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A graph is $H$-free if it has no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. We characterize all graphs $H$ for which there are only finitely many minimal non-three-colorable $H$-free graphs. Such a characterization was previously known only in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Jan Goedgebeur , Oliver Schaudt , Mingxian Zhong

We study the problem of partitioning the edge set of the complete graph into bipartite subgraphs under certain constraints defined by forbidden subgraphs. These constraints lead to both classical problems, such as partitioning into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Lajos Győrffy , András London , Gábor V. Nagy , András Pluhár

Let $T$ be a tree, a vertex of degree one is a leaf of $T$ and a vertex of degree at least three is a branch vertex of $T$. For two distinct vertices $u,v$ of $T$, let $P_T[u,v]$ denote the unique path in $T$ connecting $u$ and $v.$ For a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Pham Hoang Ha

Limits of graphs were initiated recently in the two extreme contexts of dense and bounded degree graphs. This led to elegant limiting structures called graphons and graphings. These approach have been unified and generalized by authors in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez

A graph $G$ is said to be ubiquitous, if every graph $\Gamma$ that contains arbitrarily many disjoint $G$-minors automatically contains infinitely many disjoint $G$-minors. The well-known Ubiquity conjecture of Andreae says that every…

One of the major problems in combinatorics is to determine the number of $r$-uniform hypergraphs ($r$-graphs) on $n$ vertices which are free of certain forbidden structures. This problem dates back to the work of Erd\H{o}s, Kleitman and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Letícia Mattos

The complexity of the maximum common connected subgraph problem in partial $k$-trees is still not fully understood. Polynomial-time solutions are known for degree-bounded outerplanar graphs, a subclass of the partial $2$-trees. On the other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Nils Kriege , Florian Kurpicz , Petra Mutzel

In this paper we present a complete characterization of the smallest sets that block all the simple spanning trees (SSTs) in a complete geometric graph. We also show that if a subgraph is a blocker for all SSTs of diameter at most 4, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-24 Chaya Keller , Micha A. Perles , Eduardo Rivera-Campo , Virginia Urrutia-Galicia

We show that many graphs with bounded treewidth can be described as subgraphs of the strong product of a graph with smaller treewidth and a bounded-size complete graph. To this end, define the "underlying treewidth" of a graph class…

We investigate the problem of simultaneously dominating all spanning trees of a given graph. We prove that on 2-connected graphs, a subset of the vertices dominates all spanning trees of the graph if and only if it is a vertex cover. Using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Sebastian S. Johann , Sven O. Krumke , Manuel Streicher

A self-contained graph is an infinite graph which is isomorphic to one of its proper induced subgraphs. In this paper, these graphs are studied by presenting some examples and defining some of their sub-structures such as removable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz , Madjid Mirzavaziri

We extend our previous algorithm that generates all labeled graphs with a given graphical degree sequence to generate all labeled triangle-free graphs with a given graphical degree sequence. The algorithm uses various pruning techniques to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Kai Wang

What are the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large treewidth? It is well-known that the answer must include a complete graph, a complete bipartite graph, all subdivisions of a wall and line graphs of all subdivisions of a wall…

Packing graphs is a combinatorial problem where several given graphs are being mapped into a common host graph such that every edge is used at most once. In the planar tree packing problem we are given two trees T1 and T2 on n vertices and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Markus Geyer , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Kaufmann , Vincent Kusters , Csaba D. Tóth

We prove that for every set $S$ of vertices of a directed graph $D$, the maximum number of vertices in $S$ contained in a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles in $D$ is at least the minimum size of a set of vertices that hits all cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nathan Bowler , Ebrahim Ghorbani , Florian Gut , Raphael W. Jacobs , Florian Reich

Given a graph G and an integer k, the objective of the $\Pi$-Contraction problem is to check whether there exists at most k edges in G such that contracting them in G results in a graph satisfying the property $\Pi$. We investigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Dipayan Chakraborty , R. B. Sandeep

For a graph $G$, let $t(G)$ denote the maximum number of vertices in an induced subgraph of $G$ that is a tree. Further, for a vertex $v\in V(G)$, let $t^v(G)$ denote the maximum number of vertices in an induced subgraph of $G$ that is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Florian Pfender

A homogeneous set of an $n$-vertex graph is a set $X$ of vertices ($2\le |X|\le n-1$) such that every vertex not in $X$ is either complete or anticomplete to $X$. A graph is called prime if it has no homogeneous set. A chain of length $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Maria Chudnovsky , Ringi Kim , Sang-il Oum , Paul Seymour

Graph editing problems offer an interesting perspective on sub- and supergraph identification problems for a large variety of target properties. They have also attracted significant attention in recent years, particularly in the area of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Luke Mathieson

In this paper, we investigate normal trees of directed graphs, which extend the fundamental concept of normal trees of undirected graphs. We prove that a directed graph $D$ has a normal spanning tree if and only if the topological space…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Florian Reich