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In a series of three papers we develop an end space theory for directed graphs. As for undirected graphs, the ends of a digraph are points at infinity to which its rays converge. Unlike for undirected graphs, some ends are joined by limit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Carl Bürger , Ruben Melcher

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

The distinguishing number $\operatorname D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least cardinal $d$ such that $G$ has a labeling with $d$ labels which is only preserved by the trivial automorphism. We show that the distinguishing number of infinite,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Johannes Cuno , Wilfried Imrich , Florian Lehner

We show that if a graph admits a packing and a covering both consisting of $\lambda$ many spanning trees, where $\lambda$ is some infinite cardinal, then the graph also admits a decomposition into $\lambda$ many spanning trees. For finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Joshua Erde , Pascal Gollin , Atilla Joó , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

We show how an image can, in principle, be described by the tangles of the graph of its pixels. The tangle-tree theorem provides a nested set of separations that efficiently distinguish all the distinguishable tangles in a graph. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Reinhard Diestel , Geoff Whittle

In this series, we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects such as undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nathan Bowler , Florian Reich

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

We present infinite analogues of our splinter lemma from [Trees of tangles in abstract separation systems, arXiv:1909.09030]. From these we derive several tree-of-tangles-type theorems for infinite graphs and infinite abstract separation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Christian Elbracht , Jay Lilian Kneip , Maximilian Teegen

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

In Chapter 1 we fully characterise pairs of finite graphs which form a gap in the full homomorphism order. This leads to a simple proof of the existence of generalised duality pairs. We also discuss how such results can be carried to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Yangjing Long

Answering a question of Diestel, we develop a topological notion of gammoids in infinite graphs which, unlike traditional infinite gammoids, always define a matroid. As our main tool, we prove for any infinite graph $G$ with vertex sets $A$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Johannes Carmesin

A tree containing exactly two non-pendant vertices is called a double-star. A double-star with degree sequence $(k_1+ 1, k_2+ 1, 1, \ldots, 1)$ is denoted by $S_{k_1, k_2}$. We study the edge-decomposition of regular graphs into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Saieed Akbari , Shahab Haghi , Hamidreza Maimani , Abbas Seify

We study additively graceful labelings of signed graphs on stars and double stars. While the case of signed stars is straightforward, the problem becomes significantly more intricate for signed double stars. We obtain a characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Brian DSouza , Jessica Pereira

\textit{A star edge coloring} of a graph is a proper edge coloring without bichromatic paths and cycles of length four. In this paper we establish tight upper bounds for trees and subcubic outerplanar graphs, and derive an upper bound for…

For any fixed integer $R \geq 2$ we characterise the typical structure of undirected graphs with vertices $1, ..., n$ and maximum degree $R$, as $n$ tends to infinity. The information is used to prove that such graphs satisfy a labelled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Vera Koponen

This work provides a structural characterisation of hereditary graph classes that do not contain a star forest, several graphs obtained from star forests by subset complementation, a union of cliques, and the complement of a union of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Aistis Atminas

We study countable graphs that -- up to isomorphism and with probability one -- arise from a random process, in a similar fashion as the Rado graph. Unlike in the classical case, we do not require that probabilities assigned to pairs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Ziemowit Kostana , Jarosław Swaczyna , Agnieszka Widz

The transmission of a vertex in a connected graph is the sum of its distances to all the other vertices. A graph is transmission irregular (TI) when all of its vertices have mutually distinct transmissions. In an earlier paper, Al-Yakoob…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Ivan Damnjanović

We show that all the tangles in a finite graph or matroid can be distinguished by a single tree-decomposition that is invariant under the automorphisms of the graph or matroid. This comes as a corollary of a similar decomposition theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Reinhard Diestel , Fabian Hundertmark , Sahar Lemanczyk

We study characteristics which might distinguish two-graphs by introducing different numerical measures on the collection of graphs on $n$ vertices. Two conjectures are stated, one using these numerical measures and the other using the deck…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-20 David M. Duncan , Thomas R. Hoffman , James P. Solazzo