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We determine the maximum number of maximal independent sets of arbitrary graphs in terms of their covering numbers and we completely characterize the extremal graphs. As an application, we give a similar result for K\"onig-Egerv\'ary graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Do Trong Hoang , Tran Nam Trung

We study the following inverse graph-theoretic problem: how many vertices should a graph have given that it has a specified value of some parameter. We obtain asymptotic for the minimal number of vertices of the graph with the given number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Alex Dainiak

In this paper, we study the following question. Let $\mathcal G$ be a family of planar graphs and let $k\geq 3$ be an integer. What is the largest value $f_k(n)$ such that every $n$-vertex graph in $\mathcal G$ has an induced subgraph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Marco D'Elia , Fabrizio Frati

In recent work (Pandit and Kulkarni [Discrete Applied Mathematics, 244 (2018), pp. 155--169]), the independence number of a graph was characterized as the maximum of the $\ell_1$ norm of solutions of a Linear Complementarity Problem (\LCP)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Karan N. Chadha , Ankur A. Kulkarni

For a fixed graph G, a maximal independent set is an independent set that is not a proper subset of any other independent set. P. Erd\"os, and independently, J. W. Moon and L. Moser, and R. E. Miller and D. E. Muller, determined the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Chunwei Song , Bowen Yao

We consider the problem of determining the maximum order of an induced vertex-disjoint union of cliques in a graph. More specifically, given some family of graphs $\mathcal{G}$ of equal order, we are interested in the parameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Nika Salia , Christoph Spiegel , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

Let G be a graph. The independence-domination number is the maximum over all independent sets I in G of the minimal number of vertices needed to dominate I. In this paper we investigate the computational complexity of independence…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Wing-Kai Hon , Ton Kloks , Hsiang Hsuan Liu , Sheung-Hung Poon , Yue-Li Wang

We consider mining dense substructures (maximal cliques) from an uncertain graph, which is a probability distribution on a set of deterministic graphs. For parameter 0 < {\alpha} < 1, we present a precise definition of an {\alpha}-maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Arko Provo Mukherjee , Pan Xu , Srikanta Tirthapura

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter. For graphs of bounded clique-width, many problems that are NP-hard in general can be polynomial-time solvable. The fact motivates several studies to investigate whether the clique-width of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yu Nakahata

We study biplane graphs drawn on a finite planar point set $S$ in general position. This is the family of geometric graphs whose vertex set is $S$ and can be decomposed into two plane graphs. We show that two maximal biplane graphs---in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Alfredo García , Ferran Hurtado , Matias Korman , Inês Matos , Maria Saumell , Rodrigo I. Silveira , Javier Tejel , Csaba D. Tóth

We give some new bounds for the clique and independence numbers of a graph in terms of its eigenvalues.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Vladimir Nikiforov

The edge clique cover number $ecc(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the size of the smallest set of complete subgraphs whose union covers all edges of $G$. It has been conjectured that all the simple graphs with independence number two satisfy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Frank Ramamonjisoa

The tree-independence number of a graph is the minimum, over all tree-decompositions of the graph, of the maximum size of an independent set contained in a bag. Graph classes of bounded tree-independence number have strong structural and…

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

The independence number $\alpha(G)$ and the dissociation number ${\rm diss}(G)$ of a graph $G$ are the largest orders of induced subgraphs of $G$ of maximum degree at most $0$ and at most $1$, respectively. We consider possible improvements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Felix Bock , Johannes Pardey , Lucia D. Penso , Dieter Rautenbach

We give a sharp bound on the number of triangles in a graph with fixed number of edges. We also characterize graphs that achieve the maximum number of triangles. Using the upper bound on number of triangles, we prove that if $G$ is a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Tony N. Mavely , Viji Z. Thomas

We say that a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ is \emph{clique-sparse} if there is a constant $k=k(\mathcal{G})$ such that for every graph $G\in\mathcal{G}$, every vertex of $G$ belongs to at most $k$ maximal cliques, and any maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-28 J. Pascal Gollin , Meike Hatzel , Sebastian Wiederrecht

The problem of determining the maximum number of maximal independent sets in certain graph classes dates back to a paper of Miller and Muller and a question of Erd\H{o}s and Moser from the 1960s. The minimum was always considered to be less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Stijn Cambie , Stephan Wagner

An $i$-independent set is a vertex set whose pairwise distance is at least $i+1$. A proper (square) $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set into $k$ independent ($2$-independent) sets. A packing $(1^{j}, 2^k)$-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xujun Liu , Zihui Xu , Xin Zhang

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