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A prominent problem in Graph Theory is to find extremal graphs or digraphs with restrictions in their diameter, degree and number of vertices. Here we obtain a new family of digraphs with minimal diameter, that is, given the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Katerina Böhmová , Cristina Dalfó , Clemens Huemer

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing chromatic number $\chi_{D}(G)$ of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Xiangzhou Liu , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

We study the $F$-decomposition threshold $\delta_F$ for a given graph $F$. Here an $F$-decomposition of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint copies of $F$ in $G$ which together cover every edge of $G$. (Such an $F$-decomposition can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

In this paper, we prove that there exists an absolute constant $g_0$ such that, for every integer $k\ge 3$, every graph $G$ with $\delta(G)\ge k$ and $g(G)\ge g_0$ contains an induced subdivision of $K_{k+1}$. This answers, in a strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Peiru Kuang , Yan Wang

Chordal graphs are the graphs in which every cycle of length at least four has a chord. A set $S$ is a vertex separator for vertices $a$ and $b$ if the removal of $S$ of the graph separates $a$ and $b$ into distinct connected components. A…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Sérgio H. Nogueira , Vinicius F. dos Santos

We generalize the class of split graphs to the directed case and show that these split digraphs can be identified from their degree sequences. The first degree sequence characterization is an extension of the concept of splittance to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-04-25 M. Drew LaMar

Let $G=(V,A)$ be a digraph. For $X\subseteq V$, the subdigraph of $G$ induced by $X$ is denoted by $G[X]$. A subset $I$ of $V$ is an interval of $G$ if for every $a,b \in I$ and $x \in V \setminus I$, $(x,a) \in A$ if and only if $(x,b) \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Sahbani Rachid

The $k$-dominating graph $D_k(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined on the vertex set consisting of dominating sets of $G$ with cardinality at most $k$, two such sets being adjacent if they differ by either adding or deleting a single vertex. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Saeid Alikhani , Davood Fatehi , Sandi Klavžar

It has been shown by Bokal et al. that deciding 2-colourability of digraphs is an NP-complete problem. This result was later on extended by Feder et al. to prove that deciding whether a digraph has a circular $p$-colouring is NP-complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Winfried Hochstättler , Felix Schröder , Raphael Steiner

We show that digraphs with no transitive tournament on $3$ vertices and in which every induced directed cycle has length $3$ can have arbitrarily large dichromatic number. This answers to the negative a question of Carbonero, Hompe, Moore,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Pierre Aboulker , Nicolas Bousquet , Rémi de Verclos

Cycle rank is one of the depth parameters for digraphs introduced by Eggan in 1963. We show that there exists a function $f:\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N}$ such that every digraph of cycle rank at least $f(k)$ contains a directed cycle chain, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Meike Hatzel , O-joung Kwon , Myounghwan Lee , Sebastian Wiederrecht

An acyclic set in a digraph is a set of vertices that induces an acyclic subgraph. In 2011, Harutyunyan conjectured that every planar digraph on $n$ vertices without directed 2-cycles possesses an acyclic set of size at least $3n/5$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Noah Golowich , David Rolnick

A signed graph $(G,\Sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with a set $\Sigma \subseteq E(G)$ of negative edges. A circuit is positive if the product of the signs of its edges is positive. A signed graph $(G,\Sigma)$ is balanced if all its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Chiara Cappello , Eckhard Steffen

A digraph is {\bf \( k \)-linked} if for arbitary two disjoint vertex sets \(\{s_1, \ldots, s_k\}\) and \(\{t_1, \ldots, t_k\}\), there exist vertex-disjoint directed paths \(P_1, \ldots, P_k\) {such that \(P_i\) is a directed path from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Xiaoying Chen , Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Jin Yan , Jia Zhou

We say that a (di)graph $G$ has a perfect $H$-packing if there exists a set of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ which cover all the vertices in $G$. The seminal Hajnal--Szemer\'edi theorem characterises the minimum degree that ensures a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Andrew Treglown

A {\bf strong arc decomposition} of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is a partition of its arc set $A$ into two sets $A_1,A_2$ such that the digraph $D_i=(V,A_i)$ is strong for $i=1,2$. Bang-Jensen and Yeo (2004) conjectured that there is some $K$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Yun Wang

The \emph{chromatic number} of a directed graph $D$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices of $D$ such that each color class of $D$ induces an acyclic subdigraph. Thus, the chromatic number of a tournament $T$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Ararat Harutyunyan , Tien-Nam Le , Stéphan Thomassé , Hehui Wu

This article investigates the properties of order-divisor graphs associated with finite groups. An order-divisor graph of a finite group is an undirected graph in which the set of vertices includes all elements of the group, and two…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Shafiq ur Rehman , Raheela Tahir , Farhat Noor

Resolving a problem raised by Norin, we show that for each $k \in \mathbb{N}$, there exists an $f(k) \le 7k$ such that every graph $G$ with chromatic number at least $f(k)+1$ contains a subgraph $H$ with both connectivity and chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-06 António Girão , Bhargav Narayanan