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Nash-Williams proved that every graph has a well-balanced orientation. A key ingredient in his proof is admissible odd-vertex pairings. We show that for two slightly different definitions of admissible odd-vertex pairings, deciding whether…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Florian Hörsch

A $\Gamma$-labeled graph is an oriented graph with edges invertibly labeled by a group $\Gamma$. We prove a structure theorem for $\Gamma$-labeled graphs which forbid a fixed $\Gamma$-labeled graph as an immersion, for any finite $\Gamma$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Rose McCarty , Caleb McFarland , Paul Wollan

C. Thomassen in \cite{[11]} suggested (see also \cite{[2]}, J. C.Bermond, C. Thomassen, Cycles in Digraphs - A survey, J. Graph Theory 5 (1981) 1-43, Conjectures 1.6.7 and 1.6.8) the following conjectures : 1. Every 3-strongly connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-17 S. Kh. Darbinyan

We prove a conjecture of K\"uhn, Osthus, Townsend and Zhao \cite{kuhn2017structure} stating that almost every $C_k$-free oriented graph on $n$ vertices has $\Theta(n)$ backwards edges in a transitive-optimal ordering. The same holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jianxi Liu , Meili Liang

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a finite non-simple directed graph, called an ornated graph and initiate a study on ornated graphs. An ornated graph is a directed graph on $n$ vertices, denoted by $O_n(s_l)$, whose vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Johan Kok , Sudev Naduvath , Vivian Mukungunugwa

A relational structure is \emph{strongly indivisible} if for every partition $M = X_0 \sqcup X_1$, the induced substructure on $X_0$ or $X_1$ is isomorphic to $\mathcal{M}$. Cameron (1997) showed that a graph is strongly indivisible if and…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Damir D. Dzhafarov , Reed Solomon , Andrea Volpi

Every properly colored graph with $\chi(G)=k$ colors has edge-disjoint Kempe "backbones", Kempe chains anchored by color-critical vertices for each pair of colors. Certain color permutations arrange these backbones into a clique-like…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Todd A Gibson

Algorithmic decidability is established for two order-theoretic properties of downward closed subsets defined by finitely many obstructions in two infinite posets. The properties under consideration are: (a) being atomic, i.e. not being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Matthew McDevitt , Nik Ruskuc

An alternating graph is a directed graph whose vertex set is partitioned into two classes, existential and universal. This forms the basic arena for a plethora of infinite duration two-player games where Player~$\square$ and~$\ocircle$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Carlo Comin , Romeo Rizzi

An immersion of a graph $H$ in a graph $G$ is a minimal subgraph $I$ of $G$ for which there is an injection ${{\rm i}} \colon V(H) \to V(I)$ and a set of edge-disjoint paths $\{P_e: e \in E(H)\}$ in $I$ such that the end vertices of…

A (possibly directed) graph is $k$-linked if for any two disjoint sets of vertices $\{x_1, \dots, x_k\}$ and $\{y_1, \dots, y_k\}$ there are vertex disjoint paths $P_1, \dots, P_k$ such that $P_i$ goes from $x_i$ to $y_{i}$. A theorem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Alexey Pokrovskiy

An infinite graph is highly connected if the complement of any subgraph of smaller size is connected. We consider weaker versions of Ramsey's Theorem asserting that in any coloring of the edges of a complete graph there exist large highly…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Jeffrey Bergfalk , Michael Hrušák , Saharon Shelah

This paper studies induced paths in strongly regular graphs. We give an elementary proof that a strongly regular graph contains a path $P_4$ as an induced subgraph if and only if it is primitive, i.e. it is neither a complete multipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Robert F. Bailey , Abigail K. Rowsell

We show that almost all circulant graphs have automorphism groups as small as possible. Of the circulant graphs that do not have automorphism group as small as possible, we give some families of integers such that it is not true that almost…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Soumya Bhoumik , Edward Dobson , Joy Morris

The graphical notion of effective resistance has found wide-ranging applications in many areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics and control theory. By the nature of its construction, effective resistance can only be computed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-23 George Forrest Young , Luca Scardovi , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

In this paper we study graphs which admit acyclic orientations that contain a pair of arc-disjoint out-branching and in-branching (such an orientation is called good) and we focus on edge-minimal such graphs. A 2T-graph is a graph whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 J. Bang-Jensen , S. Bessy , J. Huang , M. Kriesell

In this survey we overview known results on the strong subgraph $k$-connectivity and strong subgraph $k$-arc-connectivity of digraphs. After an introductory section, the paper is divided into four sections: basic results, algorithms and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Yuefang Sun , Gregory Gutin

We provide a mathematically and conceptually robust notion of quantum superpositions of graphs. We argue that, crucially, quantum superpositions of graphs require node names for their correct alignment, which we demonstrate through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Pablo Arrighi , Marios Christodoulou , Amélia Durbec

We give several results showing that different discrete structures typically gain certain spanning substructures (in particular, Hamilton cycles) after a modest random perturbation. First, we prove that adding linearly many random edges to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Michael Krivelevich , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

A digraph is connected-homogeneous if any isomorphism between finite connected induced subdigraphs extends to an automorphism of the digraph. We consider locally-finite connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. In the case that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Robert Gray , Rognvaldur G. Moller