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Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if, and only if, they are homomorphism indistinguishable over all graphs, i.e., $G$ and $H$ admit the same number of number of homomorphisms from every graph $F$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Daniel Neuen , Tim Seppelt

For a positive integer $k$, a graph property $\mathcal{H}$, and a graph parameter $\mathcal{P}$, let $\operatorname{ex}_{\mathcal{P}}(n, \mathcal{H}; \delta \geq k)$ denote the maximum value of $\mathcal{P}$ over all $n$-vertex graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xu Liu , Bo Ning , Tao Wang

This work presents conjectures about eigenvalues of matrices associated with $k$-path graphs, the algebraic connectivity, defined as the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix, and the $\alpha$-index, as the largest eigenvalue…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Rafael L. de Paula , Claudia M. Justel , Carla S. Oliveira , Milena S. Carauba

We prove that every 2-connected, cubic, planar graph with faces of size at most 6 is Hamiltonian, and show that the 6-face condition is tight. Our results push the connectivity condition of the Barnette-Goodey conjecture to the weakest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Sihong Shao , Yuxuan Wu

For a graph G and an integer t we let mcc_t(G) be the smallest m such that there exists a coloring of the vertices of G by t colors with no monochromatic connected subgraph having more than m vertices. Let F be any nontrivial minor-closed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Linial , J. Matousek , O. Sheffet , G. Tardos

We consider the structure of $H$-free subgraphs of graphs with high minimal degree. We prove that for every $k>m$ there exists an $\epsilon:=\epsilon(k,m)>0$ so that the following holds. For every graph $H$ with chromatic number $k$ from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Noga Alon , Clara Shikhelman

For $0\leq H< 1/2$, we construct entire $H$-graphs in $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ that are parabolic and not invariant by one parameter groups of isometries of $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$. Their asymptotic boundaries are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Abigail Folha , Harold Rosenberg

In 1956, Tutte proved the celebrated theorem that every 4-connected planar graph is hamiltonian. This result implies that every more than $\frac{3}{2}$-tough planar graph on at least three vertices is hamiltonian and so has a 2-factor.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Songling Shan

For a graph $G$ the random $n$-lift of $G$ is obtained by replacing each of its vertices by a set of $n$ vertices, and joining a pair of sets by a random matching whenever the corresponding vertices of $G$ are adjacent. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Tomasz Łuczak , Łukasz Witkowski , Marcin Witkowski

Strengthening Hadwiger's conjecture, Gerards and Seymour conjectured in 1995 that every graph with no odd $K_t$-minor is properly $(t-1)$-colorable, this is known as the Odd Hadwiger's conjecture. We prove a relaxation of the above…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Raphael Steiner

A simple topological graph is $k$-quasiplanar ($k\geq 2$) if it contains no $k$ pairwise crossing edges, and $k$-planar if no edge is crossed more than $k$ times. In this paper, we explore the relationship between $k$-planarity and…

We study the question of the least number of random edges that need to be added to a P\'osa-Seymour graph, that is, a graph with minimum degree exceeding $\frac k{k+1}n$, to secure the existence of the $m$-th power of a Hamiltonian cycle,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Sylwia Antoniuk , Andrzej Dudek , Andrzej Ruciński

Bollob\'as and Nikiforov conjectured that for any graph $G \neq K_n$ with $m$ edges \[ \lambda_1^2+\lambda_2^2\le \bigg( 1-\frac{1}{\omega(G)}\bigg)2m\] where $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$ denote the two largest eigenvalues of the adjacency…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Hitesh Kumar , Shivaramakrishna Pragada

Substituting each edge of a simple connected graph $G$ by a path of length 1 and $k$ paths of length 5 generates the $k$-hexagonal graph $H^k(G)$. Iterative graph $H^k_n(G)$ is produced when the preceding constructions are repeated $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Hao Li , Xinyi Chen , Hao Liu

We show that every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices whose minimum $(k-2)$-degree is at least $(5/9+o(1))n^2/2$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle. A construction due to Han and Zhao shows that this minimum degree condition is optimal. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Bjarne Schülke

Erd\H{o}s proved an upper bound on the number of edges in an $n$-vertex non-Hamiltonian graph with given minimum degree and showed sharpness via two members of a particular graph family. F\"{u}redi, Kostochka and Luo showed that these two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Kirsten Hogenson , Rachel Kirsch , Jessica McDonald

Let $X_1,..., X_n$ be independent, uniformly random points from $[0,1]^2$. We prove that if we add edges between these points one by one by order of increasing edge length then, with probability tending to 1 as the number of points $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Michael Krivelevich , Tobias Muller

It has been long conjectured that the crossing numbers of the complete bipartite graph K_{m,n} and of the complete graph K_n equal Z(m,n) (the value conjectured by Zarankiewicz, who came up with a drawing reaching this value) and Z(n)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-25 Etienne de Klerk , Dmitrii V. Pasechnik

For $d \ge 2$, we show that all graphs of $d$-polytopes have a Hamiltonian line graph if and only if $d \ne 3$: We exhibit a graph of a $3$-polytope on $252$ vertices whose line graph does not even have Hamiltonian paths. Adapting a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Bruno Benedetti , Marta Pavelka

We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph of odd-girth $2k+1$ to bound the class of $K_4$-minor-free graphs of odd-girth (at least) $2k+1$, that is, to admit a homomorphism from any such $K_4$-minor-free graph. This yields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Laurent Beaudou , Florent Foucaud , Reza Naserasr