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In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked for the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have if it does not contain two edge-disjoint cycles on the same vertex set. It is known that Tur\'an-type results can be used to prove an upper bound of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

The diameter of a graph measures the maximal distance between any pair of vertices. The diameters of many small-world networks, as well as a variety of other random graph models, grow logarithmically in the number of nodes. In contrast, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strömbergsson

Bidirected graphs are a generalisation of directed graphs that arises in the study of undirected graphs with perfect matchings. Menger's famous theorem - the minimum size of a set separating two vertex sets $X$ and $Y$ is the same as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

The diameter of a graph is the maximum distance among all pairs of vertices. Thus a graph $G$ has diameter $d$ if any two vertices are at distance at most $d$ and there are two vertices at distance $d$. We are interested in studying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Laila Loudiki , Mustapha Kchikech , El Hassan Essaky

A subset of vertices is called a dissociation set if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most one. Recently, Yuan et al. established the upper bound of the maximum number of dissociation sets among all connected graphs of order n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Pingshan Li , Ke Yang , Wei Jin

The revised Szeged index $Sz^*(G)$ is defined as $Sz^*(G)=\sum_{e=uv \in E}(n_u(e)+ n_0(e)/2)(n_v(e)+ n_0(e)/2),$ where $n_u(e)$ and $n_v(e)$ are, respectively, the number of vertices of $G$ lying closer to vertex $u$ than to vertex $v$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Xueliang Li , Mengmeng Liu

A simple and connected $n$-vertex graph has a prime vertex labeling if the vertices can be injectively labeled with the integers $1, 2, 3,\ldots, n$, such that adjacent vertices have relatively prime labels. We will present previously…

Let $G$ be a connected finite graph with vertex set $V(G)$. The eccentricity $e(v)$ of a vertex $v$ is the distance from $v$ to a vertex farthest from $v$. The average eccentricity of $G$ is defined as $\frac{1}{|V(G)|}\sum_{v \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-10 P. Dankelmann , F. J. Osaye

We present progress on three old conjectures about longest paths and cycles in graphs. The first pair of conjectures, due to Lov\'{a}sz from 1969 and Thomassen from 1978, respectively, states that all connected vertex-transitive graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Carla Groenland , Sean Longbrake , Raphael Steiner , Jérémie Turcotte , Liana Yepremyan

The $k$-deck of a graph is its multiset of induced subgraphs on $k$ vertices. We prove that $n$-vertex graphs with maximum degree $2$ have the same $k$-decks if each cycle has at least $k+1$ vertices, each path component has at least $k-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Douglas B. West , Hannah Spinoza

Gallai's conjecture asserts that every connected graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into $\frac{n+1}{2}$ paths. For general graphs (possibly disconnected), it was proved that every graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yanan Chu , Yan Wang

Define an embedding of graph $G=(V,E)$ with $V$ a finite set of distinct points on the unit circle and $E$ the set of line segments connecting the points. Let $V_1,\ldots,V_k$ be a labeled partition of $V$ into equal parts. A 2-factor is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Drew J. Lipman

Extremal problems related to the enumeration of graph substructures, such as independent sets, matchings, and induced matchings, have become a prominent area of research with the advancement of graph theory. A subset of vertices is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Bo-Jun Yuan , Ni Yang , Hong-Yan Ge , Shi-Cai Gong

For large $n$ we determine the maximum number of induced 6-cycles which can be contained in a planar graph on $n$ vertices, and we classify the graphs which achieve this maximum. In particular we show that the maximum is achieved by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Michael Savery

Bicyclic graph is a connected graph in which the number of edges equals the number of vertices plus one. In this paper, we determine the graph which alone maximizes the spectral radii among all the bicyclic graphs on $n$ vertices with fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Xiying Yuan

In this paper, we discuss the Hamiltonicity of graphs in terms of Wiener index, hyper-Wiener index and Harary index of their quasi-complement or complement. Firstly, we give some sufficient conditions for an balanced bipartite graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Guidong Yu , Lifang Ren , Gaixiang Cai

The main topic considered is maximizing the number of cycles in a graph with given number of edges. In 2009, Kir\'aly conjectured that there is constant $c$ such that any graph with $m$ edges has at most $(1.4)^m$ cycles. In this paper, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Andrii Arman , Sergei Tsaturian

An almost self-centered graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-2$ central vertices, and an almost peripheral graph is a connected graph of order $n$ with exactly $n-1$ peripheral vertices. We determine (1) the maximum girth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan

For a connected graph $G$ of order at least $2$ and $S\subseteq V(G)$, the \emph{Steiner distance} $d_G(S)$ among the vertices of $S$ is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs whose vertex sets contain $S$. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Yaping Mao

Topological indices are molecular descriptors that describe the properties of chemical compounds. These topological indices correlate specific physico-chemical properties like boiling point, enthalpy of vaporization, strain energy, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Haritha T , Chithra A. V.