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We prove that for any $k \ge 3$, every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices contains at most $n - \omega(1)$ different sizes of cliques (maximal complete subgraphs). In particular, the 3-uniform case answers a question of Erd\H{o}s.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Jun Gao

We prove that if an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $3$ contains a Hamiltonian cycle, then it contains another cycle of length $n-o(n)$; this implies, in particular, that a well-known conjecture of Sheehan from 1975 holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 António Girão , Teeradej Kittipassorn , Bhargav Narayanan

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 study the computation of our recently introduced Whitney polynomial and the enumeration of the spanning hypertrees for hypermaps whose hyperedges have length at most $3$. This is a class of hypermaps where the computation of the above…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Robert Cori , Gábor Hetyei

We study the vertices of the polytopes of all affine maps (a.k.a. hom-polytopes) between higher dimensional simplices, cubes, and crosspolytopes. Systematic study of general hom-polytopes was initiated in [3]. The study of such vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Joseph Gubeladze , Jack Love

The Tur\'an density of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$, denoted $\pi(\mathcal{H})$, is the limit of the maximum density of an $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph not containing a copy of $\mathcal{H}$, as $n \to \infty$. Denote by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Nina Kamčev , Shoham Letzter , Alexey Pokrovskiy

We give the first exact and stability results for a hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problem with infinitely many extremal constructions that are far from each other in edit-distance. This includes an example of triple systems with Tur\'{a}n density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Jianfeng Hou , Heng Li , Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi , Yixiao Zhang

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Christian Reiher

For every $n\ge 3$ we determine the minimum number of edges of graph with $n$ vertices such that for any non edge $xy$ there exits a hamiltonian cycle containing $xy$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Christophe Picouleau

Let $ G=(V,E) $ be a simple graph of order $ n $ and size $ m $. A connected edge cover set of a graph is a subset $S$ of edges such that every vertex of the graph is incident to at least one edge of $S$ and the subgraph induced by $S$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Mahsa Zare , Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Reza Oboudi

Our main result is a sharp bound for the number of vertices in a minimal forbidden subgraph for the graphs having minimum rank at most 3 over the finite field of order 2. We also list all 62 such minimal forbidden subgraphs. We conclude by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Wayne Barrett , Jason Grout , Raphael Loewy

For fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

The fundamental theorem of Tur\'{a}n from Extremal Graph Theory determines the exact bound on the number of edges $t_r(n)$ in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain a clique of size $r+1$. We establish an interesting link between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

In this note, we fix a graph $H$ and ask into how many vertices can each vertex of a clique of size $n$ can be "split" such that the resulting graph is $H$-free. Formally: A graph is an $(n,k)$-graph if its vertex sets is a pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

The study of (minimally) rigid graphs is motivated by numerous applications, mostly in robotics and bioinformatics. A major open problem concerns the number of embeddings of such graphs, up to rigid motions, in Euclidean space. We capture…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Elias P. Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

For a $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ let $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ be the maximum number of edges of a $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraph $H$ which contains no copy of $F$. Determining or estimating $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$ is a classical and central problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Mathias Schacht

The generalized Tur\'{a}n number ${\rm ex}(G,H)$ is the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of a graph $G.$ It is an important extension of the classical Tur\'{a}n number ${\rm ex}(n,H)$, which is the maximum number of edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Mengyu Cao , Benjian lv , Kaishun Wang

In this paper we study the maximum number of hyperedges which may be in an $r$-uniform hypergraph under the restriction that no pair of vertices has more than $t$ Berge paths of length $k$ between them. When $r=t=2$, this is the even-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Zhiyang He , Michael Tait

Given a graph $G$, an {\em obstacle representation} of $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of connected obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are joined by an edge if and only if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-15 Padmini Mukkamala , János Pach , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

Let $m(n,r)$ denote the minimal number of edges in an $n$-uniform hypergraph which is not $r$-colorable. For the broad history of the problem see [RaiSh]. It is known that for a fixed $n$ the sequence \[ \frac{m(n,r)}{r^n} \] has a limit.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Danila Cherkashin