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We investigate which graphs H have the property that in every graph with bounded clique number and sufficiently large chromatic number, some induced subgraph is isomorphic to a subdivision of H. In an earlier paper, one of us proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A graph $H$ is an induced subgraph of a graph $G$ if a graph isomorphic to $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by deleting vertices. Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the unavoidable induced subgraphs for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Robert Hickingbotham

For an edge-colored graph $G$, the minimum color degree of $G$ means the minimum number of colors on edges which are adjacent to each vertex of $G$. We prove that if $G$ is an edge-colored graph with minimum color degree at least $5$ then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Ruonan Li , Shinya Fujita , Guanghui Wang

In this work, we establish an analogue result of the Erd\"os-Stone theorem of weighted digraphs using Regularity Lemma of digraphs. We give a stability result of oriented graphs and digraphs with forbidden blow-up transitive triangle and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Jianxi Liu

Balogh, Bar\'at, Gerbner, Gy\'arf\'as, and S\'ark\"ozy proposed the following conjecture. Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $3n/4$. Then for every $2$-edge-colouring of $G$, the vertex set $V(G)$ may be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Shoham Letzter

In 1930, Ramsey proved that every infinite graph contains either an infinite clique or an infinite independent set as an induced subgraph. K\"{o}nig proved that every infinite graph contains either a ray or a vertex of infinite degree. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Sarah Allred , Guoli Ding , Bogdan Oporowski

This paper is motivated by the following question: what are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? Aboulker et al. made a conjecture which answers this question in graphs of bounded maximum degree, asserting that…

We prove a recent conjecture of Beisegel et al. that for every positive integer k, every graph containing an induced P_k also contains an avoidable P_k. Avoidability generalises the notion of simpliciality best known in the context of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Marthe Bonamy , Oscar Defrain , Meike Hatzel , Jocelyn Thiebaut

Albertson and Berman conjectured that every planar graph has an induced forest on half of its vertices. The best known lower bound, due to Borodin, is that every planar graph has an induced forest on two fifths of its vertices. In a related…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Glencora Borradaile , Hung Le , Melissa Sherman-Bennett

Let $X$ be a (repetitive) infinite connected simple graph with a finite upper bound $\Delta$ on the vertex degrees. The main theorem states that $X$ admits a (repetitive) limit aperiodic vertex coloring by $\Delta$ colors. This refines a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Jesús A. Álvarez López , Ramón Barral Lijó

Extending the work of Godsil and others, we investigate the notion of the inverse of a graph (specifically, of bipartite graphs with a unique perfect matching). We provide a concise necessary and sufficient condition for the invertibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-19 Cam McLeman , Erin McNicholas

By the Road Coloring Theorem (Trahtman, 2008), the edges of any aperiodic directed multigraph with a constant out-degree can be colored such that the resulting automaton admits a reset word. There may also be a need for a particular reset…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Vojtěch Vorel , Adam Roman

A question at the intersection of Barnette's Hamiltonicity and Neumann-Lara's dicoloring conjecture is: Can every Eulerian oriented planar graph be vertex-partitioned into two acyclic sets? A CAI-partition of an undirected/oriented graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Stijn Cambie , François Dross , Kolja Knauer , Hoang La , Petru Valicov

The graph reconstruction conjecture states that all graphs on at least three vertices are determined up to isomorphism by their deck. In this paper, a general framework for this problem is proposed to simply explain the reconstruction of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Ameneh Farhadian

We define a family of vertex colouring games played over a pair of graphs or digraphs $(G,H)$ by players $\forall$ and $\exists$. These games arise from work on a longstanding open problem in algebraic logic. It is conjectured that there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Rob Egrot , Robin Hirsch

In this paper, the concept of cyclic subsets in graph theory is introduced. An interesting theorem which relates to the collective Hamiltonicity of these cyclic subsets in graphs is also presented. This paper uses this theorem to construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 P. Clarke

For an oriented graph $G$, let $f(G)$ denote the maximum chromatic number of an acyclic subgraph of $G$. Let $f(n)$ be the smallest integer such that every oriented graph $G$ with chromatic number larger than $f(n)$ has $f(G) > n$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Safwat Nassar , Raphael Yuster

The acyclic edge colouring problem is extensively studied in graph theory. The corner-stone of this field is a conjecture of Alon et. al.\cite{alonacyclic} that $a'(G)\le \Delta(G)+2$. In that and subsequent work, $a'(G)$ is typically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Punit Mehta , Rahul Muthu , Gaurav Patel , Om Thakkar , Devanshi Vyas

We present a unified approach to proving Ramsey-type theorems for graphs with a forbidden induced subgraph which can be used to extend and improve the earlier results of Rodl, Erdos-Hajnal, Promel-Rodl, Nikiforov, Chung-Graham, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

An identifying code of a (di)graph $G$ is a dominating subset $C$ of the vertices of $G$ such that all distinct vertices of $G$ have distinct (in)neighbourhoods within $C$. In this paper, we classify all finite digraphs which only admit…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Florent Foucaud , Reza Naserasr , Aline Parreau