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We deduce from a theorem of Dvorak--Norin that the separation and treewidth profiles of graphs are asymptotically equivalent, resolving a question of Huang--Hume--Kelly--Lam. As an application, we calculate the separation profiles of Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 David Hume

This note concerns a well-known result which we term the ``spread lemma,'' which establishes the existence (with high probability) of a desired structure in a random set. The spread lemma was central to two recent celebrated results: (a)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Elchanan Mossel , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Nike Sun , Ilias Zadik

Building upon previous works by Conlon-Ferber and Wigderson, Sawin showed a few years ago that upper bounds on the minimum density of independent sets in a $K_t$-free $G$ can be used to provide lower bounds for multicolor Ramsey numbers. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Marcelo Campos , Cosmin Pohoata

It is known from the work of Shearer (1985) (and also Scott and Sokal (2005)) that the independence polynomial $Z_G(\lambda)$ of a graph $G$ of maximum degree at most $d+1$ does not vanish provided that $\vert{\lambda}\vert \leq…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ferenc Bencs , Péter Csikvári , Piyush Srivastava , Jan Vondrák

We provide large deviations estimates for the upper tail of the number of triangles in scale-free inhomogeneous random graphs where the degrees have power law tails with index $-\alpha, \alpha \in (1,2)$. We show that upper tail…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Clara Stegehuis , Bert Zwart

We collect some general results on graph limits associated to hereditary classes of graphs. As examples, we consider some classes defined by forbidden subgraphs and some classes of intersection graphs, including triangle-free graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-29 Svante Janson

We use $P_t$ and $C_t$ to denote a path and a cycle on $t$ vertices, respectively. A {\em bull} is a graph consisting of a triangle with two disjoint pendant edges, a {\em hammer} is a graph obtained by identifying an endvertex of a $P_3$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Ran Chen , Baogang Xu

We show that planar graphs have bounded queue-number, thus proving a conjecture of Heath, Leighton and Rosenberg from 1992. The key to the proof is a new structural tool called layered partitions, and the result that every planar graph has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Pat Morin , Torsten Ueckerdt , David R. Wood

In this paper, using techniques developed in our earlier works on the theory of mod-Gaussian convergence, we prove precise moderate and large deviation results for the logarithm of the characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Pierre-Loïc Méliot , Ashkan Nikeghbali

We study the algorithmic task of finding a large independent set in a sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph with $n$ vertices and average degree $d$. The maximum independent set is known to have size $(2 \log d / d)n$ in the double limit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Alexander S. Wein

Kolla and Tulsiani [KT07,Kolla11} and Arora, Barak and Steurer [ABS10] introduced the technique of subspace enumeration, which gives approximation algorithms for graph problems such as unique games and small set expansion; the running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

The Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal conjecture is one of the most classical and well-known problems in extremal and structural combinatorics dating back to 1977. It asserts that in stark contrast to the case of a general $n$-vertex graph if one imposes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Pablo Blanco , Matija Bucić

The Alon-Tarsi number of a polynomial is a parameter related to the exponents of its monomials. For graphs, their Alon-Tarsi number is the Alon-Tarsi number of their graph polynomials. As such, it provides an upper bound on their choice and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 S. Prajnanaswaroopa

We prove that for any fixed r>=2, the tree-width of graphs not containing K_r as a topological minor (resp. as a subgraph) is bounded by a linear (resp. polynomial) function of their rank-width. We also present refinements of our bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Fedor V. Fomin , Sang-il Oum , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We study graphs of polynomial growth from the perspective of asymptotic geometry and descriptive set theory. The starting point of our investigation is a theorem of Krauthgamer and Lee who showed that every connected graph of polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Anton Bernshteyn , Jing Yu

We give combinatorial criteria for predicting the transcendental weight of Feynman integrals of certain graphs in $\phi^4$ theory. By studying spanning forest polynomials, we obtain operations on graphs which are weight-preserving, and a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Francis Brown , Karen Yeats

Recently, Fulek et al. have presented Hanani-Tutte results for (radial) level planarity, i.e., a graph is (radial) level planar if it admits a (radial) level drawing where any two (independent) edges cross an even number of times. We show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Guido Brückner , Ignaz Rutter , Peter Stumpf

Let $d\geq 3$ be a constant and let $F$ be a $d$-regular graph on $[n]$ with not too many symmetries. By the union bound, the probability threshold for the existence of a spanning subgraph in $G(n,p)$ isomorphic to $F$ is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Maksim Zhukovskii

We continue the study of $(\mathrm{tw},\omega)$-bounded graph classes, that is, hereditary graph classes in which the treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique, with the goal of understanding the extent to which this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

This survey paper deals with upper and lower bounds on the number of $k$-matchings in regular graphs on $N$ vertices. For the upper bounds we recall the upper matching conjecture which is known to hold for perfect matchings. For the lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Shmuel Friedland