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Let $D=(V(D),A(D))$ be a digraph with a terminal vertex subset $S\subseteq V(D)$ such that $|S|=k\geq 2$. An out-tree $T$ of $D$ rooted at $r$ is called a directed pendant $(S,r)$-Steiner tree (or, pendant $(S,r)$-tree for short) if $r\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Shanshan Yu , Yuefang Sun

Let G be a plane graph and T an even subset of its vertices. It has been conjectured that if all T-cuts of G have the same parity and the size of every T-cut is at least k, then G contains k edge-disjoint T-joins. The case k=3 is equivalent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Zdenek Dvorak , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Daniel Kral

This paper shows that, for any integers $n$ and $k$ with $0\leqslant k \leqslant n-2$, at least $(k+1)!(n-k-1)$ vertices or edges have to be removed from an $n$-dimensional star graph to make it disconnected and no vertices of degree less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Xiang-Jun Li , Jun-Ming Xu

The status of a vertex $x$ in a graph is the sum of the distances between $x$ and all other vertices. Let $G$ be a connected graph. The status sequence of $G$ is the list of the statuses of all vertices arranged in nondecreasing order. $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

For any pair of edges $e,f$ of a graph $G$, we say that {\em $e,f$ are $P_3$-connected in $G$} if there exists a sequence of edges $e=e_0,e_1,\ldots, e_k=f$ such that $e_i$ and $e_{i+1}$ are two edges of an induced $3$-vertex path in $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Rong Chen

This paper is motivated by the following question: what are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? Aboulker et al. made a conjecture which answers this question in graphs of bounded maximum degree, asserting that…

Chernyshev, Rauch and Rautenbach [Discrete Math., 2025] introduce forest cuts, i.e., vertex separators that induce a forest. They conjecture that, similar to a result by Chen and Yu [Discrete Math., 2002], every $n$-vertex graph with less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Samuel Schneider , Torsten Ueckerdt

In 1996, Reed, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas [Combinatorica 1996] proved Younger's Conjecture, which states that, for all directed graphs $D$, there exists a function $f$ such that, if $D$ does not contain $k$ disjoint cycles, then $D$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Meike Hatzel , Stephan Kreutzer , Marcelo Garlet Milani , Irene Muzi

Menger's Edge Theorem asserts that there exist $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint paths between two vertices in an undirected graph if and only if a deletion of any $k-1$ or less edges does not disconnect these two vertices. Alternatively, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Avraham Goldstein

A longstanding problem in spectral graph theory asks for graphs with maximum number of spanning trees among all connected simple graphs with a prescribed number of vertices and edges. Such graphs are called t-optimal graphs. Petingi and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Pablo Romero , Louis Petingi

Let P be a set of n > 2 points in general position in the plane and let G be a geometric graph with vertex set P. If the number of empty triangles uvw in P for which the subgraph of G induced by {u,v,w} is not connected is at most n-3, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Eduardo Rivera-Campo , Virginia Urrutia-Galicia

We show that for pairs $(Q,R)$ and $(S,T)$ of disjoint subsets of vertices of a graph $G$, if $G$ is sufficiently large, then there exists a vertex $v$ in $V(G)-(Q\cup R\cup S\cup T)$ such that there are two ways to reduce $G$ by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Duksang Lee , Sang-il Oum

Given an undirected weighted graph $G(V,E)$, a constrained sketch over a terminal set $T\subset V$ is a subgraph $G'$ that connects the terminal vertices while satisfying a given set of constraints. Examples include Steiner trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Reyan Ahmed , Keaton Hamm , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli , Stephen Kobourov , Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Richard Spence

A classical result by Otter shows that the complete graph has an exponential number of non-isomorphic spanning trees. This was recently extended by Lee to every almost regular graph of sufficiently large degree. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Veronica Bitonti , Lukas Michel , Alex Scott

Given a finite simple undirected graph $G$, let $T_1(G)$ denote the subset of vertices of $G$ such that every vertex of $T_1(G)$ belongs to at least one subgraph isomorphic to a graph obtained by connecting a single vertex to two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Peichao Wei , Muhuo Liu , Yang Wu , Zoran Stani\' c

Birmele [J. Graph Theory, 2003] proved that every graph with circumference t has treewidth at most t-1. Under the additional assumption of 2-connectivity, such graphs have bounded pathwidth, which is a qualitatively stronger result.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Emily A. Marshall , David R. Wood

Tutte (1961) proved the chain theorem for simple $3$-connected graphs with respect to minors, which states that every simple $3$-connected graph $G$ has a simple $3$-connected minor with one edge fewer than $G$, unless $G$ is a wheel graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Duksang Lee , Sang-il Oum

Considering systems of separations in a graph that separate every pair of a given set of vertex sets that are themselves not separated by these separations, we determine conditions under which such a separation system contains a nested…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Johannes Carmesin , Reinhard Diestel , Fabian Hundertmark , Maya Stein

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the notions of geometric and sequential convexity within a graph-theoretic framework, with the aim of examining various structural properties and exploring the connection between these…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Angshuman R. Goswami

Spanning trees are fundamental for efficient communication in networks. For fault-tolerant communication, it is desirable to have multiple spanning trees to ensure resilience against failures of nodes and edges. To this end, various notions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Anil Maheshwari , Karthik Murali , Michiel Smid