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For any graph $G$, let $t(G)$ be the number of spanning trees of $G$, $L(G)$ be the line graph of $G$ and for any non-negative integer $r$, $S_r(G)$ be the graph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge $e$ by a path of length $r+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Fengming Dong , Weigen Yan

Wu, Zhang and Li [4] conjectured that the set of vertices of any simple graph $G$ can be equitably partitioned into $\lceil(\Delta(G)+1)/2\rceil$ subsets so that each of them induces a forest of $G$. In this note, we prove this conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Xin Zhang , Jian-Liang Wu

The girth of a graph is defined as the length of a shortest cycle in the graph. A $(k; g)$-cage is a graph of minimum order among all $k$-regular graphs with girth $g$. A cycle $C$ in a graph $G$ is termed nonseparating if the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Xiang-Feng Pan , Jing-Zhong Mao , Hui-Qing Liu

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Vandhana. C , S. Hima Bindhu , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan , B. Supraja

Let $N\geq 2$ be an integer, a (1, $N$)-periodic graph $G$ is a periodic graph whose vertices can be partitioned into two sets $V_1=\{v\mid\sigma(v)=v\}$ and $V_2=\{v\mid\sigma^i(v)\neq v\ \mbox{for any}\ 1<i<N\}$, where $\sigma$ is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Jingyuan Zhang , Fuliang Lu , Xian'an Jin

A graph $G$ belongs to the class ${\rm ORTH}[h,s,t]$ for integers $h$, $s$, and $t$ if there is a pair $(T,{\cal S})$, where $T$ is a tree of maximum degree at most $h$, and ${\cal S}$ is a collection $(S_u)_{u\in V(G)}$ of subtrees $S_u$…

Let $P(G)=(P_{0}(G),P_{1}(G),\cdots, P_{\rho}(G))$ be the path sequence of a graph $G$, where $P_{i}(G)$ is the number of paths with length $i$ and $\rho$ is the length of a longest path in $G$. In this paper, we first give the path…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Yirong Cai , Hanyuan Deng

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

For a simple graph $G$, the $3$-distance graph, $D_3(G)$, is a graph with the vertex set $V(G)$ and two vertices are adjacent if and only if their distance is $3$ in the graph $G$. For a connected graph $G$, we provide some conditions for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 S. R. Musawi , S. H. Jafari

We call a tree $T$ is \emph{even} if every pair of its leaves is joined by a path of even length. Jackson and Yoshimoto~[J. Graph Theory, 2024] conjectured that every $r$-regular nonbipartite connected graph $G$ has a spanning even tree.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Jiangdong Ai , Zhipeng Gao , Xiangzhou Liu , Jun Yue

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ be its adjacency matrix. A graph $G$ is invertible if its adjacency matrix $A$ is invertible and the inverse of $G$ is a weighted graph with adjacency matrix $A^{-1}$. A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a weighted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Isaiah Osborne , Dong Ye

A vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is said to be a boundary vertex of $G$ if for some other vertex $u$ of $G$, no neighbor of $v$ is further away from $u$ than $v$. The boundary $\partial(G)$ of $G$ is the set of all of its boundary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 José Cáceres , Ignacio M. Pelayo

The Wiener index of a graph, which is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices, has been well studied. Recently, Sills and Wang in 2012 proposed two conjectures on the maximal Wiener index of trees with a given degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A vertex with neighbours of degrees $d_1 \geq ... \geq d_r$ has {\em vertex type} $(d_1, ..., d_r)$. A graph is {\em vertex-oblique} if each vertex has a distinct vertex-type. While no graph can have distinct degrees, Schreyer, Walther and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alastair Farrugia

An antimagic labeling a connected graph $G$ is a bijection from the set of edges $E(G)$ to $\{1,2,\dots,|E(G)|\}$ such that all vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where the vertex sum at vertex $v$ is the sum of the labels assigned to edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Antoni Lozano , Mercè Mora , Carlos Seara , Joaquín Tey

Two sets $X, Y$ of vertices in a graph $G$ are "anticomplete" if $X\cap Y=\varnothing$ and there is no edge in $G$ with an end in $X$ and an end in $Y$. We prove that every graph $G$ of sufficiently large treewidth contains two anticomplete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

A consistent path system in a graph $G$ is an intersection-closed collection of paths, with exactly one path between any two vertices in $G$. We call $G$ metrizable if every consistent path system in it is the system of geodesic paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Maria Chudnovsky , Daniel Cizma , Nati Linial

Let $G$ be a connected nonregular graphs of order $n$ with maximum degree $\Delta$ that attains the maximum spectral radius. Liu and Li (2008) proposed a conjecture stating that $G$ has a degree sequence $(\Delta,\ldots,\Delta,\delta)$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Zejun Huang , Jiahui Liu , Chenxi Yang

Let $G$ be a connected graph with vertex set $V(G)$, and denote by $d_G(u,v)$ the distance from $u$ to $v$ in $G$, for any $u,v \in V(G)$. The average distance of an $n$-vertex connected graph $G$, denoted by $\mu(G)$, is defined to be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Zhibin Du , Xuli Qi

A graph is called integral if all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix consist entirely of integers. We prove that for a given nullity more than 1, there are only finitely many integral trees. It is also shown that integral trees with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-24 E. Ghorbani , A. Mohammadian , B. Tayfeh-Rezaie