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We show that for any natural number $s$, there is a constant $\gamma$ and a subgraph-closed class having, for any natural $n$, at most $\gamma^n$ graphs on $n$ vertices up to isomorphism, but no adjacency labeling scheme with labels of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron , John Sylvester , Viktor Zamaraev , Maksim Zhukovskii

A classical vertex Ramsey result due to Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and R\"odl states that given a finite family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $A$ and a positive integer $r$, if every graph $B\in\mathcal{F}$ has a $2$-vertex-connected subgraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Sahar Diskin , Ilay Hoshen , Michael Krivelevich , Maksim Zhukovskii

A well-known theorem of Whitney states that a 3-connected planar graph admits an essentially unique embedding into the 2-sphere. We prove a 3-dimensional analogue: a simply-connected $2$-complex every link graph of which is 3-connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Jaehoon Kim

We prove that every cyclically 4-edge-connected cubic graph that can be embedded in the torus, with the exceptional graph class called "Petersen-like", is 3-edge-colorable. This means every (non-trivial) toroidal snark can be obtained from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Yuta Inoue , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Atsuyuki Miyashita , Bojan Mohar , Tomohiro Sonobe

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

We show that we can assume graphs that do not have the edge-Erd\H{o}s-P\'{o}sa property to be connected. Then we strengthen this result to $2$-connectivity under the additional assumptions of a minor-closed property and a generic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Raphael Steck

We give new decomposition theorems for classes of graphs that can be transduced in first-order logic from classes of sparse graphs -- more precisely, from classes of bounded expansion and from nowhere dense classes. In both cases, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Jan Dreier , Jakub Gajarský , Sandra Kiefer , 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

A variant of the Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture, posed by Havet, Reed, Stein and Wood, states that every graph with minimum degree at least $\lfloor 2k/3 \rfloor$ and maximum degree at least $k$ contains a copy of every tree with $k$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Alexey Pokrovskiy , Leo Versteegen , Ella Williams

A classic result of Erd\H{o}s and P\'osa says that any graph contains either $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles or can be made acyclic by deleting at most $O(k \log k)$ vertices. Here we generalize this result by showing that for all numbers $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Frank Mousset , Andreas Noever , Nemanja Škorić , Felix Weissenberger

A widely open conjecture proposed by Bollob\'as, Erd\H{o}s, and Tuza in the early 1990s states that for any $n$-vertex graph $G$, if the independence number $\alpha(G) = \Omega(n)$, then there is a subset $T \subseteq V(G)$ with $|T| =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Xinbu Cheng , Zixiang Xu

An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph for short) is called linear if every pair of vertices belong to at most one edge. A linear $r$-graph is complete if every pair of vertices are in exactly one edge. The famous Brown-Erd\H{o}s-S\'os…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Asaf Shapira , Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

We fully disprove a conjecture of Haythorpe on the minimum number of hamiltonian cycles in regular hamiltonian graphs, thereby extending a result of Zamfirescu, as well as correct and complement Haythorpe's computational enumerative results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , On-Hei Solomon Lo , Ben Seamone , Carol T. Zamfirescu

We prove that every (6k + 2l, 2k)-connected simple graph contains k rigid and l connected edge-disjoint spanning subgraphs. This implies a theorem of Jackson and Jord\'an [4] and a theorem of Jord\'an [6] on packing of rigid spanning…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Joseph Cheriyan , Olivier Durand de Gevigney , Zoltán Szigeti

Motivated by an application in condensed matter physics and quantum information theory, we prove that every non-null even-hole-free claw-free graph has a simplicial clique, that is, a clique $K$ such that for every vertex $v \in K$, the set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

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

In a sequence of four papers, we prove the following results (via a unified approach) for all sufficiently large $n$: (i) [1-factorization conjecture] Suppose that $n$ is even and $D\geq 2\lceil n/4\rceil -1$. Then every $D$-regular graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus

We present a new greedy rounding algorithm for the Cycle Packing Problem for uncrossable cycle families in planar graphs. This improves the best-known upper bound for the integrality gap of the natural packing LP to a constant slightly less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Niklas Schlomberg

We establish the following splitter theorem for graphs and its generalization for matroids: Let $G$ and $H$ be $3$-connected simple graphs such that $G$ has an $H$-minor and $k:=|V(G)|-|V(H)|\ge 2$. Let $n:=\left\lceil k/2\right\rceil+1$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 João Paulo Costalonga

In light of Lov\'{a}sz's longstanding question on the existence of Hamilton paths in vertex-transitive graphs, this paper considers a natural variant: what if vertex-transitivity is relaxed, yet a high degree of symmetry--specifically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Shaofei Du , Kai Yuan