English
Related papers

Related papers: Maximum dissociation sets in subcubic trees

200 papers

The subpath number of a graph G is defined as the total number of subpaths in G, and it is closely related to the number of subtrees, a well-studied topic in graph theory. This paper is a continuation of our previous paper [5], where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Yu Yang

Let $G$ be a plane elementary bipartite graph whose infinite face is forcing. We provide a bijection between the set of maximal hypercubes of its resonance graph and the set of maximal resonant sets of $G$, which generalizes a main result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Simon Brezovnik , Zhongyuan Che , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

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

In this paper, we bound the number of edges of a maximal permutation graph with n vertices. We propose a new method to compute the lower bound by splitting the set of labellings of the edges into six parts, considering one separate problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 M. Anwar , Mahmoud Tarek , Ahmed Gaber

In this paper we count all the subpaths of a given graph G; including the subpaths of length zero, and we call this quantity the subpath number of G. The subpath number is related to the extensively studied number of subtrees, as it can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Yu Yang

Let $MIS(G)$ be the set of all maximal independent sets in a graph $G$, and let $mis(G)=|MIS(G)|$. In this paper, we show that for any tree $T$ with $n$ vertices and independence number $\alpha$, \[mis(T)\geq f(n-\alpha),\] and for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Yuting Tian , Jianhua Tu

An isolating set of a graph is a set of vertices $S$ such that, if $S$ and its neighborhood is removed, only isolated vertices remain; and the isolation number is the minimum size of such a set. It is known that for every connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Geoffrey Boyer , Wayne Goddard

Minimum Bisection denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into two sets of equal sizes while minimizing the width of the bisection, which is defined as the number of edges between these two sets. We first consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Cristina G. Fernandes , Tina Janne Schmidt , Anusch Taraz

Let $\mathcal{O}_n$ be the set of ordered labeled trees on ${0,...,n}$. A maximal decreasing subtree of an ordered labeled tree is defined by the maximal ordered subtree from the root with all edges being decreasing. In this paper, we study…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Seunghyun Seo , Heesung Shin

We explore the concept of separating systems of vertex sets of graphs. A separating system of a set $X$ is a collection of subsets of $X$ such that for any pair of distinct elements in $X$, there exists a set in the separating system that…

The celebrated result of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi states that for any $\varepsilon>0$, there exists $0<c<1$, such that for all sufficiently large $n$, every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $\delta(G)\geq(1/2+\varepsilon)n$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jun Yan

We investigate the bounds on algebraic connectivity of graphs subject to constraints on the number of edges, vertices, and topology. We show that the algebraic connectivity for any tree on $n$ vertices and with maximum degree $d$ is bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Theodore Kolokolnikov

We study that over some types of trees with a given number of vertices, which trees minimize or maximize the total number of subtrees. Trees minimizing (resp. maximizing) the total number of subtrees usually maximize (resp. minimize) the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Shuchao Li , Shujing Wang

We obtain sharp lower and upper bounds for the number of maximal (under inclusion) independent sets in trees with fixed number of vertices and diameter. All extremal trees are described up to isomorphism.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-31 Alexander Dainiak

An identifying code $C$ of a graph $G$ is a dominating set of $G$ such that any two distinct vertices of $G$ have distinct closed neighbourhoods within $C$. These codes have been widely studied for over two decades. We give an improvement…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Florent Foucaud , Tuomo Lehtilä

A graph $G$ is $D$-distinguishable if there is a labeling of its vertices with $D$ labels such that the only automorphism of $G$ which preserves the labeling is the identity. The distinguishing number of $G$ is the minimum value $D$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Calum Buchanan , Peter Dankelmann , Isabel Harris , Paul Horn , K. E. Perry , Emily Rivett-Carnac

Given a graph $G$ and a non trivial partition $(V_1,V_2)$ of its vertex-set, the satisfaction of a vertex $v\in V_i$ is the ratio between the size of it's closed neighborhood in $V_i$ and the size of its closed neighborhood in $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Valentin Bouquet , François Delbot , Christophe Picouleau

A vertex whose removal in a graph $G$ increases the number of components of $G$ is called a cut vertex. For all $n,c$, we determine the maximum number of connected induced subgraphs in a connected graph with order $n$ and $c$ cut vertices,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

The coalition in a graph $G$ consists of two disjoint sets of vertices $V_{1}$ and $V_{2}$, neither of which is a dominating set but whose union $V_{1}\cup V_{2}$, is a dominating set. A coalition partition in a graph $G$ is a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Saeid Alikhani , Hamid Reza Golmohammadi , Elena V. Konstantinova

We show that a tree of order $n$ has at most $O(5^{n/4})$ nonisomorphic subtrees, and that this bound is best possible. We also prove an analogous result for the number of nonisomorphic rooted subtrees of a rooted tree.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Éva Czabarka , László A. Székely , Stephan Wagner