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In 1986, Brualdi and Solheid firstly proposed the problem of determining the maximum spectral radius of graphs in the set $\mathcal{H}_{n,m}$ consisting of all simple connected graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, which is a very tough…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jie Zhang , Ya-Lei Jin , Hua Wang , Jin-Xuan Yang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

We asymptotically determine the maximum density of subgraphs isomorphic to $H$, where $H$ is any graph containing a dominating vertex, in graphs $G$ on $n$ vertices with bounded maximum degree and bounded clique number. That is, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Rachel Kirsch

We present new values and bounds on the (normalised) closeness centrality $\bar{\mathsf{C}}_C$ of connected graphs and on its product $\bar{l}\bar{\mathsf{C}}_C$ with the mean distance $\bar{l}$ of these graphs. Our main result presents the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Thomas Britz , Xin Hu , Abdellah Islam , Hopein Christofen Tang

A subset $D \subseteq V $of a graph $G = (V, E)$ is a $(1, j)$-set if every vertex $v \in V \setminus D$ is adjacent to at least $1$ but not more than $j$ vertices in D. The cardinality of a minimum $(1, j)$-set of $G$, denoted as…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Arijit Bishnu , Kunal Dutta , Arijit Ghosh , Subhabrata Paul

We pursue the study of edge-irregulators of graphs, which were recently introduced in [Fioravantes et al. Parametrised Distance to Local Irregularity. IPEC, 2024]. That is, we are interested in the parameter Ie(G), which, for a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Julien Bensmail , Noémie Catherinot , Foivos Fioravantes , Clara Marcille , Nacim Oijid

In this paper we investigate the extremal relationship between two well-studied graph parameters: the order of the largest homogeneous set in a graph $G$ and the maximal number of distinct degrees appearing in an induced subgraph of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Eoin Long , Laurentiu Ploscaru

We study Nordhaus-Gaddum problems for Kemeny's constant $\mathcal{K}(G)$ of a connected graph $G$. We prove bounds on $\min\{\mathcal{K}(G),\mathcal{K}(\overline{G})\}$ and the product $\mathcal{K}(G)\mathcal{K}(\overline{G})$ for various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Sooyeong Kim , Neal Madras , Ada Chan , Mark Kempton , Stephen Kirkland , Adam Knudson

Let $\lambda(G)$ be the smallest number of vertices that can be removed from a non-empty graph $G$ so that the resulting graph has a smaller maximum degree. Let $\lambda_{\rm e}(G)$ be the smallest number of edges that can be removed from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Peter Borg

In this paper, we make progress on a question related to one of Galvin that has attracted substantial attention recently. The question is that of determining among all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices and $\Delta(G)\leq r$, which has the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Jonathan Cutler , A. J. Radcliffe

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph with the usual (graph) distance metric $d:V \times V \to N \cup \{0 \}$. Introduced by Gromov, $G$ is $\delta$-hyperbolic if for every four vertices $u,v,x,y \in V$, the two largest values of the three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Dieter Mitche , Pawel Pralat

A dominating set of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices $D$ such that for all $v \in V(G)$, either $v \in D$ or $(v,d) \in E(G)$ for some $d \in D$. The cardinality redundance of a vertex set $S$, $CR(S)$, is the number of vertices in $V(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Daniel McGinnis , Nathan Shank

This paper surveys some recent results and progress on the extremal prob- lems in a given set consisting of all simple connected graphs with the same graphic degree sequence. In particular, we study and characterize the extremal graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Xiao-Dong Zhang

Given a graph $G$, a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is a Berge copy of $F$ if $V(G)\subset V(\mathcal{H})$ and there is a bijection $f:E(G)\rightarrow E(\mathcal{H})$ such that for any edge $e$ of $G$ we have $e\subset f(e)$. We study Ramsey…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Dániel Gerbner

Recently Chase determined the maximum possible number of cliques of size $t$ in a graph on $n$ vertices with given maximum degree. Soon afterward, Chakraborti and Chen answered the version of this question in which we ask that the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rachel Kirsch , Jamie Radcliffe

Many important results in extremal graph theory can be roughly summarised as "if a triangle-free graph $G$ has certain properties, then it has a homomorphism to a triangle-free graph $\Gamma$ of bounded size". For example, bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lior Gishboliner , Eoin Hurley , Yuval Wigderson

Let $G$ be a connected graph with the usual shortest-path metric $d$. The graph $G$ is $\delta$-hyperbolic provided for any vertices $x,y,u,v$ in it, the two larger of the three sums $d(u,v)+d(x,y),d(u,x)+d(v,y)$ and $d(u,y)+d(v,x)$ differ…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-03 Yaokun Wu , Chengpeng Zhang

We study the topic of "extremal" planar graphs, defining $\mathrm{ex_{_{\mathcal{P}}}}(n,H)$ to be the maximum number of edges possible in a planar graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain a given graph $H$ as a subgraph. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Chris Dowden

This survey concerns regular graphs that are extremal with respect to the number of independent sets, and more generally, graph homomorphisms. More precisely, in the family of of $d$-regular graphs, which graph $G$ maximizes/minimizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Yufei Zhao

Let m(G) denote the number of maximal independent sets of vertices in a graph G and let c(n,r) be the maximum value of m(G) over all connected graphs with n vertices and at most r cycles. A theorem of Griggs, Grinstead, and Guichard gives a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruce E. Sagan , V. Vatter

Consider the family of all finite graphs with maximum degree $\Delta(G)<d$ and matching number $\nu(G)<m$. In this paper we give a new proof to obtain the exact upper bound for the number of edges in such graphs and also characterize all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Niranjan Balachandran , Niraj Khare