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Two results (together with their relatively elementary proofs) are presented. The first one presents the upper boundary on the number of spanning trees in a finite planar multigraph, proving that the complexity (the number of spanning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Dmitri Fomin

Let $r$ be an integer with $r\ge 2$ and $G$ be a connected $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges. By refining the broken cycle theorem for hypergraphs, we show that if $k>\frac{m-1}{\ln(1+\sqrt{2})}\approx 1.135 (m-1)$ then the $k$-list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Wei Wang , Jianguo Qian , Zhidan Yan

Bridges are a classical concept in structural graph theory and play a fundamental role in the study of cycles. A conjecture of Voss from 1991 asserts that if disjoint bridges $B_1, B_2, \ldots, B_k$ of a longest cycle $L$ in a $2$-connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jie Ma , Rongxing Xu

The Tree Decomposition Conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k(T)$ such that the following holds: If $G$ is a $k(T)$-edge-connected simple graph with size divisible by the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Martin Merker

Hajos' conjecture that every simple even graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into at most $(n-1)/2$ cycles (see L. Lovasz, On covering of graphs, in: P. Erdos, G.O.H. Katona (Eds.), Theory of Graphs, Academic Press, New York, 1968, pp.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Chunhui Lai , Mingjing Liu

The problem of efficiently characterizing degree sequences of simple hypergraphs is a fundamental long-standing open problem in Graph Theory. Several results are known for restricted versions of this problem. This paper adds to the list of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Syed Mohammad Meesum

The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture asserts that the edges of every graph without isolated edges can be weighted with $1$, $2$ and $3$ so that adjacent vertices receive distinct weighted degrees. This is open in general. We prove that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Julien Bensmail , Jakub Przybyło

For a given graph, the unlabeled subgraphs $G-v$ are called the cards of $G$ and the deck of $G$ is the multiset $\{G-v: v \in V(G)\}$. Wendy Myrvold [Ars Combinatoria, 1989] showed that a non-connected graph and a connected graph both on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Gabriëlle Zwaneveld

The $s$-colour size-Ramsey number of a hypergraph $H$ is the minimum number of edges in a hypergraph $G$ whose every $s$-edge-colouring contains a monochromatic copy of $H$. We show that the $s$-colour size-Ramsey number of the $t$-power of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Shoham Letzter , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Liana Yepremyan

A perfect matching in a 4-uniform hypergraph is a subset of $\lfloor\frac{n}{4}\rfloor$ disjoint edges. We prove that if $H$ is a sufficiently large 4-uniform hypergraph on $n=4k$ vertices such that every vertex belongs to more than…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Imdadullah Khan

The Harary reconstruction conjecture states that any graph with more than four edges can be uniquely reconstructed from its set of maximal edge-deleted subgraphs. In 1977, M\"uller verified the conjecture for graphs with $n$ vertices and $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Anthony E. Pizzimenti , Umarkhon Rakhimov

Inspired by the split decomposition of graphs and rank-width, we introduce the notion of $r$-splits. We focus on the family of $r$-splits of a graph of order $n$, and we prove that it forms a hypergraph with several properties. We prove…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 François Pitois , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba , Olivier Togni

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the spread of social contagion. Initially, all vertices are unburned. In each round, one unburned vertex is selected and burned, while any unburned vertex that has a burned neighbour from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jesper Jansson , Shashanka Kulamarva , Yukihiro Murakami , Nikolaas Verhulst

In this note, we prove that every graph obtained from a bipartite graph by iteratively splitting vertices into two adjacent twins has the de Bruijn-Erd\H{o}s property.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Laurent Beaudou , Guillermo Gamboa Quintero

A typical theme for many well-known decomposition problems is to show that some obvious necessary conditions for decomposing a graph $G$ into copies $H_1, \ldots, H_m$ are also sufficient. One such problem was posed in 1987, by Alavi,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Kyriakos Katsamaktsis , Shoham Letzter , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Benny Sudakov

We consider high-order connectivity in $k$-uniform hypergraphs defined as follows: Two $j$-sets are $j$-connected if there is a walk of edges between them such that two consecutive edges intersect in at least $j$ vertices. We describe the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Oliver Cooley , Mihyun Kang , Christoph Koch

A $k$-uniform hypergraph is $s$-almost intersecting if every edge is disjoint from exactly $s$ other edges. Gerbner, Lemons, Palmer, Patk\'os and Sz\'ecsi conjectured that for every $k$, and $s>s_0(k)$, every $k$-uniform $s$-almost…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Alex Scott , Elizabeth Wilmer

A line multigraph is obtained from a hypergraph as follows: the vertices of the multigraph correspond to the hyperedges of the hypergraph, and the number of edges between two vertices is given by the number of vertices shared by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Kauê Cardoso

In this paper we consider two natural notions of connectivity for hypergraphs: weak and strong. We prove that the strong vertex connectivity of a connected hypergraph is bounded by its weak edge connectivity, thereby extending a theorem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Megan Dewar , David Pike , John Proos

Let $F$ be a graph. A hypergraph is called Berge $F$ if it can be obtained by replacing each edge in $F$ by a hyperedge containing it. Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, we say that a hypergraph $H$ is Berge $\mathcal{F}$-free if for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yuan Hou , An Chang , Joshua Cooper