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We proved that for every sufficiently large $n$, the complete graph $K_{2n}$ with an arbitrary edge signing $\sigma: E(K_{2n}) \to \{-1, +1\}$ admits a high discrepancy $1$-factor decomposition. That is, there exists a universal constant $c…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Jiangdong Ai , Fankang He , Seonghyuk Im , Hyunwoo Lee

The concept of the hafnian first appeared in the works on quantum field theory by E. R. Caianiello. However, it also has an important combinatorial property: the hafnian of the adjacency matrix of an undirected weighted graph is equal to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Dmitry Efimov

The total matching polytope generalizes the stable set polytope and the matching polytope. In this paper, we first propose new facet-defining inequalities for the total matching polytope. We then give an exponential-sized, non-redundant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yuri Faenza , Luca Ferrarini

In a graph, a matching cut is an edge cut that is a matching. Matching Cut is the problem of deciding whether or not a given graph has a matching cut, which is known to be NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite graphs. It has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le

We prove that there exist bipartite Ramanujan graphs of every degree and every number of vertices. The proof is based on analyzing the expected characteristic polynomial of a union of random perfect matchings, and involves three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Adam W. Marcus , Nikhil Srivastava , Daniel A. Spielman

A graph $G$ is equimatchable if any matching in $G$ is a subset of a maximum-size matching. It is known that any $2$-connected equimatchable graph is either bipartite or factor-critical. We prove that for any vertex $v$ of a $2$-connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Eduard Eiben , Michal Kotrbčík

We show that any $2-$factor of a cubic graph can be extended to a maximum $3-$edge-colorable subgraph. We also show that the sum of sizes of maximum $2-$ and $3-$edge-colorable subgraphs of a cubic graph is at least twice of its number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Davit Aslanyan , Vahan V. Mkrtchyan , Samvel S. Petrosyan , Gagik N. Vardanyan

A 2-factor of a graph is a 2-regular spanning subgraph. For a graph $G$ and an independent set $I$ of $G$, let $\delta_G(I)$ denote the minimum degree of vertices contained in $I$. We show that (1) if every independent set $I$ of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Masaki Kashima

We show that the number of perfect matching in a simple graph $G$ with an even number of vertices and degree sequence $d_1,d_2, ..., d_n$ is at most $\prod_{i=1}^n (d_i !)^{\frac{1}{2d_i}}$. This bound is sharp if and only if $G$ is a union…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-26 Noga Alon , Shmuel Friedland

We initiate the study of the Diverse Pair of (Maximum/ Perfect) Matchings problems which given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, ask whether $G$ has two (maximum/perfect) matchings whose symmetric difference is at least $k$. Diverse Pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Lars Jaffke , Geevarghese Philip , Danil Sagunov

We formulate several polynomial identities. One side of these identities has a nice simple form. Whereas the other has a form of a polynomial whose coefficients contain binomial coefficients double factorials or (and) rising factorials. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Paweł J. Szabłowski

A vertex partition in which every part induces a 2-connected subgraph is called a 2-proper partition. This concept was introduced by Ferrara et al. in 2013, and Borozan et al. gave the best possible minimum degree condition for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Michitaka Furuya , Masaki Kashima , Katsuhiro Ota

We enumerate factorisations of the complete bipartite graph into spanning semiregular graphs in several cases, including when the degrees of all the factors except one or two are small. The resulting asymptotic behaviour is seen to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Mahdieh Hasheminezhad , Brendan D. McKay

Berge Conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph has 5 perfect matchings such that each edge is contained in at least one of them. In this paper, we show that Berge Conjecture holds for two classes of cubic graphs, cubic graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Wuyang Sun

Using the definition of colouring of $2$-edge-coloured graphs derived from $2$-edge-coloured graph homomorphism, we extend the definition of chromatic polynomial to $2$-edge-coloured graphs. We find closed forms for the first three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-28 I. Beaton , D. Cox , C. Duffy , N. Zolkavich

By utilizing the recently developed hypergraph analogue of Godsil's identity by the second author, we prove that for all $n \geq k \geq 2$, one can reconstruct the matching polynomial of an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Donggyu Kim , Hyunwoo Lee

If P is a hereditary property then we show that, for the existence of a perfect f-factor, P is a sufficient condition for countable graphs and yields a sufficient condition for graphs of size aleph_1. Further we give two examples of a…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Niedermeyer , Saharon Shelah , Karsten Steffens

Polynomial algorithms are given for the following two problems: given a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, where $m \ge 3 n^{3/2}$, find a complete balanced bipartite subgraph with parts about $\ln n/(\ln (n^2/m))$, given a graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-18 D. Mubayi , G. Turan

We classify trivalent vertex-transitive graphs whose edge sets have a partition into a 2-factor composed of two cycles and a 1-factor that is invariant under the action of the automorphism group.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Brian Alspach , Ted Dobson , Afsaneh Khodadadpour , Primoz Šparl

In a sequence of four papers, we prove the following results (via a unified approach) for all sufficiently large $n$: (i) [1-factorization conjecture] Suppose that $n$ is even and $D\geq 2\lceil n/4\rceil -1$. Then every $D$-regular graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Béla Csaba , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Treglown