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Although false for general graphs, this note gives an elementary proof of the bunkbed conjecture for any acyclic graph. The argument is short and self-contained, and may be of educational interest.

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Serte Donderwinkel , Joost Jorritsma , Guillem Perarnau

Recently, Milani\v{c} and Trotignon introduced the class of equistarable graphs as graphs without isolated vertices admitting positive weights on the edges such that a subset of edges is of total weight $1$ if and only if it forms a maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Endre Boros , Nina Chiarelli , Martin Milanič

In a given graph, a HIST is a spanning tree without $2$-valent vertices. Motivated by developing a better understanding of HIST-free graphs, i.e. graphs containing no HIST, in this article's first part we study HIST-critical graphs, i.e.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Jan Goedgebeur , Kenta Noguchi , Jarne Renders , Carol T. Zamfirescu

There are many results asserting the existence of tree-decompositions of minimal width which still represent local connectivity properties of the underlying graph, perhaps the best-known being Thomas' theorem that proves for every graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Joshua Erde

In this paper we have given an algorithmic proof of an long standing Barnette's conjecture (1969) that every 3-connected bipartite cubic planar graph is hamiltonian. Our method is quite different than the known approaches and it rely on the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-04-23 I. Cahit

For a graph $G$, the $t$-th power $G^t$ is the graph on $V(G)$ such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if they have distance at most $t$ in $G$; and the $t$-th bi-power $G_B^t$ is the graph on $V(G)$ such that two vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Binlong Li

We established a hyperplane restriction theorem for the local holomorphic mappings between projective spaces, which is inspired by the corresponding theorem of Green for homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings. Our theorem allows us to give…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Yun Gao , Sui-Chung Ng

We prove an analog of Levinson's theorem for scattering on a weighted (m+1)-vertex graph with a semi-infinite path attached to one of its vertices. In particular, we show that the number of bound states in such a scattering problem is equal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Andrew M. Childs , DJ Strouse

Let $H$ be a graph and let $\mathcal{C}$ be a hereditary class of theta-free graphs such that $H\notin \mathcal{C}$. We prove that if (a) $H$ is a forest; and (b) $\mathcal{C}$ excludes the line graphs of all subdivisions of some wall, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Maria Chudnovsky , Julien Codsi , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

For a connected graph $G$, a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ is called a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (HIST) if $T$ has no vertices of degree $2$. In this paper, we show that if $G$ is a graph of order $n\ge 270$ and $|N(u)\cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Yibo Li , Fengming Dong , Xiaolan Hu , Huiqing Liu

We use Morse theory to prove that the Lefschetz Hyperplane Theorem holds for compact smooth Deligne-Mumford stacks over the site of complex manifolds. For $Z \subset X$ a hyperplane section, $X$ can be obtained from $Z$ by a sequence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-06 Daniel Halpern-Leistner

The cycle double cover conjecture is a long standing problem in graph theory, which links local properties, the valency of a vertex and no bridges, and a global property of the graph, being covered by a particular set of cycles. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Jens Walter Fischer

We recall several known results about minimally 2-connected graphs, and show that they all follow from a decomposition theorem. Starting from an analogy with critically 2-connected graphs, we give structural characterizations of the classes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Pierre Aboulker , Marko Radovanović , Nicolas Trotignon , Kristina Vušković

A graph H is common if the number of monochromatic copies of H in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph is minimised by the random colouring. Burr and Rosta, extending a famous conjecture by Erdos, conjectured that every graph is common.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Andrzej Grzesik , Joonkyung Lee , Bernard Lidický , Jan Volec

A cornerstone of extremal graph theory due to Erd\H{o}s and Stone states that the edge density which guarantees a fixed graph $F$ as subgraph also asymptotically guarantees a blow-up of $F$ as subgraph. It is natural to ask whether this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Richard Lang , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

For a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, denote by $a(G)$ the number of vertices in the largest induced forest in $G$. The Albertson-Berman conjecture, which has been open since 1979, states that $a(G) \geq \frac{n}{2}$ for every simple planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Mikhail Makarov

In a sequence of four papers, we prove the following results (via a unified approach) for all sufficiently large $n$: (i) [1-factorization conjecture] Suppose that $n$ is even and $D\geq 2\lceil n/4\rceil -1$. Then every $D$-regular graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus

Kronk introduced the $l$-path hamiltonianicity of graphs in 1969. A graph is $l$-path Hamiltonian if every path of length not exceeding $l$ is contained in a Hamiltonian cycle. We have shown that if $P=uvz$ is a 2-path of a 2-connected,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Xia Li , Weihua Yang , Bo Zhang , Shuang Zhao

In this note, we prove that every 4-connected optimal 2-planar graph is Hamiltonian-connected. Furthermore, we show that the 4-connectedness condition is sharp by constructing infinitely many 3-connected optimal 2-planar graphs that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Licheng Zhang , Yuanqiu Huang , Zhangdong Ouyang

Menger's Theorem is a fundamental result in graph theory. It states that if in a graph $G$ with distinguished sets of terminal vertices $S$ and $T$ there are no $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint $S$-$T$ paths, then there is a set of less than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Václav Blažej , Michał Pilipczuk , Evangelos Protopapas