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The biplanar crossing number of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of crossings over all possible drawings of the edges of $G$ in two disjoint planes. We present new bounds on the biplanar crossing number of complete graphs and complete…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Alireza Shavali , Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh

Let $f(d)$ be the smallest value for which every bridgeless graph $G$ with diameter $d$ admits a strong orientation $\overrightarrow{G}$ such that the diameter of $\overrightarrow{G}$ is at most $f(d)$. Chv\'atal and Thomassen (1978)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jifu Lin , Lihua You

We call a finite undirected graph minimally k-matchable if it has at least k distinct perfect matchings but deleting any edge results in a graph which has not. An odd subdivision of some graph G is any graph obtained by replacing every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Gasper Fijavz , Matthias Kriesell

In the present paper, we study algorithmic questions for the arc-intersection graph of directed paths on a tree. Such graphs are known to be perfect (proved by Monma and Wei in 1986). We present faster algorithms than all previously known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Olivier Durand de Gévigney , Frédéric Meunier , Christian Popa , Julien Reygner , Ayrin Romero

A $k$-bisection of a multigraph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set into two parts of the same cardinality such that every component of each part has at most $k$ vertices. Cui and Liu shown that every claw-free cubic multigraph contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Federico Romaniello

A mixed multigraph is a multigraph which may contain both undirected and directed edges. An orientation of a mixed multigraph $G$ is an assignment of exactly one direction to each undirected edge of $G$. A mixed multigraph $G$ can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Jasine Babu , Deepu Benson , Deepak Rajendraprasad

In this paper, we consider two fundamental cut approximation problems on large graphs. We prove new lower bounds for both problems that are optimal up to logarithmic factors. The first problem is to approximate cuts in balanced directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Cheng , Max Li , Honghao Lin , Zi-Yi Tai , David P. Woodruff , Jason Zhang

A directed dominating set in a directed graph $D$ is a set $S$ of vertices of $V$ such that every vertex $u \in V(D) \setminus S$ has an adjacent vertex $v$ in $S$ with $v$ directed to $u$. The directed domination number of $D$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Yair Caro , Michael A. Henning

An orientation of a graph is semi-transitive if it contains no directed cycles and has no shortcuts. An undirected graph is semi-transitive if it can be oriented in a semi-transitive manner. The class of semi-transitive graphs includes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

Among other things, it is shown that for every pair of positive integers $r$, $d$, satisfying $1<r<d\leq 2r$, and every finite simple graph $H,$ there is a connected graph $G$ with diameter $d$, radius $r$, and center $H.$

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Kelly Guest , Andrew Johnson , Peter Johnson , William Jones , Yuki Takahashi , Zhichun Joy Zhang

We consider approximations for computing minimum weighted cuts in directed graphs. We consider both rooted and global minimum cuts, and both edge-cuts and vertex-cuts. For these problems we give randomized Monte Carlo algorithms that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Kent Quanrud

We prove a far-reaching strengthening of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma for intersection graphs of pseudo-segments. It shows that the vertex set of such a graph can be partitioned into a bounded number of parts of roughly the same size such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

The dimension of a graph $G$ is the smallest $d$ for which its vertices can be embedded in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space in the sense that the distances between endpoints of edges equal $1$ (but there may be other unit distances).…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Nóra Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii , Konrad J. Swanepoel

It was conjectured by Koh and Tay [Graphs Combin. 18(4) (2002), 745--756] that for $n\geq 5$ every simple graph of order $n$ and size at least $\binom{n}{2}-n+5$ has an orientation of diameter two. We prove this conjecture and hence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Garner Cochran , Éva Czabarka , Peter Dankelmann , László Székely

We describe a way of assigning labels to the vertices of any undirected graph on up to $n$ vertices, each composed of $n/2+O(1)$ bits, such that given the labels of two vertices, and no other information regarding the graph, it is possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Stephen Alstrup , Haim Kaplan , Mikkel Thorup , Uri Zwick

In this paper, we introduce a bisected vertex leveling of a plane graph. Using this planar embedding, we present elementary proofs of the well-known upper bounds in terms of the minimal crossing number on braid index $b(L)$ and arc index…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Sungjong No , Seungsang Oh , Hyungkee Yoo

Circular arc graphs are graphs whose vertices can be represented as arcs on a circle such that any two vertices are adjacent if and only if their corresponding arcs intersect. Proper circular arc graphs are graphs which have a circular arc…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naveen Belkale , L. Sunil Chandran

A $k$-weak bisection of a cubic graph $G$ is a partition of the vertex-set of $G$ into two parts $V_1$ and $V_2$ of equal size, such that each connected component of the subgraph of $G$ induced by $V_i$ ($i=1,2$) is a tree of at most $k-2$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Louis Esperet , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Michael Tarsi

Stein (2020) conjectured that for any positive integer $k$, every oriented graph of minimum semi-degree greater than $k/2$ contains every oriented path of length $k$. This conjecture is true for directed paths by a result from Jackson (JGT,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Bin Chen , Xinmin Hou , Xinyu Zhou

A dicut in a directed graph is a cut for which all of its edges are directed to a common side of the cut. A famous theorem of Lucchesi and Younger states that in every finite digraph the least size of a set of edges meeting every non-empty…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-09 J. Pascal Gollin , Karl Heuer , Konstantinos Stavropoulos