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Mader conjectured that for any tree $T$ of order $m$, every $k$-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\lfloor\frac{3k}{2}\rfloor +m-1$ contains a subtree $T'\cong T$ such that $G-V(T')$ is $k$-connected. In this paper, we give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Yanmei Hong , Qinghai Liu

A circle graph is an intersection graph of a set of chords of a circle. We describe the unavoidable induced subgraphs of circle graphs with large treewidth. This includes examples that are far from the `usual suspects'. Our results imply…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Robert Hickingbotham , Freddie Illingworth , Bojan Mohar , David R. Wood

Chung and Graham [J. London Math. Soc. 1983] claimed to prove that there exists an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $ \frac{5}{2}n \log_2 n + O(n)$ edges that contains every $n$-vertex tree as a subgraph. Frati, Hoffmann and T\'oth [Combin.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Neel Kaul , Jaehoon Kim , Minseo Kim , David R. Wood

In this paper we show how to find nearly optimal embeddings of large trees in several natural classes of graphs. The size of the tree T can be as large as a constant fraction of the size of the graph G, and the maximum degree of T can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-17 Benny Sudakov , Jan Vondrak

Bondy and Vince proved that a graph of minimum degree at least three contains two cycles whose lengths differ by one or two, which was conjectured by Erd\H{o}s. Gao, Li, Ma and Xie gave an average degree counterpart of Bondy-Vince's result,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Binlong Li , Yufeng Pan , Lingjuan Shi

Answering a question of H\"aggkvist and Scott, Verstra\"ete proved that every sufficiently large graph with average degree at least $k^2+19k+10$ contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles of consecutive even lengths. He further conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Jun Gao , Jie Ma

We show that for every $n$-vertex graph with at least one edge, its treewidth is greater than or equal to $n \lambda_{2} / (\Delta + \lambda_{2}) - 1$, where $\Delta$ and $\lambda_{2}$ are the maximum degree and the second smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Kohei Noro , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

Given a graph $G$, let $\mathrm{diam}(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$ which lie in the same connected component, and let $\mathrm{diam}^+(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$; so…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Louigi Addario-Berry , Gabriel Crudele

We prove that if a tree $T$ has $n$ vertices and maximum degree at most $\Delta$, then a copy of $T$ can almost surely be found in the random graph $\mathcal{G}(n,\Delta\log^5 n/n)$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Richard Montgomery

A tight $r$-tree $T$ is an $r$-uniform hypergraph that has an edge-ordering $e_1, e_2, \dots, e_t$ such that for each $i\geq 2$, $e_i$ has a vertex $v_i$ that does not belong to any previous edge and $e_i-v_i$ is contained in $e_j$ for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Zoltán Füredi , Tao Jiang , Alexandr Kostochka , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraëte

A graph has tree-width at most $k$ if it can be obtained from a set of graphs each with at most $k+1$ vertices by a sequence of clique sums. We refine this definition by, for each non-negative integer $\theta$, defining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jim Geelen , Benson Joeris

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

The treewidth of a graph is an important invariant in structural and algorithmic graph theory. This paper studies the treewidth of line graphs. We show that determining the treewidth of the line graph of a graph $G$ is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is a tight $r$-tree if its edges can be ordered so that every edge $e$ contains a vertex $v$ that does not belong to any preceding edge and the set $e-v$ lies in some preceding edge. A conjecture of Kalai [Kalai],…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Zoltán Füredi , Tao Jiang , Alexandr Kostochka , Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraëte

The maximum number of vertices in a graph of maximum degree $\Delta\ge 3$ and fixed diameter $k\ge 2$ is upper bounded by $(1+o(1))(\Delta-1)^{k}$. If we restrict our graphs to certain classes, better upper bounds are known. For instance,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Eran Nevo , Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , David R. Wood

We prove that for all $0\leq t\leq k$ and $d\geq 2k$, every graph $G$ with treewidth at most $k$ has a `large' induced subgraph $H$, where $H$ has treewidth at most $t$ and every vertex in $H$ has degree at most $d$ in $G$. The order of $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmovic , David R. Wood

Let $F(G)$ be the number of forests of a graph $G$. Similarly let $C(G)$ be the number of connected spanning subgraphs of a connected graph $G$. We bound $F(G)$ and $C(G)$ for regular graphs and for graphs with fixed average degree. Among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Márton Borbényi , Péter Csikvári , Haoran Luo

A $d$-regular graph on $n$ nodes has at most $T_{\max} = \frac{n}{3} \tbinom{d}{2}$ triangles. We compute the leading asymptotics of the probability that a large random $d$-regular graph has at least $c \cdot T_{\max}$ triangles, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Elchanan Mossel

We investigate lower bounds on the average degree in r-cliques in graphs of order n and size greater than t(r,n), where t(r,n) is the size of the Turan graph on n vertices and r color classes. Continuing earlier research of Edwards and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Bollobas , V. Nikiforov

A famous conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and S\'os states that every graph with average degree more than $k - 1$ contains all trees with $k$ edges as subgraphs. We prove that the Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture holds approximately, if the size of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Václav Rozhoň