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In this paper, we introduce a novel star partitioning problem for simple connected graphs $G=(V,E)$. The goal is to find a partition of the edges into stars that minimizes the maximum number of stars a node is contained in while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Sarah Feldmann , Torben Schürenberg

Several graph decompositions that factorize the determinant of the adjacency matrix isolate a K\H{o}nig-Egerv\'ary part, such as the SD--KE decomposition and the critical independence decomposition of Larson. This suggests that the study of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Kevin Pereyra

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph minimizing the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already for bipartite graphs when the functions are convex on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Gabriel Deza , Shmuel Onn

Let ${\cal G}$ be a minor-closed graph class. We say that a graph $G$ is a $k$-apex of ${\cal G}$ if $G$ contains a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G\setminus S$ belongs to ${\cal G}$. We denote by ${\cal A}_k ({\cal G})$ the set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ignasi Sau , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We consider the Hypergraph-$k$-cut problem. The input consists of a hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative hyperedge-costs $c: E\rightarrow R_+$ and a positive integer $k$. The objective is to find a least-cost subset $F\subseteq E$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri

We prove that for every complete multipartite graph $F$ there exist very dense graphs $G_n$ on $n$ vertices, namely with as many as ${n\choose 2}-cn$ edges for all $n$, for some constant $c=c(F)$, such that $G_n$ can be decomposed into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

We provide a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that, for a given $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices and edge density $d$, finds a complete $k$-partite subgraph of $H$ with parts of size at least ${c(d, k)(\log…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Ferran Espuña

Ball, Ortega--Moreno, and Prodromou asked whether, for every odd prime $p$, one can find a $1$-factor of the complete graph $K_{p+1}$ with some arithmetic restrictions related to quadratic residues. This problem is motivated by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Chi Hoi Yip , Semin Yoo

Associated to a graph $G$ is a set $\mathcal{S}(G)$ of all real-valued symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal entries are nonzero precisely when the corresponding vertices of the graph are adjacent, and the diagonal entries are free to be…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Mohammad Adm , Shaun Fallat , Karen Meagher , Shahla Nasserasr , Sarah Plosker , Boting Yang

A result of Gy\'arf\'as says that for every $3$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there is a monochromatic component of order at least $\frac{n}{2}$, and this is best possible when $4$ divides $n$. Furthermore, for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Deepak Bal , Louis DeBiasio

An $(f,g)$-semi-matching in a bipartite graph $G=(U \cup V,E)$ is a set of edges $M \subseteq E$ such that each vertex $u\in U$ is incident with at most $f(u)$ edges of $M$, and each vertex $v\in V$ is incident with at most $g(v)$ edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ján Katrenic , Gabriel Semanisin

Let $F_k$ be the set of graphs on $k$ vertices. For a graph $G$, a $k$-decomposition is a set of induced subgraphs of $G$, each isomorphic to an element of $F_k$, such that each pair of vertices of $G$ is in exactly one element of the set.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Raphael Yuster

A star of length $ \ell $ is defined as the complete bipartite graph $ K_{1,\ell } $. In this paper we deal with the problem of edge decomposition of graphs into stars of varying lengths. Given a graph $ G $ and a list of integers…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sahab Hajebi , Ramin Javadi

In a sequence of four papers, we prove the following results (via a unified approach) for all sufficiently large $n$: (i) [1-factorization conjecture] Suppose that $n$ is even and $D\geq 2\lceil n/4\rceil -1$. Then every $D$-regular graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Deryk Osthus

We address the following general question: given a graph class C on which we can solve Maximum Matching in (quasi) linear time, does the same hold true for the class of graphs that can be modularly decomposed into C ? A major difficulty in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Guillaume Ducoffe , Alexandru Popa

Let ${\cal{F}}=\{F_1,F_2,\ldots\}$ be a sequence of graphs such that $F_n$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$. We show that there exists an absolute constant $C$ such that the vertices of any 2-edge-colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Andrey Grinshpun , Gabor N. Sarkozy

A topological graph is a graph drawn in the plane. A topological graph is $k$-plane, $k>0$, if each edge is crossed at most $k$ times. We study the problem of partitioning the edges of a $k$-plane graph such that each partite set forms a…

Let $D(G)=(d_{ij})_{n\times n}$ denote the distance matrix of a connected graph $G$ with order $n$, where $d_{ij}$ is equal to the distance between vertices $v_{i}$ and $v_{j}$ in $G$. A graph is called distance integral if all eigenvalues…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Ruosong Yang , Ligong Wang

A $(\delta\geq k_1,\delta\geq k_2)$-partition of a graph $G$ is a vertex-partition $(V_1,V_2)$ of $G$ satisfying that $\delta(G[V_i])\geq k_i$ for $i=1,2$. We determine, for all positive integers $k_1,k_2$, the complexity of deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Joergen Bang-Jensen , Stéphane Bessy

We investigate a covering problem in $3$-uniform hypergraphs ($3$-graphs): given a $3$-graph $F$, what is $c_1(n,F)$, the least integer $d$ such that if $G$ is an $n$-vertex $3$-graph with minimum vertex degree $\delta_1(G)>d$ then every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Victor Falgas--Ravry , Klas Markström , Yi Zhao