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Fix a palette $\mathcal K$ of $\Delta+1$ colours, a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, and a subset $M$ of the edge set with minimum distance between edges at least $9$. If the edges of $M$ are arbitrarily precoloured from $\mathcal K$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-31 António Girão , Ross J. Kang

We settle a problem of Havel by showing that there exists an absolute constant d such that if G is a planar graph in which every two distinct triangles are at distance at least d, then G is 3-colorable. In fact, we prove a more general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Zdenek Dvorak , Daniel Kral , Robin Thomas

Confirming a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s on the chromatic number of Kneser hypergraphs, Alon, Frankl and Lov\'asz proved that in any $q$-colouring of the edges of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph, there exists a monochromatic matching of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Lior Gishboliner , Stefan Glock , Peleg Michaeli , Amedeo Sgueglia

We prove that any graph $G$ of minimum degree greater than $2k^2-1$ has a $(k+1)$-connected induced subgraph $H$ such that the number of vertices of $H$ that have neighbors outside of $H$ is at most $2k^2-1$. This generalizes a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Irena Penev , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon

Let $H$ be a complete $r$-uniform hypergraph such that two vertices are marked in each edge as its `boundary' vertices. A linear ordering of the vertex set of $H$ is called an {\em agreeing linear order}, provided all vertices of each edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Csaba Biró , Jenő Lehel , Géza Tóth

A $k$-L(2,1)-labeling of a graph is a function from its vertex set into the set $\{0,...,k\}$, such that the labels assigned to adjacent vertices differ by at least 2, and labels assigned to vertices of distance 2 are different. It is known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Paweł Rzą\zewski

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

Given graphs $T$ and $H$, the generalized Tur\'an number ex$(n,T,H)$ is the maximum number of copies of $T$ in an $n$-vertex graph with no copies of $H$. Alon and Shikhelman, using a result of Erd\H os, determined the asymptotics of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Dhruv Mubayi , Sayan Mukherjee

Mantel's Theorem asserts that a simple $n$ vertex graph with more than $\frac{1}{4}n^2$ edges has a triangle (three mutually adjacent vertices). Here we consider a rainbow variant of this problem. We prove that whenever $G_1, G_2, G_3$ are…

Motivated by the Beck-Fiala conjecture, we study the discrepancy problem in two related models of random hypergraphs on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In the first (edge-independent) model, a random hypergraph $H_1$ is constructed by fixing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Calum MacRury , Tomáš Masařík , Leilani Pai , Xavier Pérez-Giménez

In a colouring of a graph, a vertex is b-chromatic if it is adjacent to a vertex of every other colour. We consider four well-studied colouring problems: b-Chromatic Number, Tight b-Chromatic Number, Fall Chromatic Number and Fall…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Jungho Ahn , Tala Eagling-Vose , Felicia Lucke , David Manlove , Fabricio Mendoza , Daniël Paulusma

For $k\ge 3$ and $\epsilon>0$, let $H$ be a $k$-partite $k$-graph with parts $V_1,\dots, V_k$ each of size $n$, where $n$ is sufficiently large. Assume that for each $i\in [k]$, every $(k-1)$-set in $\prod_{j\in [k]\setminus \{i\}} V_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jie Han , Chuanyun Zang , Yi Zhao

In 1963, Dirac proved that every $n$-vertex graph has $k$ vertex-disjoint triangles if $n\geq 3k$ and minimum degree $\delta(G)\geq \frac{n+k}{2}$. The base case $n=3k$ can be reduced to the Corr\'adi-Hajn\'al Theorem. Towards a rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Xu Liu , Bo Ning , Yuting Tian

A graph is said to be $\mathcal{H}(n, \Delta)$-universal if it contains every graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$. Using a `matching-based' embedding technique introduced by Alon and F\"uredi, Dellamonica, Kohayakawa,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Asaf Ferber , Rajko Nenadov

We say a proper coloring of a graph is distance-$k$ fall if every vertex is within distance $k$ of at least one vertex of every color. We show that if $G$ is a connected graph of order at least $3$ that is $3$-colorable, thenit has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Wayne Goddard , Sonwabile Mafunda

In 1952, Dirac proved the following theorem about long cycles in graphs with large minimum vertex degrees: Every $n$-vertex $2$-connected graph $G$ with minimum vertex degree $\delta\geq 2$ contains a cycle with at least $\min\{2\delta,n\}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

An $L(h_1, h_2, \ldots, h_l)$-labelling of a graph $G$ is a mapping $\phi: V(G) \rightarrow \{0, 1, 2, \ldots\}$ such that for $1\le i\le l$ and each pair of vertices $u, v$ of $G$ at distance $i$, we have $|\phi(u) - \phi(v)| \geq h_i$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Anna Lladó , Hamid Mokhtar , Oriol Serra , Sanming Zhou

Given a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$, define for every edge $e\in E$ a linear expression with arguments corresponding with the vertices. Next, let the polynomial $p_H$ be the product of such linear expressions for all edges. Our main goal was to…

A tantalizing conjecture in discrete mathematics is the one of Koml\'os, suggesting that for any vectors $\mathbf{a}_1,\ldots,\mathbf{a}_n \in B_2^m$ there exist signs $x_1, \dots, x_n \in \{ -1,1\}$ so that $\|\sum_{i=1}^n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Victor Reis , Thomas Rothvoss

The 1-2-3 Conjecture, posed by Karo\'{n}ski, {\L}uczak and Thomason, asked whether every connected graph $G$ different from $K_2$ can be 3-edge-weighted so that every two adjacent vertices of $G$ get distinct sums of incident weights. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Jing-zhi Chang , Chao Yang , Zhi-xiang Yin , Bing Yao