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We apply model theoretic methods to the problem of existence of countable universal graphs with finitely many forbidden connected subgraphs. We show that to a large extent the question reduces to one of local finiteness of an…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Gregory Cherlin , Saharon Shelah , Niandong Shi

We introduce a ``Kirchhoff--Tur\'an'' variant of the extremal $C_4$ problem: among all simple connected $n$-vertex $C_4$-free graphs $G$, maximize the number of spanning trees $\tau(G)$. For the projective-plane orders $n=q^2+q+1$ we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 András London

The main result of this article is the decomposition of tensor products of representations of SL(2) in the sum of irreducible representations parametrized by outerplanar graphs. An outerplanar graph is a graph with the vertices 0, 1, 2,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aleksandrs Mihailovs

Beyond-planarity focuses on the study of geometric and topological graphs that are in some sense nearly-planar. Here, planarity is relaxed by allowing edge crossings, but only with respect to some local forbidden crossing configurations.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Patrizio Angelini , Michael A. Bekos , Michael Kaufmann , Maximilian Pfister , Torsten Ueckerdt

The "edge polytope" of a finite graph G is the convex hull of the columns of its vertex-edge incidence matrix. We study extremal problems for this class of polytopes. For k =2, 3, 5 we determine the maximum number of vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Tuan Tran , Günter M. Ziegler

The page 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 2023-05-10 Paul Jungeblut , Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

This paper gives a tight upper bound on the spectral radius of the signless Laplacian of graphs of given order and clique number. More precisely, let G be a graph of order n, let A be its adjacency matrix, and let D be the diagonal matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Nair Maria Maia de Abreu , Vladimir Nikiforov

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E such that |V| = p and |E| = q. For integers k\geq 0, define an edge labeling f : E \rightarrow \{k,k+1,....,k+q-1\} and define the vertex sum for a vertex $v$ as the sum of the labels of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-16 Sin-Min Lee , Saeid Alikhani , Gee-Choon Lau , William Kocay

A $k$-inner planar graph is a planar graph that has a plane drawing with at most $k$ {internal vertices}, i.e., vertices that do not lie on the boundary of the outer face of its drawing. An outerplanar graph is a $0$-inner planar graph. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Anargyros Oikonomou , Antonios Symvonis

A topological graph is $k$-quasi-planar if it does not contain $k$ pairwise crossing edges. A 20-year-old conjecture asserts that for every fixed $k$, the maximum number of edges in a $k$-quasi-planar graph on $n$ vertices is $O(n)$. Fox…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Andrew Suk , Bartosz Walczak

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and let $q\left( G\right) $ be the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of $G$. Let $S_{n,k}$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a complete graph of order $k$ to each vertex of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Vladimir Nikiforov , Xiying Yuan

For given graphs $G$ and $F$, the Tur\'an number $ex(G,F)$ is defined to be the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of $G$. Foucaud, Krivelevich and Perarnau and later independently Briggs and Cox introduced a dual version of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Ervin Győri , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

An \emph{outer-string representation} of a graph $G$ is an intersection representation of $G$ where vertices are represented by curves (strings) inside the unit disk and each curve has exactly one endpoint on the boundary of the unit disk…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Todor Antić , Vít Jelínek , Jan Kratochvíl , Peter Stumpf

In this paper we consider the question of the existence of Hamiltonian circuits in the tope graphs of central arrangements of hyperplanes. Some of the results describe connections between the existence of Hamiltonian circuits in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Yvonne Kemper , Jim Lawrence

The \emph{Wiener index} is a widely studied topological index of graphs. One of the main problems in the area is to determine which graphs of given properties attain the extremal values of Wiener index. In this paper we resolve an open…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Jan Bok , Nikola Jedličková , Jana Maxová

Let $G$ be a $k$-degenerate graph of order $n.$ It is well-known that $G\ $has no more edges than $S_{n,k},$ the join of a complete graph of order $k$ and an independent set of order $n-k.$ In this note it is shown that $S_{n,k}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-25 V. Nikiforov

We show how to test in linear time whether an outerplanar graph admits a planar rectilinear drawing, both if the graph has a prescribed plane embedding that the drawing has to respect and if it does not. Our algorithm returns a planar…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Fabrizio Frati

This paper is a survey on Extremal Graph Theory, primarily focusing on the case when one of the excluded graphs is bipartite. On one hand we give an introduction to this field and also describe many important results, methods, problems, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Zoltán Füredi , Miklós Simonovits

The study of nonplanar drawings of graphs with restricted crossing configurations is a well-established topic in graph drawing, often referred to as beyond-planar graph drawing. One of the most studied types of drawings in this area are the…

We study the $k$-Canadian Traveller Problem, where a weighted graph $G=(V,E,\omega)$ with a source $s\in V$ and a target $t\in V$ are given. This problem also has a hidden input $E_* \subsetneq E$ of cardinality at most $k$ representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Laurent Beaudou , Pierre Bergé , Vsevolod Chernyshev , Antoine Dailly , Yan Gerard , Aurélie Lagoutte , Vincent Limouzy , Lucas Pastor