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We study vertex colourings of digraphs so that no out-neighbourhood is monochromatic and call such a colouring an {\bf out-colouring}. The problem of deciding whether a given digraph has an out-colouring with only two colours (called a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Noga Alon , Joergen Bang-Jensen , Stéphane Bessy

A graph is called equimatchable if all of its maximal matchings have the same size. Due to Eiben and Kotrb\v{c}\'{i}k,, any connected graph with odd order and independence number $\alpha(G)$ at most $2$ is equimatchable. Akbari et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Xiao Zhao , Haojie Zheng , Fengming Dong , Hengzhe Li , Yingbin Ma

We prove: (i) if $G$ is a 1-tough graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ with $\delta\ge(n-2)/3$ then each longest cycle in $G$ is a dominating cycle unless $G$ belongs to an easily specified class of graphs with $\kappa(G)=2$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

A graph is $1$-planar, if it can be drawn in the plane such that there is at most one crossing on every edge. It is known, that $1$-planar graphs have at most $4n-8$ edges. We prove the following odd-even generalization. If a graph can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-26 János Karl , Géza Tóth

We consider 3-regular planar matchstick graphs, i.e. those which have a planar embedding such that all edge lengths are equal, with given girth g. For girth 3 it is known that such graphs exist if and only if the number of vertices n is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Sascha Kurz , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked for the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have if it does not contain two edge-disjoint cycles on the same vertex set. It is known that Tur\'an-type results can be used to prove an upper bound of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

The stack number of a directed acyclic graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ for which there is a topological ordering of $G$ and a $k$-coloring of the edges such that no two edges of the same color cross, i.e., have alternating endpoints along the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Paul Jungeblut , Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

In this paper we provide some sufficient conditions for the existence of an odd or even cycle that passing a given vertex or an edge in $2$-connected or $2$-edge connected graphs. We provide some similar conditions for the existence of an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Saieed Akbari , Khashayar Etemadi , Peyman Ezzati , Mehrdad Ghadiri

For a digraph $D$, the niche hypergraph $NH(D)$ of $D$ is the hypergraph having the same set of vertices as $D$ and the set of hyperedges is \begin{align} E(NH(D)) &= \{e \subseteq V(D) : |e| \geq 2~and~there~exists~v \in V(D)~such~that~e =…

An edge of a graph of order $n$ is pancyclic if it lies in a cycle of every length $3,\ldots,n$. A graph of order $n$ is vertex-pancyclic if every vertex lies in a cycle of every length $3,\ldots,n$. Recently, Li and Zhan proved that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Leyou Xu , Bo Zhou

Local Irregularity Conjecture states that every simple connected graph, except special cacti, can be decomposed into at most three locally irregular graphs, i.e., graphs in which adjacent vertices have different degrees. The connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Igor Grzelec , Alfréd Onderko , Mariusz Woźniak

A non-planar graph is almost-planar if either deleting or contracting any edge makes it planar. A graph with $n$ vertices is pancyclic if it contains a cycle of every length from $3$ to $n$, and it is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Santiago T. Adams , S. R. Kingan

Let $D$ be a strong digraph on $n=2m+1\geq 5$ vertices. In this paper we show that if $D$ contains a cycle of length $n-1$, then $D$ has also a cycle which contains all vertices with in-degree and out-degree at least $m$ (unless some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-24 S. Kh. Darbinyan , I. A. Karapetyan

A graph is k-linked if any k disjoint vertex-pairs can be joined by k disjoint paths. We improve a lower bound on the linkedness of polytopes slightly, which results in exact values for the minimal linkedness of 7-, 10- and 13-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-22 Axel Werner , Ronald F. Wotzlaw

To determine that two given undirected graphs are isomorphic, we construct for them auxiliary graphs, using the breadth-first search. This makes capability to position vertices in each digraph with respect to each other. If the given graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

Given any digraph $D$ on $n$ vertices, let $\mathcal{P}(D)$ be the family of all directed paths in $D$, and let $H$ be a digraph with the arc set $A(H)=\{a_1, \ldots, a_k\}$. The digraph $D$ is called arbitrary Hamiltonian $H$-linked if for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Yangyang Cheng , Zhilan Wang , Jin Yan

The feedback set problems are about removing the minimum number of vertices or edges from a graph to break all its cycles. Much effort has gone into understanding their complexity on planar graphs as well as on graphs of bounded degree. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tian Bai , Yixin Cao , Mingyu Xiao

This MSci thesis surveys results in extremal graph theory, in particular relating to Hamilton cycles. Szem\'eredi's Regularity Lemma plays a central role. We also investigate the robust outexpansion property for digraphs. Kelly showed that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Amelia Taylor

In 1974, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question: given a graph $G$ and a directed graph $\vec{H}$, how many ways are there to orient the edges of $G$ such that it does not contain $\vec{H}$ as a subgraph? We denote this value by $D(G,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Hannah Sheats

Both Cuckler and Yuster independently conjectured that when $n$ is an odd positive multiple of $3$ every regular tournament on $n$ vertices contains a collection of $n/3$ vertex-disjoint copies of the cyclic triangle. Soon after, Keevash…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Lina Li , Theodore Molla