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By the density of a finite graph we mean its average vertex degree. For an $m$-generated group, the density of its Cayley graph in a given set of generators, is the supremum of densities taken over all its finite subgraphs. It is known that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Victor Guba

We investigate subsets of the symmetric group with structure similar to that of a graph. The trees of these subsets correspond to minimal conjugate generating sets of the symmetric group. There are two main theorems in this paper. The first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Jacob Steinhardt

We prove that for every graph $G$ with a sufficiently large complete bipartite induced minor, either $G$ has an induced minor isomorphic to a large wall, or $G$ contains a large constellation; that is, a complete bipartite induced minor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $(H,+)$ be an abelian group. What is the minimum size ${\sf S}_H(G)$ of the set of all sums $A(u)+A(v)$ over all injections $A:V(G)\to H$? In 2012, the first author, Angel, the second author, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Noga Alon , Itai Benjamini , Georgii Zakharov , Maksim Zhukovskii

Consider two independent Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi $G(N,1/2)$ graphs. We show that with probability tending to $1$ as $N\to\infty$, the largest induced isomorphic subgraph has size either $\lfloor x_N-\varepsilon_N\rfloor$ or $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Sourav Chatterjee , Persi Diaconis

The sensitivity, $\sigma(G)$, of a finite undirected simple graph $G$ is the smallest maximum degree of an induced subgraph on more than the maximum number of independent vertices. Call an indexed family of graphs $G_n$ with maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Cathy Kriloff , Jacob Tolman

We prove that for every $n$, there is a graph $G$ with $\chi(G) \geq n$ and $\omega(G) \leq 3$ such that every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ with $\omega(H) \leq 2$ satisfies $\chi(H) \leq 4$. This disproves a well-known conjecture. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Alvaro Carbonero , Patrick Hompe , Benjamin Moore , Sophie Spirkl

The Chen-Lih-Wu Conjecture states that each connected graph with maximum degree $\Delta\geq 3$ that is not the complete graph $K_{\Delta+1}$ or the complete bipartite graph $K_{\Delta,\Delta}$ admits an equitable coloring with $\Delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Alexandr Kostochka , Duo Lin , Zimu Xiang

A Cayley graph over a group $G$ is said to be central if its connection set is a normal subset of $G$. We prove that every central Cayley graph over a simple group $G$ has at most two pairwise nonequivalent Cayley representations over $G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Jin Guo , Wenbin Guo , Grigory Ryabov , Andrey V. Vasil'ev

Quasi-strongly regular graphs form a significant generalization of strongly regular graphs. We study the eigenvalues of a family of such graphs, $\Gamma_H(G)$, constructed from a finite group $G$ and a subgroup $H$. Our main results include…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Sauvik Poddar , Sucharita Biswas , Angsuman Das

We investigate the question how `small' a graph can be, if it contains all members of a given class of locally finite graphs as subgraphs or induced subgraphs. More precisely, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Florian Lehner

For a graph $G$, let $\nu_s(G)$ be the induced matching number of $G$. We prove the sharp bound $\nu_s(G)\geq \frac{n(G)}{9}$ for every graph $G$ of maximum degree at most $4$ and without isolated vertices that does not contain a certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Felix Joos

A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t$. In 2024, Zhan conjectured that every $2$-connected $[p + 2, p]$-graph of order at least $2p + 3$ and with minimum degree at least $p$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Feng Liu , Hongxi Liu

For a graph $G$, the mean subtree order of $G$ is the average order of a subtree of $G$. In this note, we provide counterexamples to a recent conjecture of Chin, Gordon, MacPhee, and Vincent, that for every connected graph $G$ and every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Ben Cameron , Lucas Mol

Given a graph $G$, we define ${\bf bcg}(G)$ as the minimum $k$ for which $G$ can be contracted to the uniformly triangulated grid $\Gamma_{k}$. A graph class ${\cal G}$ has the SQG${\bf C}$ property if every graph $G\in{\cal G}$ has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Julien Baste , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that for every graph $H$, there exists $c>0$ such that every $H$-free graph $G$ has a clique or a stable set of size at least $|G|^c$ (a graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

One of the most interesting problems on maximum nullity (minimum rank) is to characterize $M(\mathcal{G})$ ($mr(\mathcal{G})$) for a graph $\mathcal{G}$. In this regard, many researchers have been trying to find an upper or lower bound for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Ebrahim Vatandoost , Yasser Golkhandy Pour

Fix $\varepsilon>0$ and a nonnull graph $H$. A well-known theorem of R\"odl from the 80s says that every graph $G$ with no induced copy of $H$ contains a linear-sized $\varepsilon$-restricted set $S\subseteq V(G)$, which means $S$ induces a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Tung H. Nguyen

Let $\mathcal{A(}G\mathcal{)},\mathcal{L(}G\mathcal{)}$ and $\mathcal{Q(}% G\mathcal{)}$ be the adjacency tensor, Laplacian tensor and signless Laplacian tensor of uniform hypergraph $G$, respectively. Denote by $\lambda (\mathcal{T})$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Xiying Yuan , Liqun Qi , Jiayu Shao

We prove that, for every $\ell\geq 4$, there exists an $\ell$-vertex graph and a first order sentence having a quantifier depth at most $\ell-1$ defining the property of having an induced subgraph isomorphic to the given one. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 E. D. Kudryavtsev , M. V. Makarov , A. S. Shlychkova , M. E. Zhukovskii