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We show that every graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ and sufficiently large order has a vertex cutset $S$ of order at most $\Delta$ that induces a subgraph $G[S]$ of maximum degree at most $\Delta-3$. For $\Delta\in \{ 4,5\}$, we refine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Stéphane Bessy , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

We ask the question, which oriented trees $T$ must be contained as subgraphs in every finite directed graph of sufficiently large minimum out-degree. We formulate the following simple condition: all vertices in $T$ of in-degree at least $2$…

In a simple drawing of a graph every pair of edges intersect each other in at most one point, which is either a common endvertex or a proper crossing. For each positive integer $n$, Negami identified a drawing $B_n$ of the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Jozsef Balogh , Irene Parada , Gelasio Salazar

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

We prove that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with no isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of size at least $n/10000$ with all degrees odd. This solves an old and well-known conjecture in graph theory.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich

We prove an asymptotically tight bound on the extremal density guaranteeing subdivisions of bounded-degree bipartite graphs with a mild separability condition. As corollaries, we answer several questions of Reed and Wood on embedding sparse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 John Haslegrave , Jaehoon Kim , Hong Liu

We show that for any fixed dense graph G and bounded-degree tree T on the same number of vertices, a modest random perturbation of G will typically contain a copy of T . This combines the viewpoints of the well-studied problems of embedding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Michael Krivelevich , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

The famous Sidorenko's conjecture asserts that for every bipartite graph $H$, the number of homomorphisms from $H$ to a graph $G$ with given edge density is minimized when $G$ is pseudorandom. We prove that for any graph $H$, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Seonghyuk Im , Ruonan Li , Hong Liu

The Tree Decomposition Conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k(T)$ such that the following holds: If $G$ is a $k(T)$-edge-connected simple graph with size divisible by the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Martin Merker

Let $c$ denote the largest constant such that every $C_{6}$-free graph $G$ contains a bipartite and $C_4$-free subgraph having $c$ fraction of edges of $G$. Gy\H{o}ri et al. showed that $\frac{3}{8} \le c \le \frac{2}{5}$. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Dániel Grósz , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

We show that for every positive integer ${t \geq 2}$ there exists an integer $s$ such that every graph that contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to either the $6$-vertex path or the $(2,t)$-biclique, the complete bipartite graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Maria Chudnovsky , Julien Codsi , J. Pascal Gollin , Martin Milanič , Varun Sivashankar

Let $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that is regular and does not contain $F$ as a subgraph. We give lower bounds on $\mathrm{rex}(n, F)$, that are best possible up to a constant factor, when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Michael Tait , Craig Timmons

Tuza's Conjecture states that if a graph $G$ does not contain more than $k$ edge-disjoint triangles, then some set of at most $2k$ edges meets all triangles of $G$. We prove Tuza's Conjecture for all graphs $G$ having no subgraph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Gregory J. Puleo

In 1999, De Simone and K\"{o}rner conjectured that every graph without induced $C_5,C_7,\overline{C}_7$ contains a clique cover $\mathcal C$ and a stable set cover $\mathcal I$ such that every clique in $\mathcal C$ and every stable set in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei , Seyyed Aliasghar Hosseini , Bojan Mohar

A famous conjecture by Thomassen from 1983 asserts that for any given $k,g\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists some $d=d(k,g)\in \mathbb{N}$ such that every graph of minimum degree at least $d$ contains a subgraph of minimum degree at least $k$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Micha Christoph , Barnabás Janzer , Kalina Petrova , Raphael Steiner

For a positive integer $k\ge 1$, a graph $G$ is $k$-stepwise irregular ($k$-SI graph) if the degrees of every pair of adjacent vertices differ by exactly $k$. Such graphs are necessarily bipartite. Using graph products it is demonstrated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yaser Alizadeh , Sandi Klavžar , Javaher Langari

Mader conjectured that every $C_4$-free graph has a subdivision of a clique of order linear in its average degree. We show that every $C_6$-free graph has such a subdivision of a large clique. We also prove the dense case of Mader's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-18 József Balogh , Hong Liu , Maryam Sharifzadeh

Erd\H{o}s, Fajtlowicz and Staton asked for the least integer $f(k)$ such that every graph with more than $f(k)$ vertices has an induced regular subgraph with at least $k$ vertices. Here we consider the following relaxed notions. Let $g(k)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

By a probabilistic construction, we find a bipartite graph having average degree $d$ which can be expressed as a conjunctive normal form using $C \log d$ clauses. This contradicts research problem 1.33 of Jukna.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-27 Nets Hawk Katz

Let G be a simple balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices, $\delta = \delta(G)/n$, and $\rho={\delta + \sqrt{2 \delta -1} \over 2}$. If $\delta > 1/2$ then it has a $\lfloor \rho n \rfloor$-regular spanning subgraph. The statement is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-13 Béla Csaba