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Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov conjectured in 1999 that for every finite graph $F$, there exists a quantity $c(F)$ such that $\chi(G) \leq (c(F) + o(1)) \Delta / \log\Delta$ whenever $G$ is an $F$-free graph of maximum degree $\Delta$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-13 James Anderson , Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

A classical result of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi shows that every large $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2+\gamma)n$ contains all spanning trees of bounded degree. We generalised this result to loose spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Yaobin Chen , Allan Lo

The deficiency of a graph $G$, denoted by $\kd(G)$, is the number of vertices not saturated by a maximum matching. A bone $B_i$ is the tree obtained by attaching two pendent edges to each of the end vertices of a path $P_{i}$. The local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Jin Sun , Xinmin Hou

Consider a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with $\alpha \binom{n}{2}$ edges which does not contain an induced $K_{2, t}$ ($t \geqslant 2$). How large does $\alpha$ have to be to ensure that $G$ contains, say, a large clique or some fixed subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Freddie Illingworth

We say that a graph G has a perfect H-packing if there exists a set of vertex-disjoint copies of H which cover all the vertices in G. We consider various problems concerning perfect H-packings: Given positive integers n, r, D, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-11 József Balogh , Alexandr V. Kostochka , Andrew Treglown

We study a conjecture due to Dallard, Krnc, Kwon, Milani\v{c}, Munaro, \v{S}torgel, and Wiederrecht stating that for any positive integer $d$ and any planar graph $H$, the class of all $K_{1,d}$-free graphs without $H$ as an induced minor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Mujin Choi , Claire Hilaire , Martin Milanič , Sebastian Wiederrecht

A graph $G$ is $d$-degenerate if every non-null subgraph of $G$ has a vertex of degree at most $d$. We prove that every $n$-vertex planar graph has a $3$-degenerate induced subgraph of order at least $3n/4$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Y. Gu , H. A. Kierstead , Sang-il Oum , Hao Qi , Xuding Zhu

A graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if $\chi(G)=k$, but $\chi(G')<k$ for every proper induced subgraph $G'$ of $G$. For a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, $G$ is $\mathcal{F}$-free if no graph $F \in \mathcal{F}$ is an induced subgraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Yidong Zhou , Jorik Jooken , Baoyuan Shan , Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang

An immersion of a graph H in another graph G is a one-to-one mapping phi:V(H)->V(G) and a collection of edge-disjoint paths in G, one for each edge of H, such that the path P_{uv} corresponding to the edge uv has endpoints phi(u) and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Zdeněk Dvořák , Liana Yepremyan

A vertex set $D$ in a finite undirected graph $G$ is an {\em efficient dominating set} (\emph{e.d.s.}\ for short) of $G$ if every vertex of $G$ is dominated by exactly one vertex of $D$. The \emph{Efficient Domination} (ED) problem, which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

Klimo\v{s}ov\'a, Piguet, and Rozho\v{n} conjectured that any graph with minimum degree $k/2$ and sufficiently many vertices of degree $k$ should contain all trees with $k$ edges. We prove an asymptotic version of this conjecture for dense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Akbar Davoodi , Diana Piguet , Hanka Řada , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

We show that every K_4-free graph G with n vertices can be made bipartite by deleting at most n^2/9 edges. Moreover, the only extremal graph which requires deletion of that many edges is a complete 3-partite graph with parts of size n/3.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-29 Benny Sudakov

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

Biregular bipartite graphs have been proven to have similar edge distributions to random bipartite graphs and thus have nice pseudorandomness and expansion properties. Thus it is quite desirable to find a biregular bipartite spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Dandan Fan , Xiaofeng Gu , Huiqiu Lin

We say a class $\mathcal{C}$ of graphs is clean if for every positive integer $t$ there exists a positive integer $w(t)$ such that every graph in $\mathcal{C}$ with treewidth more than $w(t)$ contains an induced subgraph isomorphic to one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Tara Abrishami , Bogdan Alecu , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

In this paper, we investigate the set of sizes of induced subgraphs of bipartite graphs. We introduce the definition of $C$-$Bipartite$-$Ramsey$ graphs, which is closely related to Ramsey graphs and prove that in `most' cases, these graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Mantas Baksys , Xuanang Chen

The celebrated Hadwiger's conjecture states that if a graph contains no $K_{t+1}$ minor then it is $t$-colourable. If true, it would in particular imply that every $n$-vertex $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph has an independent set of size at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Zdeněk Dvořák , Liana Yepremyan

This paper is motivated by the following question: what are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? Aboulker et al. made a conjecture which answers this question in graphs of bounded maximum degree, asserting that…

We give a minimum degree condition sufficent to ensure the existence of a fractional $K_r$-decomposition in a balanced $r$-partite graph (subject to some further simple necessary conditions). This generalises the non-partite problem studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Richard Montgomery

We show that for sufficiently large $d$, every balanced bipartite, connected biclaw-free graph with minimum degree $\geq d$ is Hamiltonian. This confirms a conjecture of Flandrin, Fouquet, and Li.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Xiaoan Yang