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In \cite{Chan95}, the authors classified the 2-extendable abelian Cayley graphs and posed the problem of characterizing all 2-extendable Cayley graphs. We first show that a connected bipartite Cayley (vertex-transitive) graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Qiuli Li , Xing Gao

A graph $G$ is said to be an $(s, k)$-polar graph if its vertex set admits a partition $(A, B)$ such that $A$ and $B$ induce, respectively, a complete $s$-partite graph and the disjoint union of at most $k$ complete graphs. Polar graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Fernando Esteban Contreras-Mendoza , César Hernández-Cruz

A graph is \emph{$(\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{F})$-partitionable} if its vertex set can be partitioned into two parts such that one part $\mathcal{I}$ is an independent set, and the other $\mathcal{F}$ induces a forest. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Zhengjiao Liu , Tao Wang , Xiaojing Yang

A graph $G$ admiting a $2$-factor is \textit{pseudo $2$-factor isomorphic} if the parity of the number of cycles in all its $2$-factors is the same. In [M. Abreu, A.A. Diwan, B. Jackson, D. Labbate and J. Sheehan. Pseudo $2$-factor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 M. Abreu , M. Funk , D. Labbate , F. Romaniello

Let (G,w) be a weighted graph. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which a weight w : E(G)-->R^+ can be extended to a pseudoultrametric on V(G) are found. A criterion of the uniqueness of this extension is also obtained. It is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-01 O. Dovgoshey , E. Petrov

For graphs $G$ and $H$, an {\em $H$-colouring} of $G$ (or {\em homomorphism} from $G$ to $H$) is a function from the vertices of $G$ to the vertices of $H$ that preserves adjacency. $H$-colourings generalize such graph theory notions as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 John Engbers , David Galvin

If G is a graph and H is a set of subgraphs of G, then an edge-coloring of G is called H-polychromatic if every graph from H gets all colors present in G on its edges. The H-polychromatic number of G, denoted poly_H(G), is the largest…

Let $n\geq 6,k\geq 0$ be two integers. Let $H$ be a graph of order $n$ with $k$ components, each of which is an even cycle of length at least $6$ and $G$ be a bipartite graph with bipartition $(X,Y)$ such that $|X|=|Y|\geq n/2$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Shengning Qiao , Bing Chen

The NP-hard general factor problem asks, given a graph and for each vertex a list of integers, whether the graph has a spanning subgraph where each vertex has a degree that belongs to its assigned list. The problem remains NP-hard even if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gregory Gutin , Eun Jung Kim , Arezou Soleimanfallah , Stefan Szeider , Anders Yeo

A graph $G$ is $H$-free if any subset of $V(G)$ does not induce a subgraph of $G$ that is isomorphic to $H$. Given a graph $H$, we present sufficient and necessary conditions for a graph $G$ such that $G/e$ is $H$-free for any edge $e$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Hany Ibrahim , Peter Tittmann

Cohen-Macaulayness of bipartite graphs is investigated by several mathematicians and has been characterized combinatorially. In this note, we give some different combinatorial conditions for a bipartite graph which are equal to…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Rashid Zaare-Nahandi

We prove that a connected bipartite graph G is a partial cube if and only if the set of attaching points of any copoint of G is convex. A consequence of this result is that any connected bipartite graph with pre-hull number at most 1 is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Norbert Polat

A spanning subgraph $F$ of a graph $G$ is defined as an even factor of $G$, if the degree $d_F(v)=2k, k\in\mathbb{N}^+$ for every vertex $v\in V(G)$. This note establishes a sufficient condition to ensure that a connected graph $G$ of even…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Lu Li , Hechao Liu , Hongbo Hua , Zenan Du

The focus of this paper is on discussion of a catalog of a class of (3, g) graphs for even girth g. A (k, g) graph is a graph with regular degree k and girth g. This catalog is compared with other known lists of (3, g) graphs such as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Vivek S. Nittoor

This article approaches the counting of subgraphs, in terms of signature-type functionals defined over combinatorial Hopf algebras of graphs. Well-known algebraic identities that arise in the context of counting subgraphs are then captured…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Diego Caudillo , Joscha Diehl , Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard , Emanuele Verri

A graph $H$ is an induced subgraph of a graph $G$ if a graph isomorphic to $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by deleting vertices. Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the unavoidable induced subgraphs for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Robert Hickingbotham

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of fixed graphs and let $d$ be large enough. For every $d$-regular graph $G$, we study the existence of a spanning $\mathcal{F}$-free subgraph of $G$ with large minimum degree. This problem is well-understood…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Guillem Perarnau , Bruce Reed

Let $G$ be a graph, and $H\colon V(G)\to 2^\mathbb{N}$ a set function associated with $G$. A spanning subgraph $F$ of $G$ is called an $H$-factor if the degree of any vertex $v$ in $F$ belongs to the set $H(v)$. This paper contains two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Hongliang Lu , David G. L. Wang , Qinglin Yu

Given a set $F$ of oriented graphs, a graph $G$ is an $F$-graph if it admits an $F$-free orientation. Building on previous work by Bang-Jensen and Urrutia, we propose a master algorithm that determines if a graph admits an $F$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Santiago Guzmán-Pro , César Hernández-Cruz

An undirected graph G is called a VPT graph if it is the vertex intersection graph of a family of paths in a tree. The class of graphs which admit a VPT representation in a host tree with maximum degree at most h is denoted by [h,2,1]. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Liliana Alcón , Marisa Gutierrez , María Pía Mazzoleni