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A graph $G=(V,E)$ is distance hereditary if every induced path of $G$ is a shortest path. In this paper, we show that the eccentricity function $e(v)=\max\{d(v,u): u\in V\}$ in any distance-hereditary graph $G$ is almost unimodal, that is,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Feodor F. Dragan , Heather M. Guarnera

We observe that the definition of Shelah's classical $\mathrm{NSOP}_{n}$ hierarchy for first-order theories, for integers $n \geq 3$, can be restated so that it extends to the case where $n$ is replaced with any real number $r \geq 3$.…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Scott Mutchnik

A distance labeling scheme is an assignment of bit-labels to the vertices of an undirected, unweighted graph such that the distance between any pair of vertices can be decoded solely from their labels. An important class of distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adrian Kosowski , Przemysław Uznański , Laurent Viennot

Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $\hom (G)$ denote the size of a largest homogeneous set in $G$ and let $f(G)$ denote the maximal number of distinct degrees appearing in an induced subgraph of $G$. The relationship between these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Eoin Long , Laurentiu Ploscaru

A family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ is $H$-intersecting if the edge intersection of any two graphs in $\mathcal{F}$ contains a copy of a fixed graph $H$. A fundamental problem is to determine the maximum size of such a family. The trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Paul Hamrick , Gary Hu

The $k$-representation number of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of the system of vertex subsets with the property that every edge of $G$ is covered at least $k$ times while every non-edge is covered at most $(k-1)$ times. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Ayush Basu , Vojtěch Rödl , Marcelo Sales

This paper revisits the study of (minimum) broadcast graphs, i.e., graphs enabling fast information dissemination from every source node to all the other nodes (and having minimum number of edges for this property). This study is performed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Pierre Fraigniaud , Hovhannes A. Harutyunyan

In a recent paper, Caron and Fox suggest a probabilistic model for sparse graphs which are exchangeable when associating each vertex with a time parameter in $\mathbb{R}_+$. Here we show that by generalizing the classical definition of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Nina Holden

A graph $G$ is said to be a $(k,\ell)$-graph if its vertex set can be partitioned into $k$ independent sets and $\ell$ cliques. It is well established that the recognition problem for $(k,\ell)$-graphs is NP-complete whenever $k \geq 3$ or…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Min Chih Lin , Ignacio Maqueda

For a finite family $\mathcal{F}$ of fixed graphs let $R_k(\mathcal{F})$ be the smallest integer $n$ for which every $k$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ yields a monochromatic copy of some $F\in\mathcal{F}$. We say that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Ron Aharoni , Noga Alon , Michal Amir , Penny Haxell , Dan Hefetz , Zilin Jiang , Gal Kronenberg , Alon Naor

An identifying code of a graph is a dominating set which uniquely determines all the vertices by their neighborhood within the code. Whereas graphs with large minimum degree have small domination number, this is not the case for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Florent Foucaud , Guillem Perarnau , Oriol Serra

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices with independence number $\alpha(G)$. Let $\mathcal{E}(G)$ be the energy of a graph, defined as the sum of the absolute values of the adjacency eigenvalues of $G$. Using Graffiti, Fajtlowicz conjectured in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Aida Abiad , Gabriel Coutinho , Emanuel Juliano , Luuk Reijnders

We prove that for every complete multipartite graph $F$ there exist very dense graphs $G_n$ on $n$ vertices, namely with as many as ${n\choose 2}-cn$ edges for all $n$, for some constant $c=c(F)$, such that $G_n$ can be decomposed into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

A graph $G = (V,E)$ can be described by the characteristic function of the edge set $\chi_E$ which maps a pair of binary encoded nodes to 1 iff the nodes are adjacent. Using \emph{Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams} (OBDDs) to store $\chi_E$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Marc Gillé

The $\gamma_2$ norm of a real $m\times n$ matrix $A$ is the minimum number $t$ such that the column vectors of $A$ are contained in a $0$-centered ellipsoid $E\subseteq\mathbb{R}^m$ which in turn is contained in the hypercube $[-t, t]^m$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Jiri Matousek , Aleksandar Nikolov , Kunal Talwar

Given a graph $G$, let $\mu(G)$ denote the size of the smallest maximal independent set in $G$. A family of subsets is called a star if some element is in every set of the family. A split vertex has degree at least 3. Holroyd and Talbot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Peter Frankl , Glenn Hurlbert

Word-representable graphs, characterized by the existence of a semi-transitive orientation, form a well-studied class of graphs. Comparability graphs form another well-studied class and constitute a subclass of word-representable graphs.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Benny George Kenkireth , Gopalan Sajith , Sreyas Sasidharan

The edit distance between two graphs on the same vertex set is defined to be the size of the symmetric difference of their edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property, $\mathcal{H}$, is a function of $p$, and measures,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Ryan R. Martin , Tracy McKay

Property testers are fast randomized algorithms whose task is to distinguish between inputs satisfying some predetermined property ${\cal P}$ and those that are far from satisfying it. Since these algorithms operate by inspecting a small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Lior Gishboliner , Asaf Shapira , Henrique Stagni

Given a bipartite graph $H$ and an integer $n$, let $f(n;H)$ be the smallest integer such that, any set of edge disjoint copies of $H$ on $n$ vertices, can be extended to an $H$-design on at most $n+f(n;H)$ vertices. We establish tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-19 Zoltán Füredi , Ago-Erik Riet , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn