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An independent set A is maximal if it is not a proper subset of an independent set, while A is maximum if it has a maximum size. The problem of whether a graph has a pair of disjoint maximal independent sets was introduced by C. Berge in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Zakir Deniz , Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

Huang proved that every set of more than half the vertices of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q_d$ induces a subgraph of maximum degree at least $\sqrt{d}$, which is tight by a result of Chung, F\"uredi, Graham, and Seymour. Huang asked…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Ignacio García-Marco , Kolja Knauer

Given a graph $G$ and a graph property $P$ we say that $G$ is minimal with respect to $P$ if no proper induced subgraph of $G$ has the property $P$. An HC-obstruction is a minimal 2-connected non-Hamiltonian graph. Given a graph $H$, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Aristotelis Chaniotis , Zishen Qu , Sophie Spirkl

A well known theorem in graph theory states that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and minimum degree at least $d$ contains a path of length at least $d$, and if $G$ is connected and $n\ge 2d+1$ then $G$ contains a path of length at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao

For any positive integer $k$, we show that every maximal $C_{2k+1}$-free graph with at least $n^2/4-o(n^{3/2})$ edges contains an induced complete bipartite subgraph on $(1-o(1))n$ vertices. We also show that this is best possible.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang , Xiaoli Yuan

In this paper, we show that for all $k\geq 10^8$, every graph with minimum degree $k$ and girth at least $10^8$ contains an induced subdivision of a $K_{k+1}$. This answers a problem asked by K\"uhn and Osthus (originally attributed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 António Girão , Zach Hunter

Recently there has been much interest in studying random graph analogues of well known classical results in extremal graph theory. Here we follow this trend and investigate the structure of triangle-free subgraphs of $G(n,p)$ with high…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Barnaby Roberts

In this paper we prove that for every $s\geq 2$ and every graph $H$ the following holds. Let $G$ be a graph with average degree $\Omega_H(s^{C|H|^2})$, for some absolute constant $C>0$, then $G$ either contains a $K_{s,s}$ or an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-18 António Girão , Zach Hunter

A graph is $k$-degenerate if every subgraph has minimum degree at most $k$. We provide lower bounds on the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate subgraph in a triangle-free planar graph. We denote the size of a maximum induced 2-degenerate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Zdeněk Dvořák , Tom Kelly

Consider a graph $G$ with a path $P$ of order $n$. What conditions force $G$ to also have a long induced path? As complete bipartite graphs have long paths but no long induced paths, a natural restriction is to forbid some fixed complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Julien Duron , Louis Esperet , Jean-Florent Raymond

We study the problem of partitioning the edge set of the complete graph into bipartite subgraphs under certain constraints defined by forbidden subgraphs. These constraints lead to both classical problems, such as partitioning into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Lajos Győrffy , András London , Gábor V. Nagy , András Pluhár

In the past two decades, various properties of randomly perturbed/augmented (hyper)graphs have been intensively studied, since the model was introduced by Bohman, Frieze and Martin in 2003. The model usually considers a deterministic graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jie Han , Seonghyuk Im , Bin Wang , Junxue Zhang

Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov conjectured in 1999 that every $F$-free graph of maximum degree at most $\Delta$ has chromatic number $O(\Delta / \log \Delta)$. This was previously known only for almost bipartite graphs, that is, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Abhishek Dhawan , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku

Let $c$ denote the largest constant such that every $C_{6}$-free graph $G$ contains a bipartite and $C_4$-free subgraph having $c$ fraction of edges of $G$. Gy\H{o}ri et al. showed that $\frac{3}{8} \le c \le \frac{2}{5}$. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Dániel Grósz , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

We show that for any constant $\Delta \ge 2$, there exists a graph $G$ with $O(n^{\Delta / 2})$ vertices which contains every $n$-vertex graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ as an induced subgraph. For odd $\Delta$ this significantly improves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Noga Alon , Rajko Nenadov

A conjecture of Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov states that, for any graph $F$, there is a constant $c_F > 0$ such that if $G$ is an $F$-free graph of maximum degree $\Delta$, then $\chi(G) \leq c_F \Delta / \log\Delta$. Alon, Krivelevich,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 James Anderson , Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

We consider sufficient conditions for the existence of $k$-th powers of Hamiltonian cycles in $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with minimum degree $\mu n$ for arbitrarily small $\mu>0$. About 20 years ago Koml\'os, Sark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi resolved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Oliver Ebsen , Giulia S. Maesaka , Christian Reiher , Mathias Schacht , Bjarne Schülke

The classic upper bound on the chromatic number of $d$-degenerate graphs is $d+1$, shown to be tight by complete graphs. A natural question is whether this bound remains tight if one forbids large cliques. Classic constructions of Tutte and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Domagoj Bradač , Jacob Fox , Raphael Steiner , Benny Sudakov , Shengtong Zhang

A graph $H$ is an induced subgraph of a graph $G$ if a graph isomorphic to $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by deleting vertices. Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the unavoidable induced subgraphs for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Robert Hickingbotham

In this paper, we study a general phenomenon that many extremal results for bipartite graphs can be transferred to the induced setting when the host graph is $K_{s, s}$-free. As manifestations of this phenomenon, we prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Zichao Dong , Jun Gao , Ruonan Li , Hong Liu