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This paper addresses the following question for a given graph $H$: what is the minimum number $f(H)$ such that every graph with average degree at least $f(H)$ contains $H$ as a minor? Due to connections with Hadwiger's Conjecture, this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Bruce Reed , David R. Wood

Let $ H $ be a multi-digraph on $ h $ vertices with $ q $ arcs. An \textbf{$H$-subdivision} in a digraph $D$ is a subdigraph obtained by replacing every arc $uv$ of $H$ with a path from $u$ to $v$ in $D$ such that these paths are pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Jia Zhou , Jin Yan

For a real c \geq 1 and an integer n, let f(n,c) denote the maximum integer f so that every graph on n vertices contains an induced subgraph on at least f vertices in which the maximum degree is at most c times the minimum degree. Thus, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Noga Alon , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

The Tur\'an function $ex(n,F)$ denotes the maximal number of edges in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices. We consider the function $h_F(n,q)$, the minimal number of copies of $F$ in a graph on $n$ vertices with $ex(n,F)+q$ edges. The value…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Mihyun Kang , Tamás Makai , Oleg Pikhurko

The $r$-size-Ramsey number $\hat{R}_r(H)$ of a graph $H$ is the smallest number of edges a graph $G$ can have, such that for every edge-coloring of $G$ with $r$ colors there exists a monochromatic copy of $H$ in $G$. For a graph $H$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Nemanja Draganić , Michael Krivelevich , Rajko Nenadov

Let $H_t$ be the subdivision of $K_t$. Very recently, Conlon and Lee have proved that for any integer $t\geq 3$, there exists a constant $C$ such that $\text{ex}(n,H_t)\leq Cn^{3/2-1/6^t}$. In this paper, we prove that there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Oliver Janzer

Bollob\'as, Reed and Thomason proved every $3$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ with $m$ edges has a vertex-partition $V(\mathcal{H})=V_1 \sqcup V_2 \sqcup V_3$ such that each part meets at least $\frac{1}{3}(1-\frac{1}{e})m$ edges, later…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Hunter Spink , Marius Tiba

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

For $ 1\le k <n$, we prove that for functions $F,G$ on $ {\Bbb R}^{n}$, any $k$-dimensional affine subspace $H \subset {\Bbb R}^{n}$, and $p,q,r \ge 2$ with $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}+\frac{1}{r}=1$, one has the estimate $$…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Dan-Andrei Geba , Allan Greenleaf , Alex Iosevich , Eyvindur Palsson , Eric Sawyer

In 2014, Keevash proved the existence of $(n,q,r)$-Steiner systems (equivalently $K_q^r$-decompositions of $K_n^r$) for all large enough $n$ satisfying the necessary divisibility conditions. In 2021, Glock, K\"uhn, and Osthus proposed a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Cicely Henderson , Luke Postle

Let $k,r \geq 2$ be two integers. We consider the problem of partitioning the hyperedge set of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ into the minimum number $\chi_k'(H)$ of edge-disjoint subhypergraphs in which every vertex has either degree $0$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Gaia Carenini , Samuel Coulomb

Let $n\ge 2$ and $q\ge 2$ be given. The set $X = \mathbb Z_q^n$ is a metric space of diameter $n$ under the Hamming metric $d(\cdot,\cdot)$. We seek a smallest set $S\subseteq X$ that ``skirts'' every $q$-ary $n$-tuple in the sense that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Sam Adriaensen , Ferdinand Ihringer , William J. Martin , Ralihe R. Villagrán

Cohen et al. conjectured that for every oriented cycle $C$ there exist an integer $f(C)$ such that every strong $f(C)$-chromatic digraph contains a subdivision of $C$. El Joubbeh confirmed this conjecture for Hamiltonian digraphs. Indeed,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Abbas Alhakim , Mouhamad El Joubbeh

For various triple systems $F$, we give tight lower bounds on the number of copies of $F$ in a triple system with a prescribed number of vertices and edges. These are the first such results for hypergraphs, and extend earlier theorems of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-14 Dhruv Mubayi

Given hypergraphs $F$ and $H$, an $F$-factor in $H$ is a set of vertex-disjoint copies of $F$ which cover all the vertices in $H$. Let $K^- _4$ denote the $3$-uniform hypergraph with $4$ vertices and $3$ edges. We show that for sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Jie Han , Allan Lo , Andrew Treglown , Yi Zhao

We obtain several lower bounds on the $\textsf{Max-Cut}$ of $d$-degenerate $H$-free graphs. Let $f(m,d,H)$ denote the smallest $\textsf{Max-Cut}$ of an $H$-free $d$-degenerate graph on $m$ edges. We show that $f(m,d,K_r)\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Ray Li , Nitya Mani

Given an undirected unweighted graph $G = (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a subgraph $H\subseteq G$ is a spanner of $G$ with stretch function $f: \mathbb{R}_+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$, if for every pair $s, t$ of vertices in $V$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zihan Tan , Tianyi Zhang

For fixed integers p and q, let f(n,p,q) denote the minimum number of colors needed to color all of the edges of the complete graph K_n such that no clique of p vertices spans fewer than q distinct colors. A construction is given which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Alex Cameron

A collection of hyperplanes $\mathcal{H}$ slices all edges of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $Q_n$ with vertex set $\{-1,1\}^n$ if, for every edge $e$ in the hypercube, there exists a hyperplane in $\mathcal{H}$ intersecting $e$ in its…

We are interested in the quantity $\rho$(q, g) defined as the smallest positive integer such that r $\ge$ $\rho$(q, g) implies that any absolutely irreducible smooth projective algebraic curve defined over F q of genus g has a closed point…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Yves Aubry , Fabien Herbaut , Julien Monaldi