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In this series we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects like undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs or finitary matroids. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Nathan Bowler , Florian Reich

In a series of three papers we develop an end space theory for digraphs. Here in the second paper we introduce the topological space $|D|$ formed by a digraph $D$ together with its ends and limit edges. We then characterise those digraphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Carl Bürger , Ruben Melcher

In this paper we define a degree for ends of infinite digraphs. The well-definedness of our definition in particular resolves a problem by Zuther. Furthermore, we extend our notion of end degree to also respect, among others, the vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Matthias Hamann , Karl Heuer

In a series of three papers we develop an end space theory for digraphs. Here in the third paper we introduce a concept of depth-first search trees in infinite digraphs, which we call normal spanning arborescences. We show that normal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Carl Bürger , Ruben Melcher

Directions of graphs were originally introduced in the study of a cops-and-robbers kind of game, while the study of end spaces has been used to generalize classical graph-theoretical results to infinite graphs, such as Halin's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gustavo Boska , Matheus Duzi , Paulo Magalhães Júnior

Infinite graphs are finitary in the sense that their points are connected via finite paths. So what would an infinitary generalization of finite graphs look like? Usually this question is answered with the aid of topology, e.g. in the case…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Hendrik Heine

Polat generalised Menger's theorem -- the maximum number of vertex-disjoint paths between two sets $A$ and $B$ equals the minimum size of an $A$-$B$ separator -- to ends of undirected graphs. In this paper we extend Menger's theorem to ends…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Florian Reich

End-spaces of infinite graphs naturally generalise the Freudenthal boundary and sit at the interface between graph theory, geometric group theory and topology. Our main result is that every end-space can topologically be represented by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jan Kurkofka , Max Pitz

We show that the topological space of any infinite graph and its ends is normal. In particular, end spaces themselves are normal.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Philipp Sprüssel

The entropy of a digraph is a fundamental measure which relates network coding, information theory, and fixed points of finite dynamical systems. In this paper, we focus on the entropy of undirected graphs. We prove that for any integer $k$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Maximilien Gadouleau

The directions of an infinite graph $G$ are a tangle-like description of its ends: they are choice functions that choose compatibly for all finite vertex sets $X\subseteq V(G)$ a component of $G-X$. Although every direction is induced by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Jan Kurkofka , Ruben Melcher

Diestel and K\"uhn proved that the topological ends of an infinite graph are precisely its undominated graph ends, yielding a canonical embedding of the space of topological ends into the space of graph ends. For edge-ends, introduced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Leandro Aurichi , Paulo Magalhães Júnior , Guilherme Eduardo Pinto

Bidirected graphs generalize directed and undirected graphs in that edges are oriented locally at every node. The natural notion of the degree of a node that takes into account (local) orientations is that of net-degree. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Laura Gellert , Raman Sanyal

We prove that every end of a graph contains either uncountably many disjoint rays or a set of disjoint rays that meet all rays of the end and start at any prescribed feasible set of start vertices. This confirms a conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-24 J. Pascal Gollin , Karl Heuer

In this series, we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects such as undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nathan Bowler , Florian Reich

There are different definitions of ends in non-locally-finite graphs which are all equivalent in the locally finite case. We prove the compactness of the end-topology that is based on the principle of removing finite sets of vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-31 B. Krön

The notion of ends in an infinite graph $G$ might be modified if we consider them as equivalence classes of infinitely edge-connected rays, rather than equivalence classes of infinitely (vertex-)connected ones. This alternative definition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Leandro Fiorini Aurichi , Paulo Magalhães Júnior , Lucas Real

In infinite graph theory, the notion of ends, first introduced by Freudenthal and Jung for locally finite graphs, plays an important role when generalizing statements from finite graphs to infinite ones. Nash-Willian's Tree-Packing Theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Leandro Fiorini Aurichi , Lucas Real

A dicut in a directed graph is a cut for which all of its edges are directed to a common side of the cut. A famous theorem of Lucchesi and Younger states that in every finite digraph the least size of an edge set meeting every dicut equals…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 J. Pascal Gollin , Karl Heuer

We introduce torsoids, a canonical structure in matching covered graphs, corresponding to the bricks and braces of the graph. This allows a more fine-grained understanding of the structure of finite and infinite directed graphs with respect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Nathan Bowler , Florian Gut , Meike Hatzel , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Irene Muzi , Florian Reich
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