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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 graph is maximal knotless if it is edge maximal for the property of knotless embedding in $R^3$. We show that such a graph has at least $\frac74 |V|$ edges, and construct an infinite family of maximal knotless graphs with $|E| <…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Lindsay Eakins , Thomas Fleming , Thomas W. Mattman

We continue studying Thomassen's conjecture (every 4-connected line graph has a Hamilton cycle) in the direction of a recently shown equivalence with Jackson's conjecture (every 2-connected claw-free graph has a Tutte cycle), and we extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Adam Kabela , Zdeněk Ryjáček , Petr Vrána

Let $t_{i,j}$ be the coefficient of $x^iy^j$ in the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$ of a connected bridgeless and loopless graph $G$ with order $n$ and size $m$. It is trivial that $t_{0,m-n+1}=1$ and $t_{n-1,0}=1$. In this paper, we obtain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Helin Gong , Mengchen Li , Xian'an Jin

We give a sufficient condition on totally disconnected topological graphs such that their associated topological graph algebras are purely infinite.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Hui Li

Let $S_k(n)$ be the maximum number of orientations of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ in which no copy of $K_k$ is strongly connected. For all integers $n$, $k\geq 4$ where $n\geq 5$ or $k\geq 5$, we prove that $S_k(n) = 2^{t_{k-1}(n)}$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Fábio Botler , Carlos Hoppen , Guilherme Oliveira Mota

The chain theorem of Tutte states that every 3-connected graph can be constructed from a wheel $W_n$ by repeatedly adding edges and splitting vertices. It is not difficult to prove the following strengthening of this theorem: every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Guoli Ding , Chengfu Qin

Tutte's $3$-flow conjecture states that every $4$-edge-connected graph admits a nowhere-zero $3$-flow. In this paper, we characterize all graphs with independence number at most $4$ that admit a nowhere-zero $3$-flow. The characterization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Jiaao Li , Rong Luo , Yi Wang

Tutte conjectured in 1972 that every 4-edge connected graph has a nowhere-zero 3-flow. This has long been known to be equivalent to the conjecture that every 5-regular 4-edge-connected graph has an edge orientation in which every out-degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Pawel Pralat , Nick Wormald

We construct an infinite family of topologically slice 2--component boundary links $\ell_i$, none of which is smoothly concordant to a split link, such that $g_4(\ell_i)=i$.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-11 JungHwan Park , Arunima Ray

We construct a countable infinite graph G that does not contain cycles of length four having the property that the sequence of graphs $G_n$ induced by the first $n$ vertices has minimum degree $\delta(G_n)> n^{\sqrt{2}-1+o(1)}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Javier Cilleruelo

Tutte's $3$-flow conjecture says that every $4$-edge-connected graph admits a nowhere-zero $3$-flow. Kochol (2001) showed that it is enough to prove this conjecture for $5$-edge-connected graphs. Former, Jaeger, Linial, Payan, and Tarsi…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Morteza Hasanvand

In 1972 Tutte famously conjectured that every 4-edge-connected graph has a nowhere zero 3-flow; this is known to be equivalent to every 5-regular, 4-edge-connected graph having an edge orientation in which every in-degree is either 1 or 4.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Michelle Delcourt , Reaz Huq , Pawel Pralat

The Tutte polynomial of a connected graph was originally defined by Tutte as a sum over all spanning trees of monomials depending on a fixed linear order on the set of edges. Tuttle proved that while these monomials do depend on the linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Nikolai V. Ivanov

A planar graph $G$ is said to be non-separating if there exists an embedding of $G$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that for any cycle $\mathcal{C}\subset G$, all vertices of $G\setminus \mathcal{C}$ are within the same connected component of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

We present four models for a random graph and show that, in each case, the probability that a graph is intrinsically knotted goes to one as the number of vertices increases. We also argue that, for $k \geq 18$, most graphs of order $k$ are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Thomas W. Mattman

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

We prove that an infinite family of semiprimitive groups are graph-restrictive. This adds to the evidence for the validity of the PSV Conjecture and increases the minimal imprimitive degree for which this conjecture is open to 12. Our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Michael Giudici , Luke Morgan

An edge subset $S$ of a connected graph $G$ is called an anti-Kekul\'{e} set if $G-S$ is connected and has no perfect matching. We can see that a connected graph $G$ has no anti-Kekul\'{e} set if and only if each spanning tree of $G$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Baoyindureng Wu , Heping Zhang

We characterize the class of infinite connected graphs $ G $ for which there exists a $ T $-join for any choice of an infinite $ T \subseteq V(G) $. We also show that the following well-known fact remains true in the infinite case. If $ G $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Attila Joó