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In the language of hypergraphs, our main result is a Dirac-type bound: we prove that every $3$-connected hypergraph $H$ with $ \delta(H)\geq \max\{|V(H)|, \frac{|E(H)|+10}{4}\}$ has a hamiltonian Berge cycle. This is sharp and refines a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Alexandr Kostochka , Mikhail Lavrov , Ruth Luo , Dara Zirlin

We consider $4$-uniform hypergraphs with the maximum number of hyperedges subject to the condition that every set of $5$ vertices spans either $0$ or exactly $2$ hyperedges and give a construction, using quadratic residues, for an infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Karen Gunderson , Jason Semeraro

We wish to bring attention to a natural but slightly hidden problem, posed by Erd\H{o}s and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il in the late 1980s, an edge version of the degree--diameter problem. Our main result is that, for any graph of maximum degree…

In this paper we rectify two previous results found in the literature. Our work leads to a new upper bound for the largest sum-free subset of $[1,n]$ with lowest value in $\left [\frac{n}{3},\frac{n}{2}\right ]$, and the identification of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

Hakimi and Schmeichel determined a sharp lower bound for the number of cycles of length 4 in a maximal planar graph with $n$ vertices, $n\geq 5$. It has been shown that the bound is sharp for $n = 5,12$ and $n\geq 14$ vertices. However, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Oscar Zamora

For a given positive integer t we consider graphs having maximal independent sets of precisely t distinct cardinalities and restrict our attention to those that have no vertices of degree one. In the situation when t is four or larger and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Bert L. Hartnell , Douglas F. Rall

Let $G$ be a connected uniform hypergraphs with maximum degree $\Delta$, spectral radius $\lambda$ and minimum H-eigenvalue $\mu$. In this paper, we give some lower bounds for $\Delta-\lambda$, which extend the result of [S.M. Cioab\u{a},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Jiang Zhou , Lizhu Sun , Changjiang Bu

In this paper, we develop a method for studying cycle lengths in hypergraphs. Our method is built on earlier ones used in [21,22,18]. However, instead of utilizing the well-known lemma of Bondy and Simonovits [4] that most existing methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Tao Jiang , Jie Ma

We systematically determine circular chromatic index of small graphs and multigraphs with maximum degree $4$, $5$, $6$ (and also their number for a given small order). We construct several infinite families of such graphs with circular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ján Mazák , Filip Zrubák

An old and well-known conjecture of Frankl and F\"{u}redi states that the Lagrangian of an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges is maximised by an initial segment of colex. In this paper we disprove this conjecture by finding an infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Vytautas Gruslys , Shoham Letzter , Natasha Morrison

We consider the class of Berge graphs that do not contain a chordless cycle of length $4$. We present a purely graph-theoretical algorithm that produces an optimal coloring in polynomial time for every graph in that class.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Irene Lo , Frederic Maffray , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vuskovic

A Berge cycle of length $k$ in a hypergraph $\mathcal H$ is a sequence of distinct vertices and hyperedges $v_1,h_1,v_2,h_2,\dots,v_{k},h_k$ such that $v_{i},v_{i+1}\in h_i$ for all $i\in[k]$, indices taken modulo $k$. F\"uredi, Kostochka…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Nika Salia

Given a graph $G$, a Berge copy of $G$ is a hypergraph obtained by enlarging the edges arbitrarily. Gy\H ori in 2006 showed that for $r=3$ or $r=4$, an $r$-uniform $n$-vertex Berge triangle-free hypergraph has at most $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Dániel Gerbner

In this paper, we present a sharp upper bound for the spectral radius of an $n$-vertex graph without $F$-minor for sufficient large $n$, where $F$ is obtained from the complete graph $K_r$ by deleting disjointed paths. Furthermore, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Ming-Zhu Chen , A-Ming Liu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In this note, we determine the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform hypergraph, $k\ge 3$, with a unique perfect matching. This settles a conjecture proposed by Snevily.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Deepak Bal , Andrzej Dudek , Zelealem B. Yilma

For large $n$ we determine exactly the maximum numbers of induced $C_4$ and $C_5$ subgraphs that a planar graph on $n$ vertices can contain. We show that $K_{2,n-2}$ uniquely achieves this maximum in the $C_4$ case, and we identify the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Michael Savery

Motivated by the study of a variant of sunflowers, Alon and Holzman recently introduced focal-free hypergraphs. In this paper, we show that there is an interesting connection between the maximum size of focal-free hypergraphs and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xinqi Huang , Chong Shangguan , Xiande Zhang , Yuhao Zhao

We prove that for any graph $G$ the (complex) zeros of its chromatic polynomial, $\chi_G(x)$, lie inside the disk centered at $0$ of radius $4.25 \Delta(G)$, where $\Delta(G)$ denotes the maximum degree of $G$. This improves on a recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Ferenc Bencs , Guus Regts

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

In this paper, an upper bound on the nullity of signed graphs in terms of the cyclomatic number and the number of pendant vertices is proved, and the corresponding extremal signed graphs are completely characterized.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Keming Liu , Xiying Yuan