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Very recently, Alon and Frankl, and Gerbner studied the maximum number of edges in $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs with bounded matching number, respectively. We consider the analogous Tur\'{a}n problems on hypergraphs with bounded matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Dániel Gerbner , Casey Tompkins , Junpeng Zhou

Given two graphs $H$ and $G$, the Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks if $H$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of $G$. While NP-hard in general, algorithms exist for various parameterized versions of the problem: for example, the problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Dániel Marx , Michał Pilipczuk

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph and $F$ be a graph. We say $\mathcal{H}$ contains $F$ as a trace if there exists some set $S\subseteq V(\mathcal{H})$ such that $\mathcal{H}|_{S}:=\{E\cap S: E\in E(\mathcal{H})\}$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Bingchen Qian , Gennian Ge

For an $r$-graph $F$, define Sidorenko exponent $s(F)$ as $$s(F):= \sup \{s \geq 0: \exists \text{$r$-graph $H$ s.t. } t_F(H) = t_{K^{(r)}_r} (H)^s > 0\},$$ where $t_{H_1}(H_2)$ denotes the homomorphism density of $H_1$ in $H_2$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hyunwoo Lee

Building on work of Cai, F\"urer, and Immerman \cite{CFI92}, we show two hardness results for the Graph Isomorphism problem. First, we show that there are pairs of nonisomorphic $n$-vertex graphs $G$ and $H$ such that any sum-of-squares…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Ryan O'Donnell , John Wright , Chenggang Wu , Yuan Zhou

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs. A graph is called $\mathcal{F}$-free if it does not contain any member of $\mathcal{F}$. Generalized Tur\'{a}n problems aim to maximize the number of copies of a graph $H$ in an $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Rajat Adak , L. Sunil Chandran

Given $r$-uniform hypergraphs $G$ and $H$ the Tur\'an number $\rm ex(G, H)$ is the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of $G$. We study the typical value of $\rm ex(G, H)$ when $G=G_{n,p}^{(r)}$, the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Dhruv Mubayi , Liana Yepremyan

We consider the problem of determining the maximal $\alpha \in (0,1]$ such that every matching $M$ of size $k$ (or at most $k$) in a bipartite graph $G$ contains an induced matching of size at least $\alpha |M|$. This measure was recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Noga Alon , Jonathan D. Cohen , Thomas L. Griffiths , Pasin Manurangsi , Daniel Reichman , Igor Shinkar , Tal Wagner , Alexander Yu

Motivated by the Ruzsa-Szemer\'{e}di problem, Imolay, Karl, Nagy, and V\'{a}li studied a variant of Tur\'{a}n number $ex_F(n,G)$ (called the $F$-multicolor Tur\'{a}n number of $G$), defined as the maximum number of edge-disjoint copies of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Ping Li , Yang Yang

The generalized coloring numbers of Kierstead and Yang (Order 2003) offer an algorithmically-useful characterization of graph classes with bounded expansion. In this work, we consider the hardness and approximability of these parameters.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Michael Breen-McKay , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan

We consider extremal problems for subgraphs of pseudorandom graphs. For graphs $F$ and $\Gamma$ the generalized Tur\'an density $\pi_F(\Gamma)$ denotes the density of a maximum subgraph of $\Gamma$, which contains no copy of~$F$. Extending…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Elad Aigner-Horev , Hiep Hàn , Mathias Schacht

For graphs $F$ and $H$, let $f_{F,H}(n)$ be the minimum possible size of a maximum $F$-free induced subgraph in an $n$-vertex $H$-free graph. This notion generalizes the Ramsey function and the Erd\H{o}s--Rogers function. Establishing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 József Balogh , Ce Chen , Haoran Luo

Let $F$ be a graph. A hypergraph is called Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained by replacing each edge of $F$ by a hyperedge containing it. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs. The Tur\'an number of Berge-$\mathcal{F}$ is the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Dániel Gerbner , Abhishek Methuku , Máté Vizer

Given a graph $F$, a Berge copy of $F$ (Berge-$F$ for short) is a hypergraph obtained by enlarging the edges arbitrarily. Gy\H{o}ri, Salia and Zamora determined the maximum number of hyperedges in a connected $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Xiamiao Zhao , Dániel Gerbner , Junpeng Zhou

For a positive real number $p$, the $p$-norm $\left\lVert G \right\rVert_p$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of the $p$-th powers of all vertex degrees. We study the maximum $p$-norm $\mathrm{ex}_{p}(n,F)$ of $F$-free graphs on $n$ vertices.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Jun Gao , Xizhi Liu , Jie Ma , Oleg Pikhurko

We exactly settle the complexity of graph realization, graph rigidity, and graph global rigidity as applied to three types of graphs: "globally noncrossing" graphs, which avoid crossings in all of their configurations; matchstick graphs,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zachary Abel , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Sarah Eisenstat , Jayson Lynch , Tao B. Schardl

Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $r$-graphs, the Tur\'{a}n number of $\mathcal{F}$ for a given positive integer $N$, denoted by $ex(N,\mathcal{F})$, is the maximum number of edges of an $r$-graph on $N$ vertices that does not contain any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 L. Maherani , M. Shahsiah

We reprove the results on the hardness of approximating hypergraph coloring using a different technique based on bounds on the size of extremal $t$-agreeing families of $[q]^n$. Specifically, using theorems of Frankl-Tokushige [FT99],…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Per Austrin , Amey Bhangale , Aditya Potukuchi

We study two extremal problems about subgraphs excluding a family $\F$ of graphs. i) Among all graphs with $m$ edges, what is the smallest size $f(m,\F)$ of a largest $\F$--free subgraph? ii) Among all graphs with minimum degree $\delta$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Florent Foucaud , Michael Krivelevich , Guillem Perarnau

We consider the problem of counting, in a given graph, the number of induced k-vertex subgraphs which have an even number of edges, and also the complementary problem of counting the k-vertex induced subgraphs having an odd number of edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Mark Jerrum , Kitty Meeks