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We offer a new structural basis for the theory of 3-connected graphs, providing a unique decomposition of every such graph into parts that are either quasi 4-connected, wheels, or thickened $K_{3,m}$'s. Our construction is explicit,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Johannes Carmesin , Jan Kurkofka

It is shown that there are infinitely many connected vertex-transitive graphs that have no Hamilton decomposition, including infinitely many Cayley graphs of valency 6, and including Cayley graphs of arbitrarily large valency.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Darryn Bryant , Matthew Dean

We determine a lower bound for the number of edges of a 2-connected maximal nontraceable graph, and present a construction of an infinite family of maximal nontraceable graphs that realize this bound.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marietjie Frick , Joy Singleton

We give two equivalent formulations of a conjecture [2,4] on the number of arc-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in De Bruijn graphs.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zoltán Kása

We consider the existence of patterned Hamilton cycles in randomly colored random graphs. Given a string $\Pi$ over a set of colors $\{1,2,\ldots,r\}$, we say that a Hamilton cycle is $\Pi$-colored if the pattern repeats at intervals of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Michael Anastos , Alan Frieze

In earlier papers, we showed a decomposition of 2-diregular digraphs (2-dds) and used it to provide some sufficient conditions for these graphs to be non-Hamiltonian; we also showed a close connection between the permanent and determinant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Munagala V. S. Ramanath

We produce an infinite family of $2$-complexes that are intrinsically linked when embedded into four dimensions. In particular, we show that any embedding into $\mathbb{R}^4$ of the suspension of a graph containing $K_6$ as a minor contains…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Nathan Huber , Ishaan Raghavendra Rao , Hannah Schwartz Joseph , Tanishga Thankaraj Vijay

It is proved that for $n \geq 6$, the number of perfect matchings in a simple connected cubic graph on $2n$ vertices is at most $4 f_{n-1}$, with $f_n$ being the $n$-th Fibonacci number. The unique extremal graph is characterized as well.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Peter Horak , Dongryul Kim

A planar 3-connected graph $G$ is called \emph{essentially $4$-connected} if, for every 3-separator $S$, at least one of the two components of $G-S$ is an isolated vertex. Jackson and Wormald proved that the length $\mathop{\rm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Igor Fabrici , Jochen Harant , Samuel Mohr , Jens M. Schmidt

For each $n\ge 14$, we provide an example of a linklessly embeddable, Tutte-4-connected graph of order $n$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

Let $\mathcal{C}_4(n)$ be the family of all connected $4$-chromatic graphs of order $n$. Given an integer $x\geq 4$, we consider the problem of finding the maximum number of $x$-colorings of a graph in $\mathcal{C}_4(n)$. It was conjectured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Aysel Erey

In 1999, Jacobson and Lehel conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-regular Hamiltonian graph has cycles of at least linearly many different lengths. This was further strengthened by Verstra\"{e}te, who asked whether the regularity can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Matija Bucić , Lior Gishboliner , Benny Sudakov

A 4-regular planar graph $G$ is said to be circle representable if there exists a collection of circles drawn on the plane such that the touching and crossing points correspond to the vertices of $G$, and the circular arcs between those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Jane Tan

We study how few pairwise distinct longest cycles a regular graph can have under additional constraints. For each integer $r \geq 5$, we give exponential improvements for the best asymptotic upper bounds for this invariant under the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Jorik Jooken

We prove that an inseparable graph can have any positive number of cycles with the six exceptions 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 16, and that an inseparable cubic graph has the additional exceptions 1 and 13. The exceptions for simple inseparable cubic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ryan McCulloch , Brendan D. McKay , Alireza Salahshoori , Thomas Zaslavsky

The square of a graph is obtained by adding additional edges joining all pair of vertices of distance two in the original graph. Particularly, if $C$ is a hamiltonian cycle of a graph $G$, then the square of $C$ is called a hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Guantao Chen , Songling Shan

A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t.$ An edge $e$ in a graph $G$ of order $n$ is called pancyclic if for every integer $k$ with $3\le k\le n,$ $e$ lies in a $k$-cycle. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Chengli Li , Xingzhi Zhan

Every 4-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree $\delta$ and connectivity $\kappa$ either contains a cycle of length at least $4\delta-\kappa-4$ or every longest cycle in $G$ is a dominating cycle.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-30 M. Zh. Nikoghosyan , Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

A constructive characterization of the class of uniformly $4$-connected graphs is presented. The characterization is based on the application of graph operations to appropriate vertex and edge sets in uniformly $4$-connected graphs, that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Xiang Chen , Shuai Kou , Chengfu Qin , Liqiong Xu , Weihua Yang

A matchstick graph is a planar unit-distance graph. We call it \emph{4-regular} if every vertex has degree 4. While examples of 4-regular matchstick graphs with fewer than 63 vertices are known only for $n \in \{52, 54, 57, 60\}$, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Mike Winkler , Peter Dinkelacker , Stefan Vogel