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An edge-ordered graph is a graph with a total ordering of its edges. A path $P=v_1v_2\ldots v_k$ in an edge-ordered graph is called increasing if $(v_iv_{i+1}) > (v_{i+1}v_{i+2})$ for all $i = 1,\ldots,k-2$; it is called decreasing if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Frank Duque , Ruy Fabila-Monroy , Carlos Hidalgo-Toscano , Pablo Pérez-Lantero

In the Metric Dimension problem, one asks for a minimum-size set $R$ of vertices such that for any pair of vertices of the graph, there is a vertex from $R$ whose two distances to the vertices of the pair are distinct. This problem has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Florent Foucaud , Anni Hakanen

We consider the following problem for oriented graphs and digraphs: Given an oriented graph (digraph) $G$, does it contain an induced subdivision of a prescribed digraph $D$? The complexity of this problem depends on $D$ and on whether $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Frédéric Havet , Nicolas Trotignon

We show that there exists an outerplanar graph on $O(n^{c})$ vertices for $c = \log_2(3+\sqrt{10}) \approx 2.623$ that contains every tree on $n$ vertices as a subgraph. This extends a result of Chung and Graham from 1983 who showed that…

A directed graph is oriented if it can be obtained by orienting the edges of a simple, undirected graph. For an oriented graph $G$, let $\beta(G)$ denote the size of a minimum feedback arc set, a smallest subset of edges whose deletion…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Jacob Fox , Zoe Himwich , Nitya Mani

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

We consider straight-line outerplanar drawings of outerplanar graphs in which a small number of distinct edge slopes are used, that is, the segments representing edges are parallel to a small number of directions. We prove that $\Delta-1$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Kolja Knauer , Piotr Micek , Bartosz Walczak

A chorded cycle in a graph $G$ is a cycle on which two nonadjacent vertices are adjacent in the graph $G$. In 2010, Gao and Qiao independently proved a graph of order at least $4s$, in which the neighborhood union of any two nonadjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Zaiping Lu , Shudan Xue

We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree~1 and 3 and $t$ vertices of degree at least~4 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 3}t +{1\over 4}s+{3\over 2}$ leaves. We present infinite series of graphs showing that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Dmitri Karpov

An oriented graph $\vec{H}$ is said to be tournament anti-Sidorenko if the homomorphism density of $\vec{H}$ in any tournament $\vec{T}$ is bounded above by the homomorphism density of $\vec{H}$ in a large uniformly random tournament. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Hao Chen , Felix Christian Clemen , Jonathan A. Noel

The maximum number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta\ge 3$ and fixed diameter $k\ge 2$ is upper bounded by $(1+o(1))(\Delta-1)^{k}$. If we restrict our graphs to certain classes, better upper bounds are known. For instance,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Eran Nevo , Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , David R. Wood

We study embeddings of graphs with bounded treewidth or bounded simple treewidth into the undirected graph underlying the directed product of two directed graphs. If the factors have bounded maximum indegrees, then the product graph has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Kevin Hendrey , David R. Wood , Jung Hon Yip

A famous conjecture of Gy\'arf\'as and Sumner states for any tree $T$ and integer $k$, if the chromatic number of a graph is large enough, either the graph contains a clique of size $k$ or it contains $T$ as an induced subgraph. We discuss…

We prove a Sidorenko-type inequality for directed trees: for every oriented tree $T$ on $k$ vertices and every finite directed graph $G$, the homomorphism count hom$(T,G)$ is bounded above by the maximum of the two pure star counts…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Lukas Lüchtrath , Christian Mönch

Let $D=(G,\mathcal{O},w)$ be a weighted oriented graph whose edge ideal is $I(D)$. In this paper, we characterize the unmixed property of $I(D)$ for each one of the following cases: $G$ is an $SCQ$ graph; $G$ is a chordal graph; $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Lourdes Cruz , Yuriko Pitones , Enrique Reyes

An oriented graph is a digraph that does not contain a directed cycle of length two. An (oriented) graph $D$ is $H$-free if $D$ does not contain $H$ as an induced sub(di)graph. The Gy\'arf\'as-Sumner conjecture is a widely-open conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Linda Cook , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Amadeus Reinald , Uéverton S. Souza

We prove that every connected graph $G$ with $m$ edges contains a set $X$ of at most $\frac{3}{16}(m + 1)$ vertices such that $G-X$ has no $K_4$ minor, or equivalently, has treewidth at most $2$. This bound is best possible. Connectivity is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

In 2001, Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy and Szemer\'edi proved that, for each $\alpha>0$, there is some $c>0$ and $n_0$ such that, if $n\geq n_0$, then every $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2+\alpha)n$ contains a copy of every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Amarja Kathapurkar , Richard Montgomery

Given a digraph, an ordering of its vertices defines a backedge graph, namely the undirected graph whose edges correspond to the arcs pointing backwards with respect to the order. The degreewidth of a digraph is the minimum over all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Pierre Aboulker , Nacim Oijid , Robin Petit , Mathis Rocton , Christopher-Lloyd Simon

The problem of determining the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain a 4-cycle has a rich history in extremal graph theory. Using Sidon sets constructed by Bose and Chowla, for each odd prime power $q$ we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Michael Tait , Craig Timmons
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