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A perfect matching in a hypergraph is a set of edges that partition the set of vertices. We study the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in orderable and separable hypergraphs. We show that the class of orderable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Shmuel Onn

Edge ideals of finite simple graphs are well-studied over polynomial rings. In this paper, we initiate the study of edge ideals over exterior algebras, specifically focusing on the depth and singular varieties of such ideals. We prove an…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Matthew Mastroeni , Jason McCullough , Andrew Osborne , Joshua Rice , Cole Willis

We study the problem of efficiently certifying upper bounds on the independence number of $\ell$-uniform hypergraphs. This is a notoriously hard problem, with efficient algorithms failing to approximate the independence number within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pravesh Kothari , Anand Louis , Rameesh Paul , Prasad Raghavendra

Subgraphs reveal information about the geometry and functionalities of complex networks. For scale-free networks with unbounded degree fluctuations, we obtain the asymptotics of the number of times a small connected graph occurs as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Remco van der Hofstad , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis

For a positive integer $r$, a distance-$r$ independent set in an undirected graph $G$ is a set $I\subseteq V(G)$ of vertices pairwise at distance greater than $r$, while a distance-$r$ dominating set is a set $D\subseteq V(G)$ such that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Michał Pilipczuk , Sebastian Siebertz

Here, we represent a general hypergraph by a matrix and study its spectrum. We extend the definition of equitable partition and joining operation for hypergraphs, and use those to compute eigenvalues of different hypergraphs. We derive the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Amitesh Sarkar , Anirban Banerjee

The degree-diameter problem seeks to find the maximum possible order of a graph with a given (maximum) degree and diameter. It is known that graphs attaining the maximum possible value (the Moore bound) are extremely rare, but much activity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Dominique Buset , Mourad El Amiri , Grahame Erskine , Hebert Pérez-Rosés , Mirka Miller

The independence number $\alpha(G)$ and the dissociation number ${\rm diss}(G)$ of a graph $G$ are the largest orders of induced subgraphs of $G$ of maximum degree at most $0$ and at most $1$, respectively. We consider possible improvements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Felix Bock , Johannes Pardey , Lucia D. Penso , Dieter Rautenbach

Dirac's theorem determines the sharp minimum degree threshold for graphs to contain perfect matchings and Hamiltonian cycles. There have been various attempts to generalize this theorem to hypergraphs with larger uniformity by considering…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Hyunwoo Lee

The partition function of the Ising model of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is defined as $Z_{\text{Ising}}(G;b)=\sum_{\sigma:V\to \{0,1\}} b^{m(\sigma)}$, where $m(\sigma)$ denotes the number of edges $e=\{u,v\}$ such that $\sigma(u)=\sigma(v)$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Viresh Patel , Guus Regts , Ayla Stam

We study the Independent Set (IS) problem in $H$-free graphs, i.e., graphs excluding some fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph. We prove several inapproximability results both for polynomial-time and parameterized algorithms.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Pavel Dvořák , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Ashutosh Rai , Paweł Rzążewski

Maximally recoverable codes are codes designed for distributed storage which combine quick recovery from single node failure and optimal recovery from catastrophic failure. Gopalan et al [SODA 2017] studied the alphabet size needed for such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Daniel Kane , Shachar Lovett , Sankeerth Rao

In this paper we consider the problem of embedding almost-spanning, bounded degree graphs in a random graph. In particular, let $\Delta\geq 5$, $\varepsilon > 0$ and let $H$ be a graph on $(1-\varepsilon)n$ vertices and with maximum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Asaf Ferber , Kyle Luh , Oanh Nguyen

We consider Colouring on graphs that are $H$-subgraph-free for some fixed graph $H$, which are graphs that do not contain $H$ as a subgraph. To classify the complexity of Colouring on $H$-subgraph-free graphs for connected $H$, it remains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Tala Eagling-Vose , Jorik Jooken , Felicia Lucke , Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma

In this paper, we consider an analog of the well-studied extremal problem for triangle-free subgraphs of graphs for uniform hypergraphs. A loose triangle is a hypergraph $T$ consisting of three edges $e,f$ and $g$ such that $|e \cap f| = |f…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Jiaxi Nie , Sam Spiro , Jacques Verstraete

The spectrum of a graph is closely related to many graph parameters. In particular, the spectral gap of a regular graph which is the difference between its valency and second eigenvalue, is widely seen an algebraic measure of connectivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Masato Mimura , Hiroshi Nozaki , Takayuki Okuda

In this paper, we introduce a graph structure, called non-zero component graph on finite dimensional vector spaces. We show that the graph is connected and find its domination number and independence number. We also study the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Angsuman Das

We estimate the number of zeros of a polynomial in $\mathbb{C}[z]$ within any small circular disc centered on the unit circle, which improves and comprehensively extends a result established by Borwein, Erd{\'e}lyi, and Littmann~\cite{BE1}…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Mithun Kumar Das

A graph with at most two vertices of the same degree is called antiregular (Merris 2003), maximally nonregular (Zykov 1990) or quasiperfect (Behzad, Chartrand 1967). If s_{k} is the number of independent sets of cardinality k in a graph G,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-07-07 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter. For graphs of bounded clique-width, many problems that are NP-hard in general can be polynomial-time solvable. The fact motivates several studies to investigate whether the clique-width of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yu Nakahata