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Given a family ${\cal F}$ of graphs, and a positive integer $n$, the Tur\'an number $ex(n,{\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain any member of ${\cal F}$ as a subgraph. The order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Tao Jiang , Andrew Newman

A consistent path system in a graph $G$ is an intersection-closed collection of paths, with exactly one path between any two vertices in $G$. We call $G$ metrizable if every consistent path system in it is the system of geodesic paths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Maria Chudnovsky , Daniel Cizma , Nati Linial

The "slope-number" of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of distinct edge slopes in a straight-line drawing of $G$ in the plane. We prove that for $\Delta\geq5$ and all large $n$, there is a $\Delta$-regular $n$-vertex graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Vida Dujmovic' , Matthew Suderman , David R. Wood

For a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, a vertex labelling $f:V(G)\to\{1,2\ldots,k\}$ is said to be $k$-distinguishing if no non-trivial automorphism of $G$ preserves the sets $f^{-1}(i)$ for each $i\in\{1,\ldots,k\}$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Niranjan Balachandran , Sajith Padinhatteeri , Pablo Spiga

Dujmovi\'c, Joret, Micek, Morin, Ueckerdt and Wood [J. ACM 2020] proved that for every graph $G$ with Euler genus $g$ there is a graph $H$ with treewidth at most 4 and a path $P$ such that $G\subseteq H \boxtimes P \boxtimes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Marc Distel , Robert Hickingbotham , Tony Huynh , David R. Wood

We study separating systems of the edges of a graph where each member of the separating system is a path. We conjecture that every $n$-vertex graph admits a separating path system of size $O(n)$ and prove this in certain interesting special…

A $K_r$-factor of a graph $G$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint $r$-cliques covering $V(G)$. We prove the following algorithmic version of the classical Hajnal--Szemer\'edi Theorem in graph theory, when $r$ is considered as a constant.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Luyining Gan , Jie Han , Jie Hu

For any graph $G$, a separating path system of $G$ is a family of paths in $G$ with the property that for any pair of edges in $E(G)$ there is at least one path in the family that contains one edge but not the other. We investigate the size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Belinda Wickes

Let $W(G)$ be the Wiener index of a graph $G$. We say that a vertex $v \in V(G)$ is a \v{S}olt\'es vertex in $G$ if $W(G - v) = W(G)$, i.e. the Wiener index does not change if the vertex $v$ is removed. In 1991, \v{S}olt\'es posed the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Nino Bašić , Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski

Results on the existence of various types of spanning subgraphs of graphs are milestones in structural graph theory and have been diversified in several directions. In the present paper, we consider "local" versions of such statements. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Thomas Böhme , Jochen Harant , Matthias Kriesell , Samuel Mohr , Jens M. Schmidt

The Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres Theorem stated in terms of graphs says that any red-blue coloring of the edges of the ordered complete graph $K_{rs+1}$ contains a red copy of the monotone increasing path with $r$ edges or a blue copy of the monotone…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-22 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Emily Heath , Mikhail Lavrov

For an integer $k \geq 1$ and a graph $G$, let $\mathcal{K}_k(G)$ be the graph that has vertex set all proper $k$-colorings of $G$, and an edge between two vertices $\alpha$ and~$\beta$ whenever the coloring~$\beta$ can be obtained from…

A linkage in a graph $G$ of size $k$ is a subgraph $L$ of $G$ whose connected components are $k$ paths. The pattern of a linkage of size $k$ is the set of $k$ pairs formed by the endpoints of these paths. A consequence of the Unique Linkage…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Petr A. Golovach , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The Bar\'at-Thomassen conjecture asserts that there is a function $f$ such that for every fixed tree $T$ with $t$ edges, every graph which is $f(t)$-edge-connected with its number of edges divisible by $t$ has a partition of its edges into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Tien-Nam Le , Stéphan Thomassé

For a graph $G$, we denote by $\sigma_{2}(G)$ the minimum degree sum of two non-adjacent vertices if $G$ is non-complete; otherwise, $\sigma_{2}(G) = +\infty$. In this paper, we prove the following two results: (i) If $s_{1}, s_{2} \ge 2$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Shuya Chiba , Nicolas Lichiardopol

We consider the worst-case query complexity of some variants of certain \cl{PPAD}-complete search problems. Suppose we are given a graph $G$ and a vertex $s \in V(G)$. We denote the directed graph obtained from $G$ by directing all edges in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Günter Rote , Gábor Wiener

In 1963, Corr\'adi and Hajnal proved that for all $k\geq1$ and $n\geq3k$, every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G)\geq2k$ contains $k$ disjoint cycles. The bound $\delta(G) \geq 2k$ is sharp. Here we characterize those…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-18 H. A. Kierstead , A. V. Kostochka , E. C. Yeager

A tree $T$ in an edge-colored graph is a {\it proper tree} if no two adjacent edges of $T$ receive the same color. Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$ and $k$ be a fixed integer with $2\le k\le n$. For a vertex subset $S \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Hong Chang , Xueliang Li , Zhongmei Qin

A fair dominating set in a graph $G$ (or FD-set) is a dominating set $S$ such that all vertices not in $S$ are dominated by the same number of vertices from $S$; that is, every two vertices not in $S$ have the same number of neighbors in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-07 Yair Caro , Adriana Hansberg , Michael A. Henning

The zero locus of a function f on a graph G is defined as the graph with vertex set consisting of all complete subgraphs of G, on which f changes sign and where x,y are connected if one is contained in the other. For d-graphs, finite simple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Oliver Knill