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A graph $G$ contains $H$ as an \emph{immersion} if there is an injective mapping $\phi: V(H)\rightarrow V(G)$ such that for each edge $uv\in E(H)$, there is a path $P_{uv}$ in $G$ joining vertices $\phi(u)$ and $\phi(v)$, and all the paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Hong Liu , Guanghui Wang , Donglei Yang

Conduction graphs are defined here in order to elucidate at a glance the often complicated conduction behaviour of molecular graphs as ballistic molecular conductors. The graph $G^{\mathrm C}$ describes all possible conducting devices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Aidan Birkinshaw , Patrick W. Fowler , Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken

A $d$-dimensional nowhere-zero $r$-flow on a graph $G$, an $(r,d)$-NZF from now on, is a flow where the value on each edge is an element of $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose (Euclidean) norm lies in the interval $[1, r-1]$. Such a notion is a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Davide Mattiolo , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Jozef Rajník , Gloria Tabarelli

An edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

Let ${\rm dim}(G)$ and $D(G)$ respectively denote the metric dimension and the distinguishing number of a graph $G$. It is proved that $D(G) \le {\rm dim}(G)+1$ holds for every connected graph $G$. Among trees, exactly paths and stars…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Meysam Korivand , Nasrin Soltankhah , Sandi Klavžar

An $r$-graph is a triangle if there exists a positive integer $i \le \lceil r/2 \rceil$ such that it is isomorphic to the following $r$-graph with three edges: \begin{align*} \left\{\{1, \ldots, r\},~\{1, \ldots, i, r+1, \ldots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Xizhi Liu

Let $G$ be a bridgeless cubic graph, and $\mu_2(G)$ the minimum number $k$ such that two 1-factors of $G$ intersect in $k$ edges. A cyclically $n$-edge-connected cubic graph $G$ has a nowhere-zero 5-flow if (1) $n \geq 6$ and $\mu_2(G) \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Eckhard Steffen

Paths $P_1,\ldots, P_k$ in a graph $G=(V,E)$ are mutually induced if any two distinct $P_i$ and $P_j$ have neither common vertices nor adjacent vertices. The Induced Disjoint Paths problem is to decide if a graph $G$ with $k$ pairs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma , Siani Smith , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

In this paper, we study the Tur\'{a}n problem of signed graphs version. Suppose that $\dot{G}$ is a connected unbalanced signed graph of order $n$ with $e(\dot{G})$ edges and $e^-(\dot{G})$ negative edges, and let $\rho(\dot{G})$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Dijian Wang , Yaoping Hou , Deqiong Li

A signed graph is a graph together with an assignment of signs to the edges. A closed walk in a signed graph is said to be positive (negative) if it has an even (odd) number of negative edges, counting repetition. Recognizing the signs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Reza Naserasr , Eric Sopena , Thomas Zaslavsky

Necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence of positive integers to be the degree sequence of a 3-connected simple graph are detailed. Conditions are also given under which such a sequence is necessarily 3-connected i.e. the sequence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Jonathan McLaughlin

Every embedded surface $\mathcal{K}$ in the 4-sphere admits a bridge trisection, a decomposition of $(S^4,\mathcal{K})$ into three simple pieces. In this case, the surface $\mathcal{K}$ is determined by an embedded 1-complex, called the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Jeffrey Meier , Abigail Thompson , Alexander Zupan

Let $\triangleleft$ be a relation between graphs. We say a graph $G$ is \emph{$\triangleleft$-ubiquitous} if whenever $\Gamma$ is a graph with $nG \triangleleft \Gamma$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$, then one also has $\aleph_0 G \triangleleft…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Nathan Bowler , Christian Elbracht , Joshua Erde , Pascal Gollin , Karl Heuer , Max Pitz , Maximilian Teegen

We study the number of edges, $e(G)$, in triangle-free graphs with a prescribed number of vertices, $n(G)$, independence number, $\alpha(G)$, and number of cycles of length four, $\operatorname{N}(C_4;G)$. We in particular show that $$3e(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Oliver Krüger

We define a grid graph $G$ as a Cartesian product of path-graphs $P_n$ or cycle-graphs $C_n$ as shown in Figure 1, and we ask, when can the edge set of a complete graph be expressed as a disjoint union of graphs isomorphic to $G$? That is,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Alon Danai , Joshua Kou , Andy Latto , Haran Mouli , James Propp

A graph is \emph{hamiltonian-connected} if every pair of vertices can be connected by a hamiltonian path, and it is \emph{hamiltonian} if it contains a hamiltonian cycle. We construct families of non-hamiltonian graphs for which the ratio…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Erik Carlson , Willem Fletcher , MurphyKate Montee , Chi Nguyen , Jarne Renders , Xingyi Zhang

An induced matching in a graph is a set of edges whose endpoints induce a $1$-regular subgraph. It is known that any $n$-vertex graph has at most $10^{n/5} \approx 1.5849^n$ maximal induced matchings, and this bound is best possible. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Manu Basavaraju , Pinar Heggernes , Pim van 't Hof , Reza Saei , Yngve Villanger

A family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs is a \textit{Gallai family} if for every connected graph $G\in \mathcal{F}$, all longest paths in $G$ have a common vertex. While it is not known whether $P_5$-free graphs are a Gallai family, Long Jr.,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Paloma T. Lima , Amir Nikabadi

In this paper, all graphs are assumed to be finite. For $s\geq 1$ and a graph $\G$, if for every pair of isomorphic connected induced subgraphs on at most $s$ vertices there exists an automorphism of $\G$ mapping the first to the second,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Jinxin Zhou

A mapping $l : E(G) \rightarrow A$, where $A$ is an abelian group which written additively, is called a labeling of the graph $G$. For every positive integer $h \geqslant 2$, a graph $G$ is said to be zero-sum $h$-magic if there is an edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Haobai Wang