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A graph is diameter-2-critical if its diameter is 2 but the removal of any edge increases the diameter. A well-studied conjecture, known as the Murty-Simon conjecture, states that any diameter-2-critical graph of order n has at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Florent Foucaud , Adriana Hansberg

Thomassen formulated the following conjecture: Every $3$-connected cubic graph has a red-blue vertex coloring such that the blue subgraph has maximum degree $1$ (that is, it consists of a matching and some isolated vertices) and the red…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-01 János Barát

For given integers $k$ and $\ell$ with $0<\ell< {k \choose 2}$, Alon, Hefetz, Krivelevich and Tyomkyn formulated the following conjecture: When sampling a $k$-vertex subset uniformly at random from a very large graph $G$, then the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Jacob Fox , Lisa Sauermann

Twisted hypercubes are generalizations of the Boolean hypercube, obtained by iteratively connecting two instances of a graph by a uniformly random perfect matching. Dudek et al. showed that when the two instances are independent, these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Itai Benjamini , Yotam Dikstein , Renan Gross , Maksim Zhukovskii

For $S\subseteq V(G)$ and $|S|\geq 2$, $\lambda(S)$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint trees connecting $S$ in $G$. For an integer $k$ with $2\leq k\leq n$, the \emph{generalized $k$-edge-connectivity} $\lambda_k(G)$ of $G$ is then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao

In a recent work, Keusch proved the so-called 1-2-3 Conjecture, raised by Karo\'nski, {\L}uczak, and Thomason in 2004: for every connected graph different from $K_2$, we can assign labels~$1,2,3$ to the edges so that no two adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Julien Bensmail , Beatriz Martins , Chaoliang Tang

A graph is diameter two edge-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion of any edge increases the diameter. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number of edges in a diameter two edge-critical graph on $n$ vertices is at most $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Tao Wang , Ping Wang , Qinglin Yu

A famous conjecture of Caccetta and H\"aggkvist is that in a digraph on $n$ vertices and minimum out-degree at least $\frac{n}{r}$ there is a directed cycle of length $r$ or less. We consider the following generalization: in an undirected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Ron Aharoni , Ron Holzman , Matthew DeVos

The mincut graph bisection problem involves partitioning the n vertices of a graph into disjoint subsets, each containing exactly n/2 vertices, while minimizing the number of "cut" edges with an endpoint in each subset. When considered over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Allon G. Percus , Gabriel Istrate , Bruno Goncalves , Robert Z. Sumi , Stefan Boettcher

Consider the time T_oz when the random walk on a weighted graph started at the vertex o first hits the vertex set z. We present lower bounds for T_oz in terms of the volume of z and the graph distance between o and z. The bounds are for…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Balint Virag

For a graph $G$, let $cp(G)$ denote the minimum number of cliques of $G$ needed to cover the edges of $G$ exactly once. Similarly, let $bp_k(G)$ denote the minimum number of bicliques (i.e. complete bipartite subgraphs of $G$) needed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Dhruv Rohatgi , John C. Urschel , Jake Wellens

For any $\epsilon > 0$, we show that if $G$ is a regular graph on $n \gg_\epsilon 1$ vertices that is $\epsilon$-far (differs by at least $\epsilon n^2$ edges) from any Tur\'{a}n graph, then its second eigenvalue $\lambda_2$ satisfies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shengtong Zhang

One of the most famous conjecture in graph theory is Hedetniemi's conjecture stating that the chromatic number of the categorical product of graphs is the minimum of their chromatic numbers. Using a suitable extension of the definition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Hossein Hajiabolhassan , Frédéric Meunier

We consider the Erd\H{o}s, Pach, Pollack and Tuza problem, asking for the maximum diameter of a graph with given order $n$, minimum degree $\delta$ and clique number at most $\omega$. We solve their problem asymptotically for the first hard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Stijn Cambie , Jorik Jooken

We consider the problem of decomposing the edges of a directed graph into as few paths as possible. There is a natural lower bound for the number of paths needed in an edge decomposition of a directed graph $D$ in terms of its degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Viresh Patel , Fabian Stroh

Our main result is designing an algorithm that returns a vertex cover of $\mathcal{G}^\star$ with size at most $(3/2+\epsilon)$ times the expected size of the minimum vertex cover, using only $O(n/\epsilon p)$ non-adaptive queries. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Mahsa Derakhshan , Naveen Durvasula , Nika Haghtalab

The celebrated dependent random choice lemma states that in a bipartite graph an average vertex (weighted by its degree) has the property that almost all small subsets $S$ in its neighborhood has common neighborhood almost as large as in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Tao Jiang , Sean Longbrake

Given a graph $G$ and $p\in [0,1]$, the random subgraph $G_p$ is obtained by retaining each edge of $G$ independently with probability $p$. We show that for every $\epsilon>0$, there exists a constant $C>0$ such that the following holds.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Sahar Diskin , Joshua Erde , Mihyun Kang , Michael Krivelevich

A longstanding conjecture of Seymour states that in every oriented graph there is a vertex whose second outneighbourhood is at least as large as its outneighbourhood. In this short note we show that, for any fixed $p\in[0,1/2)$, a.a.s.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Alberto Espuny Díaz , António Girão , Bertille Granet , Gal Kronenberg

A conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson (1971) states that every cubic bridgeless graph contains 6 perfect matchings covering each edge precisely twice, which easily implies that every cubic bridgeless graph has three perfect matchings with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Louis Esperet , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo