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A $c$-edge-colored multigraph has each edge colored with one of the $c$ available colors and no two parallel edges have the same color. A proper Hamiltonian cycle is a cycle containing all the vertices of the multigraph such that no two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Raquel Águeda , Valentin Borozan , Raquel Díaz , Yannis Manoussakis , Leandro Montero

The classical Crossing Lemma by Ajtai et al.~and Leighton from 1982 gave an important lower bound of $c \frac{m^3}{n^2}$ for the number of crossings in any drawing of a given graph of $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. The original value was $c=…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Aaron Büngener , Michael Kaufmann

A bipartite graph $G = (X \cup Y, E)$ is a 2-layer $k$-planar graph if it admits a drawing on the plane such that the vertices in $X$ and $Y$ are placed on two parallel lines respectively, edges are drawn as straight-line segments, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yuto Okada

A graph is outer-1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that all vertices are on the outer face and each edge is crossed at most once. In this paper, we completely determine the edge chromatic number of outer 1-planar graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Xin Zhang

We show that the maximal number of singular moves required to pass between any two regularly homotopic planar or spherical curves with at most n crossings, grows quadratically with respect to n. Furthermore, this can be done with all curves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Tahl Nowik

A hypergraph $H$ is said to be \emph{linear} if every pair of vertices lies in at most one hyperedge. Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $r$-uniform hypergraphs (also called $r$-graphs), an $r$-graph $H$ is said to be \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-free}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Rajat Adak

A drawing of a graph in the plane is called 1-planar if each edge is crossed at most once. A graph together with a 1-planar drawing is a 1-plane graph. A 1-plane graph $G$ with exactly $4|V (G)|-8$ edges is called optimal. The crossing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Zhangdong Ouyang , Yuanqiu Huang , Licheng Zhang

A graph $G$ is a link-irregular graph if every two distinct vertices of $G$ have non-isomorphic links. The link of a vertex $v$ in $G$ is the subgraph induced by the neighbors of $v$ in $G$. Ali, Chartrand and Zhang [Discussiones…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

A graph is 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. Let G be a bipartite 1-planar graph with partite sets X and Y. A 1-disk OX drawing of G is a 1-planar drawing such that all vertices of X…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Guiping Wang

Every finite graph admits a \emph{simple (topological) drawing}, that is, a drawing where every pair of edges intersects in at most one point. However, in combination with other restrictions simple drawings do not universally exist. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Michael Hoffmann , Chih-Hung Liu , Meghana M. Reddy , Csaba D. Tóth

A $k$-graph $\mathcal{G}$ is asymmetric if there does not exist an automorphism on $\mathcal{G}$ other than the identity, and $\mathcal{G}$ is called minimal asymmetric if it is asymmetric but every non-trivial induced sub-hypergraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Dominik Bohnert , Christian Winter

We study the 1-planar, quasi-planar, and fan-planar crossing number in comparison to the (unrestricted) crossing number of graphs. We prove that there are $n$-vertex 1-planar (quasi-planar, fan-planar) graphs such that any 1-planar…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Markus Chimani , Philipp Kindermann , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Pavel Valtr

In a RAC drawing of a graph, vertices are represented by points in the plane, adjacent vertices are connected by line segments, and crossings must form right angles. Graphs that admit such drawings are RAC graphs. RAC graphs are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Steven Chaplick , Henry Förster , Myroslav Kryven , Alexander Wolff

We consider edge colorings of graphs. An edge coloring is a majority coloring if for every vertex at most half of the edges incident with it are in one color. And edge coloring is a distinguishing coloring if for every non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Aleksandra Gorzkowska , Magdalena Prorok

We show that for $K_5$ (resp.~ $K_{3,3}$) there is a drawing with $i$ independent crossings, and no pair of independent edges cross more than once, provided $i$ is odd with $1\le i\le 15$ (resp.~ $1\le i\le 17$). Conversely, using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Grant Cairns , Emily Groves , Yuri Nikolayevsky

A weighting of the edges of a hypergraph is called vertex-coloring if the weighted degrees of the vertices yield a proper coloring of the graph, i.e., every edge contains at least two vertices with different weighted degrees. In this paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Maciej Kalkowski , Michał Karoński , Florian Pfender

K\'{a}rolyi, Pach, and T\'{o}th proved that every 2-edge-colored straight-line drawing of the complete graph contains a monochromatic plane spanning tree. It is open if this statement generalizes to other classes of drawings, specifically,…

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

We classify the connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. We further show that if their underlying undirected graph is not connected-homogeneous, they are highly-arc-transitive.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-30 Matthias Hamann , Fabian Hundertmark

Menger's Edge Theorem asserts that there exist $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint paths between two vertices in an undirected graph if and only if a deletion of any $k-1$ or less edges does not disconnect these two vertices. Alternatively, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Avraham Goldstein