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Simple drawings are drawings of graphs in which the edges are Jordan arcs and each pair of edges share at most one point (a proper crossing or a common endpoint). We introduce a special kind of simple drawings that we call generalized…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Oswin Aichholzer , Alfredo García , Javier Tejel , Birgit Vogtenhuber , Alexandra Weinberger

The k-planar graphs, which are (usually with small values of k such as 1, 2, 3) subject to recent intense research, admit a drawing in which edges are allowed to cross, but each one edge is allowed to carry at most k crossings. In recently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Petr Hliněný , Lili Ködmön

The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of the graph in the plane. Our main result is that every graph $G$ that does not contain a fixed graph as a minor has crossing number $O(\Delta n)$, where $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Vida Dujmović , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Bojan Mohar , David R. Wood

A graph $H$ is \emph{common} if the number of monochromatic copies of $H$ in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ is asymptotically minimised by the random colouring, or equivalently, $t_H(W)+t_H(1-W)\geq 2^{1-e(H)}$ holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Jang Soo Kim , Joonkyung Lee

Levels and sublevels in arrangements -- and, dually, $k$-sets and $(\leq k)$-sets -- are fundamental notions in discrete and computational geometry and natural generalizations of convex polytopes, which correspond to the $0$-level. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Elizaveta Streltsova , Uli Wagner

A famous conjecture of P\'osa from 1962 asserts that every graph on $n$ vertices and with minimum degree at least $2n/3$ contains the square of a Hamilton cycle. The conjecture was proven for large graphs in 1996 by Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Katherine Staden , Andrew Treglown

In this work, we introduce and develop a theory of convex drawings of the complete graph $K_n$ in the sphere. A drawing $D$ of $K_n$ is convex if, for every 3-cycle $T$ of $K_n$, there is a closed disc $\Delta_T$ bounded by $D[T]$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Alan Arroyo , Dan McQuillan , R. Bruce Richter , Gelasio Salazar

Let $f(n,k)$ be the minimum number of edges that must be removed from some complete geometric graph $G$ on $n$ points, so that there exists a tree on $k$ vertices that is no longer a planar subgraph of $G$. In this paper we show that…

In 1965 Erd\H os conjectured that for all $k\ge2$, $s\ge1$ and $n\ge k(s+1)$, an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph $\F$ with $\nu(\F)=s$ cannot have more than \newline $\max\{\binom{sk+k-1}k,\;\binom nk-\binom{n-s}k\}$ edges. It took almost…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Peter Frankl , Vojtech Rödl , Andrzej Ruciński

In 1930, Kuratowski showed that $K_{3,3}$ and $K_5$ are the only two minor-minimal non-planar graphs. Robertson and Seymour extended finiteness of the set of forbidden minors for any surface. \v{S}ir\'{a}\v{n} and Kochol showed that there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Alen Vegi Kalamar , Tadej Žerak , Drago Bokal

A graph is said to be diameter-$k$-critical if its diameter is $k$ and removal of any of its edges increases its diameter. A beautiful conjecture by Murty and Simon, says that every diameter-2-critical graph of order $n$ has at most…

A star-simple drawing of a graph is a drawing in which adjacent edges do not cross. In contrast, there is no restriction on the number of crossings between two independent edges. When allowing empty lenses (a face in the arrangement induced…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Stefan Felsner , Michael Hoffmann , Kristin Knorr , Irene Parada

We introduce a model for random geodesic drawings of the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,n}$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$, where we select the vertices in each bipartite class of $K_{n,n}$ with respect to two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Marthe Bonamy , Bojan Mohar , Alexandra Wesolek

Inspired by Feynman integral computations in quantum field theory, Kontsevich conjectured in 1997 that the number of points of graph hypersurfaces over a finite field $\F_q$ is a (quasi-) polynomial in $q$. Stembridge verified this for all…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Francis Brown , Oliver Schnetz

A graph $H$ is common if the number of monochromatic copies of $H$ in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ is asymptotically minimised by the random colouring. We prove that, given $k,r>0$, there exists a $k$-connected common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Sejin Ko , Joonkyung Lee

We study 3-plane drawings, that is, drawings of graphs in which every edge has at most three crossings. We show how the recently developed Density Formula for topological drawings of graphs (KKKRSU GD 2024) can be used to count the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Miriam Goetze , Michael Hoffmann , Ignaz Rutter , Torsten Ueckerdt

Alweiss, Lovett, Wu, and Zhang introduced $q$-spread hypergraphs in their breakthrough work regarding the sunflower conjecture, and since then $q$-spread hypergraphs have been used to give short proofs of several outstanding problems in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Sam Spiro

For studying topological obstructions to graph colorings, Hom-complexes were introduced by Lov\'{a}sz. A graph $T$ is called a test graph if for every graph $H$, the $k$-connectedness of $|Hom(T, H)|$ implies $\chi (H)\geq k + 1 + \chi(T)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh

Many real transportation and mobility networks have their vertices placed on the surface of the Earth. In such embeddings, the edges laid on that surface may cross. In his pioneering research, Moon analyzed the distribution of the number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Mercè Mora , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

A graph H is common if the number of monochromatic copies of H in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph is minimised by the random colouring. Burr and Rosta, extending a famous conjecture by Erdos, conjectured that every graph is common.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Andrzej Grzesik , Joonkyung Lee , Bernard Lidický , Jan Volec