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Let B be a finite collection of geometric (not necessarily convex) bodies in the plane. Clearly, this class of geometric objects naturally generalizes the class of disks, lines, ellipsoids, and even convex polygons. We consider geometric…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Alexander Grigoriev , Athanassios Koutsonas , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The Known Menger's theorem states that in a finite graph, the size of a minimum separator set of any pair of vertices is equal to the maximum number of disjoint paths that can be found between these two vertices. In this paper, we study the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Mouhamad El Joubbeh

The celebrated Erdos, Faber and Lovasz conjecture may be stated as follows: Any linear hypergraph on v points has chromatic index at most v. We will introduce the linear intersection number of a graph, and use this number to give an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hauke Klein , Marian Margraf

Compositional graphoids are fundamental discrete structures which appear in probabilistic reasoning, particularly in the area of graphical models. They are semigraphoids which satisfy the Intersection and Composition properties. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tobias Boege

Proper conflict-free coloring is an intermediate notion between proper coloring of a graph and proper coloring of its square. It is a proper coloring such that for every non-isolated vertex, there exists a color appearing exactly once in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Chun-Hung Liu

In this paper we consider the concept of preintersection numbers of a graph. These numbers are determined by the spectrum of the adjacency matrix of the graph, and generalize the intersection numbers of a distance-regular graph. By using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-20 A. Abiad , E. R. van Dam , M. A. Fiol

A linear coloring of a graph is a proper coloring of the vertices of the graph so that each pair of color classes induce a union of disjoint paths. In this paper, we prove that for every connected graph with maximum degree at most three and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Chun-Hung Liu , Gexin Yu

In his PhD Thesis, E.R. Scheinerman conjectured that planar graphs are intersection graphs of line segments in the plane. This conjecture was proved with two different approaches by J. Chalopin and the author, and by the author, L.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Daniel Gonçalves

Hadwiger's transversal theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a family of convex sets in the plane to have a line transversal. A higher dimensional version was obtained by Goodman, Pollack and Wenger, and recently a colorful…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Andreas F. Holmsen , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

In this survey we aim to give a comprehensive overview of results using sublinear expanders. The term sublinear expanders refers to a variety of definitions of expanders, which typically are defined to be graphs $G$ such that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Shoham Letzter

We study how many comparability subgraphs are needed to partition the edge set of a perfect graph. We show that many classes of perfect graphs can be partitioned into (at most) two comparability subgraphs and this holds for almost all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 András Gyárfás , Márton Marits , Géza Tóth

For a subset $ S $ of $ \mathbb R^d$, $ S$-graphs are the intersection graphs of specific transformations of $ S $. The class of Burling graphs is a class of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number that has attracted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Pegah Pournajafi

Graph separators are a ubiquitous tool in graph theory and computer science. However, in some applications, their usefulness is limited by the fact that the separator can be as large as $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ in graphs with $n$ vertices. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

In this paper we study threshold coloring of graphs, where the vertex colors represented by integers are used to describe any spanning subgraph of the given graph as follows. Pairs of vertices with near colors imply the edge between them is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Steven Chaplick , Gašper Fijavž , Michael Kaufmann , Stephen G. Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev

Nonlinear spectral gaps with respect to uniformly convex normed spaces are shown to satisfy a spectral calculus inequality that establishes their decay along Cesaro averages. Nonlinear spectral gaps of graphs are also shown to behave…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

We show that graphs, networks and other related discrete model systems carry a natural supersymmetric structure, which, apart from its conceptual importance as to possible physical applications, allows to derive a series of spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Manfred Requardt

In this paper, we consider a structural and geometric property of graphs, namely the presence of large expanders. The problem of finding such structures was first considered by Krivelevich [SIAM J. Disc. Math. 32 1 (2018)]. Here, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Baptiste Louf , Fiona Skerman

The Planar Separator Theorem, which states that any planar graph $\mathcal{G}$ has a separator consisting of $O(\sqrt{n})$ nodes whose removal partitions $\mathcal{G}$ into components of size at most $\tfrac{2n}{3}$, is a widely used tool…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-10 M. de Berg , B. M. P. Jansen , J. S. K. Lamme

We derive sharp upper and lower bounds on the number of intersection points and closed regions that can occur in sets of line segments with certain structure, in terms of the number of segments. We consider sets of segments whose underlying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Boris Brimkov , Jesse Geneson , Alathea Jensen , Jordan Miller , Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan