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Let $C_k$ be the cycle of length $k$. For any graph $G$, a subset $D \subseteq V(G)$ is a $C_k$-isolating set of $G$ if the graph obtained from $G$ by deleting the closed neighbourhood of $D$ contains no $C_k$ as a subgraph. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Xiaohua Wei , Gang Zhang , Biao Zhao

We construct a countable infinite graph G that does not contain cycles of length four having the property that the sequence of graphs $G_n$ induced by the first $n$ vertices has minimum degree $\delta(G_n)> n^{\sqrt{2}-1+o(1)}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Javier Cilleruelo

A subset of vertices in a graph $G$ is considered a maximal dissociation set if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1 and it is not contained within any other dissociation sets. In this paper, it is shown that for $n\geq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Junxia Zhang , Xiangyu Ren , Maoqun Wang

A graph is color-critical if it contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. This class of graphs, including cliques and odd cycles, plays a central role in extremal graph theory. In this paper, following an influential…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Longfei Fang , Yongtao Li , Huiqiu Lin , Jie Ma

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a family of digraphs. A digraph $D$ is \emph{$\mathcal{D}$-saturated} if it contains no member of $\mathcal{D}$ as a subdigraph, but for any arc $e$ in the complement of $D$, the digraph $D + e$ contains some member of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Qinglin Wang , Yingzhi Tian

In this work, we study how far one can deviate from optimal behavior when embedding a planar graph. For a planar graph $G$, we say that a plane subgraph $H\subseteq G$ is a \textit{plane-saturated subgraph} if adding any edge (possibly with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Alexander Clifton , Nika Salia

We define the limiting density of a minor-closed family of simple graphs F to be the smallest number k such that every n-vertex graph in F has at most kn(1+o(1)) edges, and we investigate the set of numbers that can be limiting densities.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-18 David Eppstein

A set $D$ of vertices in an isolate-free graph $G$ is a semitotal dominating set of $G$ if $D$ is a dominating set of $G$ and every vertex in $D$ is within distance $2$ from another vertex of $D$.The semitotal domination number of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Saeid Alikhani , Hassan Zaherifar

Let $F$ be a graph which contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. We prove tight bounds on the number of copies of $F$ in a graph with a prescribed number of vertices and edges. Our results extend those of Simonovits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-20 Dhruv Mubayi

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

For $n \geq 15$, we prove that the minimum number of triangles in an $n$-vertex $K_4$-saturated graph with minimum degree 4 is exactly $2n-4$, and that there is a unique extremal graph. This is a triangle version of a result of Alon,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Benjamin Cole , Albert Curry , David Davini , Craig Timmons

A graph in a certain graph class is called minimizing if the least eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph attains the minimum among all graphs in that class. Bell {\it et al.} have characterized the minimizing graphs in the class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Yi Wang , Yi-Zheng Fan , Xiao-Xin Li , Fei-Fei Zhang

A convex geometric graph is a graph whose vertices are the corners of a convex polygon P in the plane and whose edges are boundary edges and diagonals of the polygon. It is called triangulation-free if its non-boundary edges do not contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 David Garber , Chaya Keller , Olga Nissenbaum , Shimon Aviram

A graph $G$ of order $n$ is said to be $k$-factor-critical for integers $1\leq k < n$, if the removal of any $k$ vertices results in a graph with a perfect matching. $1$- and $2$-factor-critical graphs are the well-known factor-critical and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Jing Guo , Heping Zhang

We call an edge-colored graph rainbow if all of its edges receive distinct colors. An edge-colored graph $\Gamma$ is called $H$-rainbow saturated if $\Gamma$ does not contain a rainbow copy of $H$ and adding an edge of any color to $\Gamma$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Kevin Hendrey , Ben Lund , Casey Tompkins

The supersaturation problem for a given graph $F$ asks for the minimum number $h_F(n,q)$ of copies of $F$ in an $n$-vertex graph with $ex(n,F)+q$ edges. Subsequent works by Rademacher, Erd\H{o}s, and Lov\'{a}sz and Simonovits determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Jie Ma , Long-Tu Yuan

For a graph $H$, a graph $G$ is $H$-induced-saturated if $G$ does not contain an induced copy of $H$, but either removing an edge from $G$ or adding a non-edge to $G$ creates an induced copy of $H$. Depending on the graph $H$, an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Eun-Kyung Cho , Ilkyoo Choi , Boram Park

A family $\mathcal{G}$ of sets is a(n induced) copy of a poset $P=(P,\leqslant)$ if there exists a bijection $b:P\rightarrow \mathcal{G}$ such that $p\leqslant q$ holds if and only if $b(p)\subseteq b(q)$. The induced saturation number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Shengjin Ji , Balázs Patkós , Erfei Yue

Given a non-trivial graph $G$, the minimum cardinality of a set of edges $F$ in $G$ such that $\chi'(G \setminus F)<\chi'(G)$ is called the chromatic edge stability index of $G$, denoted by $es_{\chi'}(G)$, and such a (smallest) set $F$ is…

For a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, let $ex(n,\mathcal{F})$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which contains none of the members of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. A longstanding problem in extremal graph theory asks…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang