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We revisit connectivity-constrained coverage through a unifying model, Partial Connected Red-Blue Dominating Set. Given a red-blue bipartite graph $G$ and an auxiliary connectivity graph $G_{conn}$ on red vertices, and integers $k, t$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Tanmay Inamdar , Satyabrata Jana , Madhumita Kundu , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

A proper $k$-colouring of a graph $G$ is called $h$-conflict-free if every vertex $v$ has at least $\min\, \{h, {\rm deg}(v)\}$ colours appearing exactly once in its neighbourhood. Let $\chi_{\rm pcf}^h(G)$ denote the minimum $k$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Quentin Chuet , Tianjiao Dai , Qiancheng Ouyang , François Pirot

We introduce a method to embed edge-colored graphs into families of expander graphs, which generalizes a framework developed by Dragani\'c, Krivelevich, and Nenadov (2022). As an application, we show that each family of sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Ben Lund , Chuandong Xu

Hartsfield and Ringel constructed orientable quadrangular embeddings of the complete graph $K_n$ for $n\equiv 5 \pmod 8$, and nonorientable ones for $n \ge 9$ and $n\equiv 1 \pmod 4$. These provide minimal quadrangulations of their…

Finding spanning structures with many distinct colours in properly edge-coloured graphs is a central theme in extremal combinatorics. A classical result of Andersen shows that every proper edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Xinbu Cheng , Xinqi Huang , Hong Liu , Bin Wang , Zhifei Yan

For a simple drawing $D$ of the complete graph $K_n$, two (plane) subdrawings are compatible if their union is plane. Let $\mathcal{T}_D$ be the set of all plane spanning trees on $D$ and $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{T}_D)$ be the compatibility…

Let $T$ be a tree on $n$ vertices and with maximum degree $\Delta$. We show that for $k\geq \Delta+1$ the Glauber dynamics for $k$-edge-colourings of $T$ mixes in polynomial time in $n$. The bound on the number of colours is best possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Michelle Delcourt , Marc Heinrich , Guillem Perarnau

An edge colouring of a multigraph can be thought of as a partition of the edges into matchings (a matching meets each vertex at most once). Analogously, an edge cover colouring is a partition of the edges into edge covers (an edge cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-23 David Pritchard

In Ramsey theory for graphs we are given a graph $G$ and we are required to find the least $n_0$ such that, for any $n\geq n_0$, any red/blue colouring of the edges of $K_n$ gives a subgraph $G$ all of whose edges are blue or all are red.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Yair Caro , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

We prove that in every $2$-edge-colouring of $K_n$ there is a collection of $n^2/12 + o(n^2)$ edge-disjoint monochromatic triangles, thus confirming a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s. We also prove a corresponding stability result, showing that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Vytautas Gruslys , Shoham Letzter

Following the recent paper which initiated the study of colour isomorphism problems for complete graphs, we obtain upper bounds for $f_2(n,H)$ for a family of graphs $H$ obtained as the $K_0$-th rooted power of a balanced rooted tree for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Xiao-Chuan Liu , Xu Yang

For every $k\ge 2$ and $\Delta$, we prove that there exists a constant $C_{\Delta,k}$ such that the following holds. For every graph $H$ with $\chi(H)=k$ and every tree with at least $C_{\Delta,k}|H|$ vertices and maximum degree at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Richard Montgomery , Matías Pavez-Signé , Jun Yan

In this paper, we prove that given a 2-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{4n}$ that has the same number of edges of each colour, we can always find a perfect matching with an equal number of edges of each colour. This solves a problem posed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Teeradej Kittipassorn , Panon Sinsap

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have different colours. The problem of finding rainbow subgraphs goes back to the work of Euler on transversals in Latin squares and was extensively studied since then.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Frederik Benzing , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

We consider (not necessarily proper) colorings of the vertices of a graph where every color is thoroughly distributed, that is, appears in every open neighborhood. Equivalently, every color is a total dominating set. We define $\td(G)$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Wayne Goddard , Michael A. Henning

A vertex colouring of a graph is called asymmetric if the only automorphism which preserves it is the identity. Tucker conjectured that if every automorphism of a connected, locally finite graph moves infinitely many vertices, then there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

For some $k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}\cup \infty$, we call a linear forest $k$-bounded if each of its components has at most $k$ edges. We will say a $(k,\ell)$-bounded linear forest decomposition of a graph $G$ is a partition of $E(G)$ into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Rutger Campbell , Florian Hörsch , Benjamin Moore

We study the problem of recovering a planted matching in randomly weighted complete bipartite graphs $K_{n,n}$. For some unknown perfect matching $M^*$, the weight of an edge is drawn from one distribution $P$ if $e \in M^*$ and another…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Mehrdad Moharrami , Cristopher Moore , Jiaming Xu

The conflict-free chromatic index of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours in an edge colouring of $G$ such that the neighbourhood of every edge contains a colour appearing exactly once. Its vertex analogue is the conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

A proper total colouring of a graph $G$ is called harmonious if it has the further property that when replacing each unordered pair of incident vertices and edges with their colours, then no pair of colours appears twice. The smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-19 M. Abreu , J. B. Gauci , D. Mattiolo , G. Mazzuoccolo , F. Romaniello , C. Rubio-Montiel , T. Traetta