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A connected graph, on four or more vertices, is matching covered (aka 1-extendable) if every edge is present in some perfect matching. An ear decomposition theorem exists for bipartite matching covered graphs due to Hetyei. From the results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Amit Kumar Mallik , Ajit A. Diwan , Nishad Kothari

We study the well-posedness and the spatial behavior at infinity of perfect fluid flows on $\R^d$ with initial data in a scale of weighted Sobolev spaces that allow spatial growth/decay at infinity as $|x|^\beta$ with $\beta<1/2$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Robert McOwen , Peter Topalov

There is a class of graphs with well-covered dimension equal to the simplicial clique number that contains all chordal graphs and infinitely many other graphs. These graphs generalize a result by Brown and Nowakowski on the well-covered…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Gabriella Clemente

The recently introduced \emph{Degree Preserving Growth} model (Nature Physics, \DOI{10.1038/s41567-021-01417-7}) uses matchings to insert new vertices of prescribed degrees into the current graph of an ever-growing graph sequence. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Péter L. Erdős , Shubha R. Kharel , Tamás Róbert Mezei , Zoltán Toroczkai

Various results ensure the existence of large complete bipartite graphs in properly colored graphs when some condition related to a topological lower bound on the chromatic number is satisfied. We generalize three theorems of this kind,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Meysam Alishahi , Hossein Hajiabolhassan , Frédéric Meunier

Bounds on the minimum degree and on the number of vertices at- taining it have been much studied for finite edge-/vertex-minimally k- connected/k-edge-connected graphs. We give an overview of the results known for finite graphs, and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Maya Stein

In a 1977 paper, Steffens identified an elegant criterion for determining when a countable graph has a perfect matching. In this paper, we will investigate the proof-theoretic strength of this result and related theorems. We show that a…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Stephen Flood , Matthew Jura , Oscar Levin , Tyler Markkanen

Benjamini, Kalifa and Tzalik recently proved that there is an absolute constant $c>0$ such that any graph with at most $c\cdot2^d/d$ edges and no isolated vertices is a minor of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q_d$, while there is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Emma Hogan , Lukas Michel , Alex Scott , Youri Tamitegama , Jane Tan , Dmitry Tsarev

We study robust versions of properties of $(n,d,\lambda)$-graphs, namely, the property of a random sparsification of an $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph, where each edge is retained with probability $p$ independently. We prove such results for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yaobin Chen , Yu Chen , Jie Han , Jingwen Zhao

Mader proved that for every integer $t$ there is a smallest real number $c(t)$ such that any graph with average degree at least $c(t)$ must contain a $K_t$-minor. Fiorini, Joret, Theis and Wood conjectured that any graph with $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Richard Montgomery

We prove that a class of graphs with an excluded minor and with the maximum degree sublinear in the number of edges is maximally modular, that is, modularity tends to 1 as the number of edges tends to infinity.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Michał Lasoń , Małgorzata Sulkowska

In this paper we give anticoncentration bounds for sums of independent random vectors in finite-dimensional vector spaces. In particular, we asymptotically establish a conjecture of Leader and Radcliffe (1994) and a question of Jones…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Tomas Juškevičius , Valentas Kurauskas

As a strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture, Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph with no odd $K_t$ minor is $(t-1)$-colorable. We prove two weaker variants of this conjecture. Firstly, we show that for each $t \geq 2$, every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Dong Yeap Kang , Sang-il Oum

We consider changes in properties of a subgraph of an infinite graph resulting from the addition of open edges of Bernoulli percolation on the infinite graph to the subgraph. We give the triplet of an infinite graph, one of its subgraphs,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kazuki Okamura

Galvin showed that for all fixed $\delta$ and sufficiently large $n$, the $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\delta$ that admits the most independent sets is the complete bipartite graph $K_{\delta,n-\delta}$. He conjectured that except…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-16 John Engbers , David Galvin

We say that a $d$-regular graph is a $\gamma$-expander if for every not too large set of vertices $S$, there are at least $\gamma d |S|$ edges leaving $S$, and we say that a graph $G$ is $\gamma$-far from bipartite if at least $\gamma e(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Domagoj Bradač , Oliver Janzer

In this paper, we generalize the notions of perfect matchings, perfect 2-matchings to perfect k-matchings and give a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of perfect k-matchings. For bipartite graphs, we show that this k-matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Hongliang Lu

An old problem raised independently by Jacobson and Sch\"onheim asks to determine the maximum $s$ for which every graph with $m$ edges contains a pair of edge-disjoint isomorphic subgraphs with $s$ edges. In this paper we determine this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Choongbum Lee , Po-Shen Loh , Benny Sudakov

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every graph with chromatic number $k$ contains a complete graph on $k$ vertices as a minor. This conjecture is a tremendous strengthening of the Four-Colour Theorem and is regarded as one of the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jofre Costa , Eric Luu , David R. Wood , Jung Hon Yip

Shrub-depth and rank-depth are related graph parameters that are dense analogs of tree-depth. We prove that for every positive integer $t$, every graph of sufficiently large rank-depth contains a pivot-minor isomorphic to a path on $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Jungho Ahn , Kevin Hendrey , O-joung Kwon , Sang-il Oum