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Graph spanners are sparse subgraphs which approximately preserve all pairwise shortest-path distances in an input graph. The notion of approximation can be additive, multiplicative, or both, and many variants of this problem have been…

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The performance of distributed averaging depends heavily on the underlying topology. In various fields, including compressed sensing, multi-party computation, and abstract graph theory, graphs may be expected to be free of short cycles,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Florine W. Dekker , Zekeriya Erkin , Mauro Conti

Asymptotic properties of random regular graphs are object of extensive study in mathematics. In this note we argue, based on theory of spin glasses, that in random regular graphs the maximum cut size asymptotically equals the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-25 Lenka Zdeborová , Stefan Boettcher

The restricted edge pebbling distribution is a distribution of pebbles on the edges of $G$ is the placement of pebbles on the edges with the restriction that only an even number of pebbles should be placed on the edges with labels $0$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 A. Lourdusamy , F. Joy Beaula , F. Patrick , I. Dhivviyanandam

Contraction of triangles is a standard operation in the study of cubic graphs, as it reduces the order of the graph while typically preserving many of its properties. In this paper, we investigate the converse problem, wherein certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Many resource allocation problems in the cloud can be described as a basic Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP): finding mappings of request graphs (describing the workloads) onto a substrate graph (describing the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid

In this thesis we consider ordered graphs (that is, graphs with a fixed linear ordering on their vertices). We summarize and further investigations on the number of edges an ordered graph may have while avoiding a fixed forbidden ordered…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-16 Craig Weidert

We consider a dynamic model for competition in a social network, where two strategic agents have fixed beliefs and the non-strategic/regular agents adjust their states according to a distributed consensus protocol. We suppose that one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-06 M. Bini , P. Frasca , C. Ravazzi , F. Dabbene

In a recent work, Keusch proved the so-called 1-2-3 Conjecture, raised by Karo\'nski, {\L}uczak, and Thomason in 2004: for every connected graph different from $K_2$, we can assign labels~$1,2,3$ to the edges so that no two adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Julien Bensmail , Beatriz Martins , Chaoliang Tang

In preference modelling, it is essential to determine the number of questions and their arrangements to ask from the decision maker. We focus on incomplete pairwise comparison matrices, and provide the optimal filling in patterns, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Zsombor Szádoczki , Sándor Bozóki

A strengthened version of Harborth's well-known conjecture -- known as Kleber's conjecture -- states that every planar graph admits a planar straight-line drawing where every edge has integer length and each vertex is restricted to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Henry Förster , Stephen Kobourov , Jacob Miller , Johannes Zink

Given a connected, undirected, simple graph $G = (V, E)$ and $p \le |V|$ pebbles labeled $1,..., p$, a configuration of these $p$ pebbles is an injective map assigning the pebbles to vertices of $G$. Let $S$ and $D$ be two such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Jingjin Yu

We prove that every connected cubic graph with $n$ vertices has a maximal matching of size at most $\frac{5}{12} n+ \frac{1}{2}$. This confirms the cubic case of a conjecture of Baste, F\"urst, Henning, Mohr and Rautenbach (2019) on regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Wouter Cames van Batenburg

A very popular class of models for networks posits that each node is represented by a point in a continuous latent space, and that the probability of an edge between nodes is a decreasing function of the distance between them in this latent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Dena Marie Asta

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without isolated edges can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general, while it is known to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jakub Przybyło

The following optimal stopping problem is considered. The vertices of a graph $G$ are revealed one by one, in a random order, to a selector. He aims to stop this process at a time $t$ that maximizes the expected number of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Fabrício Siqueira Benevides , Małgorzata Sulkowska

We prove a conjecture of Menasco and Zhang that if a tangle is completely tubing compressible then it consists of at most two families of parallel strands. This is related to problems of graphs in 3-manifold. A 1-vertex graph $\Gamma$ in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ying-Qing Wu

Two simple $n$-vertex graphs $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$, with respective maximum degrees $\Delta_{1}$ and $\Delta_{2}$, are said to pack if $G_{1}$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of the complement of $G_{2}$. The BEC conjecture by Bollob\'{a}s,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 James M. Shook

Getting a labeling of vertices close to the structure of the graph has been proved to be of interest in many applications e.g., to follow smooth signals indexed by the vertices of the network. This question can be related to a graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Ronan Hamon , Pierre Borgnat , Patrick Flandrin , Céline Robardet

For a given number of colors, $s$, the guessing number of a graph is the (base $s$) logarithm of the cardinality of the largest family of colorings of the vertex set of the graph such that the color of each vertex can be determined from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jo Martin , Puck Rombach