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Archdeacon (1987) proved that graphs embeddable on a fixed surface can be $3$-coloured so that each colour class induces a subgraph of bounded maximum degree. Edwards, Kang, Kim, Oum and Seymour (2015) proved that graphs with no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Sang-il Oum , David R. Wood

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

The two graphs of the title both have vertex set G. In the intersection power graph, x and y are joined if some non-identity element is a power of both; in the power graph, x and y joined if one is a power of the other. Thus the power graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Sudip Bera , Peter J. Cameron

We introduce and develop a theory of limits for sequences of sparse graphs based on $L^p$ graphons, which generalizes both the existing $L^\infty$ theory of dense graph limits and its extension by Bollob\'as and Riordan to sparse graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

We study the problem of selecting a maximum-weight subgraph of a given graph such that the subgraph can be drawn within a prescribed drawing area subject to given non-uniform vertex sizes. We develop and analyze heuristics both for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Maximilian Aulbach , Martin Fink , Julian Schuhmann , Alexander Wolff

A conjecture regarding the structure of expander graphs is discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Itai Benjamini , Mikolaj Fraczyk

A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set in which the number of vertices in the two parts differ by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges which go across the two parts. In this paper, motivated by several questions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-29 Choongbum Lee , Po-Shen Loh , Benny Sudakov

Wu, Zhang and Li [4] conjectured that the set of vertices of any simple graph $G$ can be equitably partitioned into $\lceil(\Delta(G)+1)/2\rceil$ subsets so that each of them induces a forest of $G$. In this note, we prove this conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Xin Zhang , Jian-Liang Wu

Unigraphs are graphs identifiable up to isomorphism from their degree sequences. Given a class $\mathcal{A}$ of graphs, we define the class of $\mathcal{A}$-unigraphs to be graphs identifiable from degree sequence and membership in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 R. Whitman

One of the prominent areas of research in graph theory is the degree-diameter problem, in which we seek to determine how many vertices a graph may have when constrained to a given degree and diameter. Different variants of this problem are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-13 James Fraser

A well-known result by Haxell and Kohayakawa states that the vertices of an $r$-coloured complete graph can be partitioned into $r$ monochromatic connected subgraphs of distinct colours; this is a slightly weaker variant of a conjecture by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-22 António Girão , Shoham Letzter , Julian Sahasrabudhe

We completely determine the complexity status of the dominating set problem for hereditary graph classes defined by forbidden induced subgraphs with at most five vertices.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-02 D. S. Malyshev

In this short paper we prove that the sum of the squares of negative (or positive) eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a graph is lower bounded by the sum of the degrees divided by the vector chromatic number, resolving a conjecture by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Gabriel Coutinho , Thomás Jung Spier

The first degree-based entropy of a graph is the Shannon entropy of its degree sequence normalized by the degree sum. In this paper, we characterize the connected graphs with given order $n$ and size $m$ that minimize the first degree-based…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Stijn Cambie , Matteo Mazzamurro

For a vertex subset $X$ of a graph $G$, let $\Delta_{t}(X)$ be the maximum value of the degree sums of the subsets of $X$ of size $t$. In this paper, we prove the following result: Let $k$ be a positive integer, and let $G$ be an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Shuya Chiba

The evaluation of graphs on 2-spheres is a central ingredient of the Turaev-Viro construction of three-dimensional topological field theories. In this article, we introduce a class of graphs, called extruded graphs, that is relevant for the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Julian Farnsteiner , Christoph Schweigert

We prove a conjecture of Bonamy, Bousquet, Pilipczuk, Rz\k{a}\.zewski, Thomass\'e, and Walczak, that for every graph $H$, there is a polynomial $p$ such that for every positive integer $s$, every graph of average degree at least $p(s)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Romain Bourneuf , Matija Bucić , Linda Cook , James Davies

Motivated by the necessities of the invariant theory of binary forms J. J. Sylvester constructed in 1878 for each graph with possible multiple edges but without loops its symmetrized graph monomial which is a polynomial in the vertex labels…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Per Alexandersson , Boris Shapiro

Beck's conjecture on coloring of graphs associated to various algebraic objects has generated considerable interest in the community of discrete mathematics and combinatorics since its inception in the year 1988. The version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Himadri Mukherjee , Priya Das

We show that if $\{G_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ is a sequence of graphs of order $n$ with bounded maximum degree and isoperimetric function $\Phi(G_n,n^{1-\alpha})$ bounded away from $0$ as $n\rightarrow \infty$, then the cop number of $G_n$ is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Alexander Clow