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Extremal problems concerning the number of independent sets or complete subgraphs in a graph have been well studied in recent years. Cutler and Radcliffe proved that among graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $r$, where $n =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-11 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

A classical theorem of Ahlswede and Katona determines the maximum density of the $2$-edge star in a graph with a given edge density. Motivated by its application in hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problems, we establish a refinement of their result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Yixiao Zhang

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 "slope-number" of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane. We prove that for $\Delta\geq5$ and all large $n$, there is a $\Delta$-regular $n$-vertex graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Vida Dujmovic' , Matthew Suderman , David R. Wood

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 GG-width of a class of graphs GG is defined as follows. A graph G has GG-width k if there are k independent sets N1,...,Nk in G such that G can be embedded into a graph H in GG such that for every edge e in H which is not an edge in G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-01 M. Chang , L. Hung , T. Kloks , S. Peng

One of the major problems in combinatorics is to determine the number of $r$-uniform hypergraphs ($r$-graphs) on $n$ vertices which are free of certain forbidden structures. This problem dates back to the work of Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Letícia Mattos

The minimum number of bicliques needed to cover the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices is $\lceil \log_2 n \rceil$. The Graham-Pollak theorem states that at least $n-1$ bicliques are required to partition the edge set of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Anand Babu , Sundar Vishwanathan

The problem of determining the maximum number of copies of $T$ in an $H$-free graph, for any graphs $T$ and $H$, was considered by Alon and Shikhelman. This is a variant of Tur\'{a}n's classical extremal problem. We show lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Zhipeng Gao , Ping Li , Changhong Lu , Rui Sun , Long-Tu Yuan

In this paper we raise a variant of a classic problem in extremal graph theory, which is motivated by a design of fractional repetition codes, a model in distributed storage systems. For any feasible positive integers $d\geq 3$, $n \geq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Tuvi Etzion

All the work made so far on edge-covering a graph by cliques focus on finding the minimum number of cliques that cover the graph. On this paper, we fix the number of cliques that cover a graph by the same number of vertices that the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Leopoldo Taravilse

Determine the size of $r$-graphs with given graph parameters is an interesting problem. Chv\'atal and Hanson (JCTB, 1976) gave a tight upper bound of the size of 2-graphs with restricted maximum degree and matching number; Khare (DM, 2014)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Xinmin Hou , Lei Yu , Jun Gao , Boyuan Liu

We determine the maximum number of maximal independent sets of arbitrary graphs in terms of their covering numbers and we completely characterize the extremal graphs. As an application, we give a similar result for K\"onig-Egerv\'ary graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Do Trong Hoang , Tran Nam Trung

A matching in a graph is uniquely restricted if no other matching covers exactly the same set of vertices. We establish tight lower bounds on the maximum size of a uniquely restricted matching in terms of order, size, and maximum degree.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-30 M. Fürst , D. Rautenbach

The problem of maximising the number of cliques among $n$-vertex graphs from various graph classes has received considerable attention. We investigate this problem for the class of $1$-planar graphs where we determine precisely the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-08 J. Pascal Gollin , Kevin Hendrey , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins , Xin Zhang

We investigate the impact of a high-degree vertex in Tur\'{a}n problems for degenerate hypergraphs (including graphs). We say an $r$-graph $F$ is bounded if there exist constants $\alpha, \beta>0$ such that for large $n$, every $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Jianfeng Hou , Caiyun Hu , Heng Li , Xizhi Liu , Caihong Yang , Yixiao Zhang

Many problems in extremal graph theory correspond to questions involving homomorphisms into a fixed image graph. Recently, there has been interest in maximizing the number of homomorphisms from graphs with a fixed number of vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Jonathan Cutler , Nicholas Kass

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 $k$-independence number of a graph $G$ is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$. In this paper, for each positive integer $k$, we prove sharp upper bounds for the $k$-independence number in an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Zhenyu Taoqiu , Suil O , Yongtang Shi

We characterise the form of all simple, finite graphs for which the girth of the graph is equal to the circumference of the graph. We apply this to prove a bound on the number of edges in such a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Lewis Stanton , Jeffrey Thompson