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The minimum forcing number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of edges simultaneously contained in a unique perfect matching of $G$. Zhang, Ye and Shiu \cite{HDW} showed that the minimum forcing number of any fullerene graph was bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Lingjuan Shi , Heping Zhang , Ruizhi Lin

A graph is cubical if it is a subgraph of a hypercube. For a cubical graph $H$ and a hypercube $Q_n$, $ex(Q_n, H)$ is the largest number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of $Q_n$. If $ex(Q_n, H)$ is at least a positive proportion of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Maria Axenovich

Gentner and Rautenbach conjectured that the size of a minimum zero forcing set in a connected graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree $3$ is at most $\frac{1}{3}n+2$. We disprove this conjecture by constructing a collection of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 António Girão , Gábor Mészáros , Stephen G. Z. Smith

The global forcing number of a graph G is the minimal cardinality of an edge subset discriminating all perfect matchings of G, denoted by gf(G). For any perfect matching M of G, the minimal cardinality of an edge subset S in E(G)-M such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yaxian Zhang , Heping Zhang

The forcing number of a graph with a perfect matching $M$ is the minimum number of edges in $M$ whose endpoints need to be deleted, such that the remaining graph only has a single perfect matching. This number is of great interest in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Maximilian Gorsky , Fabian Kreßin

In the study of three-dimensional gapped models, two-dimensional gapped states should be considered as a free resource. This is the basic idea underlying the notion of `foliated fracton order' proposed in Phys. Rev. X 8, 031051 (2018). We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-09 Wilbur Shirley , Kevin Slagle , Xie Chen

While a number of bounds are known on the zero forcing number $Z(G)$ of a graph $G$ expressed in terms of the order of a graph and maximum or minimum degree, we present two bounds that are related to the (upper) total domination number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Boštjan Brešar , María Gracia Cornet , Tanja Dravec , Michael Henning

We consider the triangle-free process: given an integer n, start by taking a uniformly random ordering of the edges of the complete n-vertex graph K_n. Then, traverse the ordered edges and add each traversed edge to an (initially empty)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Guy Wolfovitz

The anti-forcing number of a connected graph $G$ is the smallest number of edges such that the remaining graph obtained by deleting these edges has a unique perfect matching. In this paper, we show that the anti-forcing number of every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Qin Yang , Heping Zhang , Yuqing Lin

In a simple drawing of a graph, any two edges intersect in at most one point (either a common endpoint or a proper crossing). A simple drawing is generalized twisted if it fulfills certain rather specific constraints on how the edges are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Oswin Aichholzer , Alfredo García , Javier Tejel , Birgit Vogtenhuber , Alexandra Weinberger

We define and investigate a quantisation of null hypersurfaces in the context of loop quantum gravity on a fixed graph. The main tool we use is the parametrisation of the theory in terms of twistors, which has already proved useful in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-30 Simone Speziale , Mingyi Zhang

In this paper, we define a new construction of completely scrambled 0-dimensional systems using the inverse limit of sequences of directed graph covers. These examples are transitive and are not locally equicontinuous.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Takashi Shimomura

A graph is regularizable if it is possible to assign weights to its edges so that all nodes have the same degree. Weights can be positive, nonnegative or arbitrary as soon as the regularization degree is not null. Positive and nonnegative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Massimo Franceschet , Enrico Bozzo

Irredundance has been studied in the context of dominating sets, via the concept of private neighbor. Here irredundance of zero forcing sets is introduced via the concept of a private fort and the upper and lower zero forcing irrdedundance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Bryan A. Curtis , Leslie Hogben , Adriana Roux

Let $S$ be a set of vertices of a graph $G$. Let $cl(S)$ be the set of vertices built from $S$, by iteratively applying the following propagation rule: if a vertex and all but exactly one of its neighbors are in $cl(S)$, then the remaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Najibeh Shahbaznejad , Ignacio M. Pelayo , Adel P. Kazemi

We introduce a new model of indeterminacy in graphs: instead of specifying all the edges of the graph, the input contains all triples of vertices that form a connected subgraph. In general, different (labelled) graphs may have the same set…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Paul Bastide , Linda Cook , Jeff Erickson , Carla Groenland , Marc van Kreveld , Isja Mannens , Jordi L. Vermeulen

There are profound relations between the zero forcing number and minimum rank of a graph. We study the relation of both parameters with a third one, the algebraic co-rank; that is defined as the largest $i$ such that the $i$-th critical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Carlos A. Alfaro , Jephian C. -H. Lin

The Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma

This paper studies the problem of designing networks that are strong structurally controllable, and robust simultaneously. For given network specifications, including the number of nodes $N$, the number of leaders $N_L$, and diameter $D$,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Priyanshkumar I. Patel , Johir Suresh , Waseem Abbas

We study the probabilistic zero forcing process, a probabilistic variant of the classical zero forcing process. We show that for every connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, there exists an initial set consisting of a single vertex such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Mehdi Jelassi , Julien Portier , Rik Sarkar