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A rough structure theorem is proved for graphs $G$ containing no copy of a bounded degree tree $T$: from any such $G$, one can delete $o(|G||T|)$ edges in order to get a subgraph all of whose connected components have a cover of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Alexey Pokrovskiy

For every $r \in \mathbb{N}$, let $\theta_r$ denote the graph with two vertices and $r$ parallel edges. The $\theta_r$-girth of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges of a subgraph of $G$ that can be contracted to $\theta_r$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Dimitris Chatzidimitriou , Jean-Florent Raymond , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

According to the classic Chv{\'{a}}tal's Lemma from 1977, a graph of minimum degree $\delta(G)$ contains every tree on $\delta(G)+1$ vertices. Our main result is the following algorithmic "extension" of Chv\'{a}tal's Lemma: For any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Danil Sagunov , Kirill Simonov

For any integer $k\geq1,$ a graph $G$ has a $k$-factor if it contains a $k$-regular spanning subgraph. In this paper we prove a sufficient condition in terms of the number of $r$-cliques to guarantee the existence of a $k$-factor in a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Guoyan Ao , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan , C. T. Ng , T. C. E. Cheng

We prove several results concerning cycle tilings and $H$-factors in digraphs. We provide a minimum semi-degree condition for forcing a digraph to contain a given spanning collection of vertex-disjoint orientations of cycles. Our result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Theodore Molla , Andrew Treglown

An oriented tree $T$ on $n$ vertices is unavoidable if every tournament on $n$ vertices contains a copy of $T$. In this paper we give a sufficient condition for $T$ to be unavoidable, and use this to prove that almost all labelled oriented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Richard Mycroft , Tássio Naia

Shrub-depth and rank-depth are dense analogues of the tree-depth of a graph. It is well known that a graph has large tree-depth if and only if it has a long path as a subgraph. We prove an analogous statement for shrub-depth and rank-depth,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-05 O-joung Kwon , Rose McCarty , Sang-il Oum , Paul Wollan

Guo, Li, Shangguan, Tamo, and Wootters formulated in SIAM Journal on Computing a hypergraph Nash--Williams--Tutte conjecture: every $k$-weakly-partition-connected hypergraph on $t$ vertices should admit a $k$-distinguishable tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yutong Zhang , Yaoran Yang

Partially answering a question of Paul Seymour, we obtain a sufficient eigenvalue condition for the existence of $k$ edge-disjoint spanning trees in a regular graph, when $k\in \{2,3\}$. More precisely, we show that if the second largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Wiseley Wong

The treewidth of a graph is an important invariant in structural and algorithmic graph theory. This paper studies the treewidth of line graphs. We show that determining the treewidth of the line graph of a graph $G$ is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

Given a class of graphs F, we say that a graph G is universal for F, or F-universal, if every H in F is contained in G as a subgraph. The construction of sparse universal graphs for various families F has received a considerable amount of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Daniel Johannsen , Michael Krivelevich , Wojciech Samotij

For a connected graph $G$, an instance $I$ is a set of pairs of vertices and a corresponding routing $R$ is a set of paths specified for all vertex-pairs in $I$. Let $\mathfrak{R}_I$ be the collection of all routings with respect to $I$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Yuan-Hsun Lo , Hung-Lin Fu , Yijin Zhang , Wing Shing Wong

We show that there exists a graph $G$ with $O(n)$ nodes, where any forest of $n$ nodes is a node-induced subgraph of $G$. Furthermore, for constant arboricity $k$, the result implies the existence of a graph with $O(n^k)$ nodes that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Stephen Alstrup , Søren Dahlgaard , Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen

What are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? It is well-known that the answer must include a complete graph, a complete bipartite graph, all subdivisions of a wall and line graphs of all subdivisions of a wall…

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc. 1983] claimed to prove that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $ \frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges that contains every $n$-vertex tree as a subgraph. Frati, Hoffmann and T\'oth [Combin.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Neel Kaul , Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim , David R. Wood

We prove that if $T_1,\dots, T_n$ is a sequence of bounded degree trees so that $T_i$ has $i$ vertices, then $K_n$ has a decomposition into $T_1,\dots, T_n$. This shows that the tree packing conjecture of Gy\'arf\'as and Lehel from 1976…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Felix Joos , Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree not 2 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 4}(s-2)+2$ leaves. Let $G$ be a be a connected graph of girth $g$ with $v>1$ vertices. Let maximal chain of successively…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Anton Bankevich , Dmitri Karpov

This is the second of a series of four papers in which we prove the following relaxation of the Loebl-Komlos--Sos Conjecture: For every $\alpha>0$ there exists a number $k_0$ such that for every $k>k_0$ every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladký , János Komlós , Diana Piguet , Miklós Simonovits , Maya J. Stein , Endre Szemerédi

We prove that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree~1 and 3 and $t$ vertices of degree at least~4 has a spanning tree with at least ${1\over 3}t +{1\over 4}s+{3\over 2}$ leaves. We present infinite series of graphs showing that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Dmitri Karpov

Given a digraph D, the minimum semi-degree of D is the minimum of its minimum indegree and its minimum outdegree. D is k-ordered Hamiltonian if for every ordered sequence of k distinct vertices there is a directed Hamilton cycle which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus , Andrew Young