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We recursively extend the Lov\'asz theta number to geometric hypergraphs on the unit sphere and on Euclidean space, obtaining an upper bound for the independence ratio of these hypergraphs. As an application we reprove a result in Euclidean…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Davi Castro-Silva , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Lucas Slot , Frank Vallentin

We show that after forcing with a countable support iteration or a finite product of Sacks or splitting forcing over $L$, every analytic hypergraph on a Polish space admits a $\mathbf{\Delta}^1_2$ maximal independent set. As a main…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Jonathan Schilhan

This is a new and short proof of the main theorem of classical structure tree theory. Namely, we show the existence of certain automorphism-invariant tree-decompositions of graphs based on the principle of removing finitely many edges. This…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-05 Bernhard Krön

Directed graphs can be studied by their associated directed flag complex. The homology of this complex has been successful in applications as a topological invariant for digraphs. Through comparison with path homology theory, we derive a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Thomas Chaplin , Heather A. Harrington , Ulrike Tillmann

We construct classes of graphs that are variants of the so-called layered wheel. One of their key properties is that while the treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique number, the construction can be adjusted to make the dependance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Nicolas Trotignon

Many recent works address the question of characterizing induced obstructions to bounded treewidth. In 2022, Lozin and Razgon completely answered this question for graph classes defined by finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs. Their…

The tree complex is a simplicial complex defined in recent work of Belk, Lanier, Margalit, and Winarski with natural applications to mapping class groups and complex dynamics. In this article, we connect this setting with the study of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Michael Dougherty

This is the first of a series of papers that develop a systematic bridge between constructions in discrete mathematics and the corresponding continuous analogs. In this paper, we establish an equivalence between Forman's discrete Morse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Jürgen Jost , Dong Zhang

We recently introduced a notion of tilings of geometric realizations of finite relative simplicial complexes and related those tilings to the discrete Morse theory of R. Forman, especially when they have the property of being shellable, a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Jean-Yves Welschinger

We provide a recursive construction of an acyclic matching (also known as a gradient vector field, an equivalent notion to a discrete Morse function) on the independence complex of a graph with a simplicial vertex using given acyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Sucharita Barik , Anupam Mondal , Sajal Mukherjee

The simplicial volume is a homotopy invariant of manifolds introduced by Gromov in 1982. In order to study its main properties, Gromov himself initiated the dual theory of bounded cohomology, that developed into an active and independent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Roberto Frigerio , Marco Moraschini

The enumeration of independent sets of regular graphs is of interest in statistical mechanics, as it corresponds to the solution of hard-particle models. In 2004, it was conjectured by Fendleyet al. that for some rectangular grids, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-31 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Svante Linusson , Eran Nevo

A hypergraph can be obtained from a simplicial complex by deleting some non-maximal simplices. By [11], a hypergraph gives an associated simplicial complex. By [4], the embedded homology of a hypergraph is the homology of the infimum chain…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Shiquan Ren , Chong Wang , Chengyuan Wu , Jie Wu

This paper is devoted to the neighborhood complexes of the induced $k$-independent graphs. Inspired by the surprising correspondence between total $k$-cut complex of $n$-cycle $C_n$ and neighborhood complex of stable Kneser graph $SG(n,k)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Yufeng Shen , Zhiyu Song , Feneglin Yu , Leopold Wuhan Zhou , Jingqi Zhuang

We assign generalised convolutions (resp. traces) to graphs whose edges are decorated by smooth kernels (resp. smoothing operators) on a closed manifold. To do so, we introduce the concept of TraPs (Traces and Permutations), which roughly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Pierre J. Clavier , Loic Foissy , Sylvie Paycha

Recently, bidirected graphs have received increasing attention from the graph theory community with both structural and algorithmic results. Bidirected graphs are a generalization of directed graphs, consisting of an undirected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Tara Abrishami , Nathan Bowler , Attila Joó , Florian Reich , Qiuzhenyu Tao

A foundation is laid for a theory of combinatorial groupoids, allowing us to use concepts like ``holonomy'', ``parallel transport'', ``bundles'', ``combinatorial curvature'' etc. in the context of simplicial (polyhedral) complexes, posets,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rade T. Zivaljevic

To every tree we associate a filtered cochain complex. Its cohomology and the corresponding spectral sequence have clear combinatorial description. If a tree is the Dynkin diagram of a simple plane curve singularity, the graded Euler…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-01-12 E. Gorsky

We introduce a new model for random simplicial complexes which with high probability generates a complex that has a simply-connected double cover. Hence we develop a model for random simplicial complexes with fundamental group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Florian Frick , Andrew Newman

We generalize two main theorems of matching polynomials of undirected simple graphs, namely, real-rootedness and the Heilmann-Lieb root bound. Viewing the matching polynomial of a graph $G$ as the independence polynomial of the line graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Jonathan Leake , Nick Ryder