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This paper is intended as an introductory survey of a newly emerging field: a topological approach to the study of locally finite graphs that crucially incorporates their ends. Topological arcs and circles, which may pass through ends,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Reinhard Diestel

Halin proved that every graph with an end $\omega$ containing infinitely many pairwise disjoint rays admits a subdivision of the infinite quarter-grid as a subgraph where all rays from that subgraph belong to $\omega$. We will prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Matthias Hamann , Karl Heuer

We show that an arbitrary infinite graph can be compactified by its ${\aleph_0}$-tangles in much the same way as the ends of a locally finite graph compactify it in its Freudenthal compactification. In general, the ends then appear as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Reinhard Diestel

We consider the worst-case query complexity of some variants of certain \cl{PPAD}-complete search problems. Suppose we are given a graph $G$ and a vertex $s \in V(G)$. We denote the directed graph obtained from $G$ by directing all edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Günter Rote , Gábor Wiener

This paper is the last part of a comprehensive survey of a newly emerging field: a topological approach to the study of locally finite graphs that crucially incorporates their ends. Topological arcs and circles, which may pass through ends,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-12 Reinhard Diestel , Philipp Sprüssel

Bounds on the minimum degree and on the number of vertices at- taining it have been much studied for finite edge-/vertex-minimally k- connected/k-edge-connected graphs. We give an overview of the results known for finite graphs, and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Maya Stein

We define and study analogs of curve graphs for infinite type surfaces. Our definitions use the geometry of a fixed surface and vertices of our graphs are infinite multicurves which are bounded in both a geometric and a topological sense.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Ariadna Fossas , Hugo Parlier

We give a nonstandard treatment of the notion of ends of proper geodesic metric spaces. We then apply this nonstandard treatment to Cayley graphs of finitely generated groups and give nonstandard proofs of many of the fundamental results…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-18 Isaac Goldbring

In this paper we further develop the theory of one sided shift spaces over infinite alphabets, characterizing one-step shifts as edge shifts of ultragraphs and partially answering a conjecture regarding shifts of finite type (we show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Daniel Gonçalves , Danilo Royer

We propose a homology theory for locally compact spaces with ends in which the ends play a special role. The approach is motivated by results for graphs with ends, where it has been highly successful. But it was unclear how the original…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Reinhard Diestel , Philipp Sprüssel

Let $G$ be a group. The directed endomorphism graph, $\dend(G)$ of $G$ is a directed graph with vertex set $G$ and there is a directed edge from the vertex $a$ to the vertex $b$ if $a \neq b$ and there exists an endomorphism on $G$ mapping…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Midhuna V Ajith , Peter J Cameron , Mainak Ghosh , Aparna Lakshmanan S

The path spaces of a directed graph play an important role in the study of graph $\css$. These are topological spaces that were originally constructed using groupoid and inverse semigroup techniques. In this paper, we develop a simple,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alan L. T. Paterson , Amy E. Welch

Entanglement is a complexity measure of digraphs that origins in fixed-point logics. Its combinatorial purpose is to measure the nested depth of cycles in digraphs. We address the problem of characterizing the structure of graphs of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-13 Walid Belkhir

Two of the natural topologies for infinite graphs with edge-ends are Etop and Itop. In this paper, we study and characterize them. We show that Itop can be constructed by inverse limits of inverse systems of graphs with finitely many…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Babak Miraftab

The star-comb lemma is a standard tool in infinite graph theory, which states that for every infinite set $U$ of vertices in a connected graph $G$ there exists either a subdivided infinite star in $G$ with all leaves in $U$, or an infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Florian Reich

We introduce a homotopy theory of digraphs (directed graphs) and prove its basic properties, including the relations to the homology theory of digraphs constructed by the authors in previous papers. In particular, we prove the homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Alexander Grigor'yan , Yong Lin , Yuri Muranov , Shing-Tung Yau

A directed graph is set-homogeneous if, whenever U and V are isomorphic finite subdigraphs, there is an automorphism g of the digraph with U^g=V. Here, extending work of Lachlan on finite homogeneous digraphs, we classify finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Robert Gray , Dugald Macpherson , Cheryl E. Praeger , Gordon F. Royle

A directed diameter of a directed graph is the maximum possible distance between a pair of vertices, where paths must respect edge orientations, while undirected diameter is the diameter of the undirected graph obtained by symmetrizing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Saveliy V. Skresanov

A mixed graph can be seen as a type of digraph containing some edges (two opposite arcs). Here we introduce the concept of sequence mixed graphs, which is a generalization of both sequence graphs and iterated line digraphs. These structures…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-13 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , N. López

We study the behaviour of random labelled and unlabelled cographs with n vertices as n tends to infinity. Our main result is a novel probabilistic limit in the space of graphons.

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Benedikt Stufler