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Sivaraman conjectured that if $G$ is a graph with no induced even cycle then there exist sets $X_1, X_2 \subseteq V(G)$ satisfying $V(G) = X_1 \cup X_2$ such that the induced graphs $G[X_1]$ and $G[X_2]$ are both chordal. We prove this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Tara Abrishami , Eli Berger , Maria Chudnovsky , Shira Zerbib

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

We show that every directed graph with minimum out-degree at least $18k$ contains at least $k$ vertex disjoint cycles. This is an improvement over the result of Alon who showed this result for digraphs of minimum out-degree at least $64k$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Matija Bucić

We generalise a result of Corr\'{a}di and Hajnal and show that every graph with average degree at least $\tfrac{4}{3}kr$ contains $k$ vertex disjoint cycles, each of order at least $r$, as long as $k \geq 6$. This bound is sharp when $r=3$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

Galinier, Habib, and Paul introduced the reduced clique graph of a chordal graph $G$. The nodes of the reduced clique graph are the maximal cliques of $G$, and two nodes are joined by an edge if and only if they form a non-disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Dillon Mayhew , Andrew Probert

We say that a graph $G$ is $(2,m)$-linked if, for any distinct vertices $a_1,\ldots, a_m, b_1,b_2$ in $G$, there exist vertex disjoint connected subgraphs $A,B$ of $G$ such that $\{a_1, \ldots, a_m\}$ is contained in $A$ and $\{b_1,b_2\}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Xiying Du , Yanjia Li , Shijie Xie , Xingxing Yu

A cubic graph $G$ is cyclically 5-connected if $G$ is simple, 3-connected, has at least 10 vertices and for every set $F$ of edges of size at most four, at most one component of $G\backslash F$ contains circuits. We prove that if $G$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Neil Robertson , P. D. Seymour , Robin Thomas

A bipartite graph is chordal bipartite if every cycle of length at least 6 has a chord in it. In this paper, we investigate the structure of $P_5$-free chordal bipartite graphs and show that these graphs have a Nested Neighborhood Ordering,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-27 S Aadhavan , P Renjith , N Sadagopan

Let $r_1$ and $r_2$ be positive integers with $r_1 \le r_2$. A graph $G$ is called $2$-DCC vertex $[r_1,r_2]$-pancyclic if, for any two distinct vertices of $G$ and any integer $\ell \in [r_1,r_2]$, there exist two vertex-disjoint cycles of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Chang Liu , Ruichao Niu , Yuefeng Yang

We call a pair of non-adjacent vertices in G a non-edge. Contraction of a non-edge {u, v} in G is the replacement of u and v with a single vertex z and then making all the vertices that are adjacent to u or v adjacent to z. A non-edge {u,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Shuai Kou , Chengfu Qin , Weihua Yang , Mingzu Zhang

A cycle $C$ of length $k$ in graph $G$ is extendable if there is another cycle $C'$ in $G$ with $V(C) \subset V(C')$ and length $k+1$. A graph is cycle extendable if every non-Hamiltonian cycle is extendable. In 1990 Hendry conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Deborah Arangno , David E. Brown

In this paper, we introduce the graph $G(S)$ of a bounded semilattice $S$, which is a generalization of the intersection graph of the substructures of an algebraic structure. We prove some general theorems about these graphs; as an example,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Parastoo Malakooti Rad , Peyman Nasehpour

We consider constrained variants of graph homomorphisms such as embeddings, monomorphisms, full homomorphisms, surjective homomorpshims, and locally constrained homomorphisms. We also introduce a new variation on this theme which derives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Yangjing Long

A graph $G$ is said to be chordal if it has no induced cycles of length four or more. In a recent preprint Culbertson, Guralnik, and Stiller give a new characterization of chordal graphs in terms of sequences of what they call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Anton Dochtermann

For two integers $k$ and $\ell$, an $(\ell \text{ mod }k)$-cycle means a cycle of length $m$ such that $m\equiv \ell\pmod{k}$. In 1977, Bollob\'{a}s proved a conjecture of Burr and Erd\H{o}s by showing that if $\ell$ is even or $k$ is odd,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hojin Chu , Boram Park , Homoon Ryu

It is an intriguing question to see what kind of information on the structure of an oriented graph $D$ one can obtain if $D$ does not contain a fixed oriented graph $H$ as a subgraph. The related question in the unoriented case has been an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Omid Amini , Simon Griffiths , Florian Huc

An undirected graph G is d-degenerate if every subgraph of G has a vertex of degree at most d. By the classical theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Gallai from 1959, every graph of degeneracy d>1 contains a cycle of length at least d+1. The proof of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

For an integer $k\ge 2$, let $G$ be a graph with $m$ edges and without cycles of length $2k$. The pivotal Alon-Krivelevich-Sudakov Theorem on Max-Cuts states that $G$ has a bipartite subgraph with at least $m/2+\Omega(m^{(2k+1)/(2k+2)})$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jianfeng Hou , Siwei Lin , Qinghou Zeng

A subgraph $G'$ of a graph $G$ is nice if $G-V(G')$ has a perfect matching. Nice subgraphs play a vital role in the theory of ear decomposition and matching minors of matching covered graphs. A vertex $u$ of a cubic graph is nice if $u$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Wuxian Chen , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang

The circumference $c(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the length of a longest cycle. By exploiting our recent results on resistance of snarks, we construct infinite classes of cyclically $4$-, $5$- and $6$-edge-connected cubic graphs with…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Edita Máčajová , Ján Mazák