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Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, a graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{H}$-universal if $G$ contains every graph of $\mathcal{H}$ as a subgraph. Following the extensive research on universal graphs of small size for bounded-degree graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Anita Liebenau

A graph $G$ is $\textit{universal}$ for a (finite) family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs if every $H \in \mathcal{H}$ is a subgraph of $G$. For a given family $\mathcal{H}$, the goal is to determine the smallest number of edges an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Noga Alon , Natalie Dodson , Carmen Jackson , Rose McCarty , Rajko Nenadov , Lani Southern

In this note we characterize, within the framework of the theory of finite set, those categories of graphs that are {\em algebraic universal} in the sense that every concrete category embeds in them. The proof of the characterization is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-04 J. Nesetril , P. Ossona de Mendez

A graph {\it has cutwidth at most 2} if one can number its vertices by $1,\ldots n$ so that for every $i=1,\ldots,n-1$ there are at most 2 edges $(u,v)$ such that $u\le i<v$. A characterization of graphs having cutwidth at most 2 in terms…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Nadya Khoroshavkina

We show that the existence of a universal structure implies the existence of a generic structure for any approximable class $\mathcal{C}$ of countable structures. We also show that the converse is not true. As a consequence, we provide…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos , Katrin Tent

Let $X$ be a family of graphs and $X_n$ the set of $n$-vertex graphs in $X$. A graph $U^{(n)}$ containing all graphs from $X_n$ as induced subgraphs is called $n$-universal for $X$. Moreover, we say that $U^{(n)}$ is a proper $n$-universal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Aistis Atminas , Sergey Kitaev , Vadim V. Lozin , Alexandr Valyuzhenich

A hypergraph $H$ is called universal for a family $\mathcal{F}$ of hypergraphs, if it contains every hypergraph $F \in \mathcal{F}$ as a copy. For the family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs with maximum vertex degree bounded by $\Delta$ and at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Samuel Hetterich , Olaf Parczyk , Yury Person

A graph $\Gamma$ is said to be universal for a class of graphs $\mathcal{H}$ if $\Gamma$ contains a copy of every $H \in \mathcal{H}$ as a subgraph. The number of edges required for a host graph $\Gamma$ to be universal for the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Jasmin Katz

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple graphs, trees, graphs with m edges, graphs with loops,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Greg Brockman , Bill Kay , Emma E. Snively

In this paper, we consider partially commutative metabelian Lie algebras whose defining graphs are cycles. We show that such algebras are universally equivalent iff the corresponding cycles have the same length. Moreover, we give an example…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Evgeny Poroshenko

We show that the problem of the existence of universal graphs with specified forbidden subgraphs can be systematically reduced to certain critical cases by a simple pruning technique which simplifies the underlying structure of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory Cherlin , Saharon Shelah

In this paper, we find a criterium for universal equivalence of partially commutative Lie algebras whose defining graphs are trees. Besides, we obtain bases for partially commutative metabelian Lie algebras.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Evgeny Poroshenko , Evgeny Timoshenko

We characterise the form of all simple, finite graphs for which the girth of the graph is equal to the circumference of the graph. We apply this to prove a bound on the number of edges in such a graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Lewis Stanton , Jeffrey Thompson

We establish universality of cutoff for simple random walk on a class of random graphs defined as follows. Given a finite graph $G=(V,E)$ with $|V|$ even we define a random graph $ G^*=(V,E \cup E')$ obtained by picking $E'$ to be the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Jonathan Hermon , Allan Sly , Perla Sousi

Given a countable graph, we say a set $A$ of its vertices is \emph{universal} if it contains every countable graph as an induced subgraph, and $A$ is \emph{weakly universal} if it contains every finite graph as an induced subgraph. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Will Brian

In the present paper, we introduce the concept of universal graph series. We then present four invariants of graphs and discuss some of their properties. In particular, one of these invariants is a generalization of the chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Akihiro Munemasa , Yusaku Nishimura , Tadashi Sakuma , Shuhei Tsujie

In this paper, we generalize the construction method of schemes to other algebraic categories, and show that the category of coherent schemes can be characterized by a universal property, if we fix the class of Grothendieck topology. Also,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Satoshi Takagi

Universal algebraic geometry allows considering of geometric properties of every universal algebra. When two algebras have same algebraic geometry? We must consider the categories of algebraic closed sets of these algebras to answer this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 A. Tsurkov

We study generalized splines from the perspective of the representation theory of the category of graphs with contractions. Our main theorem proves a kind of finite generation, which in turn implies the existence of a ``universal generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jacob Matherne , Eric Ramos , Julianna Tymoczko

We present an algebraic characterization of perfect graphs, i.e., graphs for which the clique number and the chromatic number coincide for every induced subgraph. We show that a graph is perfect if and only if certain nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Cemil Dibek
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