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The recent theory of graph limits gives a powerful framework for understanding the properties of suitable (convergent) sequences $(G_n)$ of graphs in terms of a limiting object which may be represented by a symmetric function $W$ on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Bela Bollobas , Svante Janson , Oliver Riordan

A graph $U$ is universal for a graph class $\mathcal{C}\ni U$, if every $G\in \mathcal{C}$ is a minor of $U$. We prove the existence or absence of universal graphs in several natural graph classes, including graphs component-wise embeddable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Agelos Georgakopoulos

We find an asymptotic enumeration formula for the number of simple $r$-uniform hypergraphs with a given degree sequence, when the number of edges is sufficiently large. The formula is given in terms of the solution of a system of equations.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Catherine Greenhill , Mikhail Isaev , Tamás Makai , Brendan D. McKay

Let $\mathbf G$ be a graphing, that is a Borel graph defined by $d$ measure preserving involutions. We prove that if $\mathbf G$ is {\em treeable} then it arises as the local limit of some sequence $(G_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ of graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Lucas Hosseini , Patrice Ossona de Mendez

Density matrices of graphs are combinatorial laplacians normalized to have trace one (Braunstein \emph{et al.} \emph{Phys. Rev. A,} \textbf{73}:1, 012320 (2006)). If the vertices of a graph are arranged as an array, then its density matrix…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-07-03 Roland Hildebrand , Stefano Mancini , Simone Severini

We present a new notion of limits of weighted directed graphs of growing size based on convergence of their random quotients. These limits are specified in terms of random exchangeable measures on the unit square. We call our limits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We characterise the slices of the category of graphs that are algebraically universal in terms of the structure of the slicing graph. In particular, we show that algebraic universality is obtained if, and only if, the slicing graph contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Ioannis Eleftheriadis

Theoretical studies on the representation power of GNNs have been centered around understanding the equivalence of GNNs, using WL-Tests for detecting graph isomorphism. In this paper, we argue that such equivalence ignores the accompanying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 P. Krishna Kumar a , Harish G. Ramaswamy

Let the class A of graphs be bridge-addable; that is, whenever a graph G in A has vertices u and v in different components then the graph G+uv is in A. For a random graph sampled uniformly from the graphs in A on vertex set {1,..,n}, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Colin McDiarmid

We prove an asymptotic formula for the number of $k$-uniform hypergraphs with a given degree sequence, for a wide range of parameters. In particular, we find a formula that is asymptotically equal to the number of $d$-regular $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Nina Kamčev , Anita Liebenau , Nick Wormald

A sequence of graphs is FO-convergent if the probability of satisfaction of every first-order formula converges. A graph modeling is a graph, whose domain is a standard probability space, with the property that every definable set is Borel.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 J. Nesetril , P. Ossona de Mendez

Tree decompositions of graphs are of fundamental importance in structural and algorithmic graph theory. Planar decompositions generalise tree decompositions by allowing an arbitrary planar graph to index the decomposition. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-13 David R. Wood , Jan Arne Telle

We define the limiting density of a minor-closed family of simple graphs F to be the smallest number k such that every n-vertex graph in F has at most kn(1+o(1)) edges, and we investigate the set of numbers that can be limiting densities.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-18 David Eppstein

Graphs are used in many disciplines to model the relationships that exist between objects in a complex discrete system. Researchers may wish to compare a network of interest to a "typical" graph from a family (or ensemble) of graphs which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Catherine Greenhill

An independent transversal of a graph $G$ with a vertex partition $\mathcal P$ is an independent set of $G$ intersecting each block of $\mathcal P$ in a single vertex. Wanless and Wood proved that if each block of $\mathcal P$ has size at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Carla Groenland , Tomáš Kaiser , Oscar Treffers , Matthew Wales

We introduce the standard decomposition, a way of decomposing a labeled graph into a sum of certain labeled subgraphs. We motivate this graph-theoretic concept by relating it to Connect Four decompositions of standard sets. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Laurent Evain , Mathias Lederer , Bjarke Hammersholt Roune

We prove that graphs excluding a fixed immersion have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number. More generally, we prove that if $H$ is a fixed planar graph that has a planar embedding with all the vertices with degree at least 4 on a single…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Paul Wollan , David R. Wood

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

This paper studies induced paths in strongly regular graphs. We give an elementary proof that a strongly regular graph contains a path $P_4$ as an induced subgraph if and only if it is primitive, i.e. it is neither a complete multipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Robert F. Bailey , Abigail K. Rowsell

Bollob\'as and Riordan, in their paper "Metrics for sparse graphs," proposed a number of provocative conjectures extending central results of quasirandom graphs and graph limits to sparse graphs. We refute these conjectures by exhibiting a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , Jonathan Tidor , Yufei Zhao