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We offer a new, gradual approach to the largest girth problem for cubic graphs. It is easily observed that the largest possible girth of all $n$-vertex cubic graphs is attained by a $2$-connected graph $G=(V,E)$. By Petersen's graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Aya Bernstine , Nati Linial

In this paper, we show that for any positive integer $m$ and $k\in [2]$, let $G$ be a $(2m+2k+2)$-connected graph and let $a_1,\ldots , a_m, s, t$ be any distinct vertices of $G$, there are $k$ internally disjoint $s$-$t$ paths $P_1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Yuzhen Qi , Jin Yan

More than $30$ years ago, \v{S}olt\'es observed that the total distance of the graph $C_{11}$ does not change by deleting a vertex, and wondered about the existence of other such graphs, called \v{S}olt\'es graphs. We extend the definition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Stijn Cambie

In 2022, Gao, Huo, Liu, and Ma proved that every graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains $k$ admissible cycles, where a set of $k$ cycles is said to be admissible if their lengths form an arithmetic progression with common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jifu Lin

The classical Erd\H{o}s-P\'{o}sa theorem states that for each positive integer k there is an f(k) such that, in each graph G which does not have k+1 disjoint cycles, there is a blocker of size at most f(k); that is, a set B of at most f(k)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Valentas Kurauskas , Colin McDiarmid

Burr and Erd\H{o}s conjectured in 1976 that for every two integers $k>\ell\geqslant 0$ satisfying that $k\mathbb{Z}+\ell$ contains an even integer, an $n$-vertex graph containing no cycles of length $\ell$ modulo $k$ can contain at most a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yandong Bai , Binlong Li , Yufeng Pan , Shenggui Zhang

Let $\prod(G)$ be Multiplicative Zagreb index of a graph G. A connected graph is a cactus graph if and only if any two of its cycles have at most one vertex in common, which has been the interest of researchers in the filed of material…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Shaohui Wang , Bing Wei

Let $F$ be a $2$-regular graph of order $v$. The Oberwolfach problem $OP(F)$, posed in 1967 and still open, asks for a decomposition of $K_v$ into copies of $F$. In this paper we show that $OP(F)$ has a solution whenever $F$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-18 A. C. Burgess , P. Danziger , T. Traetta

Let $F$ be a graph which contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. We prove tight bounds on the number of copies of $F$ in a graph with a prescribed number of vertices and edges. Our results extend those of Simonovits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-20 Dhruv Mubayi

Let $S$ be a set of vertices of a connected graph $G$. The Steiner distance of $S$ is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of $G$ containing all the vertices of $S$. The Steiner $k$-Wiener index is the sum of all Steiner distances on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Matjaž Kovše , Rasila V A , Ambat Vijayakumar

The Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem states that for $k \geq 2$, every graph of average degree more than $k - 2$ contains a $k$-vertex path. This result is a consequence of a stronger result of Kopylov: if $k$ is odd, $k=2t+1\geq 5$, $n \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Zoltán Füredi , Alexandr Kostochka , Jacques Verstraëte

The Wiener index of a network, introduced by the chemist Harry Wiener, is the sum of distances between all pairs of nodes in the network. This index, originally used in chemical graph representations of the non-hydrogen atoms of a molecule,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-03 A. Karim Abu-Affash , Paz Carmi , Ori Luwisch , Joseph S. B. Mitchell

Hajos' conjecture that every simple even graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $(n-1)/2$ cycles (see L. Lovasz, On covering of graphs, in: P. Erdos, G.O.H. Katona (Eds.), Theory of Graphs, Academic Press, New York, 1968, pp.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Chunhui Lai , Mingjing Liu

A Meyniel obstruction is an odd cycle with at least five vertices and at most one chord. A graph is Meyniel if and only if it has no Meyniel obstruction as an induced subgraph. Here we give a O(n^2) algorithm that, for any graph, finds…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Kathie Cameron , Jack Edmonds , Benjamin Lévêque , Frédéric Maffray

We say that a vertex $v$ in a connected graph $G$ is decisive if the numbers of walks from $v$ of each length determine the graph $G$ rooted at $v$ up to isomorphism among all connected rooted graphs with the same number of vertices. On the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Frank Fuhlbrück , Johannes Köbler , Oleg Verbitsky , Maksim Zhukovskii

This introduction to graphs and graph algebras provides the optimal bound for the number of all paths of length $k$ in a graph with $N\geq k$ edges and no loops. Our proof relies on a construction of a number of terminating algorithms that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Piotr M. Hajac , Mariusz Tobolski

Given a set D of nonnegative integers, we derive the asymptotic number of graphs with a givenvnumber of vertices, edges, and such that the degree of every vertex is in D. This generalizes existing results, such as the enumeration of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Élie de Panafieu , Lander Ramos

In 2021, Gupta and Suzumura proposed a novel algorithm for enumerating all bounded-length simple cycles in directed graphs. In this work, we present concrete examples demonstrating that the proposed algorithm fails to enumerate certain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Frank Bauernöppel , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Let $H$ be a $k$-edge-coloured graph and let $n$ be a positive integer. What is the maximum number of copies of $H$ in a $k$-edge-coloured complete graph on $n$ vertices? This paper studies the case $k=2$, which we call the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Abdul Basit , Bertille Granet , Daniel Horsley , André Kündgen , Katherine Staden

We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or a Hamiltonian cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We show that the path problem is $\mathsf{NP}$-complete for graphs of pathwidth 4…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jesse Beisegel , Katharina Klost , Kristin Knorr , Fabienne Ratajczak , Robert Scheffler