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We prove that for every graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, the treewidth of $G$ plus the treewidth of the complement of $G$ is at least $n-2$. This bound is tight.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

An embedding of a graph into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is said to be linear, if any edge of the graph is sent to be a line segment. And we say that an embedding $f$ of a graph $G$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ is free, if $\pi_1(\mathbb{R}^3-f(G))$ is a free…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Youngsik Huh , Jung Hoon Lee

A graph $G$ is $H$-free if it does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. The study of the typical structure of $H$-free graphs was initiated by Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman and Rothschild, who have shown that almost all $C_3$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Sergey Norin , Yelena Yuditsky

A set $\mathcal{G}$ of planar graphs on the same number $n$ of vertices is called simultaneously embeddable if there exists a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane such that every graph $G \in \mathcal{G}$ admits a (crossing-free)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Raphael Steiner

Let $F$ be an $(r+1)$-color critical graph with $r\geq 2$, that is, $\chi(F)=r+1$ and there is an edge $e$ in $F$ such that $\chi(F-e)=r$. Gerbner recently conjectured that every $n$-vertex maximal $F$-free graph with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang

In this article we present theoretical and computational results on the existence of polyhedral embeddings of graphs. The emphasis is on cubic graphs. We also describe an efficient algorithm to compute all polyhedral embeddings of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Gunnar Brinkmann , Thomas Tucker , Nico Van Cleemput

We determine the extremal graph $G$ of order $n$ that maximizes the sum of the spectral radii of $G$ and its complement. This resolves a conjecture posed by Stevanovi\'{c} in 2007.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Yen-Jen Cheng , Chih-wen Weng

We show that planar embeddable 3-connected CAD graphs are generically non-soluble. A CAD graph represents a configuration of points on the Euclidean plane with just enough distance dimensions between them to ensure rigidity. Formally, a CAD…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Owen , Stephen C. Power

Let $ir(G)$ and $\gamma(G)$ be the irredundance number and the domination number of a graph $G$, respectively. A graph $G$ is called irredundance perfect if $ir(H)=\gamma(H)$ for every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$. The subclass of $P_6$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Vadim Zverovich , Pavel Skums , Lutz Volkmann

We introduce an optimal transport based approach for comparing undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights and general vertex labels, and we study connections between the resulting linear program and the graph isomorphism problem. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Phuong N. Hoàng , Kevin McGoff , Andrew B. Nobel , Yang Xiang , Bongsoo Yi

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$. The path decomposition of $G$ is a set of disjoint paths, say $\mathcal{P}$, which cover all vertices of $G$. If all paths are induced paths in $G$, then we say $\mathcal{P}$ is an induced path decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 S. Akbari , H. R. Maimani , A. Seify

One of the major problems in combinatorics is to determine the number of $r$-uniform hypergraphs ($r$-graphs) on $n$ vertices which are free of certain forbidden structures. This problem dates back to the work of Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Letícia Mattos

Archdeacon (1987) proved that graphs embeddable on a fixed surface can be $3$-coloured so that each colour class induces a subgraph of bounded maximum degree. Edwards, Kang, Kim, Oum and Seymour (2015) proved that graphs with no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sang-il Oum , David R. Wood

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set such that the two resulting parts differ in size by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges that connect vertices in the two parts. The perfect matching condition and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jianfeng Hou , Shufei Wu , Yuanyuan Zhong

In preference modelling, it is essential to determine the number of questions and their arrangements to ask from the decision maker. We focus on incomplete pairwise comparison matrices, and provide the optimal filling in patterns, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Zsombor Szádoczki , Sándor Bozóki

For a graph $G$, let $\lambda_2(G)$ denote its second smallest Laplacian eigenvalue. It was conjectured that $\lambda_2(G) + \lambda_2(\overline G) \ge 1$, where $\overline G$ is the complement of $G$. In this paper, it is shown that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-19 B. Afshari , S. Akbari , M. J. Moghaddamzadeh , B. Mohar

Mader [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 40 (1986) 152-158] proved that every $k$-edge-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains a vertex $u$ such that $G-\{u\}$ is still $k$-edge-connected. In this paper, we prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Qing Yang , Yingzhi Tian

Alspach [{\sl Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl.}~{\bf 52} (2008), 7--20] defined the maximal matching sequencibility of a graph $G$, denoted~$ms(G)$, to be the largest integer $s$ for which there is an ordering of the edges of $G$ such that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Adam Mammoliti

We study the class of independence complexes of claw-free graphs. The main theorem give good bounds on the connectivity of these complexes, given bounds for a few subcomplexes of the same class. Two applications are presented. Firstly, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Engström

A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Brandst\"adt, Engelfriet, Le and Lozin proved that the class of chordal graphs with independence number at most 3 has unbounded clique-width. Brandst\"adt, Le and Mosca…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Andreas Brandstädt , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Shenwei Huang , Daniël Paulusma