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Fat minors are a coarse analogue of graph minors where the subgraphs modeling vertices and edges of the embedded graph are required to be distant from each other, instead of just being disjoint. In this paper, we give a coarse analogue of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Édouard Bonnet , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

For a graph family $\mathcal F$, let $\mathrm{ex}(n,\mathcal F)$ and $\mathrm{spex}(n,\mathcal F)$ denote the maximum number of edges and maximum spectral radius of an $n$-vertex $\mathcal F$-free graph, respectively, and let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 John Byrne

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a connected graph with maximum degree $k\geq 3$ distinct from $K_{k+1}$. Given integers $s \geq 2$ and $p_1,\ldots,p_s\geq 0$, $G$ is said to be $(p_1, \dots, p_s)$-partitionable if there exists a partition of $V$ into…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Carl Feghali , Pinar Heggernes

Let $f_r(n)$ be the minimum number of complete $r$-partite $r$-graphs needed to partition the edge set of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices. Graham and Pollak showed that $f_2(n) = n-1$. An easy construction shows that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Imre Leader , Luka Milićević , Ta Sheng Tan

In this paper, we prove that every graph with average degree at least $s+t+2$ has a vertex partition into two parts, such that one part has average degree at least $s$, and the other part has average degree at least $t$. This solves a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Yan Wang , Hehui Wu

We consider the problem of approximately solving constraint satisfaction problems with arity $k > 2$ ($k$-CSPs) on instances satisfying certain expansion properties, when viewed as hypergraphs. Random instances of $k$-CSPs, which are also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Vedat Levi Alev , Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Madhur Tulsiani

The Matching Cut problem is to decide if the vertex set of a connected graph can be partitioned into two non-empty sets $B$ and $R$ such that the edges between $B$ and $R$ form a matching, that is, every vertex in $B$ has at most one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Jungho Ahn , Tala Eagling-Vose , Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith

A set $V$ is said to be separated by subsets $V_1,\ldots,V_k$ if, for every pair of distinct elements of $V$, there is a set $V_i$ that contains exactly one of them. Imposing structural constraints on the separating subsets is often…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Lyuben Lichev , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

We show that for an infinitely many natural numbers $k$ there are $k$-uniform hypergraphs which admit a `rescaling phenomenon' as described in [9]. More precisely, let $\mathcal{A}(k,I, n)$ denote the class of $k$-graphs on $n$ vertices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Tomasz Łuczak , Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher

We show that every graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ and sufficiently large order has a vertex cutset $S$ of order at most $\Delta$ that induces a subgraph $G[S]$ of maximum degree at most $\Delta-3$. For $\Delta\in \{ 4,5\}$, we refine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Stéphane Bessy , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $\hom (G)$ denote the size of a largest homogeneous set in $G$ and let $f(G)$ denote the maximal number of distinct degrees appearing in an induced subgraph of $G$. The relationship between these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Eoin Long , Laurentiu Ploscaru

The clique removal lemma says that for every $r \geq 3$ and $\varepsilon>0$, there exists some $\delta>0$ so that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with fewer than $\delta n^r$ copies of $K_r$ can be made $K_r$-free by removing at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jacob Fox , Yuval Wigderson

Finding nonoverlapping balls with given centers in any metric space, maximizing the sum of radii of the balls, can be expressed as a linear program. Its dual linear program expresses the problem of finding a minimum-weight set of cycles…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-09 David Eppstein

For $n$-vertex graphs with treewidth $k = O(n^{1/2-\epsilon})$ and an arbitrary $\epsilon>0$, we present a word-RAM algorithm to compute vertex separators using only $O(n)$ bits of working memory. As an application of our algorithm, we give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Kammer , Johannes Meintrup , Andrej Sajenko

Graph separators are a ubiquitous tool in graph theory and computer science. However, in some applications, their usefulness is limited by the fact that the separator can be as large as $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ in graphs with $n$ vertices. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

An $r$-graph is called $t$-cancellative if for arbitrary $t+2$ distinct edges $A_1,\ldots,A_t,B,C$, it holds that $(\cup_{i=1}^t A_i)\cup B\neq (\cup_{i=1}^t A_i)\cup C$; it is called $t$-union-free if for arbitrary two distinct subsets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Miao Liu , Chong Shangguan , Chenyang Zhang

Nikiforov [Some inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of a graph, Combin. Probab. Comput. 179--189] showed that if $G$ is $K_{r+1}$-free then the spectral radius $\rho(G)\leq\sqrt{2m(1-1/r)}$, which implies that $G$ contains $C_3$ if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Mingqing Zhai , Huiqiu Lin , Jinlong Shu

An extremity is a vertex such that the removal of its closed neighbourhood does not increase the number of connected components. Let $Ext_{\alpha}$ be the class of all connected graphs whose quotient graph obtained from modular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guillaume Ducoffe

The classical Menger's theorem states that in any undirected (or directed) graph $G$, given a pair of vertices $s$ and $t$, the maximum number of vertex (edge) disjoint paths is equal to the minimum number of vertices (edges) needed to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Ashutosh Rai , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

For a set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$, we define its density $0 \leq \sigma(S) \leq 1$ as the ratio of the number of edges of $G$ spanned by the vertices of $S$ to ${|S| \choose 2}$. We show that, given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Alexander Barvinok , Anthony Della Pella