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We consider the class of directed graphs with $N\geq 1$ edges and without loops shorter than $k\geq1$. Using the concept of a labelled graph, we determine graphs from this class that maximize the number of all paths of length $k$. Then we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Piotr M. Hajac , Oskar M. Stachowiak

The famous Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture states that every graph of average degree more than $t-1$ must contain every tree on $t+1$ vertices. In this paper, we study a spectral version of this conjecture. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

In 1985, Mader conjectured the existence of a function $f$ such that every digraph with minimum out-degree at least $f(k)$ contains a subdivision of the transitive tournament of order $k$. This conjecture is still completely open, as the…

A directed graph (digraph) $ D $ is $ k $-linked if $ |D| \geq 2k $, and for any $ 2k $ distinct vertices $ x_1, \ldots, x_k, y_1, \ldots, y_k $ of $ D $, there exist vertex-disjoint paths $ P_1, \ldots, P_k $ such that $ P_i $ is a path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Jia Zhou , Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Jin Yan

Two sets $X, Y$ of vertices in a graph $G$ are "anticomplete" if $X\cap Y=\varnothing$ and there is no edge in $G$ with an end in $X$ and an end in $Y$. We prove that every graph $G$ of sufficiently large treewidth contains two anticomplete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

A $k$-fault-tolerant connectivity preserver of a directed $n$-vertex graph $G$ is a subgraph $H$ such that, for any edge set $F \subseteq E(G)$ of size $|F| \le k$, the strongly connected components of $G - F$ and $H - F$ are the same.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Gary Hoppenworth , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

An oriented graph is a digraph that contains no 2-cycles, i.e., there is at most one arc between any two vertices. We show that every oriented graph $G$ of sufficiently large order $n$ with $\mathrm{deg}^+(x) +\mathrm{deg}^{-}(y)\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yulin Chang , Yangyang Cheng , Tianjiao Dai , Qiancheng Ouyang , Guanghui Wang

An antimagic labeling a connected graph $G$ is a bijection from the set of edges $E(G)$ to $\{1,2,\dots,|E(G)|\}$ such that all vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where the vertex sum at vertex $v$ is the sum of the labels assigned to edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Antoni Lozano , Mercè Mora , Carlos Seara , Joaquín Tey

Let $H$ be a directed acyclic graph other than a rooted star. It is known that there are constants $c(H)$ and $C(H)$ such that the following holds for the complete directed graph $D_n$. There are at most $C\log n$ directed acyclic subgraphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Raphael Yuster

Reed conjectured that for every graph, $\chi \leq \left \lceil \frac{\Delta + \omega + 1}{2} \right \rceil$ holds, where $\chi$, $\omega$ and $\Delta$ denote the chromatic number, clique number and maximum degree of the graph, respectively.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Vera Weil

We show that every connected graph can be approximated by a normal tree, up to some arbitrarily small error phrased in terms of neighbourhoods around its ends. The existence of such approximate normal trees has consequences of both…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Jan Kurkofka , Ruben Melcher , Max Pitz

For every $n\in\mathbb N$ we construct a finite graph $G$ such that every orientation $\vec G$ of $G$ contains an isometric copy of any oriented tree on $n$ vertices, and evaluate the smallest possible cardinality of $G$. On the other hand,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Taras Banakh , Adam Idzik , Oleg Pikhurko , Igor Protasov , Krzysztof Pszczoła

An orientation $D$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a digraph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge by exactly one of the two possible arcs with the same end vertices. For each $v \in V(G)$, the indegree of $v$ in $D$, denoted by $d^-_D(v)$, is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Julio Araujo , Alexandre Cezar , Carlos V. G. C. Lima , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Ana Silva

We prove that every tree of maximum degree $\Delta$ with $\ell$ leaves contains paths between leaves of at least $\log_{\Delta-1}((\Delta-2)\ell)$ distinct lengths. This settles in a strong form a conjecture of Narins, Pokrovskiy and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Francesco Di Braccio , Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Alexandru Malekshahian

Loebl, Koml\'os and S\'os conjectured that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $n/2$ vertices of degree at least $k$ contains each tree $T$ of order $k+1$ as a subgraph. We give a sketch of a proof of the approximate version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladky , Diana Piguet , Miklos Simonovits , Maya Stein , Endre Szemeredi

We show that for any $d\ge 2$ and $\Delta>0$ there exists $\eta>0$ such that the following holds: Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph with at least $\Omega(n^2)$ edges and let $H$ be an $n$-vertex $d$-degenerate graph with maximum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Jie Han , Seonghyuk Im , Bin Wang , Junxue Zhang

A well-known conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and S\'os states that every graph with average degree exceeding $m-1$ contains every tree with $m$ edges as a subgraph. We propose a variant of this conjecture, which states that every graph of maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Frédéric Havet , Bruce Reed , Maya Stein , David R. Wood

The bandwidth theorem [Mathematische Annalen, 343(1):175--205, 2009] states that any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree $\big(\tfrac{k-1}{k}+o(1)\big)n$ contains all $n$-vertex $k$-colourable graphs $H$ with bounded maximum degree and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Julia Ehrenmüller , Anusch Taraz

An $n$-vertex graph is degree 3-critical if it has $2n - 2$ edges and no proper induced subgraph with minimum degree at least 3. In 1988, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp asked whether one can always find cycles of all short…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francesco Di Braccio , Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Jie Ma , Alexandru Malekshahian , Ziyuan Zhao

Given a 2-edge-coloring $f : E(K_n) \rightarrow \{\pm 1\}$, the discrepancy of a subgraph $F \subseteq K_n$ is defined as $\left| \sum_{e \in E(F)} f(e) \right|$. Erd\H{o}s, F\"uredi, Loebl and S\'os showed that if $F$ is an $n$-vertex tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Micha Christoph , Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich