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Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s and Sumner independently conjectured that for every tree $T$, there exists a function $f_{T}:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that every $T$-free graph $G$ satisfies $\chi (G)\leq f_{T}(\omega (G))$, where $\chi (G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Shuya Chiba , Michitaka Furuya

Motivated by quite recent research involving the relationship between the dimension of a poset and graph-theoretic properties of its cover graph, we show that for every $d\geq 1$, if $P$ is a poset and the dimension of a subposet $B$ of $P$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 William T. Trotter , Bartosz Walczak , Ruidong Wang

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$. A path decomposition $\mathcal{P}$ of $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint paths that covers all the edges of $G$. Let $p(G)$ denote the minimum number of paths needed in a path decomposition of $G$. Gallai…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Xiaohong Chen , Baoyindureng Wu

An $\textit{isometric path}$ is a shortest path between two vertices. An $\textit{isometric path partition}$ (IPP) of a graph $G$ is a set $I$ of vertex-disjoint isometric paths in $G$ that partition the vertices of $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Irena Penev , R. B. Sandeep , D. K. Supraja , S. Taruni

A graph is a path graph if it is the intersection graph of a family of subpaths of a tree. In 1970, Renz asked for a characterizaton of path graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs. Here we answer this question by listing all graphs that are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Benjamin Lévêque , Frédéric Maffray , Myriam Preissmann

Consider a setting where possibly sensitive information sent over a path in a network is visible to every {neighbor} of the path, i.e., every neighbor of some node on the path, thus including the nodes on the path itself. The exposure of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Shiri Chechik , M. P. Johnson , Merav Parter , David Peleg

The \textit{longest path transversal number} of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $lpt(G)$, is the minimum size of a set of vertices of $G$ that intersects all longest paths in $G$. We present constant upper bounds for the longest path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Paloma T. de Lima , Amir Nikabadi , Paweł Rzążewski

In this paper we consider Contact graphs of Paths on a Grid (CPG graphs), i.e. graphs for which there exists a family of interiorly disjoint paths on a grid in one-to-one correspondence with their vertex set such that two vertices are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Zakir Deniz , Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Bernard Ries

An oriented graph is a directed graph with no bi-directed edges, i.e. if $xy$ is an edge then $yx$ is not an edge. The oriented size Ramsey number of an oriented graph $H$, denoted by $r(H)$, is the minimum $m$ for which there exists an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Shoham Letzter , Benny Sudakov

We introduce and study "path odd-covers", a weakening of Gallai's path decomposition problem and a strengthening of the linear arboricity problem. The "path odd-cover number" $p_2(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Steffen Borgwardt , Calum Buchanan , Eric Culver , Bryce Frederickson , Puck Rombach , Youngho Yoo

One of the major results of [N. Robertson and P. D. Seymour. Graph minors. XIII. The disjoint paths problem. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 63(1):65--110, 1995], also known as the weak structure theorem, revealed the local structure of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We employ random geometric digraphs to construct semi-parametric classifiers. These data-random digraphs are from parametrized random digraph families called proximity catch digraphs (PCDs). A related geometric digraph family, class cover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Artür Manukyan , Elvan Ceyhan

Path graphs are intersection graphs of paths in a tree.~In this paper we give a "6\ good characterization" of path graphs, namely, we prove that path graph membership is in $NP\cap CoNP$ without resorting to existing polynomial time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Nicola Apollonio , Lorenzo Balzotti

Covering problems belong to the foundation of graph theory. There are several types of covering problems in graph theory such as covering the vertex set by stars (domination problem), covering the vertex set by cliques (clique covering…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Paul Manuel

In this paper, we present several density-type theorems which show how to find a copy of a sparse bipartite graph in a graph of positive density. Our results imply several new bounds for classical problems in graph Ramsey theory and improve…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-12 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

Given a graph $G$ and a collection $\mathcal C$ of subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$ indexed by the subsets of vertices of $G$, a constrained drawing of $G$ is a drawing, where each edge is drawn inside some set from $\mathcal C$, in such a way…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Pavel Paták

A major line of research is discovering Ramsey-type theorems, which are results of the following form: given a graph parameter $\rho$, every graph $G$ with sufficiently large $\rho(G)$ contains a `well-structured' induced subgraph $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ilkyoo Choi , Michitaka Furuya , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

Let $G$ be a graph with a vertex set $V$. The graph $G$ is path-proximinal if there are a semimetric $d \colon V \times V \to [0, \infty[$ and disjoint proximinal subsets of the semimetric space $(V, d)$ such that $V = A \cup B$, and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Karim Chaira , Oleksiy Dovgoshey

In \cite{TY}, we investigate the pair $(P, \Supp(P))$ of minimal path $P$ and its supporting sub-digraph $\Supp(P)$ in the path complex of a digraph $G$ under the strongly regular condition. In this paper, first, we consider the special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Xinxing Tang , Shing-Tung Yau

An undirected graph G is called a VPT graph if it is the vertex intersection graph of a family of paths in a tree. The class of graphs which admit a VPT representation in a host tree with maximum degree at most h is denoted by [h,2,1]. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Liliana Alcón , Marisa Gutierrez , María Pía Mazzoleni