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In this work, we study conditions for the existence of length-constrained path-cycle decompositions, that is, partitions of the edge set of a graph into paths and cycles of a given minimum length. Our main contribution is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Andrea Jiménez , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

The cyclic edge-connectivity of a graph $G$ is the least $k$ such that there exists a set of $k$ edges whose removal disconnects $G$ into components where every component contains a cycle. We show that for graphs of minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Sinan G. Aksoy , Mark Kempton , Stephen J. Young

A classical Tur\'an problem asks for the maximum possible number of edges in a graph of a given order that does not contain a particular graph $H$ as a subgraph. It is well-known that the chromatic number of $H$ is the graph parameter which…

For a graph $G$, let $\sigma_{2}(G)$ be the minimum degree sum of two non-adjacent vertices in $G$. A chord of a cycle in a graph $G$ is an edge of $G$ joining two non-consecutive vertices of the cycle. In this paper, we prove the following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Shuya Chiba , Suyun Jiang , Jin Yan

We investigate the minimum number of cycles of specified lengths in planar $n$-vertex triangulations $G$. It is proven that this number is $\Omega(n)$ for any cycle length at most $3 + \max \{ {\rm rad}(G^*), \lceil…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 On-Hei Solomon Lo , Carol T. Zamfirescu

We find asymptotics of the maximum size of a chordal subgraph in a binomial random graph $G(n,p)$, for $p=\mathrm{const}$ and $p=n^{-\alpha+o(1)}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Michael Krivelevich , Maksim Zhukovskii

A supergrid graph is a finite vertex-induced subgraph of the infinite graph whose vertex set consists of all points of the plane with integer coordinates and in which two vertices are adjacent if the difference of their x or y coordinates…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ruo-Wei Hung , Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi

We improve the worst-case information theoretic lower bound of Munro and Wu (ISAAC 2018) for $n-$vertex unlabeled chordal graphs when vertex leafage is bounded and leafage is unbounded. The class of unlabeled $k-$vertex leafage chordal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Girish Balakrishnan , Sankardeep Chakraborty , N S Narayanaswamy , Kunihiko Sadakane

A convex geometric graph $G$ is said to be packable if there exist edge-disjoint copies of $G$ in the complete convex geometric graph $K_n$ covering all but $o(n^2)$ edges. We prove that every convex geometric graph with cyclic chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jiaxi Nie , Erlang Surya , Ji Zeng

It is proved that for a graph of order $n$, where $n\ge 6$, if the signless Laplacian index is larger than or equal to certain value depending on $n$, then the graph contains a trebly chorded cycle, where the chords incident to a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Jin Cai , Bo Zhou

Li, Nikiforov and Schelp conjectured that a 2-edge coloured graph G with order n and minimal degree strictly greater than 3n/4 contains a monochromatic cycle of length l, for all l at least four and at most n/2. We prove this conjecture for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Alex Scott , Matthew White

Supergrid graphs contain grid graphs and triangular grid graphs as their subgraphs. The Hamiltonian cycle and path problems for general supergrid graphs were known to be NP-complete. A graph is called Hamiltonian if it contains a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi , Ruo-Wei Hung

We consider the class of directed graphs with $N\geq 1$ edges and without loops shorter than $k\geq1$. Using the concept of a labelled graph, we determine graphs from this class that maximize the number of all paths of length $k$. Then we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Piotr M. Hajac , Oskar M. Stachowiak

We investigate locally $n \times n$ grid graphs, that is, graphs in which the neighbourhood of any vertex is the Cartesian product of two complete graphs on $n$ vertices. We consider the subclass of these graphs for which each pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Carmen Amarra , Wei Jin , Cheryl E. Praeger

In this short note it is shown that every graph of diameter 2 and minimum degree at least 3 contains a cycle of length 4 or 8. This result contributes to the study of the Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'arf\'as Conjecture by confirming it for the class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Avery Carr

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked the following natural question: What is the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have without containing a cycle with all diagonals? Erd\H{o}s observed that the upper bound $O(n^{5/3})$ holds since…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Domagoj Bradač , Abhishek Methuku , Benny Sudakov

In this paper, we prove similar results for odd and even cycle lengths. Let $L_o(G)$ denote the set of odd cycle lengths of $G$ and $\ell_o(G)$ denote the longest odd cycle length. In 1992, Gy\'arf\'as proved that $\chi(G)\leq 2|L_o(G)|+2$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Xiaolin Wang

An $n$-vertex graph is degree 3-critical if it has $2n - 2$ edges and no proper induced subgraph with minimum degree at least 3. In 1988, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp asked whether one can always find cycles of all short…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francesco Di Braccio , Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Jie Ma , Alexandru Malekshahian , Ziyuan Zhao

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc., 1983] claimed that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ containing all $n$-vertex trees as subgraphs that has at most $\frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges. We identify an error in their proof. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim

It is shown that a hamiltonian $n/2$-regular bipartite graph $G$ of order $2n>8$ contains a cycle of length $2n-2$. Moreover, if such a cycle can be chosen to omit a pair of adjacent vertices, then $G$ is bipancyclic.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Janusz Adamus