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An old conjecture of Ringel states that every tree with $m$ edges decomposes the complete graph $K_{2m+1}$. The best known lower bound for the order of a complete graph which admits a decomposition by every given tree with $m$ edges is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Anna Lladó

This paper is a contribution to the problem of counting geometric graphs on point sets. More concretely, we look at the maximum numbers of non-crossing spanning trees and forests. We show that the so-called double chain point configuration…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Clemens Huemer , Anna de Mier

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. A subset $I$ of $V(G)$ is an independent vertex subset if no two vertices in $I$ are adjacent in $G$. We study the number, $\sigma_1(G)$, of all subsets of $v(G)$ that contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Eric Ould Dadah Andriantiana , Zekhaya B. Shozi

We give a short, topological proof that all graphs admit tree-decompositions displaying their topological ends.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Max Pitz

The Gy\'arf\'as tree packing conjecture asserts that any set of trees with $2,3, ..., k$ vertices has an (edge-disjoint) packing into the complete graph on $k$ vertices. Gy\'arf\'as and Lehel proved that the conjecture holds in some special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-24 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Cory Palmer

Tree-decompositions of graphs are of fundamental importance in structural and algorithmic graph theory. The main property of tree-decompositions is the width (the maximum size of a bag minus 1). We show that every graph has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 David R. Wood

We consider three extremal problems about the number of copies of a fixed graph in another larger graph. First, we correct an error in a result of Reiher and Wagner and prove that the number of $k$-edge stars in a graph with density $x \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Emily Cairncross , Dhruv Mubayi

We show that $3$-graphs on $n$ vertices whose codegree is at least $(2/3 + o(1))n$ can be decomposed into tight cycles and admit Euler tours, subject to the trivial necessary divisibility conditions. We also provide a construction showing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Simón Piga , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

Refining a classical proof of Whitney, we show that any $4$-connected planar triangulation can be decomposed into a Hamiltonian path and two trees. Therefore, every $4$-connected planar graph decomposes into three forests, one having…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Kolja Knauer , Torsten Ueckerdt

We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Max Pitz

We prove that one can perfectly pack degenerate graphs into complete or dense $n$-vertex quasirandom graphs, provided that all the degenerate graphs have maximum degree $o(\frac{n}{\log n})$, and in addition $\Omega(n)$ of them have at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Dennis Clemens , Anusch Taraz

For a loopless multigraph $G$, the fractional arboricity $Arb(G)$ is the maximum of $\frac{|E(H)|}{|V(H)|-1}$ over all subgraphs $H$ with at least two vertices. Generalizing the Nash-Williams Arboricity Theorem, the Nine Dragon Tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Min Chen , Seog-Jin Kim , Alexandr Kostochka , Douglas B. West , Xuding Zhu

Let P be a finite set of points in general position in the plane. The structure of the complete graph K(P) as a geometric graph includes, for any pair [a,b],[c,d] of vertex-disjoint edges, the information whether they cross or not. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Chaya Keller , Micha A. Perles

A $ k $-page book drawing of a graph $ G $ is a drawing of $ G $ on $ k $ halfplanes with common boundary $ l $, a line, where the vertices are on $ l $ and the edges cannot cross $ l $. The $ k $-page book crossing number of the graph $ G…

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. Our main result implies that, given any optimal colouring of a sufficiently large complete graph $K_{2n}$, there exists a decomposition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

It is an easy observation that if a graph~$G$ admits a path-decomposition whose parts have small radius, then $G$ contains no large subdivision of $K_{1,3}$ or $K^3$ as a (quasi-)geodesic subgraph. We show that these are in fact the only…

An $r$-edge coloring of a graph or hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ is a map $c:E\to \{0, \dots, r-1\}$. Extending results of Rado and answering questions of Rado, Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy we prove that (1.) the vertex set of every $r$-edge colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-07 M. Elekes , D. T. Soukup , L. Soukup , Z. Szentmiklóssy

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

In this paper, we address the maximum number of vertices of induced forests in subcubic graphs with girth at least four or five. We provide a unified approach to prove that every 2-connected subcubic graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Tom Kelly , Chun-Hung Liu