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Quasi-trees generalize trees in that the unique "path" between two nodes may be infinite and have any countable order type. They are used to define the rank-width of a countable graph in such a way that it is equal to the least upper-bound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bruno Courcelle

Let (X,d) be a tree (T) of hyperbolic metric spaces satisfying the quasi-isometrically embedded condition. Let $v$ be a vertex of $T$. Let $({X_v},d_v)$ denote the hyperbolic metric space corresponding to $v$. Then $i : X_v \rightarrow X$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Mahan Mitra

In this paper I survey the sources of inspiration for my own and co-authored work in trying to develop a general theory of graph polynomials. I concentrate on meta-theorems, i.e., theorem which depend only on the form infinite classes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Johann A. Makowsky

We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

We study an abstract notion of tree structure which lies at the common core of various tree-like discrete structures commonly used in combinatorics: trees in graphs, order trees, nested subsets of a set, tree-decompositions of graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Reinhard Diestel

The classical Ramsey theorem was generalized in two major ways: to the dual Ramsey theorem, by Graham and Rothschild, and to Ramsey theorems for trees, initially by Deuber and Leeb. Bringing these two lines of thought together, we prove the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Sławomir Solecki

In this article we generalize a theorem of Benson for generalized quadrangles to strongly regular graphs and directed strongly regular graphs. The main result provides numerical restrictions on the number of fixed vertices and the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-14 S. De Winter , E. Kamischke , Z. Wang

We determine the probability thresholds for the existence of monotone paths, of finite and infinite length, in random oriented graphs with vertex set $\mathbb N^{[k]}$, the set of all increasing $k$-tuples in $\mathbb N$. These graphs…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Pietro Majer , Matteo Novaga

Kriz and Thomas showed that every (finite or infinite) graph of tree-width $k \in \mathbb{N}$ admits a lean tree-decomposition of width $k$. We discuss a number of counterexamples demonstrating the limits of possible generalisations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Sandra Albrechtsen , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

A graph is one-ended if it contains a ray (a one way infinite path) and whenever we remove a finite number of vertices from the graph then what remains has only one component which contains rays. A vertex $v$ {\em dominates} a ray in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Johannes Carmesin , Florian Lehner , Rögnvaldur G. Möller

We study the conjecture stated by Jensen and Len on a tropical version on Martens' theorem via the Brill--Noether rank of a tropical curve. We recall Coppens' counterexample of Martens-special chain of cycles, and we generalize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Giusi Capobianco , Angelina Zheng

Robertson and Seymour proved two fundamental theorems about tangles in graphs: the tree-of-tangles theorem, which says that every graph has a tree-decomposition such that distinguishable tangles live in different nodes of the tree, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Sandra Albrechtsen

We relate matroid connectivity to Tutte-connectivity in an infinite graph. Moreover, we show that the two cycle matroids, the finite-cycle matroid and the cycle matroid, in which also infinite cycles are taken into account, have the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Henning Bruhn

We consider quantum walks on a finite graphs to which infinite tails are attached. We explore how the propagating and bound states depend on the structure of the finite graph. The S-matrix for such graphs is defined. Its unitarity is proved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Martin Varbanov , Todd A. Brun

We extend to infinite graphs the matroidal characterization of finite graph duality, that two graphs are dual iff they have complementary spanning trees in some common edge set. The naive infinite analogue of this fails. The key in an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-08 Reinhard Diestel , Julian Pott

Based on the main result presented in a recent paper, we derive Ambarzumian-type theorems for Schr\"odinger operators defined on quantum graphs. We recover existing results such as the classical theorem by Ambarzumian and establish some…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Patrizio Bifulco , Joachim Kerner

We examine a number of results of infinite combinatorics using the techniques of reverse mathematics. Our results are inspired by similar results in recursive combinatorics. Theorems included concern colorings of graphs and bounded graphs,…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 William Gasarch , Jeffry Hirst

We prove that the extension complexity of the independence polytope of every regular matroid on $n$ elements is $O(n^6)$. Past results of Wong and Martin on extended formulations of the spanning tree polytope of a graph imply a $O(n^2)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Manuel Aprile , Samuel Fiorini

In [1] M. Baker and S. Norine developed a theory of divisors and linear systems on graphs, and proved a Riemann-Roch Theorem for these objects (conceived as integer-valued functions on the vertices). In [2] and [3] the authors generalized…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Rodney James , Rick Miranda

We prove a general width duality theorem for combinatorial structures with well-defined notions of cohesion and separation. These might be graphs and matroids, but can be much more general or quite different. The theorem asserts a duality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Reinhard Diestel , Sang-il Oum