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A digraph is {\em $d$-dominating} if every set of at most $d$ vertices has a common out-neighbor. For all integers $d\geq 2$, let $f(d)$ be the smallest integer such that the vertices of every 2-edge-colored (finite or infinite) complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Louis DeBiasio , András Gyárfás

A question posed independently by Letzter and Pokrovskiy asks: how many vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles are needed to cover the vertex set of an $r$-edge-coloured graph, as a function of its minimum (uncoloured) degree? We resolve this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Francesco Di Braccio , Viresh Patel

A conjecture of Erd\H{o}s, Gy\'arf\'as, and Pyber says that in any edge-colouring of a complete graph with r colours, it is possible to cover all the vertices with r vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles. So far, this conjecture has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Alexey Pokrovskiy

A recent result of Chepoi, Estellon and Vaxes [DCG '07] states that any planar graph of diameter at most 2R can be covered by a constant number of balls of size R; put another way, there are a constant-sized subset of vertices within which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers

Let $G$ be a graph with chromatic number $\chi$, maximum degree $\Delta$ and clique number $\omega$. Reed's conjecture states that $\chi \leq \lceil (1-\varepsilon)(\Delta + 1) + \varepsilon\omega \rceil$ for all $\varepsilon \leq 1/2$. It…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Marthe Bonamy , Thomas Perrett , Luke Postle

Ryser's Conjecture states that any $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph has a vertex cover of size at most $r - 1$ times the size of the largest matching. For $r = 2$, the conjecture is simply K\"onig's Theorem and every bipartite graph is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Penny Haxell , Lothar Narins , Tibor Szabó

In this paper we consider a natural extremal graph theoretic problem of topological sort, concerning the minimization of the (topological) connectedness of the independence complex of graphs in terms of its dimension. We observe that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Penny Haxell , Lothar Narins , Tibor Szabó

A graph is diameter-2-critical if its diameter is 2 but the removal of any edge increases the diameter. A well-studied conjecture, known as the Murty-Simon conjecture, states that any diameter-2-critical graph of order n has at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Antoine Dailly , Florent Foucaud , Adriana Hansberg

A graph is diameter-$k$-critical if its diameter equals $k$ and the deletion of any edge increases its diameter. The Murty-Simon Conjecture states that for any diameter-2-critical graph $G$ of order $n$, $e(G) \leq \lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Xiaolin Wang , Yanbo Zhang , Xiutao Zhu

It is well-known that in every $r$-coloring of the edges of the complete bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$ there is a monochromatic connected component with at least ${m+n\over r}$ vertices. In this paper we study an extension of this problem by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Louis DeBiasio , Robert A. Krueger , Gábor N. Sárközy

We study two variations of the Gyarfas--Lehel conjecture on the minimum number of monochromatic components needed to cover an edge-coloured complete bipartite graph. Specifically, we show the following. - For p>> (\log n/n)^{1/2},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Camila Fernández , Matías Pavez-Signé , Maya Stein

Mixed fault diameter of a graph $G$, $ \D_{(a,b)}(G)$, is the maximal diameter of $G$ after deletion of any $a$ vertices and any $b$ edges. Special cases are the (vertex) fault diameter $\D^V_{a} = \D_{(a,0)}$ and the edge fault diameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Janez Žerovnik , Rija Erveš

For $n\geq s> r\geq 1$ and $k\geq 2$, write $n \rightarrow (s)_{k}^r$ if every hyperedge colouring with $k$ colours of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices has a monochromatic subset of size $s$. Improving upon previous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Bruno Jartoux , Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky , Yelena Yuditsky

For any countably infinite graph $G$, Ramsey's theorem guarantees an infinite monochromatic copy of $G$ in any $r$-coloring of the edges of the countably infinite complete graph $K_\mathbb{N}$. Taking this a step further, it is natural to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Louis DeBiasio , Paul McKenney

Let $\tau(\mathcal{H})$ be the cover number and $\nu(\mathcal{H})$ be the matching number of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$. Ryser conjectured that every $r$-partite hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies the inequality $\tau(\mathcal{H}) \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-21 Toufik Mansour , Chunwei Song , Raphael Yuster

The reconfiguration graph $R_k(G)$ of the $k$-colourings of a graph $G$ has as vertex set the set of all possible $k$-colourings of $G$ and two colourings are adjacent if they differ on the colour of exactly one vertex. Cereceda conjectured…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Eduard Eiben , Carl Feghali

A subgraph $H$ of a multigraph $G$ is overfull if $ |E(H) | > \Delta(G) \lfloor |V(H)|/2 \rfloor$. Analogous to the Overfull Conjecture proposed by Chetwynd and Hilton in 1986, Stiebitz et al. in 2012 formed the multigraph version of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Michael J. Plantholt , Songling Shan

In 1998, Reed conjectured that for any graph $G$, $\chi(G) \leq \lceil \frac{\omega(G) + \Delta(G)+1}{2}\rceil$, where $\chi(G)$, $\omega(G)$, and $\Delta(G)$ respectively denote the chromatic number, the clique number and the maximum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Jean-Luc Fouquet , Jean-Marie Vanherpe

Let $k \geq 1$ be an integer. The reconfiguration graph $R_k(G)$ of the $k$-colourings of a graph~$G$ has as vertex set the set of all possible $k$-colourings of $G$ and two colourings are adjacent if they differ on exactly one vertex. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Carl Feghali

We present results on partitioning the vertices of $2$-edge-colored graphs into monochromatic paths and cycles. We prove asymptotically the two-color case of a conjecture of S\'ark\"ozy: the vertex set of every $2$-edge-colored graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Jozsef Balogh , Janos Barat , Daniel Gerbner , Andras Gyarfas , GAbor N. Sarkozy