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A graph is path-pairable if for any pairing of its vertices there exist edge-disjoint paths joining the vertices in each pair. We investigate the behaviour of the maximum degree in path-pairable planar graphs. We show that any $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-18 António Girão , Gábor Mészáros , Kamil Popielarz , Richard Snyder

Motivated by the Cauchy-Davenport theorem for sumsets, and its interpretation in terms of Cayley graphs, we prove the following main result : There is a universal constant e > 0 such that, if G is a connected, regular graph on n vertices,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-25 Peter Hegarty

A graph $G$ is $\textit{universal}$ for a (finite) family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs if every $H \in \mathcal{H}$ is a subgraph of $G$. For a given family $\mathcal{H}$, the goal is to determine the smallest number of edges an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Noga Alon , Natalie Dodson , Carmen Jackson , Rose McCarty , Rajko Nenadov , Lani Southern

An edge colored graph $G$ is rainbow edge connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Charalampos Tsourakakis

We prove the following result: If $G$ be a connected graph on $n \ge 6$ vertices, then there exists a set of vertices $D$ with $|D| \le \frac{n}{3}$ and such that $V(G) \setminus N[D]$ is an independent set, where $N[D]$ is the closed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-01 Yair Caro , Adriana Hansberg

An edge-colored graph $G$ is \emph{conflict-free connected} if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The \emph{conflict-free connection number} of a connected graph $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Hong Chang , Trung Duy Doan , Zhong Huang , Stanislav Jendrol' , Xueliang Li , Ingo Schiermeyer

In this paper, we show that every highly edge-connected graph $G$, under a necessary and sufficient degree condition, can be edge-decomposed into $k$ factors $G_1,\ldots, G_k$ such that for each vertex $v\in V(G_i)$ with $1\le i\le k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Morteza Hasanvand

An edge $e$ of a matching covered graph $G$ is removable if $G-e$ is also matching covered. Carvalho, Lucchesi, and Murty showed that every brick $G$ different from $K_4$ and $\overline{C_6}$ has at least $\Delta-2$ removable edges, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Deyu Wu , Yipei Zhang , Xiumei Wang

In [Curtin and Pourgholi, A group sum inequality and its application to power graphs, J. Algebraic Combinatorics, 2014], it is proved that among all directed power graphs of groups of a given order $ n $, the directed power graph of cyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 P. Darbari , B. Khosravi

Let $G$ be a connected edge-weighted graph of order $n$ and size $m$. Let $w:E(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{\geq 0}$ be the weighting function. We assume that $w$ is normalised, that is, $\sum_{e\in E(G)} w(e)=m$. The weighted distance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Peter Johnson , Fadekemi Janet Osaye

Given two distributions F and G on the nonnegative integers we propose an algorithm to construct in- and out-degree sequences from samples of i.i.d. observations from F and G, respectively, that with high probability will be graphical, that…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Ningyuan Chen , Mariana Olvera-Cravioto

In this paper, we show that for any positive integer $m$ and $k\in [2]$, let $G$ be a $(2m+2k+2)$-connected graph and let $a_1,\ldots , a_m, s, t$ be any distinct vertices of $G$, there are $k$ internally disjoint $s$-$t$ paths $P_1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Yuzhen Qi , Jin Yan

We study the maximum number of edges in an $n$ vertex graph with Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter no more than $t$. We conjecture that for every integer $t$, if $G$ is a graph with at least $t$ vertices and Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Rose McCarty

We prove that every 2k-edge-connected graph with countably many edge-ends admits a k-arc-connected orientation, extending the previous result by Assem, Koloschin and Pitz that also assumed the hypothesis of the graph being locally finite.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Leandro Aurichi , Paulo Magalhães Júnior , Guilherme Eduardo Pinto

Cut vertices are often used as a measure of nodes' importance within a network. They are those nodes whose failure disconnects a graph. Let N(G) be the number of connected induced subgraphs of a graph $G$. In this work, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

A graph drawn in the plane is called k-quasi-planar if it does not contain k pairwise crossing edges. It has been conjectured for a long time that for every fixed k, the maximum number of edges of a k-quasi-planar graph with n vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-13 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

Let ${\rm ind}(G)$ be the number of independent sets in a graph $G$. We show that if $G$ has maximum degree at most $5$ then $$ {\rm ind}(G) \leq 2^{{\rm iso}(G)} \prod_{uv \in E(G)} {\rm ind}(K_{d(u),d(v)})^{\frac{1}{d(u)d(v)}} $$ (where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-26 David Galvin , Yufei Zhao

We characterise the structure of those graphs of a given order which maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs for seven different graph classes, each with other prescribed parameters like minimum degree, independence number,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

The intersection graph of a group $G$ is an undirected graph without loops and multiple edges defined as follows: the vertex set is the set of all proper non-trivial subgroups of $G$, and there is an edge between two distinct vertices $H$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Selçuk Kayacan

In this paper, the extremal graph with the maximum RRD-value among all the graphs of order n with given cut vertices or edges is characterized. In addition, an upper bounds on the reciprocal degree distance in terms of the number of cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Xiao-Xin Li