular bipartite graph is dispersable. Forty years…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Paul C. Kainen , Shannon Overbay

Property $(P)$, introduced in recent work and rooted in the classical theory of Parter vertices, concerns the existence of a nonsingular matrix $A\in S(G)$ for which every vertex of $G$ is a $P$-vertex. Previous investigations have fully…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 G. Arunkumar , Puja Samanta

A famous conjecture of Tuza states that the minimum number of edges needed to cover all the triangles in a graph is at most twice the maximum number of edge-disjoint triangles. This conjecture was couched in a broader setting by Aharoni and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Venkatesan Guruswami , Sai Sandeep

We prove for every graph H there exists a>0 such that, for every graph G with at least two vertices, if no induced subgraph of G is a subdivision of H, then either some vertex of G has at least a|G| neighbours, or there are two disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Given a bipartite graph $H$ and an integer $n$, let $f(n;H)$ be the smallest integer such that, any set of edge disjoint copies of $H$ on $n$ vertices, can be extended to an $H$-design on at most $n+f(n;H)$ vertices. We establish tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-19 Zoltán Füredi , Ago-Erik Riet , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

A highly influential result of Nikiforov states that if an $n$-vertex graph $G$ contains at least $\gamma n^h$ copies of a fixed $h$-vertex graph $H$, then $G$ contains a blowup of $H$ of order $\Omega_{\gamma,H}(\log n)$. While the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 António Girão , Zach Hunter , Yuval Wigderson

We study "positive" graphs that have a nonnegative homomorphism number into every edge-weighted graph (where the edgeweights may be negative). We conjecture that all positive graphs can be obtained by taking two copies of an arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Omar Antolín Camarena , Endre Csóka , Tamás Hubai , Gábor Lippner , László Lovász

A bipartite graph $G$ is semi-algebraic in $\mathbb{R}^d$ if its vertices are represented by point sets $P,Q \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and its edges are defined as pairs of points $(p,q) \in P\times Q$ that satisfy a Boolean combination of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Jacob Fox , János Pach , Adam Sheffer , Andrew Suk , Joshua Zahl

We provide an upper bound to the number of graph homomorphisms from $G$ to $H$, where $H$ is a fixed graph with certain properties, and $G$ varies over all $N$-vertex, $d$-regular graphs. This result generalizes a recently resolved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Yufei Zhao

Loebl, Koml\'os and S\'os conjectured that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $n/2$ vertices of degree at least $k$ contains each tree $T$ of order $k+1$ as a subgraph. We give a sketch of a proof of the approximate version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladky , Diana Piguet , Miklos Simonovits , Maya Stein , Endre Szemeredi

In 1994, it was conjectured by Fan and Raspaud that every simple bridgeless cubic graph has three perfect matchings whose intersection is empty. In this paper we answer a question recently proposed by Mkrtchyan and Vardanyan, by giving an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Jean Paul Zerafa

We study variants of Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments, where new phenomena arise that do not have clear analogues in the setting of undirected graphs. We first consider oriented graphs that are systematically under-represented in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Jacob Fox , Zoe Himwich , Nitya Mani , Yunkun Zhou

In a recent work, Keusch proved the so-called 1-2-3 Conjecture, raised by Karo\'nski, {\L}uczak, and Thomason in 2004: for every connected graph different from $K_2$, we can assign labels~$1,2,3$ to the edges so that no two adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Julien Bensmail , Beatriz Martins , Chaoliang Tang

The bipartite-hole-number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\widetilde{\alpha}(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that there exist positive integers $s$ and $t$ with $s + t = k + 1$, satisfying the property that for any two disjoint sets $A, B…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Chengli Li , Feng Liu , Yurui Tang