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Equistable graphs are graphs admitting positive weights on vertices such that a subset of vertices is a maximal stable set if and only if it is of total weight $1$. In $1994$, Mahadev et al.~introduced a subclass of equistable graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Martin Milanič , Nicolas Trotignon

This paper introduces and studies the stability of the strong domination number of a graph, denoted $\operatorname{st}_{\gamma_{st}}(G)$, defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal changes the strong domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Saeid Alikhani , Mazharuddin Mehraban , Hossein Shojaaldini Ardakani

This article foucuses on $(P_3\cup P_2,K_4)$-free graph. In this paper, we prove that if G is $(P_3\cup P_2,K_4)$-free, then $\chi(G)\le 7$. We then use our result to obtain the upper bound of order and chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Jinfeng Li

The Tur\'{a}n number of a graph $H$, $\text{ex}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. For a vertex $v$ and a multi-set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the suspension $\mathcal{F}+v$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Jianfeng Hou , Heng Li , Qinghou Zeng

A class of graphs is $\chi$-bounded if there is a function $f$ such that $\chi(G)\le f(\omega(G))$ for every induced subgraph $G$ of every graph in the class, where $\chi,\omega$ denote the chromatic number and clique number of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We prove a conjecture of Ohba which says that every graph $G$ on at most $2\chi(G)+1$ vertices satisfies $\chi_\ell(G)=\chi(G)$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Jonathan A. Noel , Bruce A. Reed , Hehui Wu

We have observations concerning the set theoretic strength of the following combinatorial statements without the axiom of choice. 1. If in a partially ordered set, all chains are finite and all antichains are countable, then the set is…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Amitayu Banerjee , Zalán Gyenis

Let $G$ be a simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$. A subgraph $H$ of $G$ is overfull if $|E(H)|>\Delta(G)\lfloor |V(H)|/2 \rfloor$. Chetwynd and Hilton in 1985 conjectured that a graph $G$ with $\Delta(G)>|V(G)|/3$ has chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Michael J. Plantholt , Songling Shan

Given a graph $F$, a hypergraph is called a Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained by expanding each edge of $F$ into a hyperedge containing it. Let $M_{k}$ denote the matching of size $k$. Kang, Ni, and Shan [12] determined the Tur\'an number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Jia-Bao Yang , Leilei Zhang

Given graphs $H$ and $F$, $\mathrm{ex}(n,H,F)$ denotes the largest number of copies of $H$ in $F$-free $n$-vertex graphs. Let $\chi(H)<\chi(F)=r+1$. We say that $H$ is $F$-Tur\'an-stable if the following holds. For any $\varepsilon>0$ there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Dániel Gerbner , Hilal Hama Karim

For a graph $G$, let $\chi(G)$ and $\omega(G)$ respectively denote the chromatic number and clique number of $G$. We give an explicit structural description of ($P_5$,gem)-free graphs, and show that every such graph $G$ satisfies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-07 M. Chudnovsky , T. Karthick , P. Maceli , Frederic Maffray

Let $G$ be a connected simple graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Denote $N_{i}^{(j)}(G)$ the number of spanning subgraphs of $G$ having precisely $i$ edges and not more than $j$ connected components. The graph $G$ is \emph{strong} if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Pablo Romero

The strong chromatic number, $\chi_S(G)$, of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is the smallest number $k$ such that after adding $k\lceil n/k\rceil-n$ isolated vertices to $G$ and considering {\bf any} partition of the vertices of the resulting graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is overfull if $ |E(H) | > \Delta(G) \lfloor |V(H)|/2 \rfloor$. Analogous to the Overfull Conjecture proposed by Chetwynd and Hilton in 1986, Stiebitz et al. in 2012 formed the multigraph version of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Michael J. Plantholt , Songling Shan

We prove bounds on the chromatic number $\chi$ of a vertex-transitive graph in terms of its clique number $\omega$ and maximum degree $\Delta$. We conjecture that every vertex-transitive graph satisfies $\chi \le \max \left\{\omega,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Daniel W. Cranston , Landon Rabern

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$. Let $n$ and $k$ be non-negative integers such that $n + 2k \leq |V(G)| - 2$ and $|V(G)| - n$ is even. If when deleting any $n$ vertices of $G$ the remaining subgraph contains a matching of $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guizhen Liu , Qinglin Yu

For graphs $G_0$, $G_1$ and $G_2$, write $G_0\longmapsto(G_1, G_2)$ if each red-blue-edge-coloring of $G_0$ yields a red $G_1$ or a blue $G_2$. The Ramsey number $r(G_1, G_2)$ is the minimum number $n$ such that the complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Yiran Zhang , Yuejian Peng

It was conjectured by Ohba and confirmed recently by Noel et al. that, for any graph $G$, if $|V(G)|\le 2\chi(G)+1$ then $\chi_l(G)=\chi(G)$. This indicates that the graphs with high chromatic number are chromatic-choosable. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Wei Wang , Jianguo Qian

A square (0,1)-matrix X of order n > 0 is called fully indecomposable if there exists no integer k with 0 < k < n, such that X has a k by n-k zero submatrix. A stable set of a graph G is a subset of pairwise nonadjacent vertices. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

In this paper we determine the chromatic number of graphs with two odd cycle lengths. Let $G$ be a graph and $L(G)$ be the set of all odd cycle lengths of $G$. We prove that: (1) If $L(G)=\{3,3+2l\}$, where $l\geq 2$, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Jie Ma , Bo Ning