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The anti-forcing number of a perfect matching $M$ of a graph $G$ is the minimal number of edges not in $M$ whose removal to make $M$ as a unique perfect matching of the resulting graph. The set of anti-forcing numbers of all perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Kai Deng , Heping Zhang

There are a variety of ways to associate directed or undirected graphs to a group. It may be interesting to investigate the relations between the structure of these graphs and characterizing certain properties of the group in terms of some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 A. R. Moghaddamfar , S. Rahbariyan , W. J. Shi

We show that for a simple graph $G$, $c'(G)\leq\Delta(G)+2$ where $c'(G)$ is the choice index (or edge-list chromatic number) of $G$, and $\Delta(G)$ is the maximum degree of $G$. As a simple corollary of this result, we show that the total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-09 M. Henderson , A. J. W. Hilton , R. Mary Jeya Jothi

We give a uniform and self-contained proof that if $G$ is a connected graph with $\chi(G) = \Delta(G)$ and $G\neq \overline{C_7}$, then $G$ contains either $K_{\Delta(G)}$ or an odd hole where every vertex has degree at least $\Delta(G)-1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Rachel Galindo , Jessica McDonald , Songling Shan

The defective chromatic number of a graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $d$, every graph in $\mathcal{G}$ is $k$-colourable such that each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most $d$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Marcin Briański , Robert Hickingbotham , David R. Wood

The toughness of a graph $G$ is defined as the largest real number $t$ such that for any set $S\subseteq V(G)$ such that $G-S$ is disconnected, $S$ has at least $t$ times more elements than $G-S$ has components (unless $G$ is complete, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 J. Pascal Gollin , Martin Milanič , Laura Ogrin

Let $G$ and $H$ be disjoint embeddings of complete graphs $K_m$ and $K_n$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ such that some cycle in $G$ links a cycle in $H$ with non-zero linking number. We say that $G$ and $H$ are *weakly linked* if the absolute value of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-23 James Di , Erica Flapan , Spencer Johnson , Daniel Thompson , Christopher Tuffley

In an improper colouring an edge $uv$ for which, $c(u)=c(v)$ is called a \emph{bad edge}. The notion of the \emph{chromatic completion number} of a graph $G$ denoted by $\zeta(G),$ is the maximum number of edges over all chromatic…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Eunice Mphako-Banda , Johan Kok

A class of graphs closed under taking induced subgraphs is $\chi$-bounded if there exists a function $f$ such that for all graphs $G$ in the class, $\chi(G) \leq f(\omega(G))$. We consider the following question initially studied in [A.…

A graph $G$ of order $nv$ where $n\geq 2$ and $v\geq 2$ is said to be weakly $(n,v)$-clique-partitioned if its vertex set can be decomposed in a unique way into $n$ vertex-disjoint $v$-cliques. It is strongly $(n,v)$-clique-partitioned if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Grahame Erskine , Terry Griggs , Jozef Širáň

The undirected power graph (or simply power graph) of a group $G$, denoted by $P(G)$, is a graph whose vertices are the elements of the group $G$, in which two vertices $u$ and $v$ are connected by an edge between if and only if either…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Pallabi Manna , Peter J. Cameron , Ranjit Mehatari

We study the class of simple graphs $\mathcal{G}^*$ for which every pair of distinct odd cycles intersect in at most one edge. We give a structural characterization of the graphs in $\mathcal{G}^*$ and prove that every $G \in \mathcal{G}^*$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Jessica McDonald , Gregory J. Puleo

The greedy coloring algorithm shows that a graph of maximum degree at most $\Delta$ has chromatic number at most $\Delta + 1$, and this is tight for cliques. Much attention has been devoted to improving this "greedy bound" for graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Marthe Bonamy , Tom Kelly , Peter Nelson , Luke Postle

The power graph of a group $G$ is a graph with vertex set $G$, in which two vertices are adjacent if one is some power of the other. In the commuting graph, with $G$ as the vertex set, two vertices are joined by an edge if they commute in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Surbhi , Geetha Venkataraman

The codegree of an irreducible character $\chi$ of a finite group $G$ is defined as $|G:\ker\chi|/\chi(1)$. The codegree graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the prime divisors of $|G|$, where two distinct…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jiyong Chen , Ni Du , Leyi Li

Suppose $\Gamma$ is a finite simple graph. If $D$ is a dominating set of $\Gamma$ such that each $x\in D$ is contained in the set of vertices of an odd cycle of $\Gamma$, then we say that $D$ is an odd dominating set for $\Gamma$. For a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Mahdi Ebrahimi

The weak $r$-coloring numbers $wcol_r(G)$ of a graph $G$ were introduced by the first two authors as a generalization of the usual coloring number $col(G)$, and have since found interesting theoretical and algorithmic applications. This has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 H. A. Kierstead , Daqing Yang , Junjun Yi

Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a simple graph. A non-empty set $S\subseteq V (G)$ is a weakly connected dominating set in $G$, if the subgraph obtained from $G$ by removing all edges each joining any two vertices in $V (G)\setminus S$ is connected.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Saeid Alikhani , Somayeh Jahari , Mohammad Mehryar

A perfect code in a graph $\Gamma = (V, E)$ is a subset $C$ of $V$ such that no two vertices in $C$ are adjacent and every vertex in $V \setminus C$ is adjacent to exactly one vertex in $C$. A subgroup $H$ of a group $G$ is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Junyang Zhang , Sanming Zhou

The clique chromatic number of a graph is the smallest number of colors in a vertex coloring so that no maximal clique is monochromatic. In this paper, we determine the order of magnitude of the clique chromatic number of the random graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Manuel Fernandez , Lutz Warnke