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Dean conjectured that for each integer $k \ge 3$, every graph with minimum degree at least $k$ has a cycle whose length is divisible by $k$; this conjecture is known to be true for all $k\neq 5$. For $k\in\{3,4\}$, stronger statements are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ilkyoo Choi , Hojin Chu , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

Let $T$ be a tree with $t$ edges. We show that the number of isomorphic (labeled) copies of $T$ in a graph $G = (V,E)$ of minimum degree at least $t$ is at least \[2|E| \prod_{v \in V} (d(v) - t + 1)^{\frac{(t-1)d(v)}{2|E|}}.\]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete

A subset of vertices in a graph $G$ is considered a maximal dissociation set if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1 and it is not contained within any other dissociation sets. In this paper, it is shown that for $n\geq 3$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Junxia Zhang , Xiangyu Ren , Maoqun Wang

A well known theorem in graph theory states that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and minimum degree at least $d$ contains a path of length at least $d$, and if $G$ is connected and $n\ge 2d+1$ then $G$ contains a path of length at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Jun Gao

Over all graphs (or unicyclic graphs) of a given order, we characterise those graphs that minimise or maximise the number of connected induced subgraphs. For each of these classes, we find that the graphs that minimise the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

An oriented graph is a digraph obtained from an undirected graph by choosing an orientation for each edge. Given a positive integer $n$ and an oriented graph $F$, the oriented Tur$\acute{\rm a}$n number $ex_{ori}(n,F)$ is the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Zejun Huang , Chenxi Yang

An orientation of $G$ is a digraph obtained from $G$ by replacing each edge by exactly one of two possible arcs with the same endpoints. We call an orientation \emph{proper} if neighbouring vertices have different in-degrees. The proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 J. Ai , S. Gerke , G. Gutin , Y. Shi , Z. Taoqiu

A sequence $D=(d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_n)$ of non-negative integers is called a graphic sequence if there is a simple graph with vertices $v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n$ such that the degree of $v_i$ is $d_i$ for $1\leq i\leq n$. Given a graph theoretical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Peiyi Duan , Yingzhi Tian

The dissociation number ${\rm diss}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the maximum order of a set of vertices of $G$ inducing a subgraph that is of maximum degree at most $1$. Computing the dissociation number of a given graph is algorithmically hard…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Felix Bock , Johannes Pardey , Lucia D. Penso , Dieter Rautenbach

\qquad A \emph{coloring} of a digraph $D=(V,E)$ is a coloring of its vertices following the rule: Let $uv$ be an arc in $D$. If the tail $u$ is colored first, then the head $v$ should receive a color different from that of $u$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-02 E. Sampathkumar

Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$ without isolated edges and with maximum degree $\Delta$. Given a colouring $c:E\to\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$, the weighted degree of a vertex $v\in V$ is the sum of its incident colours, i.e., $\sum_{e\ni v}c(e)$. For any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Jakub Przybyło

Let $n, s$ be positive integers such that $n$ is sufficiently large and $s\le n/3$. Suppose $H$ is a 3-uniform hypergraph of order $n$. If $H$ contains no isolated vertex and $deg(u)+ deg(v) > 2(s-1)(n-1)$ for any two vertices $u$ and $v$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Yi Zhang , Yi Zhao , Mei Lu

A $k$-regular graph is called a divisible design graph if its vertex set can be partitioned into $m$ classes of size $n$, such that two distinct vertices from the same class have exactly $\lambda_1$ common neighbours, and two vertices from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Dmitry Panasenko

An acyclic digraph in which every vertex has indegree at most $i$ and outdegree at most $j$ is called an $(i,j)$ digraph for some positive integers $i$ and $j$. The phylogeny graph of a digraph $D$ has $V(D)$ as the vertex set and an edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Myungho Choi , Suh-Ryung Kim

An $acyclic$ edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic cycle s. The \emph{acyclic chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number k such that there is an acyclic e dge coloring using k colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-14 Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran

Let $D$ be a digraph of order $n$ with adjacency matrix $A(D)$. For $\alpha\in[0,1)$, the $A_{\alpha}$ matrix of $D$ is defined as $A_{\alpha}(D)=\alpha {\Delta}^{+}(D)+(1-\alpha)A(D)$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Mushtaq A. Bhat , Peer Abdul Manan

The degree-diameter problem seeks to find the maximum possible order of a graph with a given (maximum) degree and diameter. It is known that graphs attaining the maximum possible value (the Moore bound) are extremely rare, but much activity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Dominique Buset , Mourad El Amiri , Grahame Erskine , Hebert Pérez-Rosés , Mirka Miller

The visibility graph of a finite set of points in the plane has the points as vertices and an edge between two vertices if the line segment between them contains no other points. This paper establishes bounds on the edge- and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Michael S. Payne , Attila Pór , Pavel Valtr , David R. Wood

Given a directed graph, an acyclic set is a set of vertices inducing a subgraph with no directed cycle. In this note we show that there exist oriented planar graphs of order $n$ for which the size of the maximum acyclic set is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Kolja Knauer , Petru Valicov , Paul S. Wenger

A distinguishing r-vertex-labelling (resp. r-edge-labelling) of an undirected graph G is a mapping $\lambda$ from the set of vertices (resp. the set of edges) of G to the set of labels {1,. .. , r} such that no non-trivial automorphism of G…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Kahina Meslem , Eric Sopena