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In this work we take a step towards characterising strongly flip-flat classes of graphs. Strong flip-flatness appears to be the analogue of uniform almost-wideness in the setting of dense classes of graphs. We prove that strongly flip-flat…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Fatemeh Ghasemi , Julien Grange , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Florent Madelaine

The $r$-flip-width of a graph, for $r\in \mathbb{N}\cup \{\infty\}$, is a graph parameter defined in terms of a variant of the cops and robber game, called the flipper game, and it was introduced by Toru\'{n}czyk (FOCS 2023). We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Yeonsu Chang , Sejin Ko , O-joung Kwon , Myounghwan Lee

We prove various results around indiscernibles in monadically NIP theories. First, we provide several characterizations of monadic NIP in terms of indiscernibles, mirroring previous characterizations in terms of the behavior of finite…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Samuel Braunfeld , Michael C. Laskowski

The notions of bounded-size and quasibounded-size decompositions with bounded treedepth base classes are central to the structural theory of graph sparsity introduced by two of the authors years ago, and provide a characterization of both…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Samuel Braunfeld , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sebastian Siebertz

Connections between structural graph theory and finite model theory recently gained a lot of attention. In this setting, many interesting questions remain on the properties of dependent (NIP) hereditary classes of graphs, in particular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hector Buffière , Patrice Ossona de Mendez

The takeoff point for this paper is the voluminous body of literature addressing recursive betting games with expected logarithmic growth of wealth being the performance criterion. Whereas almost all existing papers involve use of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Anton V. Proskurnikov , B. Ross Barmish

A countable, bounded degree graph is almost finite if it has a tiling with isomorphic copies of finitely many F\o lner sets, and we call it strongly almost finite, if the tiling can be randomized so that the probability that a vertex is on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Gábor Elek , Ádám Timár

We define a new family of graph invariants, studying the topology of the moduli space of their geometric realizations in Euclidean spaces, using a limiting procedure reminiscent of Floer homology. Given a labeled graph $G$ on $n$ vertices…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Mara Belotti , Antonio Lerario , Andrew Newman

The main problem in the area of graph property testing is to understand which graph properties are \emph{testable}, which means that with constantly many queries to any input graph $G$, a tester can decide with good probability whether $G$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Louis Esperet , Sergey Norin

We introduce differential games for FO logic of graphs, a variant of Ehrenfeucht-Fra\"{i}ss\'e games in which the game is played on only one graph and the moves of both players restricted. We prove that, in a certain sense, these games are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Jakub Gajarský , Maximilian Gorsky , Stephan Kreutzer

Given a class $\mathcal G$ of graphs, let ${\mathcal G}_n$ denote the set of graphs in $\mathcal G$ on vertex set $[n]$. For certain classes $\mathcal G$, we are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of a random graph $R_n$ sampled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Colin McDiarmid

The notion of nowhere dense graph classes was introduced by Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and Ossona de Mendez and provides a robust concept of uniform sparseness of graph classes. Nowhere dense classes generalize many familiar classes of sparse graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Sebastian Siebertz

A graph G is c-closed if every two vertices with at least c common neighbors are adjacent to each other. Introduced by Fox, Roughgarden, Seshadhri, Wei and Wein [ICALP 2018, SICOMP 2020], this definition is an abstraction of the triadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Tom Davot , Jessica Enright , Jayakrishnan Madathil , Kitty Meeks

We introduce a framework for stochastic games on large sparse graphs, covering continuous-time and discrete-time dynamic games as well as static games. Players are indexed by the vertices of simple, locally finite graphs, allowing both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Eyal Neuman , Sturmius Tuschmann

A flip of a graph is obtained by complementing the edge relation within a set of vertices. Flips are typically used to separate vertices in a graph, by increasing the distances between them. We show that in $K_{t,t}$-free graphs, every…

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is called $d$-rigid if, for a generic embedding of its vertices in $\mathbb{R}^d$, every edge-length preserving continuous motion of the vertices preserves the distances between all pairs of non-adjacent vertices as well.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Michael Krivelevich , Alan Lew , Peleg Michaeli

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a class of graphs closed under taking induced subgraphs. We say that $\mathcal{C}$ has the {\em clique-stable set separation property} if there exists $c \in \mathbb{N}$ such that for every graph $G \in \mathcal{C}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Maria Chudnovsky , Paul Seymour

Mapping class groups of locally finite graphs are the analogue of those of infinite-type surfaces, and serve as a "big" version of $\text{Out}(F_n)$. In this paper, we investigate which of these mapping class groups have a dense conjugacy…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Rachmiel Klein

The notion of nowhere denseness is one of the central concepts of the recently developed theory of sparse graphs. We study the properties of nowhere dense graph classes by investigating appropriate limit objects defined using the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Michał Pilipczuk , Szymon Toruńczyk

Let G be a finite graph with the non-k-order property (essentially, a uniform finite bound on the size of an induced sub-half-graph). A major result of the paper applies model-theoretic arguments to obtain a stronger version of…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-20 M. Malliaris , S. Shelah