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The conjecture of Bollob\'as and Koml\'os, recently proved by B\"ottcher, Schacht, and Taraz [Math. Ann. 343(1), 175--205, 2009], implies that for any $\gamma>0$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices with bounded degree and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Julia Böttcher , Peter Christian Heinig , Anusch Taraz

We introduce the notion of \emph{bounded diameter arboricity}. Specifically, the \emph{diameter-$d$ arboricity} of a graph is the minimum number $k$ such that the edges of the graph can be partitioned into $k$ forests each of whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Martin Merker , Luke Postle

We prove that any triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $d$ contains a bipartite induced subgraph of minimum degree at least $d^2/(2n)$. This is sharp up to a logarithmic factor in $n$. Relatedly, we show that the…

A local subgraph of a graph is the subgraph induced by the neighborhood of a vertex. Thus a graph of order $n$ has $n$ local subgraphs. A graph $G$ is called locally nonforesty if every local subgraph of $G$ contains a cycle. Recently, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Chengli Li , Yurui Tang , Xingzhi Zhan

Given a graph, the sparsest cut problem asks for a subset of vertices whose edge expansion (the normalized cut given by the subset) is minimized. In this paper, we study a generalization of this problem seeking for $ k $ disjoint subsets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ramin Javadi , Saleh Ashkboos

Let v(G) be the number of vertices and t(G,k) the maximum number of disjoint k-edge trees in G. In this paper we show that (a1) if G is a graph with every vertex of degree at least two and at most s, where s > 3, then t(G,2) is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kelmans

We prove that, if $m$ is sufficiently large, every graph on $m+1$ vertices that has a universal vertex and minimum degree at least $\lfloor \frac{2m}{3} \rfloor$ contains each tree $T$ with $m$ edges as a subgraph. Our result confirms, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Bruce Reed , Maya Stein

Let $G$ be an $r$-partite graph such that the edge density between any two parts is at least $\alpha$. How large does $\alpha$ need to be to guarantee that $G$ contains a connected transversal, that is, a tree on $r$ vertices meeting each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Leila Badakhshian , Victor Falgas-Ravry , Maryam Sharifzadeh

We determine the sharp threshold for the containment of all $n$-vertex trees of bounded degree in random geometric graphs with $n$ vertices. This provides a geometric counterpart of Montgomery's threshold result for binomial random graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Michael Anastos , Sahar Diskin , Dawid Ignasiak , Lyuben Lichev , Yetong Sha

A graph is intrinsically knotted if every embedding contains a nontrivially knotted cycle. It is known that intrinsically knotted graphs have at least 21 edges and that there are exactly 14 intrinsically knotted graphs with 21 edges, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Hyoungjun Kim , Thomas W Mattman , Seungsang Oh

We prove the following sharp estimate for the number of spanning trees of a graph in terms of its vertex-degrees: a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at most $(1/n^{2}) \prod_{v \in V(G)} (d(v)+1)$ spanning trees. This result is tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Steven Klee , Bhargav Narayanan , Lisa Sauermann

We consider three probability measures on subsets of edges of a given finite graph $G$, namely those which govern, respectively, a uniform forest, a uniform spanning tree, and a uniform connected subgraph. A conjecture concerning the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. R. Grimmett , S. N. Winkler

Let $F(G)$ be the number of forests of a graph $G$. Similarly let $C(G)$ be the number of connected spanning subgraphs of a connected graph $G$. We bound $F(G)$ and $C(G)$ for regular graphs and for graphs with fixed average degree. Among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Márton Borbényi , Péter Csikvári , Haoran Luo

Let $G$ be a graph (with multiple edges allowed) and let $T$ be a tree in $G$. We say that $T$ is $\textit{even}$ if every leaf of $T$ belongs to the same part of the bipartition of $T$, and that $T$ is $\textit{weakly even}$ if every leaf…

We study edge-decompositions of highly connected graphs into copies of a given tree. In particular we attack the following conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen: for each tree $T$, there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-09 János Barát , Dániel Gerbner

For a bipartite graph $H$, its linear threshold is the smallest real number $\sigma$ such that every bipartite graph $G = (U \sqcup V, E)$ with unbalanced parts $|V| \gtrsim |U|^\sigma$ and without a copy of $H$ must have a linear number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Lili Ködmön , Anqi Li , Ji Zeng

In 2012, Mader conjectured that for any tree $T$ of order $m$, every $k$-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\lfloor \frac{3k}{2}\rfloor+m-1$ contains a subtree $T'\cong T$ such that $G-V(T')$ remains $k$-connected. In 2022,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Hojin Chu , Shinya Fujita , Boram Park , Homoon Ryu

We start a systematic investigation concerning bipartite Tur\'an number for trees. For a graph $F$ and integers $1 \leq a \leq b$ we define: $(i)$\quad $ex_b(a, b, F)$ is the largest number of edges that an $F$-free bipartite graph can have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Yair Caro , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza

A proper vertex coloring of a simple graph is $k$-forested if the graph induced by the vertices of any two color classes is a forest with maximum degree less than $k$. A graph is $k$-forested $q$-choosable if for a given list of $q$ colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

A connected graph $G$ with at least two vertices is matching covered if each of its edges lies in a perfect matching. A matching covered graph is minimal if the removal of any edge results in a graph that is no longer matching covered. An…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiaoling He , Fuliang Lu , Heping Zhang