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An ordered graph is a pair $\mathcal{G}=(G,\prec)$ where $G$ is a graph and $\prec$ is a total ordering of its vertices. The ordered Ramsey number $\overline{R}(\mathcal{G})$ is the minimum number $N$ such that every $2$-coloring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Martin Balko , Vít Jelínek , Pavel Valtr

The algebraic degree $Deg(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the dimension of the splitting field of the adjacency polynomial of $G$ over the field $\mathbb{Q}$. It can be shown that for every positive integer $d$, there exists a circulant graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Sauvik Poddar , Angsuman Das

For every natural number $d$, we construct finite $d$-regular simple graphs that, for every $r \le d$, contain an independent exact $r$-cover. This answers a question of Gray and Johnson that arose in their study of 2-step transit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Hou Tin Chau

Borodin & Kostochka conjectured that if maximum degree of a graph is greater than or equal to 9, then the chromatic number of the graph is less than or equal to maximum of {\omega} and maximum degree minus 1. Here we prove that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Medha Dhurandhar

The Borodin--Kostochka conjecture states that every graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta(G)\ge 9$ satisfies $\chi(G)\le \max\{\omega(G),\Delta(G)-1\}$. In this paper, we verify this conjecture for graphs with sufficiently large maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Feng Liu , Shuang Sun , Yan Wang , Jiasheng Zeng

In 1980, Gupta, Kahn and Robertson proved that every graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k\geq 2$ contains a cycle $C$ containing at least $k+1$ vertices each having at least $k$ neighbors in $C$ (so $C$ has at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Zdeněk Dvořák , Beatriz Martins , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon

Given a set D of nonnegative integers, we derive the asymptotic number of graphs with a givenvnumber of vertices, edges, and such that the degree of every vertex is in D. This generalizes existing results, such as the enumeration of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Élie de Panafieu , Lander Ramos

We prove that it is NP-complete, given a graph G and a parameter h, to determine whether G contains a complete graph K_h as a minor.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-08-28 David Eppstein

Huang, Ma, Shapira, Sudakov and Yuster (Comb. Prob. Comput. 2013) proved that every Eulerian digraph of average out-degree $d$ has a directed cycle of length at least $\sqrt{d}.$ We improve the lower bound from $\sqrt{d}$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Fankang He , Anders Yeo

We revisit the problem of designing sublinear algorithms for estimating the average degree of an $n$-vertex graph. The standard access model for graphs allows for the following queries: sampling a uniform random vertex, the degree of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Lorenzo Beretta , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

A classic theorem of Dirac from 1952 states that every graph with minimum degree at least n/2 contains a Hamiltonian cycle. In 1963, P\'osa conjectured that every graph with minimum degree at least 2n/3 contains the square of a Hamiltonian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Louis DeBiasio , Safi Faizullah , Imdadullah Khan

It is proved that for every $\varepsilon>0$, there exists $K>0$ such that for every integer $t\ge2$, every graph with chromatic number at least $Kt$ contains a minor with $t$ vertices and edge density at least $1-\varepsilon$. Indeed,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Tung H. Nguyen

The graph minor structure theorem by Robertson and Seymour shows that every graph that excludes a fixed minor can be constructed by a combination of four ingredients: graphs embedded in a surface of bounded genus, a bounded number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

In this note, we prove that there exists a universal constant $c=\frac{43}{50}$ such that for every $k\in \mathbb{N}$ and every $d<k/2$, every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and with minimum $d$-degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain

We prove a conjecture of Bonamy, Bousquet, Pilipczuk, Rz\k{a}\.zewski, Thomass\'e, and Walczak, that for every graph $H$, there is a polynomial $p$ such that for every positive integer $s$, every graph of average degree at least $p(s)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Romain Bourneuf , Matija Bucić , Linda Cook , James Davies

We prove a new generalisation of Ramsey's theorem by showing that every $2$-edge-coloured graph with sufficiently large minimum degree contains a monochromatic induced subgraph whose minimum degree remains large. From this, we also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Arnab Char , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta

A fundamental result of K\"uhn and Osthus [The minimum degree threshold for perfect graph packings, Combinatorica, 2009] determines up to an additive constant the minimum degree threshold that forces a graph to contain a perfect H-tiling.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Joseph Hyde , Andrew Treglown

We study a variety of natural constructions from topological combinatorics, including matching complexes as well as other graph complexes, from the perspective of the graph minor category of \parencite{MiProRa}. We prove that these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Dane Miyata , Eric Ramos

We unify several seemingly different graph and digraph classes under one umbrella. These classes are all broadly speaking different generalizations of interval graphs, and include, in addition to interval graphs, also adjusted interval…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Pavol Hell , Jing Huang , Ross M. McConnell , Arash Rafiey

Suppose for closed surfaces $M,N$ there exists a continuous map $f:M\to N$ of geometric degree $d>0$. Then $\chi(M)\le d\cdot\chi(N)$. This inequality was first proved by Kneser in case of orientable surfaces and by Edmonds for arbitrary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Andrey Ryabichev
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