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A graph $ G $ is minimally $ t $-tough if the toughness of $ G $ is $ t $ and deletion of any edge from $ G $ decreases its toughness. Katona et al. conjectured that the minimum degree of any minimally $ t $-tough graph is $ \lceil 2t\rceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Hui Ma , Xiaomin Hu , Weihua Yang

For any graph $G$ of order $p$, a bijection $f: V(G)\to [1,p]$ is called a numbering of the graph $G$ of order $p$. The strength $str_f(G)$ of a numbering $f: V(G)\to [1,p]$ of $G$ is defined by $str_f(G) = \max\{f(u)+f(v)\; |\; uv\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Zhen-Bin Gao , Gee-Choon Lau , Wai-Chee Shiu

In 2018, forts were defined as non-empty subsets of vertices in a graph where no vertex outside the set has exactly one neighbor in the set. Forts have since been used to characterize zero forcing sets, model zero forcing as an integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Boris Brimkov , Thomas R. Cameron , Owen Grubbs

The zero forcing number is the minimum number of black vertices that can turn a white graph black following a single neighbour colour forcing rule. The zero forcing number provides topological information about linear algebra on graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Alexei Vazquez

Let $G$ be a $K_p$-free graph. We say $e$ is a $K_p$-saturating edge of $G$ if $e\notin E(G)$ and $G+e$ contains a copy of $K_p$. Denote by $f_p(n, e)$ the minimum number of $K_p$-saturating edges that an $n$-vertex $K_p$-free graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Jialin He , Fuhong Ma , Jie Ma , Xinyang Ye

A dominating set $D_{f}\subseteq V(G)$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is called a \emph{dom-forcing set} if the sub-graph induced by $\langle D_{f} \rangle$ must form a zero forcing set. The minimum cardinality of such a set is known as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Susanth P , Charles Dominic , Premodkumar K P

The notion of forcing sets for perfect matchings was introduced by Harary, Klein, and \v{Z}ivkovi\'{c}. The application of this problem in chemistry, as well as its interesting theoretical aspects, made this subject very active. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Babak Ghanbari

A matching of a graph is a set of edges without common end vertex. A graph is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. Recently, Biedl and Wittnebel proved that every 1-planar graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang , Fengming Dong

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $D\subseteq V$ is a dominating set if every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$. A dominating set $D$ is called a total dominating set if every vertex in $D$ is adjacent to a vertex in $D$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-09 Fu-Tao Hu , Jun-Ming Xu

Let $H$ be a fixed graph. A graph $G$ is called {\it $H$-saturated} if $H$ is not a subgraph of $G$ but the addition of any missing edge to $G$ results in an $H$-subgraph. The {\it saturation number} of $H$, denoted $sat(n,H)$, is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Wen-Han Zhu , Rong-Xia Hao , Zhen He

A forcing set $S$ in a combinatorial problem is a set of elements such that there is a unique solution that contains all the elements in $S$. An anti-forcing set is the symmetric concept: a set $S$ of elements is called an anti-forcing set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Tatsuya Gima , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi , Takumi Sato

The theory of graph limits represents large graphs by analytic objects called graphons. Graph limits determined by finitely many graph densities, which are represented by finitely forcible graphons, arise in various scenarios, particularly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Jacob W. Cooper , Daniel Kral , Taisa L. Martins

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set such that the two resulting parts differ in size by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges that connect vertices in the two parts. The perfect matching condition and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jianfeng Hou , Shufei Wu , Yuanyuan Zhong

An old conjecture of Zs. Tuza says that for any graph $G$, the ratio of the minimum size, $\tau_3(G)$, of a set of edges meeting all triangles to the maximum size, $\nu_3(G)$, of an edge-disjoint triangle packing is at most 2. Here,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jacob D. Baron , Jeff Kahn

Let $F$ and $H$ be $k$-uniform hypergraphs. We say $H$ is $F$-saturated if $H$ does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $F$, but $H+e$ does for any hyperedge $e\not\in E(H)$. The saturation number of $F$, denoted $\mathrm{sat}_k(n,F)$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Sean English , Alexandr Kostochka , Dara Zirlin

The codegree threshold $\mathrm{ex}_2(n, F)$ of a $3$-graph $F$ is the minimum $d=d(n)$ such that every $3$-graph on $n$ vertices in which every pair of vertices is contained in at least $d+1$ edges contains a copy of $F$ as a subgraph. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Victor Falgas-Ravry , Oleg Pikhurko , Emil R. Vaughan , Jan Volec

The zero forcing number $Z(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $S$ with colored (black) vertices which forces the set $V(G)$ to be colored (black) after some times. "color change rule": a white vertex is changed to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-23 M. Khosravi , S. Rashidi 2 , A. Sheikhhosseni

The smallest number of cliques, covering all edges of a graph $ G $, is called the (edge) clique cover number of $ G $ and is denoted by $ cc(G) $. It is an easy observation that for every line graph $ G $ with $ n $ vertices, $cc(G)\leq n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ramin Javadi , Sepehr Hajebi

In this paper we study some variants of Dirac-type problems in hypergraphs. First, we show that for $k\ge 3$, if $H$ is a $k$-graph on $n\in k\mathbb N$ vertices with independence number at most $n/p$ and minimum codegree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jie Han

Let $H$ be a fixed graph. We say that a graph $G$ is $H$-saturated if it has no subgraph isomorphic to $H$, but the addition of any edge to $G$ results in an $H$-subgraph. The saturation number $\mathrm{sat}(H,n)$ is the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Alex Cameron , Gregory J. Puleo