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We present a strengthening of the countable Menger theorem (edge version) of R. Aharoni. Let $ D=(V,A) $ be a countable digraph with $ s\neq t\in V $ and let $\mathcal{M}=\bigoplus_{v\in V}\mathcal{M}_v $ be a matroid on $ A $ where $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Attila Joó

We give a common matroidal generalisation of `A Cantor-Bernstein theorem for paths in graphs' by Diestel and Thomassen and `A Cantor-Bernstein-type theorem for spanning trees in infinite graphs' by ourselves.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Attila Joó

We represent the universal Menger curve as the topological realization $|\mathbb{M}|$ of the projective Fra\"iss\'e limit ${\mathbb M}$ of the class of all finite connected graphs. We show that $\mathbb{M}$ satisfies combinatorial analogues…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos , Slawomir Solecki

Let $ D $ be a finite digraph, and let $ V_0,\dots,V_{k-1} $ be nonempty subsets of $ V(D) $. The (strong form of) Edmonds' branching theorem states thatthere are pairwise edge-disjoint spanning branchings $ \mathcal{B}_0,\dots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Attila Joó

Menger conjectured that subsets of $\mathbb R$ with the Menger property must be $\sigma$-compact. While this is false when there is no restriction on the subsets of $\mathbb R$, for projective subsets it is known to follow from the Axiom of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Franklin D. Tall , Stevo Todorcevic , Seçil Tokgöz

A graph G is perfect if for every induced subgraph H, the chromatic number of H equals the size of the largest complete subgraph of H, and G is Berge if no induced subgraph of G is an odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of one.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Neil Robertson , Paul Seymour , Robin Thomas

We prove that in any $n$-vertex complete graph there is a collection $\mathcal{P}$ of $(1 + o(1))n$ paths that strongly separates any pair of distinct edges $e, f$, meaning that there is a path in $\mathcal{P}$ which contains $e$ but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Cristina G. Fernandes , Guilherme Oliveira Mota , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

We expand upon the notion of bottlenecking introduced in our earlier work, characterizing a spectrum of graphs and showing that this naturally extends to a concept of coarse bottlenecking. We show how the notion of bottlenecking provides a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Michael Bruner , Atish Mitra , Heidi Steiger

Given two graphs, a mapping between their edge-sets is cycle-continuous, if the preimage of every cycle is a cycle. The motivation for this notion is Jaeger's conjecture that for every bridgeless graph there is a cycle-continuous mapping to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Robert Šámal

We show that for a sequence of random graphs Brouwer's conjecture holds true with probability tending to one as the number of vertices tends to infinity. Surprisingly, it was found that a similar statement holds true for weighted graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Israel Rocha

We show that if a graph admits a packing and a covering both consisting of $\lambda$ many spanning trees, where $\lambda$ is some infinite cardinal, then the graph also admits a decomposition into $\lambda$ many spanning trees. For finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Joshua Erde , Pascal Gollin , Atilla Joó , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

We introduce and study the Separation Problem for infinite graphs, which involves determining whether a connected graph splits into at least two infinite connected components after the removal of a given finite set of edges. We prove that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Nicanor Carrasco-Vargas , Valentino Delle Rose , Cristóbal Rojas

An old result of M\"uller and R\"odl states that a countable graph $G$ has a subgraph whose vertices all have infinite degree if and only if for any vertex labeling of $G$ by positive integers, an infinite increasing path can be found. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Valentino Vito

Let $D$ be a digraph. Given a set of vertices $S \subseteq V(D)$, an $S$-path partition $\mathcal{P}$ of $D$ is a collection of paths of $D$ such that $\{V(P) \colon P \in \mathcal{P}\}$ is a partition of $V(D)$ and $|V(P) \cap S| = 1$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Cândida Nunes da Silva , Orlando Lee , Maycon Sambinelli

It follows from a theorem of Lov\'asz that if $ D $ is a finite digraph with $ r\in V(D) $ then there is a spanning subdigraph $ E $ of $ D $ such that for every vertex $ v\neq r $ the following quantities are equal: the local connectivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Attila Joó

A graph $G$ is {\it $n$-existentially closed} if, for all disjoint sets of vertices $A$ and $B$ with $|A\cup B|=n$, there is a vertex $z$ not in $A\cup B$ adjacent to each vertex of $A$ and to no vertex of $B$. In this paper, we investigate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Andrea C. Burgess , Robert D. Luther , David A. Pike

Given a finite set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, Tverberg's theorem guarantees the existence of partitions of this set into parts whose convex hulls intersect. We introduce a graph structured on the family of Tverberg partitions of a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Deborah Oliveros , Érika Roldán , Pablo Soberón , Antonio J. Torres

We show that the infinite matroid intersection conjecture of Nash-Williams implies the infinite Menger theorem proved recently by Aharoni and Berger. We prove that this conjecture is true whenever one matroid is nearly finitary and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Elad Aigner-Horev , Johannes Carmesin , Jan-Oliver Fröhlich

Menger's theorem is an important building block of numerous results in the study of graph structure. We consider a variant in terms of coarse geometry. We say that a set of graphs has the weak coarse Menger property if there exist functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Chun-Hung Liu

Let G be a simple finite graph such that each vertex has an integer value and different vertices have different values. Let S be a finite non-empty set of primes. We call G an S-graph if any two vertices are connected by an edge if and only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-26 K. Győry , L. Hajdu , R. Tijdeman