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Reed and Wood and independently Norine, Seymour, Thomas, and Wollan proved that for each positive integer $t$ there is a constant $c(t)$ such that every graph on $n$ vertices with no $K_t$-minor has at most $c(t)n$ cliques. Wood asked in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Jacob Fox , Fan Wei

We study a variant of the Erd\H{o}s Matching Problem in random hypergraphs. Let $\mathcal{K}_p(n,k)$ denote the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices where each possible edge is included with probability $p$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Peter Frankl , Jiaxi Nie , Jian Wang

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 study the asymptotic behavior of the clique number in rank-1 inhomogeneous random graphs, where edge probabilities between vertices are roughly proportional to the product of their vertex weights. We show that the clique number is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Kay Bogerd , Rui M. Castro , Remco van der Hofstad

In 1966, Erd\H{o}s, Goodman, and P\'{o}sa showed that if $G$ is an $n$-vertex graph, then at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ cliques of $G$ are needed to cover the edges of $G$, and the bound is best possible as witnessed by the balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 József Balogh , Jialin He , Robert A. Krueger , The Nguyen , Michael C. Wigal

The degeneracy of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is the smallest number $d$ such that every subgraph of $G$ contains a vertex of degree at most $d$. We show that there exists a nearly-optimal fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for enumerating all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-29 David Eppstein , Maarten Löffler , Darren Strash

In a random intersection graph $G_{n,m,p}$, each of $n$ vertices selects a random subset of a set of $m$ labels by including each label independently with probability $p$ and edges are drawn between vertices that have at least one label in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Filippos Christodoulou , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Christoforos Raptopoulos , Paul Spirakis

Fix integers $n \ge r \ge 2$. A clique partition of ${[n] \choose r}$ is a collection of proper subsets $A_1, A_2, ..., A_t \subset [n]$ such that $\bigcup_i{A_i \choose r}$ is a partition of ${[n] \choose r}$. Clique partitions are related…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Keith Mellinger , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete

All the work made so far on edge-covering a graph by cliques focus on finding the minimum number of cliques that cover the graph. On this paper, we fix the number of cliques that cover a graph by the same number of vertices that the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Leopoldo Taravilse

We prove that if $p\ge n^{-\frac{1}{3}+\beta}$ for some $\beta > 0$, then asymptotically almost surely the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$ has a $K_3$-packing containing all but at most $n + O(1)$ edges. Similarly, we prove that if $d \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Michelle Delcourt , Tom Kelly , Luke Postle

In this paper, we address the problem of packing large trees in $G_{n,p}$. In particular, we prove the following result. Suppose that $T_1, \dotsc, T_N$ are $n$-vertex trees, each of which has maximum degree at most $(np)^{1/6} / (\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Asaf Ferber , Wojciech Samotij

The clique chromatic number of a graph is the smallest number of colors in a vertex coloring so that no maximal clique is monochromatic. In 2016 McDiarmid, Mitsche and Pralat noted that around p \approx n^{-1/2} the clique chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche , Lutz Warnke

We study how many copies of a graph $F$ that another graph $G$ with a given number of cliques is guaranteed to have. For example, one of our main results states that for all $t\ge 2$, if $G$ is an $n$ vertex graph with $kn^{3/2}$ triangles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Quentin Dubroff , Benjamin Gunby , Bhargav Narayanan , Sam Spiro

Let $\mathcal{H}(k,n,p)$ be the distribution on $k$-uniform hypergraphs where every subset of $[n]$ of size $k$ is included as an hyperedge with probability $p$ independently. In this work, we design and analyze a simple spectral algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Venkatesan Guruswami , Pravesh K. Kothari , Peter Manohar

Fox--Grinshpun--Pach showed that every $3$-coloring of the complete graph on $n$ vertices without a rainbow triangle contains a clique of size $\Omega\left(n^{1/3}\log^2 n\right)$ which uses at most two colors, and this bound is tight up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Adam Zsolt Wagner

Let $\alpha(G)$ and $\beta(G)$, denote the size of a largest independent set and the clique cover number of an undirected graph $G$. Let $H$ be an interval graph with $V(G)=V(H)$ and $E(G)\subseteq E(H)$, and let $\phi(G,H)$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Farhad Shahrokhi

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

Let $\cal H$ be a family of graphs. The Tur\'an number ${\rm ex}(n,{\cal H})$ is the maximum possible number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which does not contain any member of $\cal H$ as a subgraph. As a common generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Chunyang Dou , Bo Ning , Xing Peng

We study the maximum number of $r$-vertex cliques in $(r-1)$-uniform hypergraphs not containing complete $r$-partite hypergraphs $K_r^{(r-1)}(a_1, \dots, a_r)$. By using the hypergraph removal lemma, we show that this maximum is $o( n^{r -…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ayush Basu , Vojtech Rodl , Yi Zhao

We prove that Sherali-Adams with polynomially bounded coefficients requires proofs of size $n^{\Omega(d)}$ to rule out the existence of an $n^{\Theta(1)}$-clique in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs whose maximum clique is of size $d\leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Susanna F. de Rezende , Aaron Potechin , Kilian Risse