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Let P be a graph property. A graph is locally P if the subgraph induced by the open neighbourhood of every vertex has property P. A graph has the Dirac condition if the minimum degree of every vertex is at least half the order of the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 E. Kubicka , G. Kubicki , O. R. Oellermann

A graph $G$ is $\ell$-hamiltonian if for any linear forest $F$ of $G$ with $\ell$ edges, $F$ can be extended to a hamiltonian cycle of $G$. We give a sharp upper bound for the maximum number of cliques of a fixed size in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Zoltan Furedi , Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

For a (molecular) graph $G$ and any real number $\alpha\ne 0$ , the zero-order general Randi\'c index , denote by $^0R_\alpha$, is defined by the following equation: \begin{align*} {^0R_\alpha} (G) =\sum_{v\in G}d_G (v) ^{\alpha} (\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Shuai Wang , Lihong Cui

Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture, we study the problem of finding the densest possible $t$-vertex minor in graphs of average degree at least $t-1$. We show that if $G$ has average degree at least $t-1$, it contains a minor on $t$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Kevin Hendrey , Sergey Norin , Raphael Steiner , Jérémie Turcotte

Hamiltonian cycles in graphs were first studied in the 1850s. Since then, an impressive amount of research has been dedicated to identifying classes of graphs that allow Hamiltonian cycles, and to related questions. The corresponding…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Isolde Adler , Noleen Köhler

In 2015, Dankelmann and Bau proved that for every bridgeless graph $G$ of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ there is an orientation of diameter at most $11\frac{n}{\delta+1}+9$. In 2016, Surmacs reduced this bound to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Garner Cochran

In the standard random graph process, edges are added to an initially empty graph one by one uniformly at random. A classic result by Ajtai, Koml\'os, and Szemer\'edi, and independently by Bollob\'as, states that in the standard random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Seonghyuk Im , Minseo Kim

Let $a,b,n$ be three positive integers such that $a\equiv b\pmod 2$ and $n\geq b(a+b)(a+b+2)/(2a)$. Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ with minimum degree at least $a+b/a-1$. We show that $G$ has an $(a,b)$-parity factor, if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Haodong Liu , Hongliang Lu

Chv\'{a}tal conjectured in 1973 the existence of some constant $t$ such that all $t$-tough graphs with at least three vertices are hamiltonian. While the conjecture has been proven for some special classes of graphs, it remains open in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Andrew Hatfield , Elizabeth Grimm

Trotter and Erd\"os found conditions for when a directed $m \times n$ grid graph on a torus is Hamiltonian. We consider the analogous graphs on a two-holed torus, and study their Hamiltonicity. We find an $\mathcal{O}(n^4)$ algorithm to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Dhruv Rohatgi

We show that for each \alpha>0 every sufficiently large oriented graph G with \delta^+(G),\delta^-(G)\ge 3|G|/8+ \alpha |G| contains a Hamilton cycle. This gives an approximate solution to a problem of Thomassen. In fact, we prove the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Luke Kelly , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Denote by $r_g(G,\mathcal{H})$ the global resilience of a graph $G$ with respect to Hamiltonicity. That is, $r_g(G,\mathcal{H})$ is the minimal $r$ for which there exists a subgraph $H\subseteq G$ with $r$ edges, such that $G\setminus H$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Yahav Alon

A graph $G$ is geodetic if between any two vertices there exists a unique shortest path. In 1962 Ore raised the challenge to characterize geodetic graphs, but despite many attempts, such characterization still seems well beyond reach. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Asaf Etgar , Nati Linial

Let $\mathcal{T}$ be the set of spanning trees of $G$ and let $L(T)$ be the number of leaves in a tree $T$. The leaf number $L(G)$ of $G$ is defined as $L(G)=\max\{L(T)|T\in \mathcal{T}\}$. Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jingru Yan

We show that for sufficiently large $d$ and for $t\geq d+1$, there is a graph $G$ with average degree $(1-\varepsilon)\lambda t \sqrt{\ln d}$ such that almost every graph $H$ with $t$ vertices and average degree $d$ is not a minor of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Sergey Norin , Bruce Reed , Andrew Thomason , David R. Wood

Given two graphs $G$ and $H$, we define $\textsf{v-cover}_{H}(G)$ (resp. $\textsf{e-cover}_{H}(G)$) as the minimum number of vertices (resp. edges) whose removal from $G$ produces a graph without any minor isomorphic to ${H}$. Also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Dimitris Chatzidimitriou , Jean-Florent Raymond , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We survey sufficient degree conditions, for a variety of graph properties, that are best possible in the same sense that Chvatal's well-known degree condition for hamiltonicity is best possible.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-23 D. Bauer , H. J. Broersma , J. van den Heuvel , N. Kahl , A. Nevo , E. Schmeichel , D. R. Woodall , M. Yatauro

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell\ge 2$, we denote by $\alpha_{\ell}(G)$ the maximum size of a $K_{\ell}$-free subset of vertices in $V(G)$. A recent question of Nenadov and Pehova asks for determining the best possible minimum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Jie Han , Ping Hu , Guanghui Wang , Donglei Yang

A well known generalisation of Dirac's theorem states that if a graph $G$ on $n\ge 4k$ vertices has minimum degree at least $n/2$ then $G$ contains a $2$-factor consisting of exactly $k$ cycles. This is easily seen to be tight in terms of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Matija Bucić , Erik Jahn , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

Let $D$ be a strong balanced digraph on $2a$ vertices. Adamus et al. have proved that $D$ is hamiltonian if $d(u)+d(v)\ge 3a$ whenever $uv\notin A(D)$ and $vu\notin A(D)$. The lower bound $3a$ is tight. In this paper, we shall show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ruixia Wang , Linxin Wu , Wei Meng