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The concept of maximum local connectivity $\bar {\kappa}$ of a graph was introduced by Bollob\'{a}s. One of the problems about it is to determine the largest number of edges $f(n;\bar{\kappa}\leq \ell)$ for graphs of order $n$ that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao

Let $G$ be a (multi)graph of order $n$ and let $u,v$ be vertices of $G$. The maximum number of internally disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted by $\kappa_G(u,v)$, and the maximum number of edge-disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$ is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Rocío M. Casablanca , Lucas Mol , Ortrud R. Oellermann

We consider the problem of covering a graph with a given number of induced subgraphs so that the maximum number of vertices in each subgraph is minimized. We prove NP-completeness of the problem, prove lower bounds, and give approximation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Shripad Thite

We consider three extremal problems about the number of copies of a fixed graph in another larger graph. First, we correct an error in a result of Reiher and Wagner and prove that the number of $k$-edge stars in a graph with density $x \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Emily Cairncross , Dhruv Mubayi

Let $I(F,n)$ denote the maximum number of induced copies of a graph $F$ in an $n$-vertex graph. The inducibility of $F$, defined as $i(F)=\lim_{n\to \infty} I(F,n)/\binom{n}{v(F)}$, is a central problem in extremal graph theory. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Xizhi Liu , Jie Ma , Tianming Zhu

We use Razborov's flag algebra method to show an asymptotic upper bound for the maximal induced density $i(\vec P_3)$ of the orgraph $\vec P_3$ in an arbitrary orgraph. A conjecture of Thomass\'e states that $i(\vec P_3)=2/5$. The hitherto…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-24 Konrad Sperfeld

The problem of determining the smallest number of edges, $h(n;\bar{\kappa}\geq r)$, which guarantees that any graph with $n$ vertices and $h(n;\bar{\kappa}\geq r)$ edges will contain a pair of vertices joined by $r$ internally disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao

A good edge-labelling of a simple graph is a labelling of its edges with real numbers such that, for any ordered pair of vertices (u,v), there is at most one nondecreasing path from u to v. Say a graph is good if it admits a good…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Abbas Mehrabian

We investigate the number of 4-edge paths in graphs with a fixed number of vertices and edges. An asymptotically sharp upper bound is given to this quantity. The extremal construction is the quasi-star or the quasi-clique graph, depending…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Dániel T. Nagy

Erd\H{o}s proved an upper bound on the number of edges in an $n$-vertex non-Hamiltonian graph with given minimum degree and showed sharpness via two members of a particular graph family. F\"{u}redi, Kostochka and Luo showed that these two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Kirsten Hogenson , Rachel Kirsch , Jessica McDonald

In the noisy channel model from coding theory, we wish to detect errors introduced during transmission by optimizing various parameters of the code. Bennett, Dudek, and LaForge framed a variation of this problem in the language of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Patrick Bennett , Ryan Cushman , Andrzej Dudek

We consider two types of problems: maximising, over subsets $S\subseteq \{0,1\}^n$, the density of $d$-subcubes $C$ in the $n$-hypercube graph that span a subgraph such that $S\cap C$ is i) isomorphic to the given configuration…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Levente Bodnár , Oleg Pikhurko

An induced matching in a graph is a set of edges whose endpoints induce a $1$-regular subgraph. Gupta et al. (2012,\cite{Gupta}) showed that every $n$-vertex graph has at most $10^{\frac{n}{5}}\approx 1.5849^n$ maximal induced matchings,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Bo-Jun Yuan , Zhao-Yu Yang , Lu Zheng , Shi-Cai Gong

It was shown by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milani\v{c}, and Servatius in 2022 that every induced $2$-edge path in a vertex-transitive graph closes to an induced cycle. Similar results were obtained for 3-edge paths closing to cycles in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Martin Milanič , Đorđe Mitrović

The planar Tur\'a number of a graph $F$ is the maximum number of edges an $n$-vertex $F$-free planar graph can have. We study the case where $F$ is forbidden as an induced subgraph, thereby introducing the induced planar Tur\'a numbers. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ervin Győri , Hilal Hama Karim

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and let $u,v$ be vertices of $G$. Let $\kappa_G(u,v)$ denote the maximum number of internally disjoint $u$-$v$ paths in $G$. Then the average connectivity $\overline{\kappa}(G)$ of $G$, is defined as $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Lucas Mol , Ortrud R. Oellermann , Vibhav Oswal

We prove that, for every integer $d$ with $d\geq 3$, there is an approximation algorithm for the maximum induced matching problem restricted to $\{ C_3,C_5\}$-free $d$-regular graphs with performance ratio $0.708\bar{3}d+0.425$, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Dieter Rautenbach

We show that for any constant $\Delta \ge 2$, there exists a graph $G$ with $O(n^{\Delta / 2})$ vertices which contains every $n$-vertex graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ as an induced subgraph. For odd $\Delta$ this significantly improves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Noga Alon , Rajko Nenadov

We introduce new sufficient conditions for intrinsic knotting and linking. A graph on n vertices with at least 4n-9 edges is intrinsically linked. A graph on n vertices with at least 5n-14 edges is intrinsically knotted. We also classify…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Campbell , T. W. Mattman , R. Ottman , J. Pyzer , M. Rodrigues , S. Williams

In a recent paper, Hunter, Milojevi\'c, Sudakov and Tomon consider the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph containing no copy of the complete bipartite graph $K_{s,s}$ and no induced copy of a "pattern" graph $H$. They conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nathan S. Sheffield