scholarly journals Optimal induced universal graphs for bounded-degree graphs

2017 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOGA ALON ◽  
RAJKO NENADOV
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Induced Subgraph ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Universal Graphs

AbstractWe show that for any constant Δ ≥ 2, there exists a graph Γ withO(nΔ / 2) vertices which contains everyn-vertex graph with maximum degree Δ as an induced subgraph. For odd Δ this significantly improves the best-known earlier bound and is optimal up to a constant factor, as it is known that any such graph must have at least Ω(nΔ/2) vertices.

scholarly journals Destroying Bicolored $P_3$s by Deleting Few Edges

2021 ◽  
Vol vol. 23 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Grüttemeier ◽  
Christian Komusiewicz ◽  
Jannik Schestag ◽  
Frank Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Polynomial Time ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Polynomial Time Algorithm ◽  
Time Algorithm ◽  
Np Hard ◽  
Induced Subgraph ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Red Edge ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs

We introduce and study the Bicolored $P_3$ Deletion problem defined as follows. The input is a graph $G=(V,E)$ where the edge set $E$ is partitioned into a set $E_r$ of red edges and a set $E_b$ of blue edges. The question is whether we can delete at most $k$ edges such that $G$ does not contain a bicolored $P_3$ as an induced subgraph. Here, a bicolored $P_3$ is a path on three vertices with one blue and one red edge. We show that Bicolored $P_3$ Deletion is NP-hard and cannot be solved in $2^{o(|V|+|E|)}$ time on bounded-degree graphs if the ETH is true. Then, we show that Bicolored $P_3$ Deletion is polynomial-time solvable when $G$ does not contain a bicolored $K_3$, that is, a triangle with edges of both colors. Moreover, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm for the case that $G$ contains no blue $P_3$, red $P_3$, blue $K_3$, and red $K_3$. Finally, we show that Bicolored $P_3$ Deletion can be solved in $ O(1.84^k\cdot |V| \cdot |E|)$ time and that it admits a kernel with $ O(k\Delta\min(k,\Delta))$ vertices, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of $G$. Comment: 25 pages

scholarly journals On induced-universal graphs for the class of bounded-degree graphs

2008 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 255-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Esperet ◽  
Arnaud Labourel ◽  
Pascal Ochem
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Universal Graphs

scholarly journals Adjacency Labelling for Planar Graphs (and Beyond)

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Vida Dujmović ◽  
Louis Esperet ◽  
Cyril Gavoille ◽  
Gwenaël Joret ◽  
Piotr Micek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Order Term ◽  
Optimal Result ◽  
Induced Subgraph ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Graph Classes ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Minor Free Graphs ◽  
Labelling Scheme

We show that there exists an adjacency labelling scheme for planar graphs where each vertex of an n -vertex planar graph G is assigned a (1 + o(1)) log 2 n -bit label and the labels of two vertices u and v are sufficient to determine if uv is an edge of G . This is optimal up to the lower order term and is the first such asymptotically optimal result. An alternative, but equivalent, interpretation of this result is that, for every positive integer n , there exists a graph U n with n 1+o(1) vertices such that every n -vertex planar graph is an induced subgraph of U n . These results generalize to a number of other graph classes, including bounded genus graphs, apex-minor-free graphs, bounded-degree graphs from minor closed families, and k -planar graphs.

Frozen (Δ + 1)-colourings of bounded degree graphs

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Marthe Bonamy ◽  
Nicolas Bousquet ◽  
Guillem Perarnau
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Mixing Time ◽  
Glauber Dynamics ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Connected Component ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Large Girth ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs

Abstract Let G be a graph on n vertices and with maximum degree Δ, and let k be an integer. The k-recolouring graph of G is the graph whose vertices are k-colourings of G and where two k-colourings are adjacent if they differ at exactly one vertex. It is well known that the k-recolouring graph is connected for $k\geq \Delta+2$ . Feghali, Johnson and Paulusma (J. Graph Theory83 (2016) 340–358) showed that the (Δ + 1)-recolouring graph is composed by a unique connected component of size at least 2 and (possibly many) isolated vertices. In this paper, we study the proportion of isolated vertices (also called frozen colourings) in the (Δ + 1)-recolouring graph. Our first contribution is to show that if G is connected, the proportion of frozen colourings of G is exponentially smaller in n than the total number of colourings. This motivates the use of the Glauber dynamics to approximate the number of (Δ + 1)-colourings of a graph. In contrast to the conjectured mixing time of O(nlog n) for $k\geq \Delta+2$ colours, we show that the mixing time of the Glauber dynamics for (Δ + 1)-colourings restricted to non-frozen colourings can be Ω(n2). Finally, we prove some results about the existence of graphs with large girth and frozen colourings, and study frozen colourings in random regular graphs.

scholarly journals Expanders Are Universal for the Class of All Spanning Trees

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL JOHANNSEN ◽  
MICHAEL KRIVELEVICH ◽  
WOJCIECH SAMOTIJ
Keyword(s):  
Random Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Spanning Trees ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Interesting Consequence ◽  
Random Regular Graph ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Graph Class ◽  
Universal Graphs ◽  
Natural Expansion

A graph is calleduniversalfor a given graph class(or, equivalently,-universal) if it contains a copy of every graph inas a subgraph. The construction of sparse universal graphs for various classeshas received a considerable amount of attention. There is particular interest in tight-universal graphs, that is, graphs whose number of vertices is equal to the largest number of vertices in a graph from. Arguably, the most studied case is that whenis some class of trees. In this work, we are interested in(n,Δ), the class of alln-vertex trees with maximum degree at most Δ. We show that everyn-vertex graph satisfying certain natural expansion properties is(n,Δ)-universal. Our methods also apply to the case when Δ is some function ofn. Since random graphs are known to be good expanders, our result implies, in particular, that there exists a positive constantcsuch that the random graphG(n,cn−1/3log2n) is asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) universal for(n,O(1)). Moreover, a corresponding result holds for the random regular graph of degreecn2/3log2n. Another interesting consequence is the existence of locally sparsen-vertex(n,Δ)-universal graphs. For example, we show that one can (randomly) constructn-vertex(n,O(1))-universal graphs with clique number at most five. This complements the construction of Bhatt, Chung, Leighton and Rosenberg (1989), whose(n,Δ)-universal graphs with merelyO(n)edges contain large cliques of size Ω(Δ). Finally, we show that random graphs are robustly(n,Δ)-universal in the context of the Maker–Breaker tree-universality game.

scholarly journals Size Ramsey Number of Bounded Degree Graphs for Games

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-516
Author(s):  
HEIDI GEBAUER
Keyword(s):  
Connected Graph ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Constant Maximum

We study Maker/Breaker games on the edges ofsparsegraphs. Maker and Breaker take turns at claiming previously unclaimed edges of a given graphH. Maker aims to occupy a given target graphGand Breaker tries to prevent Maker from achieving his goal. We show that for everydthere is a constantc=c(d)with the property that for every graphGonnvertices of maximum degreedthere is a graphHon at mostcnedges such that Maker has a strategy to occupy a copy ofGin the game onH.This is a result about a game-theoretic variant of the size Ramsey number. For a given graphG,$\hat{r}'(G)$is defined as the smallest numberMfor which there exists a graphHwithMedges such that Maker has a strategy to occupy a copy ofGin the game onH. In this language, our result yields that for every connected graphGof constant maximum degree,$\hat{r}'(G) = \Theta(n)$.Moreover, we can also use our method to settle the corresponding extremal number foruniversalgraphs: for a constantdand for the class${\cal G}_{n}$ofn-vertex graphs of maximum degreed,$s({\cal G}_{n})$denotes the minimum number such that there exists a graphHwithMedges where, foreveryG∈${\cal G}_{n}$, Maker has a strategy to build a copy ofGin the game onH. We obtain that$s({\cal G}_{n}) = \Theta(n^{2 - \frac{2}{d}})$.

scholarly journals The bandwidth theorem for locally dense graphs

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Staden ◽  
Andrew Treglown
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Dense Graphs ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Delta G

Abstract The bandwidth theorem of Böttcher, Schacht, and Taraz [Proof of the bandwidth conjecture of Bollobás andKomlós, Mathematische Annalen, 2009] gives a condition on the minimum degree of an n-vertex graph G that ensures G contains every r-chromatic graph H on n vertices of bounded degree and of bandwidth $o(n)$ , thereby proving a conjecture of Bollobás and Komlós [The Blow-up Lemma, Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing, 1999]. In this paper, we prove a version of the bandwidth theorem for locally dense graphs. Indeed, we prove that every locally dense n-vertex graph G with $\delta (G)> (1/2+o(1))n$ contains as a subgraph any given (spanning) H with bounded maximum degree and sublinear bandwidth.

scholarly journals Cycle transversals in bounded degree graphs

2011 ◽  
Vol Vol. 13 no. 1 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Groshaus ◽  
Pavol Hell ◽  
Sulamita Klein ◽  
Loana Tito Nogueira ◽  
Fábio Protti
Keyword(s):  
Approximation Algorithms ◽  
Polynomial Time ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Decomposition Theorem ◽  
Np Hard ◽  
Input Graph ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Time Approximation ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs

Graphs and Algorithms International audience In this work we investigate the algorithmic complexity of computing a minimum C(k)-transversal, i.e., a subset of vertices that intersects all the chordless cycles with k vertices of the input graph, for a fixed k \textgreater= 3. For graphs of maximum degree at most three, we prove that this problem is polynomial-time solvable when k \textless= 4, and NP-hard otherwise. For graphs of maximum degree at most four, we prove that this problem is NP-hard for any fixed k \textgreater= 3. We also discuss polynomial-time approximation algorithms for computing C(3)-transversals in graphs of maximum degree at most four, based on a new decomposition theorem for such graphs that leads to useful reduction rules.

scholarly journals Degree Ramsey Numbers of Graphs

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM B. KINNERSLEY ◽  
KEVIN G. MILANS ◽  
DOUGLAS B. WEST
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Double Star ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Colour Class ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Edge Colourings ◽  
Edge Colouring ◽  
Monochromatic Copy

Let HG mean that every s-colouring of E(H) produces a monochromatic copy of G in some colour class. Let the s-colour degree Ramsey number of a graph G, written RΔ(G; s), be min{Δ(H): HG}. If T is a tree in which one vertex has degree at most k and all others have degree at most ⌈k/2⌉, then RΔ(T; s) = s(k − 1) + ϵ, where ϵ = 1 when k is odd and ϵ = 0 when k is even. For general trees, RΔ(T; s) ≤ 2s(Δ(T) − 1).To study sharpness of the upper bound, consider the double-starSa,b, the tree whose two non-leaf vertices have degrees a and b. If a ≤ b, then RΔ(Sa,b; 2) is 2b − 2 when a < b and b is even; it is 2b − 1 otherwise. If s is fixed and at least 3, then RΔ(Sb,b;s) = f(s)(b − 1) − o(b), where f(s) = 2s − 3.5 − O(s−1).We prove several results about edge-colourings of bounded-degree graphs that are related to degree Ramsey numbers of paths. Finally, for cycles we show that RΔ(C2k + 1; s) ≥ 2s + 1, that RΔ(C2k; s) ≥ 2s, and that RΔ(C4;2) = 5. For the latter we prove the stronger statement that every graph with maximum degree at most 4 has a 2-edge-colouring such that the subgraph in each colour class has girth at least 5.

scholarly journals Testing Expansion in Bounded-Degree Graphs

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 693-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTUR CZUMAJ ◽  
CHRISTIAN SOHLER
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Property Testing ◽  
Graph Representation ◽  
Bounded Degree ◽  
Running Time ◽  
Adjacency List ◽  
Bounded Degree Graphs ◽  
Testing Algorithm

We consider the problem of testing expansion in bounded-degree graphs. We focus on the notion of vertex expansion: an α-expander is a graph G = (V, E) in which every subset U ⊆ V of at most |V|/2 vertices has a neighbourhood of size at least α ⋅ |U|. Our main result is that one can distinguish good expanders from graphs that are far from being weak expanders in time $\widetilde{\O}(\sqrt{n})$. We prove that the property-testing algorithm proposed by Goldreich and Ron with appropriately set parameters accepts every α-expander with probability at least $\frac23$ and rejects every graph that is ϵ-far from any α*-expander with probability at least $\frac23$, where $\expand^* \,{=}\, \Theta(\frac{\expand^2}{d^2 \log(n/\epsilon)})$ and d is the maximum degree of the graphs. The algorithm assumes the bounded-degree graphs model with adjacency list graph representation and its running time is $\O(\frac{d^2 \sqrt{n} \log(n/\epsilon)} {\expand^2 \epsilon^3})$.

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