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For every $n\in\mathbb N$ we construct a finite graph $G$ such that every orientation $\vec G$ of $G$ contains an isometric copy of any oriented tree on $n$ vertices, and evaluate the smallest possible cardinality of $G$. On the other hand,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Taras Banakh , Adam Idzik , Oleg Pikhurko , Igor Protasov , Krzysztof Pszczoła

For a graph $G$, a vertex subset $S$ is called a maximum generalized $k$-independent set if the induced subgraph $G[S]$ does not contain a $k$-tree as its subgraph, and the subset has maximum cardinality. The generalized $k$-independence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Jing Huang

Given a graph $G$, we determine the structure of the rotation graph of a graph obtained by applying certain operations to $G$. Specifically, we consider the operations of adding a simplicial vertex, adding a true twin to a vertex, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Ana Gargantini , Adrián Pastine , Pablo Torres

The degree-diameter problem seeks to find the maximum possible order of a graph with a given (maximum) degree and diameter. It is known that graphs attaining the maximum possible value (the Moore bound) are extremely rare, but much activity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Dominique Buset , Mourad El Amiri , Grahame Erskine , Hebert Pérez-Rosés , Mirka Miller

The commuting graph of a finite non-commutative semigroup $S$, denoted $\cg(S)$, is a simple graph whose vertices are the non-central elements of $S$ and two distinct vertices $x,y$ are adjacent if $xy=yx$. Let $\mi(X)$ be the symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-09 João Araújo , Wolfram Bentz , Janusz Konieczny

Given a finite group $G$, the Engel graph of $G$ is a directed graph $\Gamma(G)$ encoding pairs of elements satisfying some Engel word. Namely, $\Gamma(G)$ is the directed graph, where the vertices are the non-hypercentral elements of $G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Andrea Lucchini , Pablo Spiga

A hole in a graph $G$ is an induced cycle of length at least four, and an even hole is a hole of even length. The diamond is the graph obtained from the complete graph $K_4$ by removing an edge. A pyramid is a graph consisting of a triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

Let $G$ be an undirected graph. We say that $G$ contains a ladder of length $k$ if the $2 \times (k+1)$ grid graph is an induced subgraph of $G$ that is only connected to the rest of $G$ via its four cornerpoints. We prove that if all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Steven Chaplick , Steven Kelk , Ruben Meuwese , Matus Mihalak , Georgios Stamoulis

If a graph has a non-singular adjacency matrix, then one may use the inverse matrix to define a (labeled) graph that may be considered to be the inverse graph to the original one. It has been known that an adjacency matrix of a tree is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Soňa Pavlíková , Jozef Širáň

The vertex-edge incidence matrix of a (connected) unicyclic graph G is a square matrix which is invertible if and only if the cycle of G is an odd cycle. A combinatorial formula of the inverse of the incidence matrix of an odd unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Ryan Hessert , Sudipta Mallik

A connected graph has tree-depth at most $k$ if it is a subgraph of the closure of a rooted tree whose height is at most $k$. We give an algorithm which for a given $n$-vertex graph $G$, in time $\mathcal{O}(1.9602^n)$ computes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Fedor V. Fomin , Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Michał Pilipczuk

The twin-width of a graph measures its distance to co-graphs and generalizes classical width concepts such as tree-width or rank-width. Since its introduction in 2020 (Bonnet et. al. 2020), a mass of new results has appeared relating twin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Irene Heinrich , Simon Raßmann

Tree-width and path-width are well-known graph parameters. Many NP-hard graph problems allow polynomial-time solutions, when restricted to graphs of bounded tree-width or bounded path-width. In this work, we study the behavior of tree-width…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Frank Gurski , Robin Weishaupt

Let $G^{\sigma}$ be an oriented graph and $S(G^{\sigma})$ be its skew-adjacency matrix, where $G$ is called the underlying graph of $G^{\sigma}$. The skew-rank of $G^{\sigma}$, denoted by $sr(G^{\sigma})$, is the rank of $S(G^{\sigma})$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Yong Lu , Ligong Wang , Qiannan Zhou

In this paper we consider the fundamental problem of approximating the diameter $D$ of directed or undirected graphs. In a seminal paper, Aingworth, Chekuri, Indyk and Motwani [SIAM J. Comput. 1999] presented an algorithm that computes in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

The {\it Randi\'c index} $R(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the sum of 1/\sqrt{d_ud_v} over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d_u$ and $d_v$ are the degrees of vertices $u$ and $v,$ respectively. Let $D(G)$ be the diameter of $G$ when $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Yiting Yang , Linyuan Lu

The bidimensionality of a set of vertices $X$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum $k$ for which $G$ contains as a $X$-rooted minor the $(k \times k)$-grid. This notion allows for the following version of the Graph Minors Structure Theorem (GMST)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht

An undirected graph is said to be cordial if there is a friendly (0,1)-labeling of the vertices that induces a friendly (0,1)-labeling of the edges. An undirected graph $G$ is said to be $(2,3)$-orientable if there exists a friendly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-27 LeRoy b. Beasley

The proper thinness of a graph is an invariant that generalizes the concept of a proper interval graph. Every graph has a numerical value of proper thinness and the graphs with proper thinness~1 are exactly the proper interval graphs. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Ignacio Maqueda , Nina Pardal

A discrete Schr\"odinger operator of a graph $G$ is a real symmetric matrix whose $i,j$-entry, $i \neq j$, is negative if $\{i,j\}$ is an edge and zero if it is not an edge, while diagonal entries can be any real numbers. The discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Anzila Laikhuram , Jephian C. -H. Lin