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We prove that every sofic approximation of a property (T) group is approximately isomorphic to one having geometric property (T), and more generally, a box space of graphs which has boundary geometric property (T) is approximately…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Vadim Alekseev , Stefan Drigalla

D. A. Kahzdan first put forth property (T) in relation to the study of discrete subgroups of Lie groups of finite co-volume. Through a combinatorial approach, we define an analogue of property (T) for regular graphs. We then prove the basic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clara Brasseur , Ryan E. Grady , Stratos Prassidis

Any symmetric affinity function $w: V\times V \to \mathbb{R}_+$ defined on a discrete set $V$ induces Euclidean space structure on $V$. In particular, an undirected graph specified by an affinity (or adjacency) matrix can be considered as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Ph. Blanchard , D. Volchenkov

Classes of graphs with bounded expansion are a generalization of both proper minor closed classes and degree bounded classes. Such classes are based on a new invariant, the greatest reduced average density (grad) of G with rank r,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez

Many concrete problems are formulated in terms of a finite set of points in $R^n$ which, via the ambient Euclidean metric, becomes a finite metric space. To obtain information from such a space, it is often useful to associate a graph to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Juan M. Alonso

Several graph properties are characterized as the class of graphs that admit an orientation avoiding finitely many oriented structures. For instance, if $F_k$ is the set of homomorphic images of the directed path on $k+1$ vertices, then a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , César Hernández-Cruz

We define, for any graph $G=(V,E)$, a boundary $\partial G \subseteq V$. The definition coincides with what one would expected for the discretization of (sufficiently nice) Euclidean domains and contains all vertices from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Stefan Steinerberger

This paper studies graphs that have two tree decompositions with the property that every bag from the first decomposition has a bounded-size intersection with every bag from the second decomposition. We show that every graph in each of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , Pat Morin , Sergey Norin , David R. Wood

It is an easy observation that if a graph~$G$ admits a path-decomposition whose parts have small radius, then $G$ contains no large subdivision of $K_{1,3}$ or $K^3$ as a (quasi-)geodesic subgraph. We show that these are in fact the only…

In 2008 Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured that any metric space on n points has at least n lines, unless all the points belong to one line. Chv\atal proved in 2014 that this is indeed the case for metric spaces with distances 0, 1 and 2. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Martín Matamala

A path graph is the intersection graph of paths in a tree. A directed path graph is the intersection graph of paths in a directed tree. Even if path graphs and directed path graphs are characterized very similarly, their recognition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Lorenzo Balzotti

Menger's theorem tells us that if $S,T$ are sets of vertices in a graph $G$, then (for $k\ge0$) either there are $k+1$ vertex-disjoint paths between $S$ and $T$, or there is a set of $k$ vertices separating $S$ and $T$. But what if we want…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A set of n non-collinear points in the Euclidean plane defines at least n different lines. Chen and Chv\'tal in 2008 conjectured that the same results is true in metric spaces for an adequate definition of line. More recently, it was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Martín Matamala , Juan P. Peña , José Zamora

The signature of a path, introduced by K.T. Chen [5] in $1954$, has been extensively studied in recent years. The $2010$ paper [12] of Hambly and Lyons showed that the signature is injective on the space of continuous finite-variation paths…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Thomas Cass , William F. Turner

Property A was introduced by Yu as a non-equivariant analogue of amenability. Nigel Higson posed the question of whether there is a homological characterisation of property A. In this paper we answer Higson's question affirmatively by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 J. Brodzki , G. A. Niblo , N. J. Wright

For a family $\mathcal{C}$ of properly embedded curves in the 2-dimensional disk $\mathbb{D}^{2}$ satisfying certain uniqueness properties, we consider convex polygons $P\subset \mathbb{D}^{2}$ and define a metric $d$ on $P$ such that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

We highlight a topological aspect of the graph limit theory. Graphons are limit objects for convergent sequences of dense graphs. We introduce the representation of a graphon on a unique metric space and we relate the dimension of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-24 László Lovász , Balázs Szegedy

The three subgraphs of a connected graph induced by the center, annulus and periphery are called its metric subgraphs. The main results are as follows. (1) There exists a graph of order $n$ whose metric subgraphs are all paths if and only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan

A special case of a theorem of De Bruijn and Erd\H{o}s asserts that any noncollinear set of $n$ points in the plane determines at least $n$ distinct lines. Chen and Chv\'atal conjectured a generalization of this result to arbitrary finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Pierre Aboulker , Rohan Kapadia

Contrary to previous approaches bringing together algebraic geometry and signatures of paths, we introduce a Zariski topology on the space of paths itself, and study path varieties consisting of all paths whose iterated-integrals signature…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Rosa Preiß