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In recent years, there has been significant interest in characterizing the induced subgraph obstructions to bounded treewidth and pathwidth. While this has recently been resolved for pathwidth, the case of treewidth remains open, and prior…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Maria Chudnovsky , David Fischer , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl , Bartosz Walczak

A graph is called $\alpha_i$-metric ($i \in {\cal N}$) if it satisfies the following $\alpha_i$-metric property for every vertices $u, w, v$ and $x$: if a shortest path between $u$ and $w$ and a shortest path between $x$ and $v$ share a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Feodor F. Dragan , Guillaume Ducoffe

We study the Decomposition Conjecture posed by Bar\'at and Thomassen (2006), which states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(T)|$ divides $|E(G)|$, then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fábio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

We prove blow-up structure theorems for graphs excluding a tree or an apex-tree as a minor. First, we show that for every $t$-vertex tree $T$ with $t\geq 3$ and radius $h$, and every graph $G$ excluding $T$ as a minor, there exists a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Quentin Claus , Gwenaël Joret , Clément Rambaud

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

We define, for any graph $G=(V,E)$, a boundary $\partial G \subseteq V$. The definition coincides with what one would expected for the discretization of (sufficiently nice) Euclidean domains and contains all vertices from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Stefan Steinerberger

We prove that, if $m$ is sufficiently large, every graph on $m+1$ vertices that has a universal vertex and minimum degree at least $\lfloor \frac{2m}{3} \rfloor$ contains each tree $T$ with $m$ edges as a subgraph. Our result confirms, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Bruce Reed , Maya Stein

Loebl, Koml\'os and S\'os conjectured that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $n/2$ vertices of degree at least $k$ contains each tree $T$ of order $k+1$ as a subgraph. We give a sketch of a proof of the approximate version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladky , Diana Piguet , Miklos Simonovits , Maya Stein , Endre Szemeredi

Let $G=(V,E)$ and $H$ be two graphs. Packing problem is to find in $G$ the largest number of independent subgraphs each of which is isomorphic to $H$. Let $U\subset{V}$. If the graph $G-U$ has no subgraph isomorphic to $H$, $U$ is a cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Jia Zhao , Jianfeng Guan , Changqiao Xu , Hongke Zhang

Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, we say that a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-free if no induced subgraph of $G$ is isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{H}$. Let $S_{t,t,t}$ be the graph obtained from $K_{1,3}$ by subdividing each edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Maria Chudnovsky , Julien Codsi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Martin Milanič , Varun Sivashankar

Bidimensionality is the most common technique to design subexponential-time parameterized algorithms on special classes of graphs, particularly planar graphs. The core engine behind it is a combinatorial lemma of Robertson, Seymour and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We revisit a graph width parameter that we dub bipartite treewidth (btw). Bipartite treewidth can be seen as a common generalization of treewidth and the odd cycle transversal number, and is closely related to odd-minors. Intuitively, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lars Jaffke , Laure Morelle , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

A vertex set $U \subseteq V$ of an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $\textit{resolving set}$ for $G$, if for every two distinct vertices $u,v \in V$ there is a vertex $w \in U$ such that the distances between $u$ and $w$ and the distance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Duygu Vietz , Stefan Hoffmann , Egon Wanke

Mubayi and Verstraete conjectured that if $T$ is a tree on $t + 1$ vertices, then any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with average degree $d$ contains at least \[ n d(d - 1) \cdots (d - t + 1) \] labeled copies of $T$ as long as $d$ is sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Chase Wilson

A \emph{$t$-treewidth-modulator} of a graph $G$ is a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most some constant $t-1$. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to compute a decomposition scheme for graphs $G$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Eun Jung Kim , Alexander Langer , Christophe Paul , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Ignasi Sau , Somnath Sikdar

Suppose a finite, unweighted, combinatorial graph $G = (V,E)$ is the union of several (degree-)regular graphs which are then additionally connected with a few additional edges. $G$ will then have only a small number of vertices $v \in V$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Tony Zeng

The tree-depth problem can be seen as finding an elimination tree of minimum height for a given input graph $G$. We introduce a bicriteria generalization in which additionally the width of the elimination tree needs to be bounded by some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Piotr Borowiecki , Dariusz Dereniowski , Dorota Osula

The induced arboricity of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of induced forests covering the edges of $G$. This is a well-defined parameter bounded from above by the number of edges of $G$ when each forest in a cover consists of exactly one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Maria Axenovich , Daniel Goncalves , Jonathan Rollin , Torsten Ueckerdt

The \emph{metric dimension} $\dim(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of vertices such that every vertex of $G$ is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the chosen vertices. The \emph{zero forcing number} $Z(G)$ of a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Linda Eroh , Cong X. Kang , Eunjeong Yi

It is known that PQ-symmetric maps on the boundary characterize the quasi-isometry type of visual hyperbolic spaces, in particular, of geodesically complete \br-trees. We define a map on pairs of PQ-symmetric ultrametric spaces which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Álvaro Martínez-Pérez