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Joint degree vectors give the number of edges between vertices of degree $i$ and degree $j$ for $1\le i\le j\le n-1$ in an $n$-vertex graph. We find lower and upper bounds for the maximum number of nonzero elements in a joint degree vector…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Eva Czabarka , Johannes Rauh , Kayvan Sadeghi , Taylor Short , Laszlo A Szekely

In this paper, we introduce the concept of curling subsequence of simple, finite and connected graphs. A curling subsequence is a maximal subsequence $C$ of the degree sequence of a simple connected graph $G$ for which the curling number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Johan Kok , Naduvath Sudev , Chithra Sudev

Let $\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha}$ be the set of connected graphs with order $n$ and independence number $\alpha$. Given $k=n-\alpha$, the graph with minimum spectral radius among $\mathbb{G}_{n,\alpha}$ is called the minimizer graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Yarong Hu , Qiongxiang Huang , Zhenzhen Lou

For a set of non-negative integers $L$, the $L$-intersection number of a graph is the smallest number $l$ for which there is an assignment on the vertices to subsets $A_v \subseteq \{1,\dots, l\}$, such that every two vertices $u,v$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-22 Zeinab Maleki , Behnaz Omoomi

The minimum status of a graph is the minimum of statuses of all vertices of this graph. We give a sharp upper bound for the minimum status of a connected graph with fixed order and matching number (domination number, respectively), and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Caixia Liang , Bo Zhou , Haiyan Guo

In a given graph $G$, a set $S$ of vertices with an assignment of colors is a {\sf defining set of the vertex coloring of $G$}, if there exists a unique extension of the colors of $S$ to a $\Cchi(G)$-coloring of the vertices of $G$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-10 Behnaz Omoomi , Nasrin Soltankhah

We find the maximum number of maximal independent sets in two families of graphs: all graphs with $n$ vertices and at most $r$ cycles, and all such graphs that are also connected. In addition, we characterize the extremal graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chee Ying Goh , Khee Meng Koh , Bruce E. Sagan , V. Vatter

Suppose a finite, unweighted, combinatorial graph $G = (V,E)$ is the union of several (degree-)regular graphs which are then additionally connected with a few additional edges. $G$ will then have only a small number of vertices $v \in V$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Tony Zeng

A geodesic is a shortest path which connects a pair of vertices of a graph G. In this paper we define the geodesic subpath number gpn(G) of a graph G as the number of geodesics in G. The number of subtrees and subpaths are already studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Xiao-Dong Zhang

For a graph $G$ with edge set $E$, let $d(u)$ denote the degree of a vertex $u$ in $G$. The diminished Sombor (DSO) index of $G$ is defined as $DSO(G)=\sum_{uv\in E}\sqrt{(d(u))^2+(d(v))^2}(d(u)+d(v))^{-1}$. The cyclomatic number of a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Abdulaziz Mutlaq Alotaibi , Abdulaziz M. Alanazi , Taher S. Hassan , Akbar Ali

The total eccentricity index of a connected graph is defined as sum of the eccentricities of all its vertices. We denote the set of all connected graphs on $n$ vertices with $k$ pendant vertices by $\mathfrak{H}_{n,k}$ and denote the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Dinesh Pandey , Kamal Lochan Patra

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices of $G$ such that every vertex outside $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. A connected dominating set in $G$ is a dominating set $S$ such that the subgraph $G[S]$ induced by $S$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Michael A. Henning , Nawarat Ananchuen , Pawaton Kaemawichanurat

The $\gamma$-graph of a graph $G$ is the graph whose vertices are labelled by the minimum dominating sets of $G$, in which two vertices are adjacent when their corresponding minimum dominating sets (each of size $\gamma(G)$) intersect in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Matt DeVos , Adam Dyck , Jonathan Jedwab , Samuel Simon

It is a well-known fact that a graph of diameter $d$ has at least $d+1$ eigenvalues. Let us call a graph \emph{$d$-extremal} if it has diameter $d$ and exactly $d+1$ eigenvalues. Such graphs have been intensively studied by various authors.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Felix Goldberg , Steve Kirkland , Anu Varghese , Ambat Vijayakumar

An {\em antimagic labeling} of a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices is a bijection from the set of edges to the integers $1,...,m$ such that all $n$ vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where a vertex sum is the sum of labels of all edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Alon , G. Kaplan , A. Lev , Y. Roditty , R. Yuster

Let $G$ be a connected graph with minimum degree $\delta(G)$ and vertex-connectivity $\kappa(G)$. The graph $G$ is $k$-connected if $\kappa(G)\geq k$, maximally connected if $\kappa(G) = \delta(G)$, and super-connected (or super-$\kappa$)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Zhen-Mu Hong , Zheng-Jiang Xia , Fuyuan Chen , Lutz Volkmann

The domatic number of a graph $G$ is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint dominating sets of $G$. We are interested in the LP-relaxation of this parameter, which is called the fractional domatic number of $G$. We study its extremal value…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Quentin Chuet , Hugo Demaret , Hoang La , François Pirot

The main purpose of this paper is to prove the uniqueness of a graph attaining the maximum of the number of independent sets over all $k$-regular graphs on $n$ vertices for $2k|n$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Alexei Dmitriev , Alex Dainiak

We study the ratio, in a finite graph, of the sizes of the largest matching in any pair of disjoint matchings with the maximum total number of edges and the largest possible matching. Previously, it was shown that this ratio is between 4/5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Zhengda Mo , Sam Qunell , Anush Tserunyan , Jenna Zomback

In the literature, several identification problems in graphs have been studied, of which, the most widely studied are the ones based on dominating sets as a tool of identification. Hereby, the objective is to separate any two vertices of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Dipayan Chakraborty , Annegret K. Wagler