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A well-known open problem in graph theory asks whether Stanley's chromatic symmetric function, a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of a graph, distinguishes between any two non-isomorphic trees. Previous work has proven the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Jake Huryn

We show that for all simple graphs G other than the cycles C_3,C_4,C_5, and the claw K_1,3 there exists a K > 0 such that whenever k > K the k-th iterate of the line graph can be distinguished by at most two colors. Additionally we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ian Shipman

The search for a highly discriminating and easily computable invariant to distinguish graphs remains a challenging research topic. Here we focus on cospectral graphs whose complements are also cospectral (generalized cospectral), and on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Aida Abiad , Carlos A. Alfaro , Ralihe R. Villagrán

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

The Gallai graph $\Gamma(G)$ of a graph $G$ has the edges of $G$ as its vertices and two distinct vertices $e$ and $f$ of $\Gamma(G)$ are adjacent in $\Gamma(G)$ if the edges $e$ and $f$ of $G$ are adjacent in $G$ but do not span a triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Felix Joos , Van Bang Le , Dieter Rautenbach

We investigate a family of one dimensional maps for which the bifurcation diagram looks differently than the usual ones. We describe and exemplify various unique and interesting phenomena arising for this family of maps.

We introduce the concept of link-irregular labelings for graphs, extending the notion of link-irregular graphs through edge labeling with positive integers. A labeling is link-irregular if every vertex has a uniquely labeled subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

A graph is called pseudo-outerplanar if each block has an embedding on the plane in such a way that the vertices lie on a fixed circle and the edges lie inside the disk of this circle with each of them crossing at most one another. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

Digraph-defined external difference families were recently introduced as a natural generalization of several well-studied combinatorial objects motivated by cryptography (e.g. external difference families (EDFs) and circular external…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Gavin Angus , Sophie Huczynska , Struan McCartney

Extending the well-known star-comb lemma for infinite graphs, we characterise the graphs that do not contain an infinite comb or an infinite star, respectively, attached to a given set of vertices. We offer several characterisations: in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Carl Bürger , Jan Kurkofka

The transmission of a vertex in a connected graph is the sum of its distances to all the other vertices. A graph is transmission irregular (TI) when all of its vertices have mutually distinct transmissions. In an earlier paper, Al-Yakoob…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Ivan Damnjanović

Given a graph $G$, a \textit{$k$-total difference labeling} of the graph is a total labeling $f$ from the set of edges and vertices to the set $\{1, 2, \cdots k\}$ satisfying that for any edge $\{u,v\}$, $f(\{u,v\})=|f(u)-f(v)|$. If $G$ is…

In this paper we study Ramsey numbers for trees of diameter 3 (bistars) vs., respectively, trees of diameter 2 (stars), complete graphs, and many complete graphs. In the case of bistars vs. many complete graphs, we determine this number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Jeremy F. Alm , Nicholas Hommowun , Aaron Schneider

Packing graphs is a combinatorial problem where several given graphs are being mapped into a common host graph such that every edge is used at most once. In the planar tree packing problem we are given two trees T1 and T2 on n vertices and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Markus Geyer , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Kaufmann , Vincent Kusters , Csaba D. Tóth

We use the theory of \Gamma-species to enumerate k-gonal and polygonal 2-trees with respect to their vertices. We then extend this result to enumerate "succulents", a tree-like class of graphs which generalize cacti.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Andrew Gainer-Dewar

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex (edge) labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. It is known that for every graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Saeid Alikhani , Sandi Klavžar , Florian Lehner , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex (edge) labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. In this paper we consider the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The index of a graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. A starlike is a tree having a unique vertex of degree $r>2$. We show how to order the starlike trees with $n>3$ by their indices. In particular, the indices of starlike…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Elismar R. Oliveira , Dragan Stevanović , Vilmar Trevisan

An \emph{asteroidal triple} is a set of three independent vertices in a graph such that any two vertices in the set are connected by a path which avoids the neighbourhood of the third. A classical result by Lekkerkerker and Boland \cite{6}…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Lalla Mouatadid , Robert Robere

We consider edge colorings of a graph in such a way that each two different triangles have distinct colorings. It is an extension of the well-known idea of distinguishing all maximal stars in a graph. It was introduced in literature in 1985…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Monika Pilsniak , Mariusz Wozniak