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Many of the tools developed for the theory of tree-decompositions of graphs do not work for directed graphs. In this paper we show that some of the most basic tools do work in the case where the model digraph is a directed path. Using these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Joshua Erde

We prove that for $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $d \leq 2k+2$, if a graph has maximum average degree at most $2k + \frac{2d}{d+k+1}$, then $G$ decomposes into $k+1$ pseudoforests, where one of the pseudoforests has all connected components having…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Logan Grout , Benjamin Moore

Transductions are a general formalism for expressing transformations of graphs (and more generally, of relational structures) in logic. We prove that a graph class $\mathscr{C}$ can be $\mathsf{FO}$-transduced from a class of bounded-height…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Michał Pilipczuk , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sebastian Siebertz

A graph is called pseudo-outerplanar if each block has an embedding on the plane in such a way that the vertices lie on a fixed circle and the edges lie inside the disk of this circle with each of them crossing at most one another. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

We prove canonical and non-canonical tree-of-tangles theorems for abstract separation systems that are merely structurally submodular. Our results imply all known tree-of-tangles theorems for graphs, matroids and abstract separation systems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Christian Elbracht , Jay Lilian Kneip , Maximilian Teegen

Motivated by very large-scale communication networks, we newly introduce exponentiation of graphs. Using the exponential operation on graphs, we can construct various graphs of multi-exponential order with logarithmic diameter. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Toru Hasunuma

Graph classes of bounded tree rank were introduced recently in the context of the model checking problem for first-order logic of graphs. These graph classes are a common generalization of graph classes of bounded degree and bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jakub Gajarský , Rose McCarty

In this series, we introduce and investigate the concept of connectoids, which captures the connectivity structure of various discrete objects such as undirected graphs, directed graphs, bidirected graphs, hypergraphs and finitary matroids.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nathan Bowler , Florian Reich

The tree of decomposition of a $k$-connected graph by a set $\mathfrak S$ of pairwise independent $k$-vertex cutsets is defined as follows. The vertices of this tree are cutsets of $\mathfrak S$ and parts of decomposition of the graph by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Dmitri Karpov

We study edge-decompositions of highly connected graphs into copies of a given tree. In particular we attack the following conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-09 János Barát , Dániel Gerbner

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

Much information about a graph can be obtained by studying its spanning trees. On the other hand, a graph can be regarded as a 1-dimensional cell complex, raising the question of developing a theory of trees in higher dimension. As observed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Art M. Duval , Caroline J. Klivans , Jeremy L. Martin

We classify the trees on $n$ vertices with the maximum and the minimum number of certain generalized colorings, including conflict-free, odd, non-monochromatic, star, and star rainbow vertex colorings. We also extend a result of Cutler and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-19 John Engbers , Christopher Stocker

In the context of complex algebraic varieties, the decomposition theorem for semi-small maps provides a decomposition of the direct image of the constant sheaf. In this work, we develop a decomposition theorem for branched coverings of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Shahryar Ghaed Sharaf

This is a companion note to our paper 'Some advances on Sidorenko's conjecture', elaborating on a remark in that paper that the approach which proves Sidorenko's conjecture for strongly tree-decomposable graphs may be extended to a broader…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-08 David Conlon , Jeong Han Kim , Choongbum Lee , Joonkyung Lee

This paper proposes a novel representation of decomposable graphs based on semi-latent tree-dependent bipartite graphs. The novel representation has two main benefits. First, it enables a form of sub-clustering within maximal cliques of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-05 Mohamad Elmasri

We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

One of the most important questions in matroid optimization is to find disjoint common bases of two matroids. The significance of the problem is well-illustrated by the long list of conjectures that can be formulated as special cases.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Kristóf Bérczi , Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

This paper studies graphs that have two tree decompositions with the property that every bag from the first decomposition has a bounded-size intersection with every bag from the second decomposition. We show that every graph in each of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Pat Morin , Sergey Norin , David R. Wood