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We establish tight lower and upper bounds on the number of edges in traceable graphs in several classes of dense graphs. A graph is traceable if it has a Hamiltonian path. We show that the bound is: - quadratic for the class of graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Michal Dvořák , Dušan Knop , Michal Opler , Jan Pokorný , Ondřej Suchý , Krisztina Szilágyi

In the 1970s, Gy\H{o}ri and Lov\'{a}sz showed that for a $k$-connected $n$-vertex graph, a given set of terminal vertices $t_1, \dots, t_k$ and natural numbers $n_1, \dots, n_k$ satisfying $\sum_{i=1}^{k} n_i = n$, a connected vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Katrin Casel , Tobias Friedrich , Davis Issac , Aikaterini Niklanovits , Ziena Zeif

We consider the problem of detecting a planted clique of size $k$ in a random graph on $n$ vertices. When the size of the clique exceeds $\Theta(\sqrt{n})$, polynomial-time algorithms for detection proliferate. We study faster -- namely,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jay Mardia , Kabir Aladin Verchand , Alexander S. Wein

We consider the question of orienting the edges in a graph $G$ such that every vertex has bounded out-degree. For graphs of arboricity $\alpha$, there is an orientation in which every vertex has out-degree at most $\alpha$ and, moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Mihir Singhal

We prove that the degree 4 sum-of-squares (SOS) relaxation of the clique number of the Paley graph on a prime number $p$ of vertices has value at least $\Omega(p^{1/3})$. This is in contrast to the widely believed conjecture that the actual…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dmitriy Kunisky , Xifan Yu

We prove that every graph with average degree $d$ and smallest adjacency eigenvalue $|\lambda_n|\leq d^{\gamma}$ contains a clique of size $d^{1-O(\gamma)}$. A simple corollary of this yields the first polynomial bound for Chowla's cosine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Zhihan Jin , Aleksa Milojević , István Tomon , Shengtong Zhang

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with two distinguished vertices $s,t\in V$ and an integer parameter $L>0$, an {\em $L$-bounded cut} is a subset $F$ of edges (vertices) such that the every path between $s$ and $t$ in $G\setminus F$ has length more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Petr Kolman

$\Theta_6$-Graphs graphs are important geometric graphs that have many applications especially in wireless sensor networks. They are equivalent to Delaunay graphs where empty equilateral triangles take the place of empty circles. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Therese Biedl , Ahmad Biniaz , Veronika Irvine , Kshitij Jain , Philipp Kindermann , Anna Lubiw

Extremal graph theory studies the maximum or minimum number of subgraphs isomorphic to a prescribed graph under given constraints. \textit{Localization} has recently emerged as a framework that refines such problems by assigning extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Rajat Adak , L. Sunil Chandran

We derive a linear programming bound on the maximum cardinality of error-correcting codes in the sum-rank metric. Based on computational experiments on relatively small instances, we observe that the obtained bounds outperform all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Aida Abiad , Alexander L. Gavrilyuk , Antonina P. Khramova , Ilia Ponomarenko

We demonstrate some lower bounds for parameterized problems via parameterized classes corresponding to the classical ${\rm AC}^0$. Among others, we derive such a lower bound for all fpt-approximations of the parameterized clique problem and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yijia Chen , Joerg Flum

Lov\'asz and Cherkassky discovered in the 1970s independently that if $ G $ is a finite graph with a given set $ T $ of terminal vertices such that $ G $ is inner Eulerian, then the maximal number of edge-disjoint paths connecting distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Attila Joó

Delsarte's method and its extensions allow to consider the upper bound problem for codes in 2-point-homogeneous spaces as a linear programming problem with perhaps infinitely many variables, which are the distance distribution. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-07 Oleg R. Musin

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma is a very powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics, that is often used to prove existence of combinatorial objects satisfying certain constraints. Moser and Tardos have shown that the LLL gives more than just…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Anton Bernshteyn

We study the complexity of proving that a sparse random regular graph on an odd number of vertices does not have a perfect matching, and related problems involving each vertex being matched some pre-specified number of times. We show that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Per Austrin , Kilian Risse

Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma is a fundamental tool in extremal graph theory, theoretical computer science and combinatorial number theory. Lov\'asz and Szegedy [L. Lov\'asz and B. Szegedy: Szemer\'edi's Lemma for the analyst, Geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Guus Regts

If $\Gamma$ is a graph for which every edge is in exactly one clique of order $\omega$, then one can form a new graph with vertex set equal to these cliques. This is a generalization of the line graph of $\Gamma$. We discover many general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Robert R. Petro , Connor M. Phillips

Let $GP(q,d)$ be the $d$-Paley graph defined on the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. It is notoriously difficult to improve the trivial upper bound $\sqrt{q}$ on the clique number of $GP(q,d)$. In this paper, we investigate the connection…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Chi Hoi Yip

If $\Gamma$ is a graph for which every edge is in exactly one clique of order $\omega$, then one can form a new graph with vertex set equal to these cliques. This is a generalization of the line graph of $\Gamma$. We discover many general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Connor Phillips

We introduce a linear programming method to obtain bounds on the cardinality of codes in Grassmannian spaces for the chordal distance. We obtain explicit bounds, and an asymptotic bound that improves on the Hamming bound. Our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Christine Bachoc