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In this paper we determine all the bipartite graphs with the maximum sum of squares of degrees among the ones with a given number of vertices and edges.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-23 Shenggui Zhang , Chuncao Zhou

Albertson defined the irregularity of a graph $G$ as $irr(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}|d_G(u)-d_G(v)|$. For a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges, maximum degree $\Delta$, and $d=\left\lfloor \frac{\Delta m}{\Delta n-m}\right\rfloor$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Dieter Rautenbach , Florian Werner

In this study we are interested mainly in investigating the relations between two graph irregularity measures which are widely used for structural irregularity characterization of connected graphs. Our study is focused on the comparison and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Ali Ghalavand , Tamás Réti , Igor Z. Milovanović , Ali Reza Ashrafi

In this paper we study a multi-partite version of the Erd\H{o}s--Stone theorem. Given integers $r<k$ and $t\ge 1$, let $\text{ex}_k(n, K_{r+1}(t))$ be the maximum number of edges of $K_{r+1}(t)$-free $k$-partite graphs with $n$ vertices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Jie Han , Yi Zhao

The K-way vertex cut problem} consists in, given a graph G, finding a subset of vertices of a given size, whose removal partitions G into the maximum number of connected components. This problem has many applications in several areas. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Mohammed Lalou

We introduce a notion of a girth-regular graph as a $k$-regular graph for which there exists a non-descending sequence $(a_1, a_2, \dots, a_k)$ (called the signature) giving, for every vertex $u$ of the graph, the number of girth cycles the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Primož Potočnik , Janoš Vidali

An $r$-augmented tree is a rooted tree plus $r$ edges added from each leaf to ancestors. For $d,g,r\in\mathbb{N}$, we construct a bipartite $r$-augmented complete $d$-ary tree having girth at least $g$. The height of such trees must grow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-01 Noga Alon , Alexandr Kostochka , Benjamin Reiniger , Douglas B. West , Xuding Zhu

In 2017, Qiao and Koolen showed that for any fixed integer $D\geq 3$, there are only finitely many such graphs with $\theta_{\min}\leq -\alpha k$, where $0<\alpha<1$ is any fixed number. In this paper, we will study non-bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Zhi Qiao , Yifan Jing , Jack Koolen

Given a finite, simple graph $G$, the $k$-component order edge connectivity of $G$ is the minimum number of edges whose removal results in a subgraph for which every component has order at most $k-1$. In general, determining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Michael Yatauro

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

We analyse properties of geometric intersection graphs to show the strict containment between some natural classes of geometric intersection graphs. In particular, we show the following properties: - A graph $G$ is outerplanar if and only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Sergio Cabello , Miha Jejčič

In 1972 Mader proved that every graph with average degree at least $4k$ has a $(k+1)$-connected subgraph with more than $2k$ vertices. We improve this bound by showing that the constant $4$ can be replaced by $3+\frac{1}{3}$; this bound is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Johannes Carmesin

Let $k$ and $n$ be two nonnegative integers with $n\equiv0$ (mod 2), and let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ with a 1-factor. Then $G$ is said to be $k$-extendable for $0\leq k\leq\frac{n-2}{2}$ if every matching in $G$ of size $k$ can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Sizhong Zhou , Yuli Zhang

A graph $G$ is $[a,b]$-covered if for each edge $e$ of $G$ there is an $[a,b]$-factor containing it. For $a=b=1$, an $[a,b]$-covered graph is a matching covered graph. The structural theory of matching covered graphs constitutes a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Qixuan Yuan , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan

We show that the number of perfect matching in a simple graph $G$ with an even number of vertices and degree sequence $d_1,d_2, ..., d_n$ is at most $\prod_{i=1}^n (d_i !)^{\frac{1}{2d_i}}$. This bound is sharp if and only if $G$ is a union…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-26 Noga Alon , Shmuel Friedland

Given a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and a positive integer $k\le n$, a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices is called a $k$-subgraph in $G$. We design combinatorial approximation algorithms for finding a connected $k$-subgraph in $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

Let $H=(V,E)$ be an $s$-uniform hypergraph of order $n$ and $k\geq 0$ be an integer. A $k$-independent set $S\subseteq H$ is a set of vertices such that the maximum degree in the hypergraph induced by $S$ is at most $k$. Denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Lei Zhang , An Chang

A solution to a problem of Erd\H{o}s, Rubin and Taylor is obtained by showing that if a graph $G$ is $(a:b)$-choosable, and $c/d > a/b$, then $G$ is not necessarily $(c:d)$-choosable. Applying probabilistic methods, an upper bound for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-02-12 Shai Gutner , Michael Tarsi

Let $k,p,q$ be three positive integers. A graph $G$ with order $n$ is said to be $k$-placeable if there are $k$ edge disjoint copies of $G$ in the complete graph on $n$ vertices. A $(p,\,q)$-graph is a graph of order $p$ with $q$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Yun Wang , Jin Yan

We consider a natural, yet seemingly not much studied, extremal problem in bipartite graphs. A bi-hole of size $t$ in a bipartite graph $G$ is a copy of $K_{t, t}$ in the bipartite complement of $G$. Let $f(n, \Delta)$ be the largest $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Maria Axenovich , Jean-Sébastien Sereni , Richard Snyder , Lea Weber