English
Related papers

Related papers: Isoperimetry, Stability, and Irredundance in Direc…

200 papers

For $t \in \mathbb{N}$ and every $i\in[t]$, let $H_i$ be a $d_i$-regular connected graph, with $1<|V(H_i)|\le C$ for some integer $C\ge 2$. Let $G=\square_{i=1}^tH_i$ be the Cartesian product of $H_1, \ldots, H_t$. We show that if $t\ge 5C$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Sahar Diskin , Anna Geisler

A vertex ordering of a graph $G$ is a bijection $\pi\colon\{1,\dots,|V(G)|\}\to V(G)$. It is successive if the induced subgraph $G[v_{\pi(1)},\dots,v_{\pi(k)}]$ is connected for each $k$. Lixing Fang, Hao Huang, J\'anos Pach, G\'abor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Boon Suan Ho

Given a finite simplicial graph $\Gamma=(V,E)$ with a vertex-labelling $\varphi:V\rightarrow\left\{\text{non-trivial finitely generated groups}\right\}$, the graph product $G_\Gamma$ is the free product of the vertex groups $\varphi(v)$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Olga Varghese

Graph products for groups were defined by Green in her thesis as a generalization of both Cartesian and free products. In this paper we define the corresponding graph product for reduced and maximal C*-algebras, von Neumann algebras and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Martijn Caspers , Pierre Fima

Let $G_n$ be a graph obtained by the strong product of $P_2$ and $C_n$, where $n\geqslant3$. In this paper, explicit expressions for the Kirchhoff index, multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index and number of spanning trees of $G_n$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Yingui Pan , Jianping Li

The stability number of a graph G, denoted by alpha(G), is the cardinality of a stable set of maximum size in G. A graph is well-covered if every maximal stable set has the same size. G is a Koenig-Egervary graph if its order equals…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

Product structure theorems are a collection of recent results that have been used to resolve a number of longstanding open problems on planar graphs and related graph classes. One particularly useful version states that every planar graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

Intuitively speaking, a bipartite graph is mirror if it can be drawn in the Cartesian plane in such a way that, the vertices of one stable are points in x=0, the vertices of the other stable set are points in x=1, the edges are straight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Susana-Clara López , Francesc-Antoni Muntaner-Batle

A sequence $(v_1,\ldots ,v_k)$ of vertices in a graph $G$ without isolated vertices is called a total dominating sequence if every vertex $v_i$ in the sequence totally dominates at least one vertex that was not totally dominated by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Tanja Gologranc , Marko Jakovac , Tim Kos , Tilen Marc

For any finite, simple graph $G = (V,E)$, its $2$-distance graph $G_2$ is a graph having the same vertex set $V$ where two vertices are adjacent if and only if their distance is $2$ in $G$. Connectivity and diameter properties of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Oleksiy Al-saadi , Joseph Natal

Several discrete geometry problems are equivalent to estimating the size of the largest homogeneous sets in graphs that happen to be the union of few comparability graphs. An important observation for such results is that if $G$ is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Dániel Korándi , István Tomon

Given a graph $G$, we study the number of independent sets in $G$, denoted $i(G)$. This parameter is known as both the Merrifield-Simmons index of a graph as well as the Fibonacci number of a graph. In this paper, we give general bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Michael Han , Sycamore Herlihy , Kirsti Kuenzel , Daniel Martin , Rachel Schmidt

The notion of resistance distance, introduced by Klein and Randi\'c, has become a fundamental concept in spectral graph theory and network analysis, as it captures both the structural and electrical properties of a graph. The associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Xiang-Yang Liu , Xiang-Feng Pan , Yong-Yi Jin , Li-Cheng Li

A graph $G$ is $\ell$-distance-balanced if for each pair of vertices $x$ and $y$ at distance $\ell$ in $G$, the number of vertices closer to $x$ than to $y$ is equal to the number of vertices closer to $y$ than to $x$. A complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Janja Jerebic , Sandi Klavžar , Gregor Rus

The unitary Cayley graph of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, denoted $X_n$, is the graph on $\{0,\dots,n-1\}$ where vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if and only if $\gcd(a-b,n) = 1$. We answer a question of Defant and Iyer by constructing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Amanda Burcroff

Let $G$ be a simple graph with vertex set $V(G)$. A set $S\subseteq V(G)$ is independent if no two vertices from $S$ are adjacent. For $X\subseteq V(G)$, the difference of $X$ is $d(X) = |X|-|N(X)|$ and an independent set $A$ is critical if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Taylor Short

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex of $G$ is either in $S$ or is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. Nordhaus-Gaddum inequailties relate a graph $G$ to its complement $\bar{G}$. In this spirit Wagner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Lauren Keough , David Shane

The independence polynomial of a graph is termed {\it stable} if all its roots are located in the left half-plane $\{z \in \mathbb{C} : \mathrm{Re}(z) \leq 0\}$, and the graph itself is also referred to as stable. Brown and Cameron…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Guo Chen , Bo Ning , Jianhua Tu

The (independent) chromatic vertex stability ($\ivs(G)$) $\vs(G)$ is the minimum size of (independent) set $S\subseteq V(G)$ such that $\chi(G-S)=\chi(G)-1$. In this paper we construct infinitely many graphs $G$ with $\Delta(G)=4$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Martin Knor , Mirko Petruševski , Riste Škrekovski

A graph $X$ is said to be {\it distance--balanced} if for any edge $uv$ of $X$, the number of vertices closer to $u$ than to $v$ is equal to the number of vertices closer to $v$ than to $u$. A graph $X$ is said to be {\it strongly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Kutnar , A. Malnic , D. Marusic , S. Miklavic