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In 1943, Hadwiger conjectured that every $K_t$-minor-free graph is $(t-1)$-colorable for every $t\ge 1$. In the 1980s, Kostochka and Thomason independently proved that every graph with no $K_t$ minor has average degree $O(t\sqrt{\log t})$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Luke Postle

We investigate Hadwiger's conjecture for graphs with no stable set of size 3. Such a graph on at least 2t-1 vertices is not t-1 colorable, so is conjectured to have a $K_t$ minor. There is a strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonah Blasiak

A spanning tree of a graph is a connected subgraph on all vertices with the minimum number of edges. The number of spanning trees in a graph $G$ is given by Matrix Tree Theorem in terms of principal minors of Laplacian matrix of $G$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Keivan Hassani Monfared , Sudipta Mallik

Let $G_{n,\gamma}$ be the set of all connected graphs on $n$ vertices with domination number $\gamma$. A graph is called a minimizer graph if it attains the minimum spectral radius among $G_{n,\gamma}$. Very recently, Liu, Li and Xie…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Yarong Hu , Zhenzhen Lou , Qiongxiang Huang

In 2001, Brualdi and Hollingsworth proved that an edge-colored balanced complete bipartite graph Kn,n with a color set C = {1,2,3,..., 2n-1} has a heterochromatic spanning tree if the number of edges colored with colors in R is more than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Kazuhiro Suzuki

The strong thin tree conjecture states that every $k$-edge-connected graph $G$ contains an $O(1/k)$-thin spanning tree, meaning a spanning tree which contains at most an $O(1/k)$ fraction of the edges across each cut in $G$. This conjecture…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nathan Klein , Neil Olver , Zi Song Yeoh

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

For graphs $G$ and $H$, an $H$-coloring of $G$ is an adjacency preserving map from the vertices of $G$ to the vertices of $H$. $H$-colorings generalize such notions as independent sets and proper colorings in graphs. There has been much…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-21 John Engbers , David Galvin

A long-standing conjecture asserts that there exists a constant $c>0$ such that every graph of order $n$ without isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of order at least $cn$ with all degrees odd. Scott (1992) proved that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Xinmin Hou , Lei Yu , Jiaao Li , Boyuan Liu

A graph $G$ is equitably $k$-list arborable if for any $k$-uniform list assignment $L$, there is an equitable $L$-colouring of $G$ whose each colour class induces an acyclic graph. The smallest number $k$ admitting such a coloring is named…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ewa Drgas-Burchardt , Janusz Dybizbański , Hanna Furmańczyk , Elzbieta Sidorowicz

We prove that every amenable one-ended Cayley graph has an invariant spanning tree of one end. More generally, for any 1-ended amenable unimodular random graph we construct a factor of iid percolation (jointly unimodular subgraph) that is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Adam Timar

The implicit graph conjecture states that every sufficiently small, hereditary graph class has a labeling scheme with a polynomial-time computable label decoder. We approach this conjecture by investigating classes of label decoders defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Maurice Chandoo

We study the multicolour discrepancy of spanning trees and Hamilton cycles in graphs. As our main result, we show that under very mild conditions, the $r$-colour spanning-tree discrepancy of a graph $G$ is equal, up to a constant, to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

We study "positive" graphs that have a nonnegative homomorphism number into every edge-weighted graph (where the edgeweights may be negative). We conjecture that all positive graphs can be obtained by taking two copies of an arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Omar Antolín Camarena , Endre Csóka , Tamás Hubai , Gábor Lippner , László Lovász

A graph $G$ is called collapsible if for every even subset $R\subseteq V(G)$, there is a spanning connected subgraph $H$ of $G$ such that $R$ is the set of vertices of odd degree in $H$. A graph is the reduction of $G$ if it is obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Wei-Guo Chen , Zhi-Hong Chen , Mei Lu

The Gyarfas-Sumner conjecture asserts that if H is a tree then every graph with bounded clique number and very large chromatic number contains H as an induced subgraph. This is still open, although it has been proved for a few simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

In this paper, we present some new results describing connections between the spectrum of a regular graph and its generalized connectivity, toughness, and the existence of spanning trees with bounded degree.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Xiaofeng Gu

Hadwiger's conjecture from 1943 states that for every integer $t\ge1$, every graph either can be $t$-colored or has a subgraph that can be contracted to the complete graph on $t+1$ vertices. As pointed out by Paul Seymour in his recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Martin Rolek , Zi-Xia Song

A classical result by Otter shows that the complete graph has an exponential number of non-isomorphic spanning trees. This was recently extended by Lee to every almost regular graph of sufficiently large degree. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Veronica Bitonti , Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

The Harary-Hill conjecture states that for every $n>0$ the complete graph on $n$ vertices $K_n$, the minimum number of crossings over all its possible drawings equals \begin{align*} H(n) :=…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Petra Mutzel , Lutz Oettershagen