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Is there a weak strong regularity lemma?
A famous strengthening of Szemerédi's regularity lemma, due to Alon, Fischer, Krivelevich and Szegedy, allows one to partition a graph into a bounded number of pieces in such a way that not only are ...
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Number of triangle-free graphs with prescribed number of edges
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Let $f(n, e)$ be the number of triangle-free graphs on $n$ vertices and $e$ edges. From empirical evidence, I am motivated ...
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How many n/2-cycles can a cubic graph have
Given a simple cubic graph with $n$ vertices (which implies that $n$ is even), what is a good upper bound on the number of cycles of length $n/2$ it can have?
A random cubic graph has $\Theta((4/3)^n/...
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Largest number of simple paths between two vertices
Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph, $f(v, u)$ be the number of simple paths between $u$ and $v$ in $G$, $f(G) = \max f(v, u)$ over all pairs of vertices $v, u \in G$.
A recent IOI problem utilized ...
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Asymptotics of subgraph densities in graphons
In Pittel (1989)'s solution to a problem of Knuth (1976) on the expected number of stable matchings between $n$ men and $n$ women under uniform random preferences, it was shown that, as $n \to \infty$,...
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Minimal number of colours in distinguishing colouring of biconnected graphs
A colouring of edges of a graph is distingushing if no non-identity automorphism of the graph preserves this colouring.
Problem. Is it true that each biconnected graph possesses a distinguishing ...
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An extremal problem for graphs having every edge contained in a 4-clique
This is a follow-up to Graphs with many triangles but few complete graphs on 4 vertices
I'm looking for an upper bound for the difference between the number of edges and the number of 4-cliques in a ...
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Maximum number of cycles on regular graphs
Let $G$ be a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices. I'm interested in upper bounds on the number of cycles of length $k$ that hold for any such $G$. The regime I'm interested in is:
$d$ is fixed, and $...
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The smallest order of a 4-chromatic graph of given girth
Let $n_4(g)$ denote the smallest order of a $4$-chromatic graph with girth $g$. It is known that $n_4(4)=11$ [2] and $n_4(5)=21$ [1]. By a famous proof of Erdös, it is known that $n_4(g)$ is well-...
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What is the smallest number of vertices in a graph whose every orientation contains a directed straight path of length 3
For a graph $\Gamma$ and a digraph $\vec H$ we write $\Gamma\Rightarrow \vec H$ if any orientation of $\Gamma$ contains an isometric and isomorphic copy of the digraph $\vec H$. Since each graph ...
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Cage graphs and even cycles
Let $G$ be a $(\nu,g)$-cage graph of degree $\nu$ with girth $g$ and $n=n(\nu,g)$ vertices.
Based on the known examples, I am wondering if the following can be proved/disproved:
Is it true that ...
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Algorithms for computing the Resilience of Graphs
The definition of resilience with a graph $G$ w.r.t to a monotone property $\mathcal{P}$ is well known.
(Global resilience) Let $\mathcal{P}$ be an increasing monotone property. The global ...
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$K_4$ or n vertices without triangles
For which minimal $m(n)$ any graph on $m$ vertices contains either a complete subgraph on 4 vertices $K_4$ or $n$-vertices subgraph without triangles? I know a quadratic upper bound $2n^2$, but I am ...
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"Neighborhood-Bounded" regular graphs
Lately I have been interested in questions surrounding strongly regular graphs, and came across this question that I have been struggling to make progress on. (For the sake of being explicit, a graph $...
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What properties do graphs avoiding large regular subgraphs have?
Fix a positive integer $r$ and real $\delta \in (0,1)$.
Let $G$ be an undirected graph on $n$ vertices. Suppose that $G$ does not contain an $r$-regular subgraph on at least $\delta n$ vertices (i.e., ...
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Connected sets with large boundary in a multigraph
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected, undirected graph. Define the boundary $\partial S$ of a set $S\subset V$ to be the set of all $v\notin S$ joined to $S$ by an edge, i.e.
$$\partial S = \{v\not \in S: \...
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Graphs with high girth and low diameter
As the title says, I'm interested in graphs with high girth and low diameter.
Given a class $\Gamma$ of finite $k$-regular graphs, call a $\Gamma$-graph GD-extremal if every $\Gamma$-graph either has ...
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Maximal number of smallest circuits in a matroid
It is known (see here for example) that, in a simple graph of odd genus $g$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the number of cycles of lenght $g$ is at most $\frac{n(m-n+1)}{g}$.
Since this can be be ...
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Expected number of bridges in a random subgraph
I am researching connectivity in random subgraphs and have come across the following problem.
A bridge between two vertices $a$ and $b$ of a graph $G$ is an edge $e$ such that removing $e$ from $G$ ...
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Can the vertices of a planar graph of min degree 3 be covered with edges of average weight ( sum of degrees) at most 14?
Consider a planar graph where every vertex is incident to at least 3 edges, and assign to each edge a weight equal to the sum of the degrees of its endpoints.
If not, what is the smallest n so that ...
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Faithful Orthogonality Dimension of Kneser Graphs
Let us consider the complement of the Kneser graph with parameters $n$ and $n/4$. The vertex set of our graph $K$ is the set $\binom{[n]}{n/4}$ of $n/4$-subsets of $[n]$, and two vertices are joined ...
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Blocking directed paths on a DAG with a linear number of vertex defects
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a directed acyclic graph.
Define the set of all directed paths in $G$ by $\Gamma$.
Given a subset $W\subseteq V$, let
$\Gamma_W\subseteq \Gamma$ be the set of all paths in $\Gamma$ ...
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Halin Graphs with Highest Number of Hamilton Cycles
Halin graphs contain a Hamilton cycle and have the interesting property, that, also in the case of arbitrary real edge weights, it is possible to report one of the shortest contained Hamilton cycles ...
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Two possible generalizations of a theorem of Kotlov about the Hamming Cube
The following theorem is proved here
Let $Q_n=(V,E)$ be the Hamming graph, and let $S \subseteq V$, $|S|<2^{n-1}$. Then the induced subgraph on $V \setminus S$, $Q_n[V \setminus S]$, has a ...
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Smallest matrix covered by many random n by n matrices
We say that a matrix $M$ can be covered by a (smaller) matrix $N$ if every entry in $M$ is contained in some submatrix of $M$ that exactly equals to $N$, up to reordering the rows and columns of $N$. ...
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Behrend's construction vs. Triangle removal lemma
I was reading Zhao's book "Graph theory and additive combinatorics" and on page 71 I came across Remark 2.5.4 which I'd like to understand.
Theorem 2.3.1 (Triangle removal lemma) For all $\...
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Connected set of vertices having large boundary in a subset?
Let $\Gamma = (V,E)$ be a connected (undirected) graph where every vertex has degree $\geq 2$. Let $E'\supset E$ be a larger set of edges between elements of $V$ such that every vertex of $\Gamma'=(V,...
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Boundary differences in two graphs
Let $\Gamma, \Xi$ be two graphs with the same set of vertices $V$ with $n$ elements. Assume $\Gamma$ is connected. Write $\Gamma\cup \Xi$ (or $\Gamma\cap \Xi$) for the graph whose set of edges is the ...
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The pagenumber of subdivision of a complete graph
A book embedding of a graph $G$ consists of placing the vertices of $G$ on a spine and assigning edges of the graph to pages so that edges in the same page do not cross each other. The book thickness $...
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An extremal problem in directed path systems
The following is a common rephrasing of the well-known open problem in extremal graph theory to (asymptotically) determine $ex(n, C_8)$:
What is the asymptotically maximum $L = L(n)$ such that ...
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On planar graphs with specific spanning tree count and poly number of vertices
Given set $\mathcal T_n=\{0,1,3,4\dots,2^n-1\}$ (note there is no $2$) what is the minimum number of vertices $m$ needed in a planar graph such that at every $i\in\mathcal T_n$ there is a graph $G\in\...
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Some version of graph removal lemma
I found the following statement in 'A proof of the stability of extremal graphs,
Simonovits’ stability from Szemerédi’s regularity' by Zoltán Füredi:
Lemma: For any $\alpha>0$ and a graph $F$, ...
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A variant of the regularity lemma that depends on the number of vertices
Suppose $G = (U \cup V,E)$ is a bipartite graph with $n$ vertices on each side.
For sets $X \subseteq U$ and $Y \subseteq V$,
let $d(X,Y) = |(X \times Y) \cap E| / (|X||Y|)$ denote the edge density ...
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Two conjectures on a special type of graph
I want to analyze a special type of weighted directed graph where out degrees is equal to in degrees at each vertex.
$n \in Z$ and $n \geq 3$ ,
Set
$x_n=\left(1,1,\dots,1\right)^T \in \mathbb{R}^{n}...
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What is the optimal upper bound of $|T_1|+|T_2|+|T_3|$ if $T_1, T_2, T_3$ are trees covering a planar graph
By a classical theorem of Nash-Williams, the edges of every connected $n$-vertex planar graph can be covered by three trees $T_1,T_2$ and $T_3$. Does anyone know of any results from an article or a ...
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Expectation of Hadwiger number of a random graph
For any integer $n$, let ${\cal G}_n$ denote the set of simple, undirected graphs $G = (V, E)$ where $V = \{1,\ldots,n\}$. The Hadwiger number $\eta(G)$ of a finite graph $G$ is the maximum integer $m$...
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Existence of a subcover with large boundary
Let $\mathscr{C}$ be a cover of $\mathbf{N}=\{1,2,\dotsc,N\}$ by finite subsets $S\in \mathscr{C}$ with $2\leq |S|\leq K$, where we write $|S|$ for the number of elements of $S$. Assume no element of $...
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Estimates for the drop in the sum of all pairwise weighted distances effected by a decrease of the weight of an edge
Consider simple connected undirected graphs $G = (V, E)$ equipped with a function $w\colon E\rightarrow \{x\in \mathbb{R}\colon x\geq 0\}$.
Define a function $d_{G,w}\colon V\times V\rightarrow\...
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possible degree sequences for a graph with multiple edges but no loops
Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. $G$ is allowed to have multiple edges but no loops. The degree sequence of $G$ is the tuple $(d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_n)$ with $d_1\geq d_2 \geq\cdots\geq d_n\geq 0$ ...
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Even cycle constrained edge coloring
Is minimum colors needed to assign colors to edges of complete graph $K_n$ so that every $2t$ simple cycle where $t\in\Big\{1,\dots,2\Big\lfloor\frac{n}2\Big\rfloor\Big\}$ contains atleast $t+1$ ...
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Maximum cardinality general factor of a graph
Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of integers $B(v)$ associated to each vertex, a general factor of $G$ is a set of edges $F\subseteq E$ such that the degree of each vertex $v\in V$ in the graph $(V, ...
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The Turán problem for graphs with given chromatic number
The ordinary Turán problem for graphs asks, "Given a graph $H$, if $G$ is an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices, what is the largest number of edges that $G$ can have?" As is well known, if $\chi(H) = r +...
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Bipartite independence number
Consider a balanced bipartite graph $G=(U,V,E)$, i.e., a bipartite graph with $|U|=|V|$. An independent set $I$ of $G$ is balanced if $|I \cap U| = |I \cap V|$.
The bipartite independence number of $...
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Specific regularity in bipartite graphs
Let $G(A,B)$ be a bipartite graph with $|A| = |B| = n$, where $n$ is sufficiently large(thus, $o(n)/n,o(n^2)/n^2\ll 1$). The edge density of $G$ is $d = \frac{e(A,B)}{n^2}$, where $e(A,B)$ denotes the ...
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Is there any other norms besides cut norm defined on graphon?
Let $\mathcal{W}$ denote the space of all bounded symmetric measurable functions
$W : [0, 1]^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}.$ For any $W\in\mathcal{W}$ we say it is a kernel and define its cut norm $\lVert ...
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Turán number of even cycles with diagonal
Let $C_{2k}'$ denote the graph that consists of the cycle on $2k$ vertices and one more edge, a chord connecting two opposite, i.e., distance $k$ vertices of the cycle.
What is known about the Turán ...
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Graph removal lemma
The graph removal lemma says that for any graph $H$ and any $\epsilon>0$, there is a $\delta>0$ such that any $n$-vertex graph which contains at most $\delta n^{v(H)}$ copies of $H$ can be made $...
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Connected sets with a large boundary in a privileged set
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected, undirected graph. Define the boundary $\partial S$ of a set $S\subset V$ to be the set of all $v\notin S$ joined to $S$ by an edge, i.e.
$$\partial S = \{v\not \in S: \...
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Expected value of the difference of the Hadwiger number and the chromatic number
If $G$ is a finite, simple, undirected graph, its Hadwiger number $\eta(G)$ is the maximum integer $n$ such that $K_n$ is a minor of $G$. Given any integer $k>0$ let $E_k$ be the expected value of ...
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Number of maximum matchings in bipartite graphs of positive surplus
Let $G$ be a simple bipartite graph with left part $L(G)$ and right part $R(G)$. For $S \subseteq L(G)$, denote $N(S)$ the set of neighbours of vertices of $S$. Define the surplus $s(G)$ as $\min_{S \...
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