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We prove a strong version of the Max-Flow Min-Cut theorem for countable networks, namely that in every such network there exist a flow and a cut that are "orthogonal" to each other, in the sense that the flow saturates the cut and is zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Agelos Georgakopoulos , Amitai Perlstein , Philipp Sprüssel

We show that every $3$-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least $4$ has maximum degree at most $7\ell$. As a consequence, we show that every 3-connected $K_{2,\ell}$-minor free graph with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Nicolas Bousquet , Théo Pierron , Alexandra Wesolek

Define a boundary point of a graph which is embedded in the Euclidean plane a vertex which is incident to only one edge. In this paper we consider graphs which are embedded in the Euclidean plane with a finite number of boundary points. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Yashar Memarian

We prove a general lemma about partitioning the vertex set of a graph into subgraphs of bounded degree. This lemma extends a sequence of results of Lov\'asz, Catlin, Kostochka and Rabern.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Landon Rabern

We prove that there exists an absolute constant $C>0$ such that, for any positive integer $k$, every graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $Ck$ admits a vertex-partition $V(G)=S\cup T$, where both $G[S]$ and $G[T]$ have minimum degree at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jie Ma , Hehui Wu

In this paper we study a random graph with $N$ nodes, where node $j$ has degree $D_j$ and $\{D_j\}_{j=1}^N$ are i.i.d. with $\prob(D_j\leq x)=F(x)$. We assume that $1-F(x)\leq c x^{-\tau+1}$ for some $\tau>3$ and some constant $c>0$. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra , Piet Van Mieghem

Jaeger, Linial, Payan, and Tarsi introduced the notion of $A$-connectivity for graphs in 1992, and proved a decomposition for cubic graphs from which $A$-connectivity follows for all 3-edge-connected graphs when $|A|\geq 6$. The concept of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Alejandra Brewer Castano , Jessica McDonald , Kathryn Nurse

It is well-known that in finite graphs, large complete minors/topological minors can be forced by assuming a large average degree. Our aim is to extend this fact to infinite graphs. For this, we generalise the notion of the relative end…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-03 Maya Stein , José Zamora

In this short note we prove a lower bound for the MaxCut of a graph in terms of the Lov\'asz theta function of its complement. We combine this with known bounds on the Lov\'asz theta function of complements of $H$-free graphs to recover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Igor Balla , Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov

In 1978, Chv\'atal and Thomassen showed that every bridgeless graph with diameter 2 has an orientation with diameter at most 6. They also gave general bounds on the smallest value $f(d)$ such that every bridgeless graph $G$ with diameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun , Jun Yue

Perhaps the very first elementary exercise one encounters in graph theory is the result that any graph on at least two vertices must have at least two vertices with the same degree. There are various ways in which this result can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Yair Caro , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

Let $d,n\in \mathbb{N}$ be such that $d=\omega(1)$, and $d\le n^{1-a}$ for some constant $a>0$. Consider a $d$-regular graph $G=(V, E)$ and the random graph process that starts with the empty graph $G(0)$ and at each step $G(i)$ is obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Sahar Diskin , Anna Geisler

A long-standing conjecture of Thomassen says that every longest cycle of a $3$-connected graph has a chord. Thomassen (2018) proved that if $G$ is $2$-connected and cubic, then any longest cycle must have a chord. He also showed that if $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Haidong Wu , Shunzhe Zhang

We extend the study of link-irregular graphs to directed graphs (digraphs), where a digraph is link-irregular if no two vertices have isomorphic directed links. We establish that link-irregular digraphs exist on $n$ vertices if and only if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Alexander Bastien , Omid Khormali

Understanding how the cycles of a graph or digraph behave in general has always been an important point of graph theory. In this paper, we study the question of finding a set of $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles (resp. directed cycles) of distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Ngoc Khang Le , Binlong Li , Nicolas Lichiardopol

Bondy and Vince proved that a graph of minimum degree at least three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two, which was conjectured by Erd\H{o}s. Gao, Li, Ma and Xie gave an average degree counterpart of Bondy-Vince's result,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Binlong Li , Yufeng Pan , Lingjuan Shi

A celebrated theorem of Stiebitz asserts that any graph with minimum degree at least $s+t+1$ can be partitioned into two parts which induce two subgraphs with minimum degree at least $s$ and $t$, respectively. This resolved a conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

The celebrated Andr\'{a}sfai--Erd\H{o}s--S\'{o}s Theorem from 1974 shows that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph with minimum degree greater than $2n/5$ must be bipartite. Its extensions to $3$-uniform hypergraphs without the generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xizhi Liu , Sijie Ren , Jian Wang

Bounds on the minimum degree and on the number of vertices at- taining it have been much studied for finite edge-/vertex-minimally k- connected/k-edge-connected graphs. We give an overview of the results known for finite graphs, and show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Maya Stein

Recent advances in dynamic graph processing have enabled the analysis of highly dynamic graphs with change at rates as high as millions of edge changes per second. Solutions in this domain, however, have been demonstrated only for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Juntong Luo , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu