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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

We study the Sombor index of trees with various degree restrictions. In addition to rediscovering that among all trees with a given degree sequence, the greedy tree minimises the Sombor index and the alternating greedy tree maximises it, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Eric O. D. Andriantiana , Valisoa R. M. Rakotonarivo

We show that for every $r \ge 2$ there exists $\epsilon_r > 0$ such that any $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges and maximum vertex degree $o(\sqrt{m})$ contains a set of at most $(\frac{1}{2} - \epsilon_r)m$ edges the removal of which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michal Koucký , Vojtěch Rödl , Navid Talebanfard

It is a classical result that any finite tree with positively weighted edges, and without vertices of degree 2, is uniquely determined by the weighted path distance between each pair of leaves. Moreover, it is possible for a (small) strict…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Katharina T. Huber , Mike Steel

The \emph{distance-number} of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge-lengths over all straight-line drawings of $G$ in the plane. This definition generalises many well-known concepts in combinatorial geometry. We consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Paz Carmi , Vida Dujmović , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

There are multiple factors which can cause the phylogenetic inference process to produce two or more conflicting hypotheses of the evolutionary history of a set X of biological entities. That is: phylogenetic trees with the same set of leaf…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Virginia Aardevol Martinez , Steven Chaplick , Steven Kelk , Ruben Meuwese , Matus Mihalak , Georgios Stamoulis

For a tree $T$, let $lp(T)$ be the number of different lengths of leaf to leaf paths in $T$. For a degree sequence $s$ of a tree, let ${\rm rad}(s)$ be the minimum radius of a tree with degree sequence $s$. Recently, Di Braccio,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Dieter Rautenbach , Johannes Scherer , Florian Werner

In this paper, we show that every planar graph without $4$-cycles and $6$-cycles has a partition of its vertex set into two sets, where one set induces a forest, and the other induces a forest with maximum degree at most $2$ (equivalently,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Pongpat Sittitrai , Kittikorn Nakprasit

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

We study the spectral Tur\'an problem for trees. To avoid limiting our perspective to specific families of trees, we parametrize trees in terms of their unique bipartition. We say $T \in \mathcal{T}_{m,l+1}^{\delta}$ if $T$ is a tree of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Dheer Noal Desai , Hemanshu Kaul , Bahareh Kudarzi

An $n$-vertex graph is degree 3-critical if it has $2n - 2$ edges and no proper induced subgraph with minimum degree at least 3. In 1988, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, and Schelp asked whether one can always find cycles of all short…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francesco Di Braccio , Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Jie Ma , Alexandru Malekshahian , Ziyuan Zhao

Recently, Balliu, Brandt, and Olivetti [FOCS '20] showed the first $\omega(\log^* n)$ lower bound for the maximal independent set (MIS) problem in trees. In this work we prove lower bounds for a much more relaxed family of distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti

A matching cut is a partition of the vertex set of a graph into two sets $A$ and $B$ such that each vertex has at most one neighbor in the other side of the cut. The MATCHING CUT problem asks whether a graph has a matching cut, and has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Ignasi Sau

For a labelled tree on the vertex set $[n]:=\{1,2,..., n\}$, define the direction of each edge $ij$ to be $i\to j$ if $i<j$. The indegree sequence of $T$ can be considered as a partition $\lambda \vdash n-1$. The enumeration of trees with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Rosena R. X. Du , Jingbin Yin

We propose an algorithm named best-scored random forest for binary classification problems. The terminology "best-scored" means to select the one with the best empirical performance out of a certain number of purely random tree candidates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Hanyuan Hang , Xiaoyu Liu , Ingo Steinwart

An independent edge set of graph $G$ is a matching, and is maximal if it is not a proper subset of any other matching of $G$. The number of all the maximal matchings of $G$ is denoted by $\Psi(G)$. In this paper, an algorithm to count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Lingjuan Shi , Wei Li , Kai Deng

Let $F$ be an $n$-vertex forest. We say that an edge $e\notin F$ is in the shadow of $F$ if $F\cup\{e\}$ contains a cycle. It is easy to see that if $F$ is "almost a tree", that is, it has $n-2$ edges, then at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Nati Linial , Ilan Newman , Yuval Peled , Yuri Rabinovich

Classes of graphs with bounded expansion are a generalization of both proper minor closed classes and degree bounded classes. Such classes are based on a new invariant, the greatest reduced average density (grad) of G with rank r,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez

Species tree estimation is a complex problem, due to the fact that different parts of the genome can have different evolutionary histories than the genome itself. One of the causes for this discord is incomplete lineage sorting (also called…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-09 Erin Molloy , Tandy Warnow

We prove the Erd\H os--S\'os conjecture for trees with bounded maximum degree and large dense host graphs. As a corollary, we obtain an upper bound on the multicolour Ramsey number of large trees whose maximum degree is bounded by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Guido Besomi , Matías Pavez-Signé , Maya Stein