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Given a connected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a length function $\ell:E\to {\mathbb R}$ we let $d_{v,w}$ denote the shortest distance between vertex $v$ and vertex $w$. A $t$-spanner is a subset $E'\subseteq E$ such that if $d'_{v,w}$ denotes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

The path eccentricity of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ has a path such that every vertex is at distance at most $k$ from the path. A result of Duffus, Jacobson, and Gould from 1981 states that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Sylwia Cichacz , Claire Hilaire , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Masaříková , Martin Milanič

In the random geometric graph model $\mathsf{Geo}_d(n,p)$, we identify each of our $n$ vertices with an independently and uniformly sampled vector from the $d$-dimensional unit sphere, and we connect pairs of vertices whose vectors are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Siqi Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Tselil Schramm , Elizabeth Yang

We prove that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with no isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph of size at least $n/10000$ with all degrees odd. This solves an old and well-known conjecture in graph theory.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich

A famous conjecture by Itai and Zehavi states that, for every $d$-vertex-connected graph $G$ and every vertex $r$ in $G$, there are $d$ spanning trees of $G$ such that, for every vertex $v$ in $G\setminus \{r\}$, the paths between $r$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Lawrence Hollom , Lyuben Lichev , Adva Mond , Julien Portier , Yiting Wang

Given a graph $G$ and $\mathcal{A}\subseteq V(G)$, a classical theorem of Gallai (1964) states that for every positive integer $k$, the graph $G$ contains $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint $\mathcal{A}$-paths, or a set $Z\subseteq V(G)$ of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Robert Hickingbotham , Gwenaël Joret

Fix $\varepsilon >0$ and consider a multipartite graph $G$ with maximum degree at most $(1-\varepsilon)n$, parts $V_1,\ldots,V_k$ of the same size $n$, and where every vertex has at most $o(n)$ neighbors in any part $V_i$. Loh and Sudakov…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Tuan Tran

For a graph $H$, a graph $G$ is $H$-induced-saturated if $G$ does not contain an induced copy of $H$, but either removing an edge from $G$ or adding a non-edge to $G$ creates an induced copy of $H$. Depending on the graph $H$, an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Eun-Kyung Cho , Ilkyoo Choi , Boram Park

In this paper we extend a classical theorem of Corr\'adi and Hajnal into the setting of sparse random graphs. We show that if $p(n) \gg (\log n / n)^{1/2}$, then asymptotically almost surely every subgraph of $G(n,p)$ with minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-02 József Balogh , Choongbum Lee , Wojciech Samotij

Given d \in (0,infty) let k_d be the smallest integer k such that d < 2k\log k. We prove that the chromatic number of a random graph G(n,d/n) is either k_d or k_d+1 almost surely.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Dimitris Achlioptas , Assaf Naor

We give a randomized algorithm that determines if a given graph has a simple path of length at least k in O(2^k poly(n,k)) time.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-05 Ryan Williams

If the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ are totally ordered, a simple path whose edges are in ascending order is called increasing. The worst-case length of the longest increasing path has remained an open problem for several decades, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Mikhail Lavrov , Po-Shen Loh

A $d$-regular graph on $n$ nodes has at most $T_{\max} = \frac{n}{3} \tbinom{d}{2}$ triangles. We compute the leading asymptotics of the probability that a large random $d$-regular graph has at least $c \cdot T_{\max}$ triangles, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Elchanan Mossel

We study the problem of finding a copy of a specific induced subgraph on inhomogeneous random graphs with infinite variance power-law degrees. We provide a fast algorithm that finds a copy of any connected graph $H$ on a fixed number of $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ellen Cardinaels , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis

A Poisson point process of unit intensity is placed in the square $[0,n]^2$. An increasing path is a curve connecting $(0,0)$ with $(n,n)$ which is non-decreasing in each coordinate. Its length is the number of points of the Poisson process…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Partha Dey , Mathew Joseph , Ron Peled

A 1d random geometric graph (1d RGG) is built by joining a random sample of $n$ points from an interval of the real line with probability $p$. We count the number of $k$-hop paths between two vertices of the graph in the case where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Kostas Koufos , Nicolas Privault

We analyze the spectral properties of the high-dimensional random geometric graph $G(n, d, p)$, formed by sampling $n$ i.i.d vectors $\{v_i\}_{i=1}^{n}$ uniformly on a $d$-dimensional unit sphere and connecting each pair $\{i,j\}$ whenever…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yifan Cao , Yizhe Zhu

We consider (annealed) large deviation principles for component empirical measures of several families of marked sparse random graphs, including (i) uniform graphs on $n$ vertices with a fixed degree distribution; (ii) uniform graphs on $n$…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Kavita Ramanan , Sarath Yasodharan

We prove that, for any $t\ge 3$, there exists a constant $c=c(t)>0$ such that any $d$-regular $n$-vertex graph with the second largest eigenvalue in absolute value~$\lambda$ satisfying $\lambda\le c d^{t-1}/n^{t-2}$ contains vertex-disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Jie Han , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Yury Person

In the noisy channel model from coding theory, we wish to detect errors introduced during transmission by optimizing various parameters of the code. Bennett, Dudek, and LaForge framed a variation of this problem in the language of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Patrick Bennett , Ryan Cushman , Andrzej Dudek