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A $k$-uniform family of subsets of $[n]$ is intersecting if it does not contain a disjoint pair of sets. The study of intersecting families is central to extremal set theory, dating back to the seminal Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem of 1961 that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Shagnik Das , Tuan Tran

A coloring is distinguishing (or symmetry breaking) if no non-identity automorphism preserves it. The distinguishing threshold of a graph $G$, denoted by $\theta(G)$, is the minimum number of colors $k$ so that every $k$-coloring of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

The main result of the paper is motivated by the following two, apparently unrelated graph optimization problems: (A) as an extension of Edmonds' disjoint branchings theorem, characterize digraphs comprising $k$ disjoint branchings $B_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Kristóf Bérczi , András Frank

One of the aims of this paper is to solve an open problem of Lovasz about relations between graph spectra and cut-distance. The paper starts with several inequalities between two versions of the cut-norm and the two largest singular values…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Vladimir Nikiforov

The Ramsey multiplicity problem asks for the minimum asymptotic density of monochromatic labelled copies of a graph $H$ in a red/blue colouring of the edges of $K_n$. We introduce an off-diagonal generalization in which the goal is to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Elena Moss , Jonathan A. Noel

In 1975 Erd\H{o}s initiated the study of the following very natural question. What can be said about the chromatic number of unit distance graphs in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that have large girth? Over the years this question and its natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Matija Bucić , James Davies

This article studies separating invariants for the ring of multisymmetric polynomials in $m$ sets of $n$ variables over an arbitrary field $\mathbb{K}$. We prove that in order to obtain separating sets it is enough to consider polynomials…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Artem Lopatin , Fabian Reimers

We study the problem of counting the number of {\em isomorphic} copies of a given {\em template} graph, say $H$, in the input {\em base} graph, say $G$. In general, it is believed that polynomial time algorithms that solve this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Kashyap Dixit , Martin Fürer

We show that, for $n$ large, there must exist at least \[\frac{n^t}{C^{(1+o(1))t^2}}\] monochromatic $K_t$s in any two-colouring of the edges of $K_n$, where $C \approx 2.18$ is an explicitly defined constant. The old lower bound, due to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-03 David Conlon

Let $G$ be a graph with $p(G)$ pendant vertices and $q(G)$ quasi-pendant vertices. Denote by $m_{L(G)}(\lambda)$ the multiplicity of $\lambda$ as a Laplacian eigenvalue of $G$. Let $\overline{G}$ be the reduced graph of $G$, which can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Fenglei Tian , Dein Wong

We consider some coloring issues related to the famous Erd\H {o}s Discrepancy Problem. A set of the form $A_{s,k}=\{s,2s,\dots,ks\}$, with $s,k\in \mathbb{N}$, is called a \emph{homogeneous arithmetic progression}. We prove that for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Bartłomiej Bosek , Jarosław Grytczuk

A graph with at most two vertices of the same degree is called antiregular (Merris 2003), maximally nonregular (Zykov 1990) or quasiperfect (Behzad, Chartrand 1967). If s_{k} is the number of independent sets of cardinality k in a graph G,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-07-07 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

The matching polynomial of a graph encodes rich combinatorial information through its roots. We determine the maximum multiplicity of a non-zero matching polynomial root and characterize all graphs attaining the bound. We also generalize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Leyou Xu

We study a very large family of graphs, the members of which comprise disjoint paths of cliques with extremal cliques identified. This broad characterisation naturally generalises those of various smaller families of graphs having…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Adam Bohn

Problem of finding an optimal upper bound for the chromatic no. of even 3K1-free graphs is still open and pretty hard. Here we prove Borodin & Kostochka Conjecture for 4K1-free graphs G i.e. If maximum degree of a {4 Times K1}-free graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Medha Dhurandhar

Linear rank-width is a graph width parameter, which is a variation of rank-width by restricting its tree to a caterpillar. As a corollary of known theorems, for each $k$, there is a finite obstruction set $\mathcal{O}_k$ of graphs such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Jisu Jeong , O-joung Kwon , Sang-il Oum

In \emph{smooth orthogonal layouts} of planar graphs, every edge is an alternating sequence of axis-aligned segments and circular arcs with common axis-aligned tangents. In this paper, we study the problem of finding smooth orthogonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Philipp Kindermann , Stephen G. Kobourov , Alexander Wolff

We prove that graphs excluding a fixed immersion have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number. More generally, we prove that if $H$ is a fixed planar graph that has a planar embedding with all the vertices with degree at least 4 on a single…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Paul Wollan , David R. Wood

Let $T$ be a forest. We study polynomially high-chromatic pure pairs in graphs with no $T$ as an induced subgraph ($T$-free graphs in other words), with applications to the polynomial Gy\'arf\'as-Sumner conjecture. In addition to reproving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Tung H. Nguyen

In the Block Graph Deletion problem, we are given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k$, and the objective is to check whether it is possible to delete at most $k$ vertices from $G$ to make it a block graph, i.e., a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Eun Jung Kim , O-joung Kwon