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A transversal set of a graph $G$ is a set of vertices incident to all edges of $G$. The transversal number of $G$, denoted by $\tau(G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a transversal set of $G$. A simple graph $G$ with no isolated vertex is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Muhuo Liu , Xiaofeng Gu

A tuple $(G_1,\dots,G_n)$ of graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$ is said to be Hamilton-universal if for every map $\chi: [n]\to[n]$ there exists a Hamilton cycle whose $i$-th edge comes from $G_{\chi(i)}$. Bowtell, Morris, Pehova and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Micha Christoph , Anders Martinsson , Aleksa Milojević

A seminal result of Lee asserts that the Ramsey number of any bipartite $d$-degenerate graph $H$ satisfies $\log r(H) = \log n + O(d)$. In particular, this bound applies to every bipartite graph of maximal degree $\Delta$. It remains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Dylan J. Altschuler , Han Huang , Konstantin Tikhomirov

For any fixed graph $G$, the subgraph isomorphism problem asks whether an $n$-vertex input graph has a subgraph isomorphic to $G$. A well-known algorithm of Alon, Yuster and Zwick (1995) efficiently reduces this to the "colored" version of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Gregory Rosenthal

Given a graph family $\mathbb{H}$, let ${\rm SPEX}(n,\mathbb{H}_{\rm sub})$ denote the set of $n$-vertex $\mathbb{H}$-subdivision-free graphs with the maximum spectral radius. In this paper, we investigate the problem of graph subdivision…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang , Pingchuan Yang

We prove that, for each circle graph $H$, every graph with sufficiently large rank-width contains a vertex-minor isomorphic to $H$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jim Geelen , O-Joung Kwon , Rose McCarty , Paul Wollan

The graph removal lemma is a fundamental result in extremal graph theory which says that for every fixed graph $H$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, if an $n$-vertex graph $G$ contains $\varepsilon n^2$ edge-disjoint copies of $H$ then $G$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov

Given a graph $G$, let $\mathrm{diam}(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$ which lie in the same connected component, and let $\mathrm{diam}^+(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$; so…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Louigi Addario-Berry , Gabriel Crudele

A graph $G$ is said to be the intersection of graphs $G_1,G_2,\ldots,G_k$ if $V(G)=V(G_1)=V(G_2)=\cdots=V(G_k)$ and $E(G)=E(G_1)\cap E(G_2)\cap\cdots\cap E(G_k)$. For a graph $G$, $\mathrm{dim}_{COG}(G)$ (resp. $\mathrm{dim}_{TH}(G)$)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Daphna Chacko , Mathew C. Francis

A typical Dirac-type problem in extremal graph theory is to determine the minimum degree threshold for a graph $G$ to have a spanning subgraph $H$, e.g. the Dirac theorem. A natural following up problem would be to seek an $H$-factor, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Allan Lo

The twin-width of a graph $G$ is the minimum integer $d$ such that $G$ has a $d$-contraction sequence, that is, a sequence of $|V(G)|-1$ iterated vertex identifications for which the overall maximum number of red edges incident to a single…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

A graph $\mathcal{H}=(W,E_\mathcal{H})$ is said to have {\em bandwidth} at most $b$ if there exists a labeling of $W$ as $w_1,w_2,\dots,w_n$ such that $|i-j|\leq b$ for every edge $w_iw_j\in E_\mathcal{H}$. We say that $\mathcal{H}$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chunlin You , Qizhong Lin

We prove that every $n$-vertex $K_t$-minor-free graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ has a set $F$ of $O(t^2(\log t)^{1/4}\sqrt{\Delta n})$ edges such that every component of $G - F$ has at most $n/2$ vertices. This is best possible up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Gwenaël Joret , William Lochet , Michał T. Seweryn

Given a (di)graph $H$, we say that a (di)graph $H^\prime$ is an $H$-subdivision if $H^\prime$ is obtained from $H$ by replacing one or more edges with internally vertex-disjoint path(s). Pavez-Sign\'{e} conjectured that for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yangyang Cheng , Zhilan Wang , Jin Yan

A graph has tree-width at most $k$ if it can be obtained from a set of graphs each with at most $k+1$ vertices by a sequence of clique sums. We refine this definition by, for each non-negative integer $\theta$, defining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jim Geelen , Benson Joeris

The {\em bipartite-hole-number} of a graph $G$, denoted as $\widetilde\alpha(G)$, is the minimum number $k$ such that there exist integers $a$ and $b$ with $a + b = k+1$ such that for any two disjoint sets $A, B \subseteq V(G)$, there is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Mark Ellingham , Yixuan Huang , Bing Wei

A graph $G$ is said to be $\mathcal H(n,\Delta)$-universal if it contains every graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$. It is known that for any $\varepsilon > 0$ and any natural number $\Delta$ there exists $c > 0$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-02 David Conlon , Asaf Ferber , Rajko Nenadov , Nemanja Škorić

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $f: V\rightarrow [1,n]$ a one to one map of $V$ onto the integers $1$ through $n$. Let $dilation(f) =$ max$\{ |f(v) - f(w)|: vw\in E \}$. Define the {\it bandwidth} $B(G)$ of $G$ to be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Tao Jiang , Zevi Miller , Derrek Yager

The study of the existence of hamiltonian cycles in a graph is a classic problem in graph theory. By incorporating toughness and spectral conditions, we can consider Chv\'{a}tal's conjecture from another perspective: what is the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Dandan Fan , Huiqiu Lin , Hongliang Lu

A spanning tree $T$ of a connected graph $G$ is a subgraph of $G$ that is a tree covers all vertices of $G$. The leaf distance of $T$ is defined as the minimum of distances between any two leaves of $T$. A fractional matching of a graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Sizhong Zhou