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We provide a variety of lower bounds for the well-known shortcut set problem: how much can one decrease the diameter of a directed graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges by adding $O(n)$ or $O(m)$ of shortcuts from the transitive closure of…
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We prove new lower bounds on the modularity of graphs. Specifically, the modularity of a graph $G$ with average degree $\bar d$ is $\Omega(\bar{d}^{-1/2})$, under some mild assumptions on the degree sequence of $G$. The lower bound…
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We address the problem proposed by Chartrand, Erd\H{o}s and Oellermann (1988) about the existence of regular $K_3$-irregular graphs. We first establish bounds on the $K_3$-degrees of such graphs and use them to prove that there are no such…
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