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A path (cycle) in a $2$-edge-colored multigraph is alternating if no two consecutive edges have the same color. The problem of determining the existence of alternating Hamiltonian paths and cycles in $2$-edge-colored multigraphs is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alejandro Contreras-Balbuena , Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez , Ilan A. Goldfeder

We call a finite undirected graph minimally k-matchable if it has at least k distinct perfect matchings but deleting any edge results in a graph which has not. An odd subdivision of some graph G is any graph obtained by replacing every edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Gasper Fijavz , Matthias Kriesell

A (directed) temporal graph is a (directed) graph whose edges are available only at specific times during its (discretized) lifetime $\tau$. In this setting, we ask that walks respect the temporal aspect by defining $\textit{temporal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Allen Ibiapina , Raul Lopes , Andrea Marino , Ana Silva

Rotor walks are cellular automata that determine deterministic traversals of particles in a directed multigraph using simple local rules, yet they can generate complex behaviors. Furthermore, these trajectories exhibit statistical…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 David Auger , Pierre Coucheney , Loric Duhazé , Kossi Roland Etse

Let $\ell \geqslant 0$ be an integer, and $G$ be a graph without loops. An $\ell$-link of $G$ is a walk of length $\ell$ in which consecutive edges are different. We identify an $\ell$-link with its reverse sequence. The $\ell$-link graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Bin Jia

Ramsey's Theorem guarantees for every graph H that any 2-edge-coloring of a sufficiently large complete graph contains a monochromatic copy of H. In 1962, Erdos conjectured that the random 2-edge-coloring minimizes the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Daniel Kral , Jan Volec , Fan Wei

We resolve a conjecture of Hegarty regarding the number of edges in the square of a regular graph. If $G$ is a connected $d$-regular graph with $n$ vertices, the graph square of $G$ is not complete, and $G$ is not a member of two narrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Michael Goff

We use a variant of Bukh's random algebraic method to show that for every natural number $k \geq 2$ there exists a natural number $\ell$ such that, for every $n$, there is a graph with $n$ vertices and $\Omega_k(n^{1 + 1/k})$ edges with at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-30 David Conlon

We prove two conjectures in spectral extremal graph theory involving the linear combinations of graph eigenvalues. Let $\lambda_1(G)$ be the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G$, and $\bar{G}$ be the complement of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Lele Liu

A multigraph is locally irregular if the degrees of the end-vertices of every multiedge are distinct. The locally irregular coloring is an edge coloring of a multigraph $G$ such that every color induces a locally irregular submultigraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Igor Grzelec , Mariusz Woźniak

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 $K_t$-expansion consists of $t$ vertex-disjoint trees, every two of which are joined by an edge. We call such an expansion odd if its vertices can be two-colored so that the edges of the trees are bichromatic but the edges between trees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Yuqing Ji , Zi-Xia Song , Evan Weiss , Xia Zhang

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal proposed a problem that: is it true that every $(2n+1)$-vertex graph with $n^2+n+1$ edges contains two vertices of equal degree connected by a path of length three? The edge bound is sharp by the complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Xiamiao Zhao , Yichen Wang , Mei Lu

We study the problem of finding homomorphisms into odd cycles from planar graphs with high odd-girth. The Jaeger-Zhang conjecture states that every planar graph of odd-girth at least $4k+1$ admits a homomorphism to the odd cycle $C_{2k+1}$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Daniel W. Cranston , Jiaao Li , Zhouningxin Wang , Chunyan Wei

We suggest two related conjectures dealing with the existence of spanning irregular subgraphs of graphs. The first asserts that any $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices contains a spanning subgraph in which the number of vertices of each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Noga Alon , Fan Wei

A $k$-graph $\mathcal{G}$ is asymmetric if there does not exist an automorphism on $\mathcal{G}$ other than the identity, and $\mathcal{G}$ is called minimal asymmetric if it is asymmetric but every non-trivial induced sub-hypergraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Dominik Bohnert , Christian Winter

The generation of random graphs using edge swaps provides a reliable method to draw uniformly random samples of sets of graphs respecting some simple constraints, e.g. degree distributions. However, in general, it is not necessarily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Lionel Tabourier , Camille Roth , Jean-Philippe Cointet

The independence polynomial of a graph $G$ evaluated at $-1$, denoted here as $I(G;-1)$, has arisen in a variety of different areas of mathematics and theoretical physics as an object of interest. Engstr\"om used discrete Morse theory to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Jonathan Cutler , Nathan Kahl , Phoebe Zielonka

Settling Kahn's conjecture (2001), we prove the following upper bound on the number $i(G)$ of independent sets in a graph $G$ without isolated vertices: \[ i(G) \le \prod_{uv \in E(G)} i(K_{d_u,d_v})^{1/(d_u d_v)}, \] where $d_u$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , David Stoner , Yufei Zhao

Let ${\cal G}=(G,w)$ be a weighted simple finite connected graph, that is, let $G$ be a simple finite connected graph endowed with a function $w$ from the set of the edges of $G$ to the set of real numbers. For any subgraph $G'$ of $G$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Elena Rubei