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For any $r$-graph $H$, we consider the problem of finding a rainbow $H$-factor in an $r$-graph $G$ with large minimum $\ell$-degree and an edge-colouring that is suitably bounded. We show that the asymptotic degree threshold is the same as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Matthew Coulson , Peter Keevash , Guillem Perarnau , Liana Yepremyan

In this note, we fix a graph $H$ and ask into how many vertices can each vertex of a clique of size $n$ can be "split" such that the resulting graph is $H$-free. Formally: A graph is an $(n,k)$-graph if its vertex sets is a pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

The linear arboricity la(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of linear forests that partition the edges of G. In 1984, Akiyama et al. stated the Linear Arboricity Conjecture (LAC), that the linear arboricity of any simple graph of maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Borut Luzar

Let $H$ be a graph. We show that if $r$ is large enough as a function of $H$, then the $r$-partite Tur\'an graph maximizes the number of copies of $H$ among all $K_{r+1}$-free graphs on a given number of vertices. This confirms a conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Natasha Morrison , JD Nir , Sergey Norin , Paweł Rzążewski , Alexandra Wesolek

Let $\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}$ be a hereditary graph class (i.e, every subgraph of $G_{\alpha}\in \mathcal{G}_{\alpha}$ belongs to $\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}$) such that every graph $G_{\alpha}$ in $\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}$ has minimum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Xin Zhang , Bei Niu

A classical result by Hajnal and Szemer\'edi from 1970 determines the minimal degree conditions necessary to guarantee for a graph to contain a $K_r$-factor. Namely, any graph on $n$ vertices, with minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Charlotte Knierim , Pascal Su

An $r$-graph is an $r$-uniform hypergraph tree (or $r$-tree) if its edges can be ordered as $E_1,\ldots, E_m$ such that $\forall i>1 \, \exists \alpha(i)<i$ such that $E_i\cap (\bigcup_{j=1}^{i-1} E_j)\subseteq E_{\alpha(i)}$. The Tur\'an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Zoltán Füredi , Tao Jiang

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

In this paper, we show that every $2m$-partition-connected graph $G$ has a bipartite $m$-partition-connected factor $H$ such that for each vertex $v$, $d_H(v)\le \lceil \frac{3}{4}d_G(v)\rceil$. A graph $H$ is said to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Morteza Hasanvand

Let $H$ be a graph on $h$ vertices. The number of induced copies of $H$ in a graph $G$ is denoted by $i_H(G)$. Let $i_H(n)$ denote the maximum of $i_H(G)$ taken over all graphs $G$ with $n$ vertices. Let $f(n,h) = \Pi_{i}^h a_i$ where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Raphael Yuster

One of the cornerstones of extremal graph theory is a result of F\"uredi, later reproved and given due prominence by Alon, Krivelevich and Sudakov, saying that if $H$ is a bipartite graph with maximum degree $r$ on one side, then there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 David Conlon , Joonkyung Lee

Let $F$ be a graph which contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. For such a graph $F,$ a classical result of Simonovits from 1966 shows that every graph on $n\ge n_0(F)$ vertices with more than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Lothar Narins , Tuan Tran

We propose the conjecture that every graph $G$ of order $n$ with less than $3n-6$ edges has a vertex cut that induces a forest. Maximal planar graphs do not have such vertex cuts and show that the density condition would be best possible.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Vsevolod Chernyshev , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach

Let $G$ be a graph and let $f$ be a positive integer-valued function on $V(G)$ satisfying $2m\le f\le b$, where $b$ and $m$ are two positive integers with $b\ge 4m^2$. In this paper, we show that if $G$ is $b^2$-tough and $|V(G)|\ge b^2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Morteza Hasanvand

Let H be any graph. We determine (up to an additive constant) the minimum degree of a graph G which ensures that G has a perfect H-packing (also called an H-factor). More precisely, let delta(H,n) denote the smallest integer t such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-01 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

For a given graph $R$, a graph $G$ is $R$-free if $G$ does not contain $R$ as an induced subgraph. It is known that every $2$-tough graph with at least three vertices has a $2$-factor. In graphs with restricted structures, it was shown that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Elizabeth Grimm , Songling Shan , Anna Johnsen

Given a multigraph $G$ and function $f : V(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 2}$ on its vertices, a degree-$f$ subgraph of $G$ is a spanning subgraph in which every vertex $v$ has degree at most $f(v)$. The degree-$f$ arboricity $a_f(G)$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Ronen Wdowinski

For graphs $F$ and $H$, we say $F$ is Ramsey for $H$ if every $2$-coloring of the edges of $F$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. The graph $F$ is Ramsey $H$-minimal if $F$ is Ramsey for $H$ and there is no proper subgraph $F'$ of $F$ so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Andrey Grinshpun , Raj Raina , Rik Sengupta

A variant of the Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture, posed by Havet, Reed, Stein and Wood, states that every graph with minimum degree at least $\lfloor 2k/3 \rfloor$ and maximum degree at least $k$ contains a copy of every tree with $k$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Leo Versteegen , Ella Williams

For a $k$-vertex graph $F$ and an $n$-vertex graph $G$, an $F$-tiling in $G$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $F$ in $G$. For $r\in \mathbb{N}$, the $r$-independence number of $G$, denoted $\alpha_r(G)$ is the largest size of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Jie Han , Patrick Morris , Guanghui Wang , Donglei Yang