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An oriented graph is called $k$-anti-traceable if the subdigraph induced by every subset with $k$ vertices has a hamiltonian anti-directed path. In this paper, we consider an anti-traceability conjecture. In particular, we confirm this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Bin Chen , Stefanie Gerke , Gregory Gutin , Hui Lei , Heis Parker-Cox , Yacong Zhou

A balanced 2-partition of a graph is a bipartition $A,A^c$ of $V(G)$ such that $|A|=|A^c|$. Balogh, Clemen, and Lidick\'y conjectured that for every $K_4$-free graph on $n$ (even) vertices, there exists a balanced 2-partition $A,A^c$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Yue Xu , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A graph $G$ of order $n$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical for integers $1\leq k < n$, if the removal of any $k$ vertices results in a graph with a perfect matching. $1$- and $2$-factor-critical graphs are the well-known factor-critical and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Jing Guo , Heping Zhang

The crossing number cr(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of crossings in a nondegenerate planar drawing of G. The rectilinear crossing number cr'(G) of G is the minimum number of crossings in a rectilinear nondegenerate planar drawing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Ellen Gethner , Leslie Hogben , Bernard Lidický , Florian Pfender , Amanda Ruiz , Michael Young

For a real constant $\alpha$, let $\pi_3^\alpha(G)$ be the minimum of twice the number of $K_2$'s plus $\alpha$ times the number of $K_3$'s over all edge decompositions of $G$ into copies of $K_2$ and $K_3$, where $K_r$ denotes the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Adam Blumenthal , Bernard Lidický , Yanitsa Pehova , Florian Pfender , Oleg Pikhurko , Jan Volec

A graph $G$ is $k$-ordered if for any distinct vertices $v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_k \in V(G)$, it has a cycle through $v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_k$ in order. Let $f(k)$ denote the minimum integer so that every $f(k)$-connected graph is $k$-ordered.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Rose McCarty , Yan Wang , Xingxing Yu

An embedding of a graph in $3$-space is linkless if for every two disjoint cycles there exists an embedded ball that contains one of the cycles and is disjoint from the other. We prove that every bipartite linklessly embeddable (simple)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Rose McCarty , Robin Thomas

We focus on counting the number of labeled graphs on $n$ vertices and treewidth at most $k$ (or equivalently, the number of labeled partial $k$-trees), which we denote by $T_{n,k}$. So far, only the particular cases $T_{n,1}$ and $T_{n,2}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Julien Baste , Marc Noy , Ignasi Sau

Let $G$ be a simple graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. According to Tur\'{a}n's theorem, if $G$ is $K_{r+1}$-free, then $m \leq |E(T(n, r))|,$ where $T(n, r)$ denotes the Tur\'{a}n graph on $n$ vertices with a maximum clique of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Rajat Adak , L. Sunil Chandran

We show that for each $k\geq 4$ and $n>r\geq k+1$, every $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycle of length at least $k$ has at most $\frac{(k-1)(n-1)}{r}$ edges. The bound is exact, and we describe the extremal hypergraphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

In \cite{Chan95}, the authors classified the 2-extendable abelian Cayley graphs and posed the problem of characterizing all 2-extendable Cayley graphs. We first show that a connected bipartite Cayley (vertex-transitive) graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Qiuli Li , Xing Gao

We show that for all $n \equiv 0 \pmod{6}$, $n \geq 18$, there is an orientable triangular embedding of the octahedral graph on $n$ vertices that can be augmented with handles to produce a genus embedding of the complete graph of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Timothy Sun

Nut graphs are graphs whose adjacency matrix is singular with one-dimensional null space spanned by a vector with no zero entries. In a recent paper, Ba\v{s}i\'c, Fowler and Pisanski proved that the automorphism group of a nut graph has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ksenija Rozman , Primož Šparl

Recently, the problem of establishing bounds on the edge density of 1-planar graphs, including their subclass IC-planar graphs, has received considerable attention. In 2018, Angelini et al. showed that any n-vertex bipartite IC-planar graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Guiping Wang , Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang , Licheng Zhang

An orientation $D$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a digraph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge by exactly one of the two possible arcs with the same end vertices. For each $v \in V(G)$, the indegree of $v$ in $D$, denoted by $d^-_D(v)$, is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Julio Araujo , Alexandre Cezar , Carlos V. G. C. Lima , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Ana Silva

The purpose of this paper is to characterize graphs that do not have a large $K_{2,n}$-minor. As corollaries, it is proved that, for any given positive integer $n$, every sufficiently large 3-connected graph with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Guoli Ding

The $(k,r)$-fan is the graph consisting of $k$ copies of the complete graph $K_r$ which intersect in a single vertex, and is denoted by $F_{k,r}$. Erd\H{o}s, F\"uredi, Gould and Gunderson [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 64 (1995) 89--100]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Dheer Noal Desai , Liying Kang , Yongtao Li , Zhenyu Ni , Michael Tait , Jing Wang

Let c(G) be the smallest number of edges we have to test in order to determine an unknown acyclic orientation of the given graph G in the worst case. For example, if G is the complete graph on n vertices, then c(G) is the smallest number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-09 Oleg Pikhurko

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 graph $G=(V,E)$ is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. In this paper, we study bipartite $1$-planar graphs with prescribed numbers of vertices in partite sets. Bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Július Czap , Jakub Przybyło , Erika Škrabuľáková