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Hadwiger's conjecture, among the most famous open problems in graph theory, states that every graph that does not contain $K_t$ as a minor is properly $(t-1)$-colorable. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that a natural extension of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Raphael Steiner

It is an important fact that extremal discrete structures -- that is, discrete structures of maximal size among those that avoid certain configurations -- exhibit strong pseudorandom behavior. We present instances of this phenomenon in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Noé de Rancourt , Pandelis Dodos , Konstantinos Tyros

This paper is devoted to present two counterexamples to the theorem from \cite{MK} Maria R., Katherine T. M., Bernardo S. M., Extremal graphs with bounded vertex bipartiteness number, Linear Algebra Appl. 493 (2016) 28-36. Moreover, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Jia-Bao Liu , Shaohui Wang

We generalize a result of Balister, Gy{\H{o}}ri, Lehel and Schelp for hypergraphs. We determine the unique extremal structure of an $n$-vertex, $r$-uniform, connected, hypergraph with the maximum number of hyperedges, without a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Ervin Győri , Nika Salia , Oscar Zamora

We extend the concept of the law of a finite graph to graphings, which are, in general, infinite graphs whose vertices are equipped with the structure of a probability space. By doing this, we obtain a vast array of new unimodular measures.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Igor Artemenko

In this paper we consider the class of graphs which are redundantly $d$-rigid and $(d+1)$-connected but not globally $d$-rigid, where $d$ is the dimension. This class arises from counterexamples to a conjecture by Bruce Hendrickson. It…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Georg Grasegger

A subgraph of an edge-coloured graph is called rainbow if all its edges have distinct colours. The study of rainbow subgraphs goes back to the work of Euler on Latin squares and has been the focus of extensive research ever since. Many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-03 David Munhá Correia , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

In this paper, we study a conjecture of Andries E. Brouwer from 1996 regarding the minimum number of vertices of a strongly regular graph whose removal disconnects the graph into non-singleton components. We show that strongly regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-12 Sebastian M. Cioaba , Kijung Kim , Jack H. Koolen

We give the first and lowest order examples of 3-regular 3-edge-colored graphs that demonstrate the non-factorization of tensor model invariants in the large N limit of Gaussian random tensors, as proven on general grounds in [Gurau R.,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jonathan Berthold , Hannes Keppler

One widely applied sufficient condition for the existence of a colorful simplex in a vertex-colored simplicial complex is a topological extension of Hall's transversal theorem due to Aharoni, Haxell, and Meshulam. We prove a similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Ronen Wdowinski

Aharoni and Berger conjectured that every bipartite graph which is the union of n matchings of size n + 1 contains a rainbow matching of size n. This conjecture is a generalization of several old conjectures of Ryser, Brualdi, and Stein…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Alexey Pokrovskiy

We explore properties of $3$-uniform hypergraphs $H$ without linear cycles. Our main results are that these hypergraphs must contain a vertex of strong degree at most two and must have independent sets of size at least ${2|V(H)|\over 5}$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-24 András Gyárfás , Ervin Győri , Miklós Simonovits

We develop a notion of containment for independent sets in hypergraphs. For every $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$, we find a relatively small collection $C$ of vertex subsets, such that every independent set of $G$ is contained within a member…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-01 David Saxton , Andrew Thomason

An $r$-graph is an $r$-regular graph where every odd set of vertices is connected by at least $r$ edges to the rest of the graph. Seymour conjectured that any $r$-graph is $r+1$-edge-colorable, and also that any $r$-graph contains $2r$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Vahan Mkrtchyan , Eckhard Steffen

We fully characterize the eigenvalues (flat bands) of the maximal abelian cover of a finite multi-graph in terms of the combinatorics of the base graph. This solves a problem of Higuchi and Nomura (2009, Problem 6.11). We use our new…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Wenbo Li , Michael Magee , Mostafa Sabri , Joe Thomas

For every positive integer $t$ we construct a finite family of triple systems ${\mathcal M}_t$, determine its Tur\'{a}n number, and show that there are $t$ extremal ${\mathcal M}_t$-free configurations that are far from each other in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi , Christian Reiher

An old and well-known conjecture of Frankl and F\"{u}redi states that the Lagrangian of an $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges is maximised by an initial segment of colex. In this paper we disprove this conjecture by finding an infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Vytautas Gruslys , Shoham Letzter , Natasha Morrison

A rough structure theorem is proved for graphs $G$ containing no copy of a bounded degree tree $T$: from any such $G$, one can delete $o(|G||T|)$ edges in order to get a subgraph all of whose connected components have a cover of order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Alexey Pokrovskiy

The theory of graph limits represents large graphs by analytic objects called graphons. Graph limits determined by finitely many graph densities, which are represented by finitely forcible graphons, arise in various scenarios, particularly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Jacob W. Cooper , Daniel Kral , Taisa L. Martins

Motivated by the study of a variant of sunflowers, Alon and Holzman recently introduced focal-free hypergraphs. In this paper, we show that there is an interesting connection between the maximum size of focal-free hypergraphs and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Xinqi Huang , Chong Shangguan , Xiande Zhang , Yuhao Zhao