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An odd hole in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of odd length at least five. In 1985, A. Gyarfas made the conjecture that for all t there exists n such that every graph with no K_t subgraph and no odd hole is n-colourable. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

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

We prove a structural characterization of graphs that forbid a fixed graph $H$ as an immersion and can be embedded in a surface of Euler genus $\gamma$. In particular, we prove that a graph $G$ that excludes some connected graph $H$ as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Marcin Kaminski , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We prove that any class of graphs with linear neighborhood complexity has bounded improper odd chromatic number. As a result, if $\mathcal{G}$ is the class of all circle graphs, or if $\mathcal{G}$ is any class with bounded twin-width,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 James Davies , Meike Hatzel , Kolja Knauer , Rose McCarty , Torsten Ueckerdt

Liu and Ma [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 2018] conjectured that every $2$-connected non-bipartite graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$ contains $\lceil k/2\rceil $ cycles with consecutive odd lengths. In particular, they showed that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Hao Lin , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou

While the problem of determining whether an embedding of a graph $G$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is {\it infinitesimally rigid} is well understood, specifying whether a given embedding of $G$ is {\it rigid} or not is still a hard task that usually…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Orit E. Raz , József Solymosi

In this paper we introduce the edge inducibility problem. This is a common refinement of both the well known Kruskal--Katona theorem and the inducibility question introduced by Pippenger and Golumbic. Our first result is a hardness result.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Ting-Wei Chao , Asaf Cohen Antonir , Anqi Li , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu

Hadwiger and Haj\'{o}s conjectured that for every positive integer $t$, $K_{t+1}$-minor free graphs and $K_{t+1}$-topological minor free graphs are properly $t$-colorable, respectively. Clustered coloring version of these two conjectures…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Chun-Hung Liu

We prove that for every graph H and for every integer s, the class of graphs that do not contain K_s, K_{s,s}, or any subdivision of H as an induced subgraph has bounded expansion; this strengthens a result of Kuhn and Osthus. The argument…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Zdeněk Dvořák

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph is $t$-colourable. It is widely considered to be one of the most important conjectures in graph theory. If every $K_{t+1}$-minor-free graph has minimum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-25 David R. Wood

We prove that Matui's AH conjecture holds for graph groupoids of infinite graphs. This is a conjecture which relates the topological full group of an ample groupoid with the homology of the groupoid. Our main result complements Matui's…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Petter Nyland , Eduard Ortega

For a graph $G$, let $\chi (G)$ denote the chromatic number. In graph theory, the following famous conjecture posed by Hedetniemi has been studied: For two graphs $G$ and $H$, $\chi (G\times H)=\min\{\chi (G),\chi (H)\}$, where $G \times H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Ryoya Fukasaku , Michitaka Furuya , Akihiro Higashitani

We find all maximal linklessly embeddable graphs of order up to 11, and verify that for every graph $G$ of order 11 either $G$ or its complement $cG$ is intrinsically linked. We give an example of a graph $G$ of order 11 such that both $G$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Ramin Naimi , Ryan Odeneal , Andrei Pavelescu , Elena Pavelescu

Let K be the family of graphs on omega_1 without cliques or independent subsets of size omega_1 . We prove that: 1) it is consistent with CH that every G in K has 2^{omega_1} many pairwise non-isomorphic subgraphs, 2) the following…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Saharon Shelah , Lajos Soukup

We consider the problem of immersing the complete digraph on t vertices in a simple digraph. For Eulerian digraphs, we show that such an immersion always exists whenever minimum degree is at least t(t-1), and for t at most 4 minimum degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Bojan Mohar , Diego Scheide

Woodall (and Seymour independently) in 2001 proposed a conjecture that every graph $G$ contains every complete bipartite graph on $\chi(G)$ vertices as a minor, where $\chi(G)$ is the chromatic number of $G$. In this paper, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Rong Chen , Zijian Deng

We prove that for all $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a positive integer $n_0$ such that if $G$ is a graph on $n\geq n_0$ vertices with $\delta(G)\geq\tfrac{1}{2}(1 + \varepsilon)n$, then $G$ satisfies the Total Coloring Conjecture, that is,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Owen Henderschedt , Jessica McDonald , Songling Shan

A graph G is perfect if for every induced subgraph H, the chromatic number of H equals the size of the largest complete subgraph of H, and G is Berge if no induced subgraph of G is an odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of one.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Neil Robertson , Paul Seymour , Robin Thomas

We prove the existence of a function $h(k)$ such that every simple digraph with minimum outdegree greater than $h(k)$ contains an immersion of the transitive tournament on $k$ vertices. This solves a conjecture of Devos, McDonald, Mohar and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-01 W. Lochet

The 1-2-3 Conjecture, introduced by Karo\'nski, {\L}uczak, and Thomason in 2004, was recently solved by Keusch. This implies that, for any connected graph $G$ different from $K_2$, we can turn $G$ into a locally irregular multigraph $M(G)$,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Julien Bensmail , Romain Bourneuf , Paul Colinot , Samuel Humeau , Timothée Martinod