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A $1$-factorization of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint perfect matchings whose union is $E(G)$. A trivial necessary condition for $G$ to admit a $1$-factorization is that $|V(G)|$ is even and $G$ is regular; the converse is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain

The Small Subgraph Conditioning Method has been used to study the almost sure existence and the asymptotic distribution of the number of regular spanning subgraphs of various types in random \emph{d}-regular graphs. In this paper we use the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-22 Lyra Yulianti

We provide sufficient conditions for a regular graph $G$ of growing degree $d$, guaranteeing a phase transition in its random subgraph $G_p$ similar to that of $G(n,p)$ when $p\cdot d\approx 1$. These conditions capture several well-studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Sahar Diskin , Michael Krivelevich

We consider the problem of decomposing the edges of a digraph into as few paths as possible. A natural lower bound for the number of paths in any path decomposition of a digraph $D$ is $\frac{1}{2}\sum_{v\in V(D)}|d^+(v)-d^-(v)|$; any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Viresh Patel , Mehmet Akif Yıldız

We consider the problem of partitioning the edge set of a graph $G$ into the minimum number $\tau(G)$ of edge-disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs. We show that for a random graph $G$ in $G(n,p)$, for $p$ is a constant no greater than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Fan Chung , Xing Peng

We prove that $G_{n,p=c/n}$ whp has a $k$-regular subgraph if $c$ is at least $e^{-\Theta(k)}$ above the threshold for the appearance of a subgraph with minimum degree at least $k$; i.e. an non-empty $k$-core. In particular, this pins down…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Dieter Mitsche , Michael Molloy , Pawel Pralat

In 1984, Thomassen conjectured that for every constant $k \in \mathbb{N}$, there exists $d$ such that every graph with average degree at least $d$ contains a balanced subdivision of a complete graph on $k$ vertices, i.e. a subdivision in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Yan Wang

Let $K$ be a complete graph of order $n$. For $d\in (0,1)$, let $c$ be a $\pm 1$-edge labeling of $K$ such that there are $d{n\choose 2}$ edges with label $+1$, and let $G$ be a spanning subgraph of $K$ of maximum degree at most $\Delta$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Stéphane Bessy , Johannes Pardey , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Dieter Rautenbach

K-core decomposition is a commonly used metric to analyze graph structure or study the relative importance of nodes in complex graphs. Recent years have seen rapid growth in the scale of the graph, especially in industrial settings. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shicheng Gao , Jie Xu , Xiaosen Li , Fangcheng Fu , Wentao Zhang , Wen Ouyang , Yangyu Tao , Bin Cui

Partially answering a question of Paul Seymour, we obtain a sufficient eigenvalue condition for the existence of $k$ edge-disjoint spanning trees in a regular graph, when $k\in \{2,3\}$. More precisely, we show that if the second largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Wiseley Wong

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 Ramsey number r(H) of a graph H is the minimum positive integer N such that every two-coloring of the edges of the complete graph K_N on N vertices contains a monochromatic copy of H. A graph H is d-degenerate if every subgraph of H has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-14 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

A locally irregular graph is a graph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. It was conjectured that every connected graph is edge decomposable to $3$ locally irregular subgraphs, unless it belongs to a certain family of exceptions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Jakub Przybyło

We study the asymptotics of large, simple, labeled graphs constrained by the densities of edges and of $k$-star subgraphs, $k\ge 2$ fixed. We prove that under such constraints graphs are "multipodal": asymptotically in the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Richard Kenyon , Charles Radin , Kui Ren , Lorenzo Sadun

The $k$-core of a graph is the largest subgraph of minimum degree at least $k$. We show that for $k$ sufficiently large, the $(k + 2)$-core of a random graph $\G(n,p)$ asymptotically almost surely has a spanning $k$-regular subgraph. Thus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-11 Pawel Pralat , Jacques Verstraete , Nicholas Wormald

This paper considers a kind of generalized measure $\lambda_s^{(h)}$ of fault tolerance in the $(n,k)$-star graph $S_{n,k}$ for $2\leqslant k \leqslant n-1$ and $0\leqslant h \leqslant n-k$, and determines…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Xiang-Jun Li , Jun-Ming Xu

Let $d,n\in \mathbb{N}$ be such that $d=\omega(1)$, and $d\le n^{1-a}$ for some constant $a>0$. Consider a $d$-regular graph $G=(V, E)$ and the random graph process that starts with the empty graph $G(0)$ and at each step $G(i)$ is obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Sahar Diskin , Anna Geisler

Let $k,r \geq 2$ be two integers. We consider the problem of partitioning the hyperedge set of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ into the minimum number $\chi_k'(H)$ of edge-disjoint subhypergraphs in which every vertex has either degree $0$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Gaia Carenini , Samuel Coulomb

In this paper we raise a variant of a classic problem in extremal graph theory, which is motivated by a design of fractional repetition codes, a model in distributed storage systems. For any feasible positive integers $d\geq 3$, $n \geq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Tuvi Etzion

A {\em $(d,h)$-decomposition} of a graph $G$ is an order pair $(D,H)$ such that $H$ is a subgraph of $G$ where $H$ has the maximum degree at most $h$ and $D$ is an acyclic orientation of $G-E(H)$ of maximum out-degree at most $d$. A graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Lin Niu , Xiangwen Li