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Motivated by the theorem of Gy\H ori and Lov\'asz, we consider the following problem. For a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges determine the number $P(G,k)$ of unordered solutions of positive integers $\sum_{i=1}^k m_i = m$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Yair Caro , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté Vizer

Let $G$ be an infinite graph whose vertex set is the set of positive integers, and let $G_n$ be the subgraph of $G$ induced by the vertices $\{1,2, \dots , n \}$. An increasing path of length $k$ in $G$, denoted $I_k$, is a sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Xing Peng , Craig Timmons

\noindent In this paper, we show that for any positive integers $r$, $k$, $\Theta$, and $\Gamma$ such that $k \geq 2$ and $r \geq k + \Gamma$, there exists a connected graph $G$ for which $$\begin{array}{llcr} \omega (G) = \chi (G) = k, &…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Saeed Shaebani

An infinite family of graphs ${\cal F}$ is called feasible if for any pair of integers $(n,m)$, $n \geq 1$, $0 \leq m \leq \binom{n}{2}$, there is a member $G \in {\cal F}$ such that $G$ has $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. We prove that given a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Yair Caro , Matthew Cassar , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

We show that if the edges or vertices of an undirected graph $G$ can be covered by $k$ shortest paths, then the pathwidth of $G$ is upper-bounded by a single-exponential function of $k$. As a corollary, we prove that the problem Isometric…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Maël Dumas , Florent Foucaud , Anthony Perez , Ioan Todinca

Dumas, Foucaud, Perez, and Todinca [SIAM J. Disc. Math., 2024] proved that if the vertex set of a graph $G$ can be covered by $k$ shortest paths, then the pathwidth of $G$ is bounded by $\mathcal{O}(k \cdot 3^k)$. We prove a coarse variant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Meike Hatzel , Michał Pilipczuk

Given $k\ge 1$, a $k$-proper partition of a graph $G$ is a partition ${\mathcal P}$ of $V(G)$ such that each part $P$ of ${\mathcal P}$ induces a $k$-connected subgraph of $G$. We prove that if $G$ is a graph of order $n$ such that…

Let $x,y\in(0,1]$ and let $A,B,C$ be disjoint nonempty subsets of a graph $G$, where every vertex in $A$ has at least $x|B|$ neighbours in $B$, and every vertex in $B$ has at least $y|C|$ neighbours in $C$. We denote by $\phi(x,y)$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Patrick Hompe , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

We say that a graph G is $(k,\ell)$-stable if removing $k$ vertices from it reduces its independence number by at most $\ell$. We say that G is tight $(k,\ell)$-stable if it is $(k,\ell)$-stable and its independence number equals…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Dingding Dong , Sammy Luo

In 1966, T. Gallai asked whether every connected graph has a vertex that appears in all longest paths. Since then this question has attracted much attention and many work has been done in this topic. One important open question in this area…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Shinya Fujita , Michitaka Furuya , Reza Naserasr , Kenta Ozeki

Let $G$ be a simple graph and let $p$ and $q$ be two integer-valued functions on $V(G)$ with $p< q$ in which for each $v\in V(G)$, $q(v) \ge \frac{1}{2}d_G(v)$ and $p(v) \ge \frac{1}{2} q(v)-2$. In this note, we show that $G$ has an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Morteza Hasanvand

Let $G$ be a graph, and $H\colon V(G)\to 2^\mathbb{N}$ a set function associated with $G$. A spanning subgraph $F$ of $G$ is called an $H$-factor if the degree of any vertex $v$ in $F$ belongs to the set $H(v)$. This paper contains two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Hongliang Lu , David G. L. Wang , Qinglin Yu

Let $E$ be a proper symmetric subset of $S^{d-1}$, and $C_{\mathbb{F}_q^d}(E)$ be the Cayley graph with the vertex set $\mathbb{F}_q^d$, and two vertices $x$ and $y$ are connected by an edge if $x-y\in E$. Let $k\ge 2$ be a positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Thang Pham

The conjecture of Peter Horak and Alex Rosa (generalizing that of Marco Buratti) states that a multiset L of v-1 positive integers not exceeding [v/2] is the list of edge-lengths of a suitable Hamiltonian path of the complete graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Anita Pasotti , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

Let $G$ be a tripartite graph with $N$ vertices in each vertex class. If each vertex is adjacent to at least $(2/3)N$ vertices in each of the other classes, then either $G$ contains a subgraph that consists of $N$ vertex-disjoint triangles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Csaba Magyar , Ryan R. Martin

Consider a weighted graph G with n vertices, numbered by the set {1,...,n}. For any path p in G, we call w_G(p) the sum of the weights of the edges of the path and we define the multiset {\cal D}_{i,j} (G) = {w_G(p) | p simple path between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Elena Rubei

We prove that if $G$ is a graph and $r_1, ..., r_k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ such that $\sum_{i=1}^k r_i \geq \Delta(G) + 2 - k$ then $V(G)$ can be partitioned into sets $V_1, ..., V_k$ such that $\Delta(G[V_i]) \leq r_i$ and $G[V_i]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-08 Landon Rabern

This paper focuses on extensions of the classic Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem for the set of weighted function of each edge in a graph. The weighted function of an edge $e$ of an $n$-vertex uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is defined to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Kai Zhao , Xiao-Dong Zhang

We show that for any integer $r\ge 2$, there exists a constant $c>0$ such that for every sufficiently large integer $n$, every $((r-1)n+1)$-regular graph $G$ on $rn$ vertices has at least $c2^{rn}$ subsets $S\subseteq V(G)$ such that $G[S]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Wanting Sun , Shunan Wei , Donglei Yang

Given a graph $F$, a hypergraph is called a Berge-$F$ if it can be obtained by expanding each edge of $F$ into a hyperedge containing it. Let $M_{k}$ denote the matching of size $k$. Kang, Ni, and Shan [12] determined the Tur\'an number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Jia-Bao Yang , Leilei Zhang