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Large graphs are sometimes studied through their degree sequences (power law or regular graphs). We study graphs that are uniformly chosen with a given degree sequence. Under mild conditions, it is shown that sequences of such graphs have…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Sourav Chatterjee , Persi Diaconis , Allan Sly

For a graph $H$, the {\em extremal number} $ex(n,H)$ is the maximum number of edges in a graph of order $n$ not containing a subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Let $\delta(H)>0$ and $\Delta(H)$ denote the minimum degree and maximum degree of $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Noga Alon , Raphael Yuster

We study the complexity of the Graph Isomorphism problem on graph classes that are characterized by a finite number of forbidden induced subgraphs, focusing mostly on the case of two forbidden subgraphs. We show hardness results and develop…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stefan Kratsch , Pascal Schweitzer

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

We prove that if $G$ is a sparse graph --- it belongs to a fixed class of bounded expansion $\mathcal{C}$ --- and $d\in \mathbb{N}$ is fixed, then the $d$th power of $G$ can be partitioned into cliques so that contracting each of these…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Jaroslav Nešetřil , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Michał Pilipczuk , Xuding Zhu

A graph is Berge if it has no induced odd cycle on at least 5 vertices and no complement of induced odd cycle on at least 5 vertices. A graph is perfect if the chromatic number equals the maximum clique number for every induced subgraph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Michel Burlet , Frédéric Maffray , Nicolas Trotignon

In 2022, Holmsen showed that any graph with at least \( c \binom{n}{r} \) \(r\)-cliques but no induced complete $r$-partite graph $K_{2,\ldots, 2}$ must contain a clique of order \(\Omega(c^{2^{r-1}} n)\). In this paper, we study graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Nannan Chen , Yulai Ma , Fan Yang

Finding the largest clique is a notoriously hard problem, even on random graphs. It is known that the clique number of a random graph G(n,1/2) is almost surely either k or k+1, where k = 2log n - 2log(log n) - 1. However, a simple greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Atish Das Sarma , Amit Deshpande , Ravi Kannan

A temporal graph $G$ is a sequence $(G_t)_{t \in I}$ of graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$. The \emph{temporal exploration problem} asks for the length of the shortest sequence of vertices that starts at a given vertex, visits every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Paul Bastide , Carla Groenland , Lukas Michel , Clément Rambaud

Given positive integers n and m, and a probability measure P on {0, 1, ..., m} the random intersection graph G(n,m,P) on vertex set V = {1,2, ..., n} and with attribute set W = {w_1, w_2, ..., w_m} is defined as follows. Let S_1, S_2, ...,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Mindaugas Bloznelis , Valentas Kurauskas

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

We say that a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is \emph{clique-sparse} if there is a constant $k=k(\mathcal{G})$ such that for every graph $G\in\mathcal{G}$, every vertex of $G$ belongs to at most $k$ maximal cliques, and any maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-28 J. Pascal Gollin , Meike Hatzel , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Over recent years there has been much interest in both Tur\'an and Ramsey properties of vertex ordered graphs. In this paper we initiate the study of embedding spanning structures into vertex ordered graphs. In particular, we introduce a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Jozsef Balogh , Lina Li , Andrew Treglown

We consider sufficient conditions for the existence of $k$-th powers of Hamiltonian cycles in $n$-vertex graphs $G$ with minimum degree $\mu n$ for arbitrarily small $\mu>0$. About 20 years ago Koml\'os, Sark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi resolved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Oliver Ebsen , Giulia S. Maesaka , Christian Reiher , Mathias Schacht , Bjarne Schülke

The central theorem of topological graph theory states that the graph minor relation is a well-quasi-order on graphs. It has far-reaching consequences, in particular in the study of graph structures and the design of (parameterized)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Corentin Lunel , Clément Maria

The minimum number of observations such that the maximum likelihood estimator in a Gaussian graphical model exists with probability one is called the maximum likelihood threshold of the underlying graph G. The natural algebraic relaxation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Grigoriy Blekherman , Rainer Sinn

We prove that the clique graph operator $k$ is divergent on a locally cyclic graph $G$ (i.e. $N_G(v)$ is a circle) with minimum degree $\delta(G)=6$ if and only if $G$ is $6$-regular. The clique graph $kG$ of a graph $G$ has the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Markus Baumeister , Anna M. Limbach

A median graph is a connected graph, such that for any three vertices $u,v,w$ there is exactly one vertex $x$ that lies simultaneously on a shortest $(u,v)$-path, a shortest $(v,w)$-path and a shortest $(w,u)$-path. Examples of median…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Konstantinos Stavropoulos

In this paper we show how to find nearly optimal embeddings of large trees in several natural classes of graphs. The size of the tree T can be as large as a constant fraction of the size of the graph G, and the maximum degree of T can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Benny Sudakov , Jan Vondrak

For an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $h(G)$ denote the smallest size of a subset of $V(G)$ such that it intersects every maximum independent set of $G$. A conjecture posed by Bollob\'{a}s, Erd\H{o}s and Tuza in early 90s remains widely open,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Xinbu Cheng , Xinqi Huang , Mingyuan Rong , Zixiang Xu