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Given a graph $G$ and $p \in [0,1]$, let $G_p$ denote the random subgraph of $G$ obtained by keeping each edge independently with probability $p$. Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudokov proved $\mathbb{E} [\chi(G_p)] \geq C_p \frac{\chi(G)}{\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Ross Berkowitz , Pat Devlin , Catherine Lee , Henry Reichard , David Townley

Let $A$ and $B$ be sets of vertices in a graph $G$. Menger's theorem states that for every positive integer $k$, either there exists a collection of $k$ vertex-disjoint paths between $A$ and $B$, or $A$ can be separated from $B$ by a set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Peter Gartland , Tuukka Korhonen , Daniel Lokshtanov

In 2008, Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured that in every finite metric space of $n$ points, there are at least $n$ distinct lines, or the whole set of points is a line. This is a generalization of a classical result in the Euclidean plane. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Martín Matamala , Luciano Villarroel-Sepúlveda

Let ${\rm dim}(G)$ and $D(G)$ respectively denote the metric dimension and the distinguishing number of a graph $G$. It is proved that $D(G) \le {\rm dim}(G)+1$ holds for every connected graph $G$. Among trees, exactly paths and stars…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Meysam Korivand , Nasrin Soltankhah , Sandi Klavžar

(DRAFT VERSION) In this article we present a proof of the famous Kirchoff's Matrix-Tree theorem, which relates the number of spanning trees in a connected graph with the cofactors (and eigenvalues) of its combinatorial Laplacian matrix.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Saad Quader

Given a finite set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, Tverberg's theorem guarantees the existence of partitions of this set into parts whose convex hulls intersect. We introduce a graph structured on the family of Tverberg partitions of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Deborah Oliveros , Érika Roldán , Pablo Soberón , Antonio J. Torres

We address a question posed by Ono, prove a general result for powers of an arbitrary prime, and provide an explanation for the appearance of higher congruence moduli for certain small primes. One of our results coincides with a recent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Guerzhoy

We prove the Effective Bogomolov Conjecture, and so the Bogomolov Conjecture, over a function field of characteristic 0 by proving Zhang's Conjecture about certain invariants of metrized graphs. In the function field case, these conjectures…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-03 Zubeyir Cinkir

We show that with high probability the random graph $G_{n, 1/2}$ has an induced subgraph of linear size, all of whose degrees are congruent to $r\pmod q$ for any fixed $r$ and $q\geq 2$. More generally, the same is true for any fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Michael Krivelevich

The theory of graph limits is only understood to any nontrivial degree in the cases of dense graphs and of bounded degree graphs. There is, however, a lot of interest in the intermediate cases. It appears that the most important…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Laszlo Lovasz

We show that planar graphs have bounded queue-number, thus proving a conjecture of Heath, Leighton and Rosenberg from 1992. The key to the proof is a new structural tool called layered partitions, and the result that every planar graph has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Pat Morin , Torsten Ueckerdt , David R. Wood

We confirm, for the primes up to 3000, the conjecture of Bourgain, Gamburd, and Sarnak on strong approximation for the Markoff surface $x^2+y^2+z^2 = 3xyz$ modulo primes. For primes congruent to 3 modulo 4, we find data suggesting that some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Matthew de Courcy-Ireland , Seungjae Lee

We prove that a large family of graphs which are decomposable with respect to the modular decomposition can be reconstructed from their collection of vertex-deleted subgraphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Robert Brignall , Nicholas Georgiou , Robert J. Waters

We proved in another paper that every connected graph can be realized as the cut locus of some point on some riemannian surface. Here we give upper bounds on the number of such realizations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Jin-ichi Itoh , Costin Vîlcu

Due to the limited resources and the scale of the graphs in modern datasets, we often get to observe a sampled subgraph of a larger original graph of interest, whether it is the worldwide web that has been crawled or social connections that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Khetan , Harshay Shah , Sewoong Oh

The generalized Markoff mod $p$ graph is defined via the equation $x^2+y^2+z^2=xyz+\kappa$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ of prime order $p$. In this paper, we investigate the topological properties of the graph such as non-planarity,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Shohei Satake , Yoshinori Yamasaki

An old conjecture of Erd{\H{o}}s and Gallai states that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed, that is $E(G)$ can be partitioned, into $O(n)$ cycles and edges. The covering version of this conjecture was proven by Pyber in 1985, where it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Saieed Akbari , Jonny Aloni , Arash Beikmohammadi , Alexander Clow

We develop a new method for enumerating independent sets of a fixed size in general graphs, and we use this method to show that a conjecture of Engbers and Galvin holds for all but finitely many graphs. We also use our method to prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 James Alexander , Tim Mink

The following sharpening of Tur\'an's theorem is proved. Let $T_{n,p}$ denote the complete $p$--partite graph of order $n$ having the maximum number of edges. If $G$ is an $n$-vertex $K_{p+1}$-free graph with $e(T_{n,p})-t$ edges then there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Zoltán Füredi

We introduce and develop a theory of limits for sequences of sparse graphs based on $L^p$ graphons, which generalizes both the existing $L^\infty$ theory of dense graph limits and its extension by Bollob\'as and Riordan to sparse graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao