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One of the foundational theorems of extremal graph theory is Dirac's theorem, which says that if an n-vertex graph G has minimum degree at least n/2, then G has a Hamilton cycle, and therefore a perfect matching (if n is even). Later work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Matthew Kwan , Roodabeh Safavi , Yiting Wang

In this paper, we investigate the minimum number of triangles, denoted by $t(n,k)$, in $n$-vertex $k$-regular graphs, where $n$ is an odd integer and $k$ is an even integer. The well-known Andr\'asfai-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os Theorem has established…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Jialin He , Xinmin Hou , Jie Ma , Tianying Xie

Consider the free group algebra $K\left[F\right]$, where $F$ is a free group and $K$ a field. A well-order $\prec$ on $F$ is called an exposure order if words are greater than their proper prefixes. We show that every one-sided ideal $I$ in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Matan Seidel

We prove that for $n>k\geq 3$, if $G$ is an $n$-vertex graph with chromatic number $k$ but any its proper subgraph has smaller chromatic number, then $G$ contains at most $n-k+3$ copies of cliques of size $k-1$. This answers a problem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Jun Gao , Jie Ma

Building on work of Maltsev on locally free algebras in finite purely functional languages, we revisit the model theory of (absolutely free) term algebras and their completions. Maltsev's analysis yields a natural axiomatization together…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Davide Carolillo , Yifan Jia , Bakh Khoussainov , Rizos Sklinos

Let $\mathrm{ex}(G_{n,p}^r,F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of the random $r$-uniform hypergraph $G_{n,p}^r$, and let $s(F):=\sup\{s: \exists H,\ t_F(H)=t_{K_r^r}(H)^{s+e(F)}>0\}$. Following recent work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Jiaxi Nie , Sam Spiro

The $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman ($k$-WL) algorithm is a simple combinatorial algorithm that was originally designed as a graph isomorphism heuristic. It naturally finds applications in Babai's quasipolynomial time isomorphism…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Martin Grohe , Moritz Lichter , Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer

For integers $k \geq 3$ and $r\geq 2$, we show that for every $\alpha> 0$, there exists $\varepsilon > 0$ such that the union of $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices with minimum codegree at least $\alpha n$ and a binomial random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Yulin Chang , Jie Han , Lubos Thoma

For all integers $k$ with $k\geq 2$, if $G$ is a balanced $k$-partite graph on $n\geq 3$ vertices with minimum degree at least \[…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Louis DeBiasio , Nicholas Spanier

P. Frankl and J. Pach proved the following uniform version of Sauer's Lemma. Let $n,d,s$ be natural numbers such that $d\leq n$, $s+1\leq n/2$. Let $\cF \subseteq {[n] \choose d}$ be an arbitrary $d$-uniform set system such that $\cF$ does…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Gabor Hegedüs , Lajos Ronyai

We show that if for any two elementary equivalent structures $\mathbf{M}, \mathbf{N}$ of size at most continuum in a countable language, $\mathbf{M}^{\omega}/ \mathcal{U} \simeq \mathbf{N}^\omega / \mathcal{U}$ for some ultrafilter…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Mohammad Golshani , Saharon Shelah

A complete subgraph of any simple graph $G$ on $k$ vertices is called a $k$-\emph{clique} of $G$. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of the value of a $k$-clique ($k>1$) as an extension of the idea of the degree of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Hossein Teimoori Faal

We show that for all integers $2\le s\le t$, any $K_{s,t}$-free subset of $[N]$ with size $\Omega(n^{1-1/s})$ must contain a nontrivial solution to every fixed translation-invariant linear equation in at least five variables. This extends…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yifan Jing , Cosmin Pohoata , Max Wenqiang Xu

We prove that for an arbitrary subtree $T$ of $2^{<\omega}$ with each element extendable to a path, a given countable class $\mathcal{M}$ closed under disjoint union, and any set $A$, if none of the members of $\mathcal{M}$ strongly…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Lu Liu

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group and $E$ a subset of it. Suppose that we know for all subsets $T$ of $G$ of size up to $k$ for how many $x \in G$ the translate $x+T$ is contained in $E$. This information is collectively called the $k$-deck…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tamas Keleti , Mihail N. Kolountzakis

We study properties of arithmetic sets coming from multiplicative number theory and obtain applications in the theory of uniform distribution and ergodic theory. Our main theorem is a generalization of K\'atai's orthogonality criterion.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 V. Bergelson , J. Kułaga-Przymus , M. Lemańczyk , F. K. Richter

We study structural properties of graphs with fixed clique number and high minimum degree. In particular, we show that there exists a function $L=L(r,\varepsilon)$, such that every $K_r$-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Heiner Oberkampf , Mathias Schacht

The third author has shown that Shelah's eventual categoricity conjecture holds in universal classes: class of structures closed under isomorphisms, substructures, and unions of chains. We extend this result to the framework of…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Nathanael Ackerman , Will Boney , Sebastien Vasey

This paper investigates a connection between the ordering triangleleft^ast among theories in model theory and the (N)SOP_n hierarchy of Shelah. It introduces two properties which are natural extensions of this hierarchy, called SOP_2 and…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-04-18 Mirna Džamonja , Saharon Shelah

In a seminal work, K\"uhn, Osthus, Townsend, and Zhao used the hypergraph container method to determine the typical structure of oriented graphs and digraphs avoiding a fixed tournament or cycle. Their main tool, a container theorem for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Meili Liang , Yue Guan , Ruiling Zheng , Jianxi Liu