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A family $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$-subsets of an $n$-set is called $s$-almost $t$-intersecting if each member is $t$-disjoint with at most $s$ members. In this paper, we prove that, if $\left|\mathcal{F}\right|$ is maximum, then $\mathcal{F}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Dehai Liu , Kaishun Wang , Tian Yao

A harmonious coloring of $G$ is a proper vertex coloring of $G$ such that every pair of colors appears on at most one pair of adjacent vertices. The harmonious chromatic number of $G$, $h(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Saieed Akbari , Jaehoon Kim , Alexandr Kostochka

We prove a version of the strong Taylor's conjecture for stable graphs: if $G$ is a stable graph whose chromatic number is strictly greater than $\beth_2(\aleph_0)$ then $G$ contains all finite subgraphs of Sh$_n(\omega)$ and thus has…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Yatir Halevi , Itay Kaplan , Saharon Shelah

For a proper vertex coloring $c$ of a graph $G$, let $\varphi_c(G)$ denote the maximum, over all induced subgraphs $H$ of $G$, the difference between the chromatic number $\chi(H)$ and the number of colors used by $c$ to color $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-19 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , R. B. Sandeep , Naveen Sivadasan

A colored complete graph is said to be Gallai-colored if it contains no rainbow triangle. This property has been shown to be equivalent to the existence of a partition of the vertices (of every induced subgraph) in which at most two colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Colton Magnant , Zhuojun Magnant

We call a family $\mathcal{F}$ $(3,2,\ell)$-intersecting if $|A \cap B|+|B \cap C|+|C \cap A| \geq \ell$ for all $A$, $B$, $C \in \mathcal{F}$. We try to look for the maximum size of such a family $\mathcal{F}$ in case when $\mathcal{F}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Kartal Nagy

Let $x,y\in(0,1]$ and let $A,B,C$ be disjoint nonempty subsets of a graph $G$, where every vertex in $A$ has at least $x|B|$ neighbours in $B$, and every vertex in $B$ has at least $y|C|$ neighbours in $C$. We denote by $\phi(x,y)$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Patrick Hompe , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

In this paper we study the minimal size of edges in hypergraph families that guarantees the existence of a polychromatic coloring, that is, a $k$-coloring of a vertex set such that every hyperedge contains a vertex of all $k$ color classes.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Balázs Bursics , Bence Csonka , Luca Szepessy

For a graph property $\mathcal{P}$ and a common vertex set $V = \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$, a family of graphs on $V$ is \emph{$\mathcal{P}$-intersecting} iff $G \cap H$ satisfies $\mathcal{P}$ for all $G,H$ in the family. Addressing a question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Aaron Berger , Ross Berkowitz , Pat Devlin , Michael Doppelt , Sonali Durham , Tessa Murthy , Harish Vemuri

A graph coloring has bounded clustering if each monochromatic component has bounded size. Equivalently, it is a partition of the vertices into induced subgraphs with bounded size components. This paper studies clustered colorings of graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

In this paper, we establish a couple of results on extremal problems in bipartite graphs. Firstly, we show that every sufficiently large bipartite graph with average degree $D$ and with $n$ vertices on each side has a balanced independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Debsoumya Chakraborti

Let $n > k > t \geq j \geq 1$ be integers. Let $X$ be an $n$-element set, ${X\choose k}$ the collection of its $k$-subsets. A family $\mathcal F \subset {X\choose k}$ is called $t$-intersecting if $|F \cap F'| \geq t$ for all $F, F' \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-11 P. Frankl , G. O. H. Katona

For $B \subseteq \mathbb F_q^m$, the $n$-th affine extremal number of $B$ is the maximum cardinality of a set $A \subseteq \mathbb F_q^n$ with no subset which is affinely isomorphic to $B$. Furstenberg and Katznelson proved that for any $B…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Bryce Frederickson , Liana Yepremyan

A major line of research is discovering Ramsey-type theorems, which are results of the following form: given a graph parameter $\rho$, every graph $G$ with sufficiently large $\rho(G)$ contains a `well-structured' induced subgraph $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Ilkyoo Choi , Michitaka Furuya , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity and inapproximability of the {\sc Induced Matching} problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs. We show that, given a hamiltonian cycle in a hamiltonian bipartite graph, the problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Yinglei Song

A dynamic coloring of the vertices of a graph $G$ starts with an initial subset $S$ of colored vertices, with all remaining vertices being non-colored. At each discrete time interval, a colored vertex with exactly one non-colored neighbor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Randy Davila , Michael Henning

For a family $\mathcal{H} \subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$, a subset $\{A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m\} \subseteq \mathcal{H}$ is called a \textit{matching} of size~$m$ if the sets $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m$ are pairwise disjoint. The \textit{matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Haixiang Zhang , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu

The multicolor Ramsey number $r_k(F)$ of a graph $F$ is the least integer $n$ such that in every coloring of the edges of $K_n$ by $k$ colors there is a monochromatic copy of $F$. In this short note we prove an upper bound on $r_k(F)$ for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Kathleen Johst , Yury Person

Set systems with strongly restricted intersections, called $\alpha$-intersecting families for a vector $\alpha$, were introduced recently as a generalization of several well-studied intersecting families including the classical oddtown and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Xin Wei , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

Suppose that $R$ (red) and $B$ (blue) are two graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$, and $H$ is some graph with a red-blue coloring of its edges. How large can $R$ and $B$ be if $R\cup B$ does not contain a copy of $H$? Call the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Ander Lamaison , Alp Müyesser , Michael Tait