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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

A connected graph, on four or more vertices, is matching covered (aka 1-extendable) if every edge is present in some perfect matching. An ear decomposition theorem exists for bipartite matching covered graphs due to Hetyei. From the results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Amit Kumar Mallik , Ajit A. Diwan , Nishad Kothari

For two integers $r\geq 2$ and $h\geq 0$, the $h$-extra $r$-component connectivity of a graph $G$, denoted by $c\kappa_{r}^{h}$, is defined as the minimum number of vertices whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least $r$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Daoxia Zhang , Dan Li , Wenxiu Ding

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $r$-graphs. An $r$-graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if it does not contain any members of $\mathcal{F}$ but adding any edge creates a copy of some $r$-graph in $\mathcal{F}$. The saturation number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Natalie C. Behague

In this paper we describe all edge-colored graphs that are fully symmetric with respect to colors and transitive on every set of edges of the same color. They correspond to fully symmetric homogeneous factorizations of complete graphs. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-24 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz

Given a family ${\cal F}$ of graphs, and a positive integer $n$, the Tur\'an number $ex(n,{\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain any member of ${\cal F}$ as a subgraph. The order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Tao Jiang , Andrew Newman

Consider a simple graph $G=(V,E)$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ and its proper total colouring $c$ with the elements of the set $\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$. The colouring $c$ is said to be \emph{neighbour sum distinguishing} if for every pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Jakub Przybyło

For a simple connected graph $G=(V,E)$, let $d(u)$ be the degree of the vertex $u$ of $G$. The general Sombor index of $G$ is defined as $$SO_{\alpha}(G)=\sum_{uv\in E} \left[d(u)^2+d(v)^2\right]^\alpha$$ where $SO(G)=SO_{0.5}(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Peichao Wei , Muhuo Liu

The \emph{Tur\'an function} $\ex(n,F)$ of a graph $F$ is the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph with $n$ vertices. The classical results of Tur\'an and Rademacher from 1941 led to the study of supersaturated graphs where the key…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Oleg Pikhurko , Zelealem B. Yilma

Let $\mathcal{C}_4(n)$ be the family of all connected $4$-chromatic graphs of order $n$. Given an integer $x\geq 4$, we consider the problem of finding the maximum number of $x$-colorings of a graph in $\mathcal{C}_4(n)$. It was conjectured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Aysel Erey

Given an $r$-graph $F$ with $r \ge 2$, let $\mathrm{ex}(n, (t+1) F)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-graph with at most $t$ pairwise vertex-disjoint copies of $F$. Extending several old results and complementing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jianfeng Hou , Caiyun Hu , Heng Li , Xizhi Liu , Caihong Yang , Yixiao Zhang

In this paper, we characterize the extremal digraphs with the maximal or minimal $\alpha$-spectral radius among some digraph classes such as rose digraphs, generalized theta digraphs and tri-ring digraphs with given size $m$. These digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Haiying Shan , Feifei Wang , Changxiang He

Given a graph $F$, the expansion $F^{(r)}$ of $F$ is defined as the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $F$ by adding a set of $(r-2)$ distinct new vertices to each edge of $F$. In this paper, we investigate spectral stability results for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Zhenyu Ni , Dongquan Cheng , Jing Wang , Liying Kang

The Kirchhoff index $Kf(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices, which was introduced by Klein and Randi\'c. In this paper we characterized all extremal graphs with Kirchhoff index among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Kexiang Xu , Kinkar Ch. Das , Xiao-Dong Zhang

There are many concepts of signed graph coloring which are defined by assigning colors to the vertices of the graphs. These concepts usually differ in the number of self-inverse colors used. We introduce a unifying concept for this kind of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Chiara Cappello , Eckhard Steffen

Let F(G) be a fixed linear combination of the k extremal eigenvalues of a graph G and of its complement. The problem of finding max{F(G):v(G)=n} generalizes a number of problems raised previously in the literature. We show that the limit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov

The Tur\'an number $\text{ex}(n,H)$ of a graph $H$ is the maximal number of edges in an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices. In $1983$ Chung and Erd\H{o}s asked which graphs $H$ with $e$ edges minimize $\text{ex}(n,H)$. They resolved this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Matija Bucić , Nemanja Draganić , Benny Sudakov

For a nondegenerate $r$-graph $F$, large $n$, and $t$ in the regime $[0, c_{F} n]$, where $c_F>0$ is a constant depending only on $F$, we present a general approach for determining the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-graph that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Jianfeng Hou , Heng Li , Xizhi Liu , Long-Tu Yuan , Yixiao Zhang

The anti-forcing number of a perfect matching $M$ of a graph $G$ is the minimal number of edges not in $M$ whose removal to make $M$ as a unique perfect matching of the resulting graph. The set of anti-forcing numbers of all perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Kai Deng , Heping Zhang

Let $G$ be an undirected graph on $n$ vertices and let $S(G)$ be the set of all $n \times n$ real symmetric matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of $G$. The inverse eigenvalue…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Polona Oblak , Helena Šmigoc