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Suppose that $nk$ points in general position in the plane are colored red and blue, with at least $n$ points of each color. We show that then there exist $n$ pairwise disjoint convex sets, each of them containing $k$ of the points, and each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Andreas F. Holmsen , Jan Kynčl , Claudiu Valculescu

Consider a graph G with an assignment of costs to vertices. Even if G and all its subgraphs admit balanced separators of sublinear size, G may only admit a balanced separator of sublinear cost after deleting a small set Z of exceptional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Zdeněk Dvořák

We prove that all $1$-vertex spatial graphs with adequate diagrams have minimal crossing number, and that spatial graph diagrams obtained by replacing vertices and edges of a planar embedded graph by minimal crossing link or spatial graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Erica Flapan , Hugh Howards

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a class of graphs that is closed under taking subgraphs. We prove that if for some fixed $0<\delta\le 1$, every $n$-vertex graph of $\mathcal{C}$ has a balanced separator of order $O(n^{1-\delta})$, then any depth-$k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Louis Esperet , Jean-Florent Raymond

Highly connected and yet sparse graphs (such as expanders or graphs of high treewidth) are fundamental, widely applicable and extensively studied combinatorial objects. We initiate the study of such highly connected graphs that are, in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmovic , Pat Morin , Michiel Smid

Fat minors are a coarse analogue of graph minors where the subgraphs modeling vertices and edges of the embedded graph are required to be distant from each other, instead of just being disjoint. In this paper, we give a coarse analogue of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Édouard Bonnet , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

A hypergraph is Sperner if no hyperedge contains another one. A Sperner hypergraph is equilizable (resp., threshold) if the characteristic vectors of its hyperedges are the (minimal) binary solutions to a linear equation (resp., inequality)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Martin Milanič

Oriented closed curves on an orientable surface with boundary are described up to continuous deformation by reduced cyclic words in the generators of the fundamental group and their inverses. By self-intersection number one means the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-03 Moira Chas , Steven P. Lalley

A graph is said to be orthogonalisable if the set of real symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal pattern is prescribed by its edges contains an orthogonal matrix. We determine some necessary and some sufficient conditions on the sizes of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Rupert H. Levene , Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc

Given a set of objects $O$ in the plane, the corresponding intersection graph is defined as follows. Each object defines a vertex and an edge joins two vertices whenever the corresponding objects intersect. We study here the case of unit…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Michael Hoffmann , Tillmann Miltzow , Simon Weber , Lasse Wulf

The aim of this paper is to generalize the notion of the coloring complex of a graph to hypergraphs. We present three different interpretations of those complexes -- a purely combinatorial one and two geometric ones. It is shown, that most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Felix Breuer , Aaron Dall , Martina Kubitzke

Weak and strong coloring numbers are generalizations of the degeneracy of a graph, where for each natural number $k$, we seek a vertex ordering such every vertex can (weakly respectively strongly) reach in $k$ steps only few vertices with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Zdeněk Dvořák , Jakub Pekárek , Torsten Ueckerdt , Yelena Yuditsky

Our purpose is to show that complements of line graphs enjoy nice coloring properties. We show that for all graphs in this class the local and usual chromatic numbers are equal. We also prove a sufficient condition for the chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh , Frédéric Meunier , Guilhem Mizrahi

A $k$-edge-coloured graph is colour-balanced if each colour appears equally often. Resolving a conjecture of Pardey and Rautenbach, we show that any colour-balanced $k$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{2kt}$ contains a perfect matching that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Emma Hogan , Alex Scott , Dmitry Tsarev

For a flexible labeling of a graph, it is possible to construct infinitely many non-equivalent realizations keeping the distances of connected points constant. We give a combinatorial characterization of graphs that have flexible labelings.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Georg Grasegger , Jan Legerský , Josef Schicho

A spanner graph on a set of points in $R^d$ contains a shortest path between any pair of points with length at most a constant factor of their Euclidean distance. In this paper we investigate new models and aim to interpret why good…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Jie Gao , Dengpan Zhou

$t$-spanners are used to approximate the pairwise distances between a set of points in a metric space. They have only a few edges compared to the total number of pairs and they provide a $t$-approximation on the distance of any two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-29 David Eppstein , Hadi Khodabandeh

Properties of several sorts of lattices of convex subsets of R^n are examined. The lattice of convex sets containing the origin turns out, for n>1, to satisfy a set of identities strictly between those of the lattice of all convex subsets…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 George M. Bergman

We show that intersection graphs of compact convex sets in R^n of bounded aspect ratio have asymptotic dimension at most 2n+1. More generally, we show this is the case for intersection graphs of systems of subsets of any metric space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Zdeněk Dvořák , Sergey Norin

We construct a sequence of subset partition graphs satisfying the dimension reduction, adjacency, strong adjacency, and endpoint count properties whose diameter has a superlinear asymptotic lower bound. These abstractions of polytope graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Tristram C. Bogart , Edward D. Kim