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Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma is a very useful tool of extremal combinatorics. Recently, several refinements of this seminal result were obtained for special, more structured classes of graphs. We survey these results in their rich…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Yiting Jiang , Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sebastian Siebertz

The notion of almost periodicity nontrivially generalizes the notion of periodicity. Strongly almost periodic sequences (=uniformly recurrent infinite words) first appeared in the field of symbolic dynamics, but then turned out to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yuri Pritykin

A digraph $D$ is $k$-linked if for any pair of two disjoint sets $\{x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{k}\}$ and $\{y_{1},y_{2},\ldots,y_{k}\}$ of vertices in $D$, there exist vertex disjoint dipaths $P_{1},P_{2},\ldots,P_{k}$ such that $P_{i}$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Bin Chen , Xinmin Hou , Gexin Yu , Xinyu Zhou

We consider the following problem posed by Volkmann in 2007: How close to regular must a c-partite tournament be, to secure a strongly connected subtournament of order $c$? We give sufficient conditions on the regularity of balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Ana Paulina Figueroa , Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros , Mika Olsen

A cycle C={v_1,v_2,....,v_1} in a tournament T is said to be even, if when walking along C, an even number of edges point in the wrong direction, that is, they are directed from v_{i+1} to v_i. In this short paper, we show that for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Asaf Shapira

In this paper, we give constructions of strongly regular Cayley graphs and skew Hadamard difference sets. Both constructions are based on choosing cyclotomic classes in finite fields, and our results generalize ten of the eleven sporadic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Koji Momihara

Many important problems in extremal combinatorics can be be stated as proving a pure binomial inequality in graph homomorphism numbers, i.e., proving that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Grigoriy Blekherman , Annie Raymond

In a recent work on the bipartite Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph, Do et al. (2023) established upper bounds on the number of connected labeled bipartite graphs with a fixed surplus. We use some recent encodings of bipartite random graphs in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-15 David Clancy

We show that the class of all finite regular tournaments is cofinal in the class of finite tournaments. In addition, we establish cofinality results for certain special subclasses of regular tournaments. We also provide an algorithm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Omar Hatem , Sara Mohamed , Isabel Müller , Daoud Siniora

The CHY construction naturally associates a vector in $\mathbb{R}^{(n-3)!}$ to every 2-regular graph with $n$ vertices. Partial amplitudes in the biadjoint scalar theory are given by the inner product of vectors associated with a pair of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Freddy Cachazo , Karen Yeats , Samuel Yusim

Seymour's second neighbourhood conjecture asserts that every oriented graph has a vertex whose second out-neighbourhood is at least as large as its out-neighbourhood. In this paper, we prove that the conjecture holds for quasi-transitive…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Gregory Gutin , Ruijuan Li

A (possibly directed) graph is $k$-linked if for any two disjoint sets of vertices $\{x_1, \dots, x_k\}$ and $\{y_1, \dots, y_k\}$ there are vertex disjoint paths $P_1, \dots, P_k$ such that $P_i$ goes from $x_i$ to $y_{i}$. A theorem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Alexey Pokrovskiy

We discuss two approaches to a recent question of Loh: must a 3-colored transitive tournament on $N$ vertices have a 1-color-\emph{avoiding} path of vertex-length at least $N^{2/3}$? This question generalizes the Erd\H{o}s--Szekeres theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Jonathan Tidor , Victor Y. Wang , Ben Yang

Statistical field theory methods have been very successful with a number of random graph and random matrix problems, but it is challenging to apply these methods to graphs with prescribed degree sequences due to the extensive number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Pawat Akara-pipattana , Oleg Evnin

We consider a generalisation of Kelly's conjecture which is due to Alspach, Mason, and Pullman from 1976. Kelly's conjecture states that every regular tournament has an edge decomposition into Hamilton cycles, and this was proved by K\"uhn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Allan Lo , Viresh Patel , Jozef Skokan , John Talbot

Erd\H os, Lov\'asz and Spencer showed in the late 1970s that the dimension of the region of $k$-vertex graph profiles, i.e., the region of feasible densities of $k$-vertex graphs in large graphs, is equal to the number of non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Daniel Kral , Ander Lamaison , Magdalena Prorok , Xichao Shu

Decomposing a digraph into subdigraphs with a fixed structure or property is a classical problem in graph theory and a useful tool in a number of applications of networks and communication. A digraph is strongly connected if it contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-18 A. P. Figueroa , J. J. Montellano-Ballesteros , M. Olsen

Recently, Dragani\'c, Munh\'a Correia, Sudakov and Yuster showed that every tournament on $(2+o(1))k^2$ vertices contains a $1$-subdivision of a transitive tournament on $k$ vertices, which is tight up to a constant factor. We prove a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-22 António Girão , Robert Hancock

A countable, bounded degree graph is almost finite if it has a tiling with isomorphic copies of finitely many F\o lner sets, and we call it strongly almost finite, if the tiling can be randomized so that the probability that a vertex is on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Gábor Elek , Ádám Timár

Pokrovskiy conjectured that there is a function $f: \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that any $2k$-strongly-connected tournament with minimum out and in-degree at least $f(k)$ is $k$-linked. In this paper, we show that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 António Girão , Kamil Popielarz , Richard Snyder