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The $k$-independence number of a graph, $\alpha_k(G)$, is the maximum size of a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $k$, or alternatively, the independence number of the $k$-th power graph $G^k$. Although it is known that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Aida Abiad , Hidde Koerts

The indeque number of a graph is largest set of vertices that induce an independent set of cliques. We study the extremal value of this parameter for the class and subclasses of planar graphs, most notably for forests and graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Csaba Biró , Gabriel Collado , Oscar Zamora

We consider the problem of determining the inducibility (maximum possible asymptotic density of induced copies) of oriented graphs on four vertices. We provide exact values for more than half of the graphs, and very close lower and upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Łukasz Bożyk , Andrzej Grzesik , Bartłomiej Kielak

It is well known that the distribution of extreme values of strictly stationary sequences differ from those of independent and identically distributed sequences in that extremal clustering may occur. Here we consider non-stationary but…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Graeme Auld , Ioannis Papastathopoulos

This paper deals with the maximum value of the difference between the determining number and the metric dimension of a graph as a function of its order. Our technique requires to use locating-dominating sets, and perform an independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Delia Garijo , Antonio González , Alberto Márquez

In the 1960s, Erd\H{o}s and his cooperators initiated the research of the maximum numbers of edges in a graph or a planar graph on $n$ vertices without $k$ edge-disjoint cycles. This problem had been solved for $k\leq4$. As pointed out by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Zhai Mingqing , Liu Muhuo

The notion of a Riordan graph was introduced recently, and it is a far-reaching generalization of the well-known Pascal graphs and Toeplitz graphs. However, apart from a certain subclass of Toeplitz graphs, nothing was known on independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Gi-Sang Cheon , Ji-Hwan Jung , Bumtle Kang , Hana Kim , Suh-Ryung Kim , Sergey Kitaev , Seyed Ahmad Mojallal

We study two related problems concerning the number of homogeneous subsets of given size in graphs that go back to questions of Erd\H{o}s. Most notably, we improve the upper bounds on the Ramsey multiplicity of $K_4$ and $K_5$ and settle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Olaf Parczyk , Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel , Tibor Szabó

This paper is a survey on Extremal Graph Theory, primarily focusing on the case when one of the excluded graphs is bipartite. On one hand we give an introduction to this field and also describe many important results, methods, problems, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Zoltán Füredi , Miklós Simonovits

We provide new constructions of Meyniel extremal graphs, which are families of graphs with the conjectured largest asymptotic cop number. Using spanning subgraphs, we prove that there are an exponential number of new Meyniel extremal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Anthony Bonato , Ryan Cushman , Trent G. Marbach

We describe the structure of connected graphs with the minimum and maximum average distance, radius, diameter, betweenness centrality, efficiency and resistance distance, given their order and size. We find tight bounds on these graph…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-02 Dionysios Barmpoutis , Richard M. Murray

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

We investigate extremal graphs related to the game of Cops and Robbers. We focus on graphs where a single cop can catch the robber; such graphs are called cop-win. The capture time of a cop-win graph is the minimum number of moves the cop…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-21 David Offner , Kerry Ojakian

A network evolution with predicted tail and extremal indices of PageRank and the Max-Linear Model used as node influence indices in random graphs is considered. The tail index shows a heaviness of the distribution tail. The extremal index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Natalia Markovich

Let a 2 to 1 directed hypergraph be a 3-uniform hypergraph where every edge has two tail vertices and one head vertex. For any such directed hypergraph F let the nth extremal number of F be the maximum number of edges that any directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Alex Cameron

For any $\varepsilon > 0$, we give a polynomial-time $n^\varepsilon$-approximation algorithm for Max Independent Set in graphs of bounded twin-width given with an $O(1)$-sequence. This result is derived from the following time-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Pierre Bergé , Édouard Bonnet , Hugues Déprés , Rémi Watrigant

The independence density of a finite hypergraph is the probability that a subset of vertices, chosen uniformly at random contains no hyperedges. Independence densities can be generalized to countable hypergraphs using limits. We show that,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Karen Gunderson

Many decision-making algorithms draw inspiration from the inner workings of individual biological systems. However, it remains unclear whether collective behavior among biological species can also lead to solutions for computational tasks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-04 Niek Mooij , Ivan Kryven

This paper is devoted to the online dominating set problem and its variants. We believe the paper represents the first systematic study of the effect of two limitations of online algorithms: making irrevocable decisions while not knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Joan Boyar , Stephan J. Eidenbenz , Lene M. Favrholdt , Michal Kotrbčík , Kim S. Larsen

The independence polynomial $I(G,x)$ of a finite graph $G$ is the generating function for the sequence of the number of independent sets of each cardinality. We investigate whether, given a fixed number of vertices and edges, there exists…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 J. I. Brown , D. Cox