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In this paper, we present new incremental algorithms for maintaining data structures that represent all connectivity cuts of size one in directed graphs (digraphs), and the strongly connected components that result by the removal of each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

We show that there is a unique immersion-minimal infinitely edge-connected graph: every such graph contains the halved Farey graph, which is itself infinitely edge-connected, as an immersion minor. By contrast, any minimal list of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Paul Knappe , Jan Kurkofka

The first and last named authors have demonstrated the existence of knots for which every integral slope is non-characterizing. In this short note, we extend this result in two ways. There exists a knot that shares for every integer n the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kenneth L. Baker , Marc Kegel , Kimihiko Motegi

Recently, in [5] Zalinescu posed a question about the characterization of the intrinsic core of the Minkowski sum of two graphs associated with two maximal monotone operators. In this note we give an affirmative answer.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-12 Liangjin Yao

This paper focuses on the graphs in the Petersen family, the set of minor minimal intrinsically linked graphs. We prove there is a relationship between algebraic linking of an embedding and knotting in an embedding. We also present a more…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Danielle O'Donnol

Graph connectivity is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that arises in many practical applications, where usually a spanning subgraph of a network is used for its operation. However, in the real world, links may fail…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Charilaos Pipis , Miltiadis Stouras , Christos Tzamos

A tree with at most k leaves is called k-ended tree, and a tree with exactly k leaves is called k-end tree, where a leaf is a vertex of degree one. Contraction of a graph G along the edge e means deleting the edge e and identifying its end…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Hamed Ghasemian Zoeram

In 1930, Ramsey proved that every large graph contains either a large clique or a large edgeless graph as an induced subgraph. It is well known that every large connected graph contains a long path, a large clique, or a large star as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Sarah Allred , M. N. Ellingham

Graph embedding techniques are pivotal in real-world machine learning tasks that operate on graph-structured data, such as social recommendation and protein structure modeling. Embeddings are mostly performed on the node level for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nan Wang , Lu Lin , Jundong Li , Hongning Wang

The weak minor G of a graph G is the graph obtained from G by a sequence of edge-contraction operations on G. A weak-minor-closed family of upper embeddable graphs is a set G of upper embeddable graphs that for each graph G in G, every weak…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Guanghua Dong , Ning Wang , Yuanqiu Huang , Han Ren , Yanpei Liu

The inertia bound gives an upper bound on the independence number of a graph by considering the inertia of matrices corresponding to the graph. The bound is known to be tight for graphs on 10 or fewer vertices as well as for all perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-12 John Sinkovic

The girth of a graph is the length of its shortest cycle. Due to its relevance in graph theory, network analysis and practical fields such as distributed computing, girth-related problems have been object of attention in both past and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa , Alessio Conte , Hiroki Arimura , Takeaki Uno

We define an operation on finite graphs, called co-contraction. By showing that co-contraction of a graph induces an injective map between right-angled Artin groups, we exhibit a family of graphs, without any induced cycle of length at…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Sang-hyun Kim

Problems related to finding induced subgraphs satisfying given properties form one of the most studied areas within graph algorithms. Such problems have given rise to breakthrough results and led to development of new techniques both within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Paloma Lima , Pedro Montealegre

Connectivity is a central notion of graph theory and plays an important role in graph algorithm design and applications. With emerging new applications in networks, a new type of graph connectivity problem has been getting more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Rupei Xu , Warren Shull

This article presents a survey of some recent results in the theory of spatial graphs. In particular, we highlight results related to intrinsic knotting and linking and results about symmetries of spatial graphs. In both cases we consider…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Erica Flapan , Thomas Mattman , Blake Mellor , Ramin Naimi , Ryo Nikkuni

A {\em hole} in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. A hole is called {\em even} if it has an even number of vertices. An {\em even-hole-free} graph is a graph with no even holes. A vertex of a graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Maria Chudnovsky , Paul Seymour

It is well known that kernels in graphs are powerful and useful structures, for instance in the theory of games. However, a kernel does not always exist and Chv\'atal proved in 1973 that it is an NP-Complete problem to decide its existence.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Serge Burckel

We prove that if a graph contains the complete bipartite graph $K_{134, 12}$ as an induced minor, then it contains a cycle of length at most~12 or a theta as an induced subgraph. With a longer and more technical proof, we prove that if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Meike Hatzel , Tuukka Korhonen , Nicolas Trotignon , Sebastian Wiederrecht

A graph is near-planar if it can be obtained from a planar graph by adding an edge. We show the surprising fact that it is NP-hard to compute the crossing number of near-planar graphs. A graph is 1-planar if it has a drawing where every…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Sergio Cabello , Bojan Mohar