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The conjecture of Peter Horak and Alex Rosa (generalizing that of Marco Buratti) states that a multiset L of v-1 positive integers not exceeding [v/2] is the list of edge-lengths of a suitable Hamiltonian path of the complete graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Anita Pasotti , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

We suggest two related conjectures dealing with the existence of spanning irregular subgraphs of graphs. The first asserts that any $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices contains a spanning subgraph in which the number of vertices of each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Noga Alon , Fan Wei

Given a digraph $D=(V,A)$, a set $B\subset V$ is a packing set in $D$ if there are no arcs joining vertices of $B$ and for any two vertices $x,y\in B$ the sets of in-neighbors of $x$ and $y$ are disjoint. The set $S$ is a dominating set (an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Doost Ali Mojdeh , Babak Samadi , Ismael G. Yero

A graph $\Gamma$ is called $G$-symmetric if it admits $G$ as a group of automorphisms acting transitively on the set of ordered pairs of adjacent vertices. We give a classification of $G$-symmetric graphs $\Gamma$ with $V(\Gamma)$ admitting…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Teng Fang , Xin Gui Fang , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou

In the Vertex Disjoint Paths with Congestion problem, the input consists of a digraph $D$, an integer $c$ and $k$ pairs of vertices $(s_i, t_i)$, and the task is to find a set of paths connecting each $s_i$ to its corresponding $t_i$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Nicola Lorenz , Marcelo Garlet Milani , Jacob Stegemann

In a planar L-drawing of a directed graph (digraph) each edge e is represented as a polyline composed of a vertical segment starting at the tail of e and a horizontal segment ending at the head of e. Distinct edges may overlap, but not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Patrizio Angelini , Steven Chaplick , Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo

A long-standing conjecture of Berge suggests that every bridgeless cubic graph can be expressed as a union of at most five perfect matchings. This conjecture trivially holds for $3$-edge-colourable cubic graphs, but remains widely open for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Ján Karabáš , Edita Máčajová , Roman Nedela , Martin Škoviera

A $labeling$ of a digraph $D$ with $m$ arcs is a bijection from the set of arcs of $D$ to $\{1,2,\ldots,m\}$. A labeling of $D$ is $antimagic$ if no two vertices in $D$ have the same vertex-sum, where the vertex-sum of a vertex $u \in V(D)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Chen Song , Rong-Xia Hao

A decomposition of a simple graph $G$ is a pair $(G,P)$ where $P$ is a set of subgraphs of $G$, which partitions the edges of $G$ in the sense that every edge of $G$ belongs to exactly one subgraph in $P$. If the elements of $P$ are induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Christian Rubio-Montiel , Adrian Vazquez-Avila

An oriented graph $D$ is converse invariant if, for any tournament $T$, the number of copies of $D$ in $T$ is equal to that of its converse $-D$. El Sahili and Ghazo Hanna [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023), 684-701] showed that any oriented graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Hui Lei , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

Given a graph $G$ and $\mathcal{A}\subseteq V(G)$, a classical theorem of Gallai (1964) states that for every positive integer $k$, the graph $G$ contains $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint $\mathcal{A}$-paths, or a set $Z\subseteq V(G)$ of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Robert Hickingbotham , Gwenaël Joret

In this paper, we are motivated by the conjectures proposed by C.~Bender \textit{et al.}, \cite{C} in 2024. We have settled the first two conjectures negatively by providing a counter example in \cite{KTJ}, whereas in this paper, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Anagha Khiste , Ganesh Tarte , Vinayak Joshi

A \emph{locally irregular graph} is a graph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. We say that a graph $G$ can be decomposed into $k$ locally irregular subgraphs if its edge set may be partitioned into $k$ subsets each of which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Jakub Przybyło

In this paper, we give a lengthy proof of a small result! A graph is bisplit if its vertex set can be partitioned into three stable sets with two of them inducing a complete bipartite graph. We prove that these graphs satisfy the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Laurent Beaudou , Giacomo Kahn , Matthieu Rosenfeld

A perfect matching in a graph $G$ is a set of nonadjacent edges covering every vertex of $G$. Motivated by recent progress on the relations between the eigenvalues and the matching number of a graph, in this paper, we aim to present a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Yuke Zhang , Huiqiu Lin

Let $P$ be a set of $n \geq 5$ points in convex position in the plane. The path graph $G(P)$ of $P$ is an abstract graph whose vertices are non-crossing spanning paths of $P$, such that two paths are adjacent if one can be obtained from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Chaya Keller , Yael Stein

An instance of a strongly stable matching problem (SSMP) is an undirected bipartite graph $G=(A \cup B, E)$, with an adjacency list of each vertex being a linearly ordered list of ties, which are subsets of vertices equally good for a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Pratik Ghosal , Adam Kunysz , Katarzyna Paluch

Given a digraph $D=(V,A)$ with vertex-set $V=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and arc-set $A$, we denote by $Q(D)$ the set of all real $n\times n$ matrices $B=[b_{u,w}]$ with $b_{u,u}\not=0$ for all $u\in V$, $b_{u,w} \not= 0$ if $u\not=w$ and there is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Marina Arav , Hein van der Holst

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing stability, of a graph $G$ is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

Given two $k$-dicolourings of a digraph $D$, we prove that it is PSPACE-complete to decide whether we can transform one into the other by recolouring one vertex at each step while maintaining a dicolouring at any step even for $k=2$ and for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nicolas Bousquet , Frédéric Havet , Nicolas Nisse , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Amadeus Reinald