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An edge-girth-regular graph $egr(n,k,g,\lambda)$ is a $k-$regular graph of order $n$, girth $g$ and with the property that each of its edges is contained in exactly $\lambda$ distinct $g-$cycles. We present new families of edge-girth…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-29 István Porupsánszki

We establish new bounds on the number of tangencies and orthogonal intersections determined by an arrangement of curves. First, given a set of $n$ algebraic plane curves, we show that there are $O(n^{3/2})$ points where two or more curves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Jordan S. Ellenberg , Jozsef Solymosi , Joshua Zahl

A well-known theorem of Mantel states that every $n$-vertex graph with more than $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor $ edges contains a triangle. An interesting problem in extremal graph theory studies the minimum number of edges contained in triangles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

In a graph $G$, a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V(G)$ is said to be cyclable if there is a cycle containing the vertices in some order. $G$ is said to be $k$-cyclable if any subset of $k \geq 2$ vertices is cyclable. If any $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Niranjan Balachandran , Anish Hebbar

For fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

Motivated by an old question of Gallai (1966) on the intersection of longest paths in a graph and the well-known conjectures of Lov\'{a}sz (1969) and Thomassen (1978) on the maximum length of paths and cycles in vertex-transitive graphs, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sergey Norin , Raphael Steiner , Stephan Thomassé , Paul Wollan

We study the classical NP-hard problems of finding maximum-size subsets from given sets of $k$ terminal pairs that can be routed via edge-disjoint paths (MaxEDP) or node-disjoint paths (MaxNDP) in a given graph. The approximability of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Krzysztof Fleszar , Matthias Mnich , Joachim Spoerhase

Recently, Ezra and Sharir [ES22a] showed an $O(n^{3/2+\sigma})$ space and $O(n^{1/2+\sigma})$ query time data structure for ray shooting among triangles in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This improves the upper bound given by the classical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Peyman Afshani , Pingan Cheng

The $3$-uniform tight $\ell$-cycle $C_\ell^{3}$ is the $3$-graph on $\{1,\dots,\ell\}$ consisting of all $\ell$ consecutive triples in the cyclic order. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be either the pair $\{C_{4}^{3}, C_{5}^{3}\}$ or the single tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Levente Bodnár , Jared León , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko

Given a non-negative $n \times n$ matrix viewed as a set of distances between $n$ points, we consider the property testing problem of deciding if it is a metric. We also consider the same problem for two special classes of metrics, tree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yiqiao Bao , Sampath Kannan , Erik Waingarten

In 1979, Erd\H{o}s conjectured that if $m = O(n^{2/3})$, then $ex(n, m, \{C_4, C_6 \}) = O(n)$. This conjecture was disproven by several papers and the current best-known bounds for this problem are $$ c_1n^{1 + \frac{1}{15}} \leq ex(n,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Baran Düzgün , Ago-Erik Riet , Vladislav Taranchuk

For an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ and a family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs $\mathcal{F}$, the relative Tur\'{a}n number $\mathrm{ex}(H,\mathcal{F})$ is the maximum number of edges in an $\mathcal{F}$-free subgraph of $H$. In this paper we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Sam Spiro , Jacques Verstraete

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

An oriented graph is a directed graph which can be obtained from a simple undirected graph by orienting its edges. In this paper we show that any oriented graph G on n vertices with minimum indegree and outdegree at least (1/2-o(1))n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-13 Peter Keevash , Benny Sudakov

We make progress on a number of open problems concerning the area requirement for drawing trees on a grid. We prove that 1. every tree of size $n$ (with arbitrarily large degree) has a straight-line drawing with area $n2^{O(\sqrt{\log\log…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Timothy M. Chan

One of Erdos's conjectures states that every triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices has an induced subgraph on $n/2$ vertices with at most $n^2/50$ edges. We report several partial results towards this conjecture. In particular, we establish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Alexander Razborov

We study graphs on $n$ vertices which have $2n-2$ edges and no proper induced subgraphs of minimum degree $3$. Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp conjectured that such graphs always have cycles of lengths $3,4,5,\dots, C(n)$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Lothar Narins , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given a graph $G$ and a directed graph $\vec{H}$, how many ways are there to orient the edges of $G$ such that it does not contain $\vec{H}$ as a subgraph? We denote this value by $D(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Hannah Sheats

We expand Conlon's random algebraic construction to show that for any odd number $k \geq 3$ exists a natural number $c_k$ (the same as Conlon's) such that $\operatorname{ex}(n^a,n,\theta_{k,c_k}) = \Omega_{k,a}((n^{1 + a})^{\frac{k +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

We prove that for each odd integer $k \geq 7$, every graph on $n$ vertices without odd cycles of length less than $k$ contains at most $(n/k)^k$ cycles of length $k$. This generalizes the previous results on the maximum number of pentagons…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Andrzej Grzesik , Bartłomiej Kielak