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A cycle cover of a graph is a set of cycles such that every vertex is part of exactly one cycle. An L-cycle cover is a cycle cover in which the length of every cycle is in the set L. The weight of a cycle cover of an edge-weighted graph is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Bodo Manthey

We determine the maximum number of induced cycles that can be contained in a graph on $n\ge n_0$ vertices, and show that there is a unique graph that achieves this maximum. This answers a question of Tuza. We also determine the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Natasha Morrison , Alex Scott

A \emph{long unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of some cycle of length at least 5. A graph is \emph{long-unichord-free} if it does not contain any long-unichord. We prove a structure theorem for long-unichord-free…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Lan Anh Pham , Nicolas Trotignon

In this article we consider a problem related to two famous combinatorial topics. One of them concerns the chromatic number of the space. The other deals with graphs having big girth (the length of the shortest cycle) and large chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Andrey Kupavskii

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices. The Gallai number $Gal(G)$ of $G$ is the size of the smallest set of vertices that meets every maximum path in $G$. Gr\"unbaum constructed a graph $G$ with $Gal(G)=3$. Very recently, Long,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Henry Kierstead , Eric Ren

In 1990, Hendry conjectured that every Hamiltonian chordal graph is cycle extendible; that is, the vertices of any non-Hamiltonian cycle are contained in a cycle of length one greater. We disprove this conjecture by constructing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Manuel Lafond , Ben Seamone

A cycle is a graph is dominating if every edge of the graph is incident with a vertex of the cycle. In this paper, we investigate the characterization of the class of the forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Shuya Chiba , Michitaka Furuya , Shoichi Tsuchiya

A graph is outerplanar if it can be embedded in a plane such that all vertices lie on its outer face. The outerplanar Tur\'{a}n number of a given graph $H$, denoted by ${\rm ex}_{\mathcal{OP}}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges over all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Longfei Fang , Mingqing Zhai

A graph is outerplanar if it has a planar drawing for which all vertices belong to the outer face of the drawing. Let $H$ be a graph. The outerplanar Tur\'an number of $H$, denoted by $ex_\mathcal{OP}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ervin Győri , Guilherme Zeus Dantas e Moura , Runtian Zhou

A graph is $1$-planar if it has a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once by another edge. Moreover, if this drawing has the additional property that for each crossing of two edges the end vertices of these edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Igor Fabrici , Jochen Harant , Tomáš Madaras , Samuel Mohr , Roman Soták , Carol T. Zamfirescu

For a graph $G$ with vertex set $V$, let N($G$) denote the number of nonempty subsets of $V$ that induce a connected graph in $G$. In this paper, we focus on determining N($G$) for $G$ in the family $\mathbb{B}_n$ of $n$-vertex bicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

We consider the thickness $\theta (G))$ and outerthickness $\theta _o(G)$ of a graph G in terms of its orientable and nonorientable genus. Dean and Hutchinson provided upper bounds for thickness of graphs in terms of their orientable genus.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Baogang Xu , Xiaoya Zha

We prove that for every set $S$ of vertices of a directed graph $D$, the maximum number of vertices in $S$ contained in a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles in $D$ is at least the minimum size of a set of vertices that hits all cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

An old conjecture of Bollob\'as and Scott asserts that every Eulerian directed graph with average degree $d$ contains a directed cycle of length at least $\Omega(d)$. The best known lower bound for this problem is $\Omega(d^{1/2})$ by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov , István Tomon

A graph $G$ is a cocomparability graph if there exists an acyclic transitive orientation of the edges of its complement graph $\overline{G}$. LBFS$^{+}$ is a variant of the generic Lexicographic Breadth First Search (LBFS), which uses a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Xiao-Lu Gao , Shou-Jun Xu

We prove that the number of edges of a multigraph $G$ with $n$ vertices is at most $O(n^2\log n)$, provided that any two edges cross at most once, parallel edges are noncrossing, and the lens enclosed by every pair of parallel edges in $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

By a poly-line drawing of a graph G on n vertices we understand a drawing of G in the plane such that each edge is represented by a polygonal arc joining its two respective vertices. We call a turning point of a polygonal arc the bend. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-15 Radoslav Fulek , Balázs Keszegh , Filip Morić

We show that in any graph, the average length of a flow path in an electrical flow between the endpoints of a random edge is $O(\log^2 n)$. This is a consequence of a more general result which shows that the spectral norm of the entrywise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Aaron Schild , Satish Rao , Nikhil Srivastava

We prove that a connected graph has linear rank-width 1 if and only if it is a distance-hereditary graph and its split decomposition tree is a path. An immediate consequence is that one can decide in linear time whether a graph has linear…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Vincent Limouzy

We prove that for every $n$-vertex graph $G$, the extension complexity of the correlation polytope of $G$ is $2^{O(\mathrm{tw}(G) + \log n)}$, where $\mathrm{tw}(G)$ is the treewidth of $G$. Our main result is that this bound is tight for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Pierre Aboulker , Samuel Fiorini , Tony Huynh , Marco Macchia , Johanna Seif