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An edge clique cover of a graph is a set of cliques that covers all edges of the graph. We generalize this concept to "$K_t$ clique cover", i.e. a set of cliques that covers all complete subgraphs on $t$ vertices of the graph, for every $t…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Hoang Dau , Olgica Milenkovic , Gregory J. Puleo

Graphs whose maximum clique size exceeds half of the total number of vertices satisfy a classical property: the family of their maximum sized cliques can be pierced by a single vertex. This result dates back to a 1965 theorem by Hajnal.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Andreas Holmsen , Attila Jung , Balázs Keszegh , Dániel G. Simon , Gábor Tardos

A bipartite covering of a (multi)graph $G$ is a collection of bipartite graphs, so that each edge of $G$ belongs to at least one of them. The capacity of the covering is the sum of the numbers of vertices of these bipartite graphs. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Noga Alon

A typical decomposition question asks whether the edges of some graph $G$ can be partitioned into disjoint copies of another graph $H$. One of the oldest and best known conjectures in this area, posed by Ringel in 1963, concerns the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Richard Montgomery , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

A biclique in a graph $G$ is a complete bipartite subgraph (not necessarily induced), and the least positive integer $k$ for which the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into at most $k$ bicliques is the biclique vertex partition number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yusuf Civan , Zakir Deniz , Oleg Duginov , Mehmet Akif Yetim

The Birkhoff polytope $\Omega_n$ is the polytope of doubly stochastic matrices of order $n$. The Birkhoff polytope graph $G(\Omega_n)$ is the skeleton of $\Omega_n$; it is the Cayley graph whose vertex set consists of the elements of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Zejun Huang , Chi-Kwong Li , Eric Swartz , Nung-Sing Sze

We investigate decompositions of a graph into a small number of low diameter subgraphs. Let P(n,\epsilon,d) be the smallest k such that every graph G=(V,E) on n vertices has an edge partition E=E_0 \cup E_1 \cup ... \cup E_k such that |E_0|…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-22 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

Let G be a bridgeless cubic graph. A well-known conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson can be stated as follows: there exist five perfect matchings of G such that each edge of G is contained in at least one of them. Here, we prove that in each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

Finding the maximum clique is a known NP-Complete problem and it is also hard to approximate. This work proposes two efficient algorithms to obtain it. Nevertheless, the first one is able to fins the maximum for some special cases, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-21 José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

For a graph $G$, let $\chi(G)$ denote its chromatic number and $\sigma(G)$ denote the order of the largest clique subdivision in $G$. Let H(n) be the maximum of $\chi(G)/\sigma(G)$ over all $n$-vertex graphs $G$. A famous conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Jacob Fox , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

We give a sharp bound on the number of triangles in a graph with fixed number of edges. We also characterize graphs that achieve the maximum number of triangles. Using the upper bound on number of triangles, we prove that if $G$ is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Tony N. Mavely , Viji Z. Thomas

We make progress on three long standing conjectures from the 1960s about path and cycle decompositions of graphs. Gallai conjectured that any connected graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $\left\lceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-09 António Girão , Bertille Granet , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

The bend-number b(G) of a graph G is the minimum k such that G may be represented as the edge intersection graph of a set of grid paths with at most k bends. We confirm a conjecture of Biedl and Stern showing that the maximum bend-number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Daniel Heldt , Kolja Knauer , Torsten Ueckerdt

In 1998, Reed conjectured that every graph $G$ satisfies $\chi(G) \leq \lceil \frac{1}{2}(\Delta(G) + 1 + \omega(G))\rceil$, where $\chi(G)$ is the chromatic number of $G$, $\Delta(G)$ is the maximum degree of $G$, and $\omega(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Tom Kelly , Luke Postle

We consider the problem of partitioning the edge set of a graph $G$ into the minimum number $\tau(G)$ of edge-disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs. We show that for a random graph $G$ in $G(n,p)$, for $p$ is a constant no greater than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Fan Chung , Xing Peng

The {\it clique cover width} of $G$, denoted by $ccw(G)$, is the minimum value of the bandwidth of all graphs that are obtained by contracting the cliques in a clique cover of $G$ into a single vertex. For $i=1,2,...,d,$ let $G_i$ be a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Farhad Shahrokhi

A topological graph drawn on a cylinder whose base is horizontal is \emph{angularly monotone} if every vertical line intersects every edge at most once. Let $c(n)$ denote the maximum number $c$ such that every simple angularly monotone…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Radoslav Fulek

A biclique of a graph $G$ is a maximal induced complete bipartite subgraph of $G$. The biclique graph of $G$ denoted by $KB(G)$, is the intersection graph of all the bicliques of $G$. The biclique graph can be thought as an operator between…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Marina Groshaus , André Guedes , Leandro Montero

We study graph-theoretic properties of random $0/1$ polytopes. Specifically, let $Q_p^n \subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ be a random subset where each point is included independently with probability $p$, and consider the graph $G_p$ of the polytope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Catherine Babecki , Tycho Elling , Asaf Ferber

Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits asked the following question: For an integer $r\geq 2$ and a family of non-bipartite graphs $\mathcal{H}$, determine the infimum of $\alpha$ such that any $\mathcal{H}$-free $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Xiaoli Yuan , Yuejian Peng
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