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Seymour Second Neighborhood Conjecture (SSNC) asserts that every finite oriented graph has a vertex whose second out-neighborhood is at least as large as its first out-neighborhood. Such a vertex is called a Seymour vertex. A digraph $D =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Dania Mezher , Moussa Daamouch

We prove Seymour's Second Neighborhood Conjecture when the missing graph is disjoint stars under some conditions. Weaker conditions are required when n=2 or 3. In some cases, we exhibit two vertices with the desired property.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Salman Ghazal

For a vertex $x$ of a digraph, $d^+(x)$ ($d^-(x)$, resp.) is the number of vertices at distance 1 from (to, resp.) $x$ and $d^{++}(x)$ is the number of vertices at distance 2 from $x$. In 1995, Seymour conjectured that for any oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Jiangdong Ai , Stefanie Gerke , Gregory Gutin , Shujing Wang , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

The famous P\'{o}sa-Seymour conjecture, confirmed in 1998 by Koml\'{o}s, S\'{a}rk\"{o}zy, and Szemer\'{e}di, states that for any $k \geq 2$, every graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $kn/(k + 1)$ contains the $k$-th power of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger , Miloš Trujić

This paper gives an approximate result related to Seymour's Second Neighborhood conjecture, that is, for any $m$-free digraph $G$, there exists a vertex $v\in V(G)$ and a real number $\lambda_m$ such that $d^{++}(v)\geq \lambda_m d^+(v)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Hao Liang , Jun-Ming Xu

We provide a constructive proof of the Seymour Second Neighborhood Conjecture (SSNC) by reframing the problem as a set-packing optimization problem. The universal family of oriented graphs $\mathcal{O}$ is classified by their minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Charles N. Glover

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without an isolated edge can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general. We prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jakub Przybyło

We consider $p$-orientations, which are defined to be orientations of $d$-regular graphs such that every vertex either has in-degree $p$ or out-degree $p$. These generalise the orientations considered in Jaeger's conjecture, where $d=4p+1$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Catherine Greenhill , Mikhail Isaev , Charles Lewis

The P\'osa-Seymour conjecture asserts that every graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $(1 - 1/(r+1))n$ contains the $r^{th}$ power of a Hamilton cycle. Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi famously proved the conjecture for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Domagoj Bradač

We prove a robust version of a graph embedding theorem of Sauer and Spencer. To state this sparser analogue, we define $G(p)$ to be a random subgraph of $G$ obtained by retaining each edge of $G$ independently with probability $p \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Mihir Neve

Sullivan stated the conjectures: (1) every oriented graph $D$ has a vertex $x$ such that $d^{++}(x)\geq d^{-}(x)$; (2) every oriented graph $D$ has a vertex $x$ such that $d^{++}(x)+d^{+}(x)\geq 2d^{-}(x)$. In this paper, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Ruijuan Li , Juanjuan Liang

We study a variety of natural constructions from topological combinatorics, including matching complexes as well as other graph complexes, from the perspective of the graph minor category of \parencite{MiProRa}. We prove that these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Dane Miyata , Eric Ramos

A classical theorem of Dirac from 1952 asserts that every graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $\lceil n/2 \rceil$ is Hamiltonian. In this paper we extend this result to random graphs. Motivated by the study of resilience of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

A beautiful conjecture of Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits and Sidorenko states that if H is a bipartite graph, then the random graph with edge density p has in expectation asymptotically the minimum number of copies of H over all graphs of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-09 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

We propose the following conjecture extending Dirac's theorem: if $G$ is a graph with $n\ge 3$ vertices and minimum degree $\delta(G)\ge n/2$, then in every orientation of $G$ there is a Hamilton cycle with at least $\delta(G)$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

Given a graph $G$ and a vertex $v\in V(G)$, a local complementation at $v$ on $G$ is an operation that replaces the induced graph on the neighborhood of $v$ by its complement. A graph $H$ is a vertex-minor if $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Ting-Wei Chao , Zixuan Xu

Robertson and Seymour's celebrated Graph Minor Theorem states that graphs are well-quasi-ordered by the minor relation. Unlike the minor relation, the topological minor relation does not well-quasi-order graphs in general. Among all known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Chun-Hung Liu , Robin Thomas

A famous conjecture of Sidorenko and Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits states that if H is a bipartite graph then the random graph with edge density p has in expectation asymptotically the minimum number of copies of H over all graphs of the same order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

A special case of a conjecture by Thomass\'e is that any oriented graph with minimum outdegree k contains a dipath of length 2k. For the sake of proving whether or not a counterexample exists, we present reductions and establish bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Joe DeLong

In this paper, we investigate the problem of finding {\it bisections} (i.e., balanced bipartitions) in graphs. We prove the following two results for {\it all} graphs $G$: (1). $G$ has a bisection where each vertex $v$ has at least $(1/4 -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Jie Ma , Hehui Wu