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We prove that every graph has a spectral sparsifier with a number of edges linear in its number of vertices. As linear-sized spectral sparsifiers of complete graphs are expanders, our sparsifiers of arbitrary graphs can be viewed as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-01 Joshua Batson , Daniel A. Spielman , Nikhil Srivastava

Let G be a subgraph-closed graph class with bounded maximum degree. We show that if G has balanced separators whose size is smaller than linear by a polynomial factor, then G has subexponential expansion. This gives a partial converse to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Zdenek Dvorak

The present paper considers multipartite graphs from the perspective of design theory and coding theory. A one-factor $F$ of the complete multipartite graph $K_{n\times g}$ (with $n$ parts of size $g$) gives rise to a $(g+1)$-ary code…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Yuli Tan , Junling Zhou , Tuvi Etzion

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $x \in G$. Define $[x^G] := \{ y \in G : \langle x^G \rangle = \langle y^G \rangle \}$, where $\langle x^G \rangle$ denotes the normal subgroup of $G$ generated by the conjugacy class of $x$. In this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Monu Kadyan , Priya , Sanjay Kumar Singh

In this paper, we consider a relation between $k$-way expansion constant of a finite graph and the expansion constants of subgraphs in a $k$-partition of the graph. Using this relation, we show that a sequence of finite graphs which have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Mamoru Tanaka

This paper is concerned with the surface embedding of matching extendable graphs. There are two directions extending the theory of perfect matchings, that is, matching extendability and factor-criticality. In solving a problem posed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Hongliang Lu , David G. L. Wang

Let $G$ be a large-girth $d$-regular graph and $\mu$ be a random process on the vertices of $G$ produced by a randomized local algorithm. We prove the upper bound $(k+1-2k/d)\Bigl(\frac{1}{\sqrt{d-1}}\Bigr)^k$ for the (absolute value of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Agnes Backhausz , Balazs Szegedy , Balint Virag

In this paper, we study the redundancy of linear codes with graph constraints. First we consider linear parity check codes based on bipartite graphs with diversity and with generalized graph constraints. We describe sufficient conditions on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We consider large uniform labeled random graphs in different classes with prescribed decorations in their modular decomposition. Our main result is the estimation of the number of copies of every graph as an induced subgraph. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Théo Lenoir

We abstract and study \emph{reachability preservers}, a graph-theoretic primitive that has been implicit in prior work on network design. Given a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ and a set of \emph{demand pairs} $P \subseteq V \times V$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amir Abboud , Greg Bodwin

We consider the following budget-constrained random graph process introduced by Frieze, Krivelevich and Michaeli. A player, called Builder, is presented with $t$ distinct edges of $K_n$ one by one, chosen uniformly at random. Builder may…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Frederik Garbe , Tássio Naia , Zak Smith

Chudnovsky, Kim, Oum, and Seymour recently established that any prime graph contains one of a short list of induced prime subgraphs [1]. In the present paper we reprove their theorem using many of the same ideas, but with the key…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-11-10 M. Malliaris , C. Terry

We present a new notion of limits of weighted directed graphs of growing size based on convergence of their random quotients. These limits are specified in terms of random exchangeable measures on the unit square. We call our limits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

A graph $A$ is "apex" if $A-z$ is planar for some vertex $z\in V(A)$. Eppstein [Algorithmica, 2000] showed that for a minor-closed class $\mathcal{G}$, the graphs in $\mathcal{G}$ with bounded radius have bounded treewidth if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Kevin Hendrey , David R. Wood

For an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $z(G;k)$ denote the number of zero forcing sets of size $k$. A conjecture of Boyer et al. asserts that the path $P_n$ maximizes these numbers coefficientwise among all $n$-vertex graphs; equivalently, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Samuel German

The \emph{$r$-neighbourhood complexity} of a graph $G$ is the function counting, for a given integer $k$, the largest possible number, over all vertex-subsets $A$ of size $k$, of subsets of $A$ realized as the intersection between the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Laurent Beaudou , Jan Bok , Florent Foucaud , Daniel A. Quiroz , Jean-Florent Raymond

In this paper, we propose and study a new semi-random model for graph partitioning problems. We believe that it captures many properties of real--world instances. The model is more flexible than the semi-random model of Feige and Kilian and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We give an explicit construction of the weak local limit of a class of preferential attachment graphs. This limit contains all local information and allows several computations that are otherwise hard, for example, joint degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Noam Berger , Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Amin Saberi

In a former paper we simplified the proof of a theorem on personalized random walk that is fundamental to graph nodes clustering and generalized it to bipartite graphs for a specific case where the proobability of random jump was…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek , Sławomir T. Wierzchom , Robert A. Kłopotek , Elżbieta A. Kłopotek

The main result of the paper is motivated by the following two, apparently unrelated graph optimization problems: (A) as an extension of Edmonds' disjoint branchings theorem, characterize digraphs comprising $k$ disjoint branchings $B_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Kristóf Bérczi , András Frank