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We study Ramsey like theorems for infinite trees and similar combinatorial tools. As an application we consider the expansion problem for tree algebras.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Achim Blumensath

While finite graphs have tree-decompositions that efficiently distinguish all their tangles, locally finite graphs with thick ends need not have such tree-decompositions. We show that every locally finite graph without thick ends admits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe

Kriz and Thomas showed that every (finite or infinite) graph of tree-width $k \in \mathbb{N}$ admits a lean tree-decomposition of width $k$. We discuss a number of counterexamples demonstrating the limits of possible generalisations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Sandra Albrechtsen , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

We consider infinite connected quasi-transitive locally finite graphs and show that every such graph with more than one end is a tree amalgamation of two other such graphs. This can be seen as a graph-theoretical version of Stallings'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Matthias Hamann , Florian Lehner , Babak Miraftab , Tim Rühmann

End-spaces of infinite graphs naturally generalise the Freudenthal boundary and sit at the interface between graph theory, geometric group theory and topology. Our main result is that every end-space can topologically be represented by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jan Kurkofka , Max Pitz

We prove that every graph which admits a tree-decomposition into finite parts has a rooted tree-decomposition into finite parts that is linked, tight and componental. As an application, we obtain that every graph without half-grid minor has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Sandra Albrechtsen , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

This article discusses some recent trends in Ramsey theory on infinite structures. Trees and their Ramsey theory have been vital to these investigations. The main ideas behind the author's recent method of trees with coding nodes are…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Natasha Dobrinen

For locally finite infinite graphs the notion of Hamilton cycles can be extended to Hamilton circles, homeomorphic images of $S^1$ in the Freudenthal compactification. In this paper we extend some well-known theorems of the Hamiltonicity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Babak Miraftab , Tim Rühmann

Tangle structure trees, introduced in [3], offer a unified data structure that displays all the tangles of a graph or data set together with certificates for the non-existence of any other tangles, either locally or overall. In this paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hanno von Bergen , Reinhard Diestel

Tree sets are abstract structures that can be used to model various tree-shaped objects in combinatorics. Finite tree sets can be represented by finite graph-theoretical trees. We extend this representation theory to infinite tree sets.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 J. Pascal Gollin , Jay Lilian Kneip

We show that an arbitrary infinite graph can be compactified by its ${\aleph_0}$-tangles in much the same way as the ends of a locally finite graph compactify it in its Freudenthal compactification. In general, the ends then appear as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Reinhard Diestel

Roberston and Seymour introduced tangles of order $k$ as objects representing highly connected parts of a graph and showed that every graph admits a tree-decomposition of adhesion $<k$ in which each tangle of order $k$ is contained in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Joshua Erde

We present a systematic investigation into how tree-decompositions of finite adhesion capture topological properties of the space formed by a graph together with its ends. As main results, we characterise when the ends of a graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Marcel Koloschin , Thilo Krill , Max Pitz

We show that every graph admits a canonical tree-like decomposition into its $k$-edge-connected pieces for all $k\in\mathbb{N}\cup\{\infty\}$ simultaneously.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Christian Elbracht , Jan Kurkofka , Maximilian Teegen

We give a short, topological proof that all graphs admit tree-decompositions displaying their topological ends.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Max Pitz

Given a fixed integer $n$, we prove Ramsey-type theorems for the classes of all finite ordered $n$-colorable graphs, finite $n$-colorable graphs, finite ordered $n$-chromatic graphs, and finite $n$-chromatic graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-07 L. Nguyen Van Thé

Two of the natural topologies for infinite graphs with edge-ends are Etop and Itop. In this paper, we study and characterize them. We show that Itop can be constructed by inverse limits of inverse systems of graphs with finitely many…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Babak Miraftab

We prove local convergence results for the uniformly random, labelled or unlabelled, graphs from subcritical families. As an example special case, we prove Benjamini-Schramm convergence for the uniform random unlabelled tree. We introduce a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Stephan Wagner

We demonstrate the versatility of the tangle-tree duality theorem for abstract separation systems by using it to prove tree-of-tangles theorems. This approach allows us to strengthen some of the existing tree-of-tangles theorems by bounding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Christian Elbracht , Jay Lilian Kneip , Maximilian Teegen

We generalise structure tree theory, which is based on removing finitely many edges, to removing finitely many vertices. This gives a significant generalization of Tutte's tree decomposition of 2-connected graphs into 3-connected blocks.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody , B. Krön