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Let m and r be two integers. Let G be a connected r-regular graph of order n and k an integer depending on m and r. For even kn, we find a best upper bound (in terms of r and m) on the third largest eigenvalue that is sufficient to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Hongliang Lu

A graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is a \emph{threshold graph} if there exist real numbers $a_1,a_2, \ldots, a_n$ and $b$ such that the zero-one solutions of the linear inequality $\sum \limits_{i=1}^n a_i x_i \leq b$ are the characteristic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mathew C. Francis , Atrayee Majumder , Rogers Mathew

For a positive integer r>=2, a K_r-factor of a graph is a collection vertex-disjoint copies of K_r which covers all the vertices of the given graph. The celebrated theorem of Hajnal and Szemer\'edi asserts that every graph on n vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-26 József Balogh , Graeme Kemkes , Choongbum Lee , Stephen J. Young

The toughness of a graph $G$ is defined as the minimum value of $|S|/c(G-S)$ over all cutsets $S$ of $G$ if $G$ is noncomplete, and is defined to be $\infty$ if $G$ is complete. For a real number $t$, we say that $G$ is $t$-tough if its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Lili Hao , Hui Ma , Songling Shan , Weihua Yang

Let $F$ be an $(r+1)$-color critical graph with $r\geq 2$, that is, $\chi(F)=r+1$ and there is an edge $e$ in $F$ such that $\chi(F-e)=r$. Gerbner recently conjectured that every $n$-vertex maximal $F$-free graph with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang

A rooted tree is balanced if the degree of a vertex depends only on its distance to the root. In this paper we determine the sharp threshold for the appearance of a large family of balanced spanning trees in the random geometric graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche , Alexandra Wesolek

We determine, up to a multiplicative constant, the optimal number of random edges that need to be added to a $k$-graph $H$ with minimum vertex degree $\Omega(n^{k-1})$ to ensure an $F$-factor with high probability, for any $F$ that belongs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Yulin Chang , Jie Han , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Guilherme Oliveira Mota

For a graph $G$ and $p\in[0,1]$, we denote by $G_p$ the random sparsification of $G$ obtained by keeping each edge of $G$ independently, with probability $p$. We show that there exists a $C>0$ such that if $p\geq C(\log n)^{1/3}n^{-2/3}$…

A recent result by Kardo\v{s}, M\'a\v{c}ajov\'a and Zerafa [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B. 160 (2023) 1--14] related to the famous Berge-Fulkerson conjecture implies that given an arbitrary set of odd pairwise edge-disjoint cycles, say $\mathcal…

The $(k,r)$-fan is the graph consisting of $k$ copies of the complete graph $K_r$ which intersect in a single vertex, and is denoted by $F_{k,r}$. Erd\H{o}s, F\"uredi, Gould and Gunderson [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 64 (1995) 89--100]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Dheer Noal Desai , Liying Kang , Yongtao Li , Zhenyu Ni , Michael Tait , Jing Wang

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s and Sauer asked to estimate, for any constant $r$, the maximum number of edges an $n$-vertex graph can have without containing an $r$-regular subgraph. In a recent breakthrough, Janzer and Sudakov proved that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

For $k \geq 4$, we establish that $p = (e/n)^{1/k}$ is a sharp threshold for the existence of the $k$-th power $H$ of a Hamilton cycle in the binomial random graph model. Our proof builds upon an approach by Riordan based on the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Tamás Makai , Matija Pasch , Kalina Petrova , Leon Schiller

This paper deals with the problem of graph matching or network alignment for Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi graphs, which can be viewed as a noisy average-case version of the graph isomorphism problem. Let $G$ and $G'$ be $G(n, p)$ Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

A new, constructive proof with a small explicit constant is given to the Erd\H{o}s-Pyber theorem which says that the edges of a graph on $n$ vertices can be partitioned into complete bipartite subgraphs so that every vertex is covered at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-21 László Csirmaz , Péter Ligeti , Gábor Tardos

This work is concerned with the prime factor decomposition (PFD) of strong product graphs. A new quasi-linear time algorithm for the PFD with respect to the strong product for arbitrary, finite, connected, undirected graphs is derived.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Marc Hellmuth

In a recent paper, Kahn gave the strongest possible, affirmative, answer to Shamir's problem, which had been open since the late 1970s: Let $r \ge 3 $ and let $n$ be divisible by $r$. Then, in the random $r$-uniform hypergraph process on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Annika Heckel , Marc Kaufmann , Noela Müller , Matija Pasch

Given hypergraphs H and F, an F-factor in H is a spanning subgraph consisting of vertex disjoint copies of F. Let K_4^3-e denote the 3-uniform hypergraph on 4 vertices with 3 edges. We show that for \gamma>0 there exists an integer n_0 such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Allan Lo , Klas Markström

We address the following foundational question: what is the population, and sample, Frechet mean (or median) graph of an ensemble of inhomogeneous Erdos-Renyi random graphs? We prove that if we use the Hamming distance to compute distances…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Francois G. Meyer

A folklore result attributed to P\'olya states that there are $(1 + o(1))2^{\binom{n}{2}}/n!$ non-isomorphic graphs on $n$ vertices. Given two graphs $G$ and $H$, we say that $G$ is a unique subgraph of $H$ if $H$ contains exactly one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Domagoj Bradač , Micha Christoph

An even factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $F$ such that every vertex in $F$ has a nonzero even degree. Note that $\delta(G)\geq2$ is a trivial necessary condition for a graph to have an even factor, where $\delta(G)$ is the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Caili Jia , Yong Lu