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The independence number of a tree decomposition is the size of a largest independent set contained in a single bag. The tree-independence number of a graph $G$ is the minimum independence number of a tree decomposition of $G$. As shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

We develop a general embedding method based on the Friedman-Pippenger tree embedding technique (1987) and its algorithmic version, essentially due to Aggarwal et al. (1996), enhanced with a roll-back idea allowing to sequentially retrace…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Nemanja Draganić , Michael Krivelevich , Rajko Nenadov

Chv\'atal showed that for any tree $T$ with $k$ edges the Ramsey number $R(T,n)=k(n-1)+1$ ("Tree-complete graph Ramsey numbers." Journal of Graph Theory 1.1 (1977): 93-93). For $r=3$ or $4$, we show that, if $T$ is an $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Jiaxi Nie

Richter and Thomassen proved that every graph has an edge $e$ such that the crossing number $\ucr(G-e)$ of $G-e$ is at least $(2/5)\ucr(G) - O(1)$. Fox and Cs. T\'oth proved that dense graphs have large sets of edges (proportional in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Jozsef Balogh , Jesus Leanos , Gelasio Salazar

We define new graph parameters, called flip-width, that generalize treewidth, degeneracy, and generalized coloring numbers for sparse graphs, and clique-width and twin-width for dense graphs. The flip-width parameters are defined using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Szymon Toruńczyk

Hyperedge-Replacement grammars (HR) have been introduced by Courcelle in order to extend the notion of context-free sets from words and trees to graphs of bounded tree-width. While for words and trees the syntactic restrictions that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Mark Chimes , Radu Iosif , Florian Zuleger

We present an explicit geometric construction of a large parametrized family of graphs with no $k$-cliques and with bounded independence number, generalizing the triangle-free Ramsey graphs of Codenotti, Pudl\'ak, and Resta and revisiting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Matija Kocbek

Given a graph $H$, the size Ramsey number $r_e(H,q)$ is the minimal number $m$ for which there is a graph $G$ with $m$ edges such that every $q$-coloring of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. We study the size Ramsey number of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Ido Ben-Eliezer , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

A graph is called Rank-Ramsey if (i) Its clique number is small, and (ii) The adjacency matrix of its complement has small rank. We initiate a systematic study of such graphs. Our main motivation is that their constructions, as well as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Gal Beniamini , Nati Linial , Adi Shraibman

For two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, the size Ramsey number $\hat{r}(G_1,G_2)$ is the smallest positive integer $m$ for which there exists a graph $G$ of size $m$ such that for any red-blue edge-coloring of the graph $G$, $G$ contains either a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yufan Li , Yanbo Zhang , Yunqing Zhang

We investigate size Ramsey numbers involving bipartite graphs. It is proved that, if each forbidden graph is fixed or grows with n (in a certain uniform manner), then the extremal function has a linear asymptotics. The corresponding slope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg Pikhurko

We study the recently introduced boolean-width of graphs. Our structural results are as follows. Firstly, we show that almost surely the boolean-width of a random graph on $n$ vertices is $O(\log^2 n)$, and it is easy to find the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-20 Y. Rabinovich , J. A. Telle

The Prague dimension of a graph $G$ is defined as the minimum number of complete graphs whose direct product contains $G$ as an induced subgraph. Introduced in the 1970s by Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, Pultr, and R\"odl -- and motivated by the work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Felix Joos , Letícia Mattos

Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

Big Ramsey degrees of finite structures are usually considered with respect to a Fra\"{i} ss\'e limit. Building mainly on the work of Devlin, Sauer, Laflamme and Van Th\'e, in this paper we consider structures which are not Fra\"{i} ss\'e…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Dragan Masulovic

We prove geometric Ramsey-type statements on collections of lines in 3-space. These statements give guarantees on the size of a clique or an independent set in (hyper)graphs induced by incidence relations between lines, points, and reguli…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jean Cardinal , Michael S. Payne , Noam Solomon

We study two related problems concerning the number of homogeneous subsets of given size in graphs that go back to questions of Erd\H{o}s. Most notably, we improve the upper bounds on the Ramsey multiplicity of $K_4$ and $K_5$ and settle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Olaf Parczyk , Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel , Tibor Szabó

Motivated in part by various sequences of graphs growing under random rules (like internet models), convergent sequences of dense graphs and their limits were introduced by Borgs, Chayes, Lov\'asz, S\'os and Vesztergombi and by Lov\'asz and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-26 C. Borgs , J. Chayes , L. Lovász , V. T. Sós , K. Vesztergombi

Ramsey-good graphs are graphs that contain neither a clique of size $s$ nor an independent set of size $t$. We study doubly saturated Ramsey-good graphs, defined as Ramsey-good graphs in which the addition or removal of any edge necessarily…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Benjamin Przybocki , John Mackey , Marijn J. H. Heule , Bernardo Subercaseaux

A finite graph embedded in the plane is called a series-parallel map if it can be obtained from a finite tree by repeatedly subdividing and doubling edges. We study the scaling limit of weighted random two-connected series-parallel maps…