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Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $3$-uniform linear hypergraphs. The linear Tur\'an number of $\mathcal F$ is the maximum possible number of edges in a $3$-uniform linear hypergraph on $n$ vertices which contains no member of $\mathcal{F}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Beka Ergemlidze , Ervin Győri , Abhishek Methuku

Given a digraph $D$, let $c(D)$ denote the largest integer $k$ such that there are $k$ openly disjoint cycles through a vertex, i.e., a collection of directed cycles $C_1,\ldots,C_k$ through a common vertex $v$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Raphael Steiner

We show that for every $\eta>0$, there exists $n_0$ such that for every even $n$, $n\ge n_0$, and every graph $G$ with $(2+\eta)n$ vertices and minimum degree at least $(7/4+4\eta)n$, each colouring of the edges of $G$ with three colours…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Tomasz Łuczak , Zahra Rahimi

A graph $ G $ is said to be $ (H;k) $-vertex stable if $ G $ contains a~subgraph isomorphic to $ H $ even after removing any $ k $ of its vertices alongside with their incident edges. We will denote by $ \text{stab}(H;k) $ the minimum size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Artur Kuźnar

One way to certify that a graph does not contain an induced cycle of length six is to provide a partition of its vertex set into (i) a stable set, and (ii) a graph containing no stable set of size three and no induced matching of size two.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Bruce Reed

We prove: (i) if $G$ is a 1-tough graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ with $\delta\ge(n-2)/3$ then each longest cycle in $G$ is a dominating cycle unless $G$ belongs to an easily specified class of graphs with $\kappa(G)=2$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

We prove the following: Fix an integer $k\geq 2$, and let $T$ be a real number with $T\geq 1.5$. Let $\cH=(V,\cE_2\cup \cE_3\cup\dots\cup\cE_k)$ be a non-uniform hypergraph with the vertex set $V$ and the set $\cE_i$ of edges of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Sang June Lee , Hanno Lefmann

Two sharp lower bounds for the length of a longest cycle $C$ of a graph $G$ are presented in terms of the lengths of a longest path and a longest cycle of $G-C$, denoted by $\overline{p}$ and $\overline{c}$, respectively, combined with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-12 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

Let D be a digraph and C be a cycle in D. For any two vertices x and y in D, the distance from x to y is the minimum length of a path from x to y. We denote the square of Let $D$ be a digraph and $C$ be a cycle in $D$. For any two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jie Zhang , Zhilan Wang , Jin Yan

A graph $G$ has a $C_k$-decomposition if its edge set can be partitioned into cycles of length $k$. We show that if $\delta(G)\geq 2|G|/3-1$, then $G$ has a $C_4$-decomposition, and if $\delta(G)\geq |G|/2$, then $G$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Amelia Taylor

A $k$-regular graph of girth $g$ is called vertex-girth-regular if every vertex is contained in the same number of cycles of length $g$. For integers $n, k, g$ and $\lambda$, we denote such a graph on $n$ vertices in which every vertex lies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Jorik Jooken , Denys Lohvynov

A question of Erd\H{o}s asks if for every pair of positive integers $r$ and $k$, there exists a graph $H$ having $\textrm{girth}(H)=k$ and the property that every $r$-colouring of the edges of $H$ yields a monochromatic cycle $C_k$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 H. Hàn , T. Retter , V. Rödl , M. Schacht

As the counterpart of classical theorems on cycles of consecutive lengths due to Bondy and Bollob\'as in spectral graph theory, Nikiforov proposed the following open problem in 2008: What is the maximum $C$ such that for all positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Binlong Li , Bo Ning

Given a constant $\alpha>0$, an $n$-vertex graph is called an $\alpha$-expander if every set $X$ of at most $n/2$ vertices in $G$ has an external neighborhood of size at least $\alpha|X|$. Addressing a question posed by Friedman and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Anders Martinsson , Raphael Steiner

In this short note, we prove that for \beta < 1/5 every graph G with n vertices and n^{2-\beta} edges contains a subgraph G' with at least cn^{2-2\beta} edges such that every pair of edges in G' lie together on a cycle of length at most 8.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-12 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

The cycles are the only $2$-connected graphs in which any two nonadjacent vertices form a vertex cut. We generalize this fact by proving that for every integer $k\ge 3$ there exists a unique graph $G$ satisfying the following conditions:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan , Leilei Zhang

The famous P\'{o}sa-Seymour conjecture, confirmed in 1998 by Koml\'{o}s, S\'{a}rk\"{o}zy, and Szemer\'{e}di, states that for any $k \geq 2$, every graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $kn/(k + 1)$ contains the $k$-th power of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger , Miloš Trujić

Given a simple graph $G$, the {\it irregularity strength} of $G$, denoted by $s(G)$, is the least positive integer $k$ such that there is a weight assignment on edges $f: E(G) \to \{1,2,\dots, k\}$ attributing distinct weighted degrees:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Jakub Przybyło , Fan Wei

In 1996, in his last paper, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question that he formulated together with Faudree: is there a positive $c$ such that any $(n+1)$-regular graph $G$ on $2n$ vertices contains at least $c 2^{2n}$ distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Nemanja Draganić , Peter Keevash , Alp Müyesser

Let $L$ be a set of positive integers. We call a (directed) graph $G$ an $L$\emph{-cycle graph} if all cycle lengths in $G$ belong to $L$. Let $c(L,n)$ be the maximum number of cycles possible in an $n$-vertex $L$-cycle graph (we use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Cory Palmer , Balázs Patkós