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In this paper we show that every graph of pathwidth less than $k$ that has a path of order $n$ also has an induced path of order at least $\frac{1}{3} n^{1/k}$. This is an exponential improvement and a generalization of the polylogarithmic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Claire Hilaire , Jean-Florent Raymond

We prove a far-reaching strengthening of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma for intersection graphs of pseudo-segments. It shows that the vertex set of such a graph can be partitioned into a bounded number of parts of roughly the same size such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

Let $s(n)$ be the minimum number of edges in a graph that contains every $n$-vertex tree as a subgraph. Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc. 1983] claim to prove that $s(n)\leqslant O(n\log n)$. We point out a mistake in their proof. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Neel Kaul , David R. Wood

We construct a family of planar graphs $\{G_n\}_{n\geq 4}$, where $G_n$ has $n$ vertices including a source vertex $s$ and a sink vertex $t$, and edge weights that change linearly with a parameter $\lambda$ such that, as $\lambda$ varies in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Kshitij Gajjar , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

We consider the minimum-weight path between any pair of nodes of the n-vertex complete graph in which the weights of the edges are i.i.d. exponentially distributed random variables. We show that the longest of these minimum-weight paths has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-06 Louigi Addario-Berry , Nicolas Broutin , Gabor Lugosi

In 2001, Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi proved that, for each $\alpha>0$, there is some $c>0$ and $n_0$ such that, if $n\geq n_0$, then every $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2+\alpha)n$ contains a copy of every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Amarja Kathapurkar , Richard Montgomery

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s and Sauer asked to estimate, for any constant $r$, the maximum number of edges an $n$-vertex graph can have without containing an $r$-regular subgraph. In a recent breakthrough, Janzer and Sudakov proved that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

It is shown that for a constant $t\in \mathbb{N}$, every simple topological graph on $n$ vertices has $O(n)$ edges if it has no two sets of $t$ edges such that every edge in one set is disjoint from all edges of the other set (i.e., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Andres J. Ruiz-Vargas , Andrew Suk , Csaba D. Tóth

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one another edge. In this work we prove that each 1-planar graph of minimum degree at least $3$ contains an edge with degrees of its endvertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Bei Niu , Xin Zhang

To untangle a geometric graph means to move some of the vertices so that the resulting geometric graph has no crossings. Pach and Tardos [Discrete Comput. Geom., 2002] asked if every n-vertex geometric planar graph can be untangled while…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmovic , Ferran Hurtado , Stefan Langerman , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

We show that there are simple 4-dimensional polytopes with n vertices such that all separators of the graph have size at least $\Omega(n/\log n)$. This establishes a strong form of a claim by Thurston, for which the construction and proof…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Lauri Loiskekoski , Günter M. Ziegler

In 2016, Dowden initiated the study of planar Tur\'an-type problems, which has since attracted considerable attention. Recently, Bekos et al. proved that every $K_3$-free $1$-planar graph on $n\ge 4$ vertices has at most $3n-6$ edges. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Licheng Zhang , Yuanqiu Huang , Fengming Dong

In 1995, Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi showed that every large $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2 + \gamma)n$ contains all spanning trees of bounded degree. We consider a generalization of this result to loose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Yanitsa Pehova , Kalina Petrova

A simple topological graph is a topological graph in which any two edges have at most one common point, which is either their common endpoint or a proper crossing. More generally, in a k-simple topological graph, every pair of edges has at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Péter Hajnal , Alexander Igamberdiev , Günter Rote , André Schulz

A conjecture by Rafla from 1988 asserts that every simple drawing of the complete graph $K_n$ admits a plane Hamiltonian cycle. It turned out that already the existence of much simpler non-crossing substructures in such drawings is hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Meghana M. Reddy , Joachim Orthaber , Manfred Scheucher

We prove that, given two topologically-equivalent upward planar straight-line drawings of an $n$-vertex directed graph $G$, there always exists a morph between them such that all the intermediate drawings of the morph are upward planar and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Giordano Da Lozzo , Giuseppe Di Battista , Fabrizio Frati , Maurizio Patrignani , Vincenzo Roselli

We prove that for any weakly convergent sequence of finite graphs with bounded vertex degrees, there exists a topological limit graphing.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabor Elek

Let $G$ be a $2$-coloring of a complete graph on $n$ vertices, for sufficiently large $n$. We prove that $G$ contains at least $n^{(\frac{1}{4} - o(1))\log n}$ monochromatic complete subgraphs of size $r$, where \[ 0.3\log n < r < 0.7\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Uriel Feige , Anne Kenyon , Shimon Kogan

In this paper, we prove a theorem on tight paths in convex geometric hypergraphs, which is asymptotically sharp in infinitely many cases. Our geometric theorem is a common generalization of early results of Hopf and Pannwitz [12],…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Zoltán F\" uredi , Tao Jiang , Alexandr Kostochka , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraëte

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc., 1983] claimed that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ containing all $n$-vertex trees as subgraphs that has at most $\frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges. We identify an error in their proof. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim