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We characterise the structure of those graphs of a given order which maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs for seven different graph classes, each with other prescribed parameters like minimum degree, independence number,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

A path $P$ in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called a proper path if no two adjacent edges of $P$ are colored the same, and $G$ is proper connected if every two vertices of $G$ are connected by a proper path in $G$. The proper connection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Fei Huang , Xueliang Li , Shujing Wang

Given a proper edge coloring $\varphi$ of a graph $G$, we define the palette $S_{G}(v,\varphi)$ of a vertex $v \in V(G)$ as the set of all colors appearing on edges incident with $v$. The palette index $\check s(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 C. J. Casselgren , Petros A. Petrosyan

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of fixed graphs and let $d$ be large enough. For every $d$-regular graph $G$, we study the existence of a spanning $\mathcal{F}$-free subgraph of $G$ with large minimum degree. This problem is well-understood…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Guillem Perarnau , Bruce Reed

Let $G$ be a graph and let $\mathrm{cl}(G)$ be the number of distinct induced cycle lengths in $G$. We show that for $c,t\in \mathbb N$, every graph $G$ that does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $K_{t+1}$ or $K_{t,t}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Maria Chudnovsky , Ilya Maier

There has been extensive research on cycle lengths in graphs with large minimum degree. In this paper, we obtain several new and tight results in this area. Let $G$ be a graph with minimum degree at least $k+1$. We prove that if $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Chun-Hung Liu , Jie Ma

The regular number of a graph G denoted by reg(G) is the minimum number of subsets into which the edge set of G can be partitioned so that the subgraph induced by each subset is regular. In this work we answer to the problem posed as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

A graph $G$ of order $2n$ is called degree-equipartite if for every $n$-element set $A\subseteq V(G)$, the degree sequences of the induced subgraphs $G[A]$ and $G[V(G)\setminus A]$ are the same. In this paper, we characterize all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Khodakhast Bibak , Mohammad Hassan Shirdareh Haghighi

Cut vertices are often used as a measure of nodes' importance within a network. They are those nodes whose failure disconnects a graph. Let N(G) be the number of connected induced subgraphs of a graph $G$. In this work, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

The twin-width of a graph $G$ is the minimum integer $d$ such that $G$ has a $d$-contraction sequence, that is, a sequence of $|V(G)|-1$ iterated vertex identifications for which the overall maximum number of red edges incident to a single…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

We start a systematic investigation concerning bipartite Tur\'an number for trees. For a graph $F$ and integers $1 \leq a \leq b$ we define: $(i)$\quad $ex_b(a, b, F)$ is the largest number of edges that an $F$-free bipartite graph can have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Yair Caro , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza

Let $P(G)=(P_{0}(G),P_{1}(G),\cdots, P_{\rho}(G))$ be the path sequence of a graph $G$, where $P_{i}(G)$ is the number of paths with length $i$ and $\rho$ is the length of a longest path in $G$. In this paper, we first give the path…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Yirong Cai , Hanyuan Deng

An isometric path between two vertices in a graph G is a shortest path joining them. The isometric-path number of G, denoted by ip(G), is the minimum number of isometric paths required to cover all vertices of G. In this paper, we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun-Jie Pand , Gerard J. Chang

A classical enumerative result states that, given a graph $G$ and a vertex $u$, the number of connected subgraphs of $G$ is equal to the number of orientations of $G$ such that every vertex can reach $u$ by a directed path. We show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Oliver Bernardi , Jonathan J. Fang

The energy of a simple graph $G$, denoted by $E(G)$, is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. Let $C_n$ denote the cycle of order $n$ and $P^{6,6}_n$ the graph obtained from joining two cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-18 Bofeng Huo , Shengjin Ji , Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

The Pathwidth Theorem states that if a class of graphs has unbounded pathwidth, then it contains all trees as graph minors. We prove a similar result for dense graphs. More precisely, we give a finite family of tree-like patterns and prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Pierre Ohlmann

We prove that for every set $S$ of vertices of a directed graph $D$, the maximum number of vertices in $S$ contained in a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles in $D$ is at least the minimum size of a set of vertices that hits all cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

For a connected graph, a path containing all vertices is known as \emph{Hamiltonian path}. For general graphs, there is no known necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of Hamiltonian paths and the complexity of finding a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-21 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

An (h,s,t)-representation of a graph G consists of a collection of subtrees of a tree T, where each subtree corresponds to a vertex of G such that (i) the maximum degree of T is at most h, (ii) every subtree has maximum degree at mots s,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Liliana Alcón , Marisa Gutierrez , María Pía Mazzoleni

Consider a graph $G$ with a path $P$ of order $n$. What conditions force $G$ to also have a long induced path? As complete bipartite graphs have long paths but no long induced paths, a natural restriction is to forbid some fixed complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Julien Duron , Louis Esperet , Jean-Florent Raymond