Publications (74)
Spectrum of mixed bi-uniform hypergraphs
Maria Axenovich, Enrica Cherubini, Torsten Ueckerdt
A mixed hypergraph is a triple , where is a set of vertices, and are sets of hyperedges. A vertex-coloring of is…
List precoloring extension in planar graphs
Maria Axenovich, Joan P. Hutchinson, Michelle A. Lastrina
A celebrated result of Thomassen states that not only can every planar graph be colored properly with five colors, but no matter how arbitrary palettes of five colors are assigned…
Online Ramsey turnaround numbers
Nóra Almási, Maria Axenovich
The online Ramsey turnaround game is a game between two players, Builder and Painter, on a board of vertices using colors, for a fixed graph on at most vertices. Th…
A note on Ramsey numbers for minors
Maria Axenovich, Raphael Steiner
Let be the smallest integer such that any edge coloring of a complete graph on vertices in colors results in a monochromatic -minor, in other wor…
A note on multicolour ErdÅs-Hajnal conjecture
Maria Axenovich, Lea Weber
Informally, the ErdÅs-Hajnal conjecture (shortly EH-conjecture) asserts that if a sufficiently large host clique on vertices is edge-coloured avoiding a copy of some fixed edg…
Planar Ramsey graphs
Maria Axenovich, Carsten Thomassen, Ursula Schade +1
We say that a graph is planar unavoidable if there is a planar graph such that any red/blue coloring of the edges of contains a monochromatic copy of , otherwise we…
Unavoidable order-size pairs in hypergraphs -- positive forcing density
Maria Axenovich, József Balogh, Felix Christian Clemen +1
ErdÅs, Füredi, Rothschild and Sós initiated a study of classes of graphs that forbid every induced subgraph on a given number of vertices and number of edges. Extending…
A note on Ramsey numbers for Berge-G hyper graphs
Maria Axenovich, Andras Gyarfas
For a graph G=(V,E), a hypergraph H is called Berge-G if there is a bijection f from E(G) to E(H) such that for each e in E(G), e is a subset of f(e). The set of all Berge-G hyperg…
A version of Szemerédi's regularity lemma for multicolored graphs and directed graphs that is suitable for induced graphs
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
In this manuscript we develop a version of Szemerédi's regularity lemma that is suitable for analyzing multicolorings of complete graphs and directed graphs. In this, we follow th…
A note on interval colourings of graphs
Maria Axenovich, António Girão, Lawrence Hollom +5
A graph is said to be interval colourable if it admits a proper edge-colouring using palette in which the set of colours incident to each vertex is an interval. The in…
A note on monotonicity of mixed Ramsey numbers
Maria Axenovich, JiHyeok Choi
For two graphs, , and , an edge-coloring of a complete graph is -good if there is no monochromatic subgraph isomorphic to and no rainbow subgraph isomorphic to …
On homometric sets in graphs
Maria Axenovich, Lale Ãzkahya
For a vertex set in a graph , the {\em distance multiset}, , is the multiset of pairwise distances between vertices of in . Two vertex sets are ca…
Induced Ramsey number for a star versus a fixed graph
Maria Axenovich, Izolda Gorgol
For graphs G and H, let the induced Ramsey number IR(H,G) be the smallest number of vertices in a graph F such that any coloring of the edges of F in red and blue, there is either…
Induced Saturation of Graphs
Maria Axenovich, Mónika Csikós
A graph is -saturated for a graph , if does not contain a copy of but adding any new edge to results in such a copy. An -saturated graph on a given number…
-free families in the Boolean lattice
Maria Axenovich, Jacob Manske, Ryan R. Martin
For a family of subsets of [n]=\{1, 2, ..., n} ordered by inclusion, and a partially ordered set P, we say that is P-free if it does not contain a subpo…
Diagonal poset Ramsey numbers
Maria Axenovich, Christian Winter
A poset contains an induced copy of a poset if there exists an injective mapping such that for any two elements , if…
A note on short cycles in a hypercube
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
How many edges can a quadrilateral-free subgraph of a hypercube have? This question was raised by Paul ErdÅs about years ago. His conjecture that such a subgraph asymptotical…
On graphs embeddable in a layer of a hypercube and their extremal numbers
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin, Christian Winter
A graph is cubical if it is a subgraph of a hypercube. For a cubical graph and a hypercube , is the largest number of edges in an -free subgraph of .…
A class of graphs of zero Turán density in a hypercube
Maria Axenovich
A graph is cubical if it is a subgraph of a hypercube. For a cubical graph and a hypercube , is the largest number of edges in an -free subgraph of .…
Conditions on Ramsey non-equivalence
Maria Axenovich, Jonathan Rollin, Torsten Ueckerdt
Given a graph H, a graph G is called a Ramsey graph of H if there is a monochromatic copy of H in every coloring of the edges of G with two colors. Two graphs G, H are called Ramse…
On induced Ramsey numbers for multiple copies of graphs
Maria Axenovich, Izolda Gorgol
We say that a graph F strongly arrows a pair of graphs (G,H) if any colouring of its edges with red and blue leads to either a red G or a blue H appearing as induced subgraphs of F…
Rainbow Subgraphs in Edge-colored Complete Graphs -- Answering two Questions by ErdÅs and Tuza
Maria Axenovich, Felix Christian Clemen
An edge-coloring of a complete graph with a set of colors is called completely balanced if any vertex is incident to the same number of edges of each color from . ErdÅs and…
The Chromatic Number of Ordered Graphs With Constrained Conflict Graphs
Maria Axenovich, Jonathan Rollin, Torsten Ueckerdt
An ordered graph is a graph whose vertex set is a subset of integers. The edges are interpreted as tuples with . For a positive integer , a matrix $M \in \mat…
On hypercube statistics
Noga Alon, Maria Axenovich, John Goldwasser
Let and be nonnegative integers. For a subset of vertices of the hypercube and , let denote the fraction of subcubes …
Avoiding patterns in matrices via a small number of changes
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
Let be a partition of a set into nonempty subsets, and be an matrix. We say that $…
The -strong induced arboricity of a graph
Maria Axenovich, Daniel Goncalves, Jonathan Rollin +1
The induced arboricity of a graph is the smallest number of induced forests covering the edges of . This is a well-defined parameter bounded from above by the number of edge…
Online and size anti-Ramsey numbers
Maria Axenovich, Kolja Knauer, Judith Stumpp +1
A graph is properly edge-colored if no two adjacent edges have the same color. The smallest number of edges in a graph any of whose proper edge colorings contains a totally multico…
Splitting Planar Graphs of Girth 6 into Two Linear Forests with Short Paths
Maria Axenovich, Torsten Ueckerdt, Pascal Weiner
Recently, Borodin, Kostochka, and Yancey (On -improper -coloring of sparse graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 313(22), 2013) showed that the vertices of each planar graph of girth…
Absolutely avoidable order-size pairs for induced subgraphs
Maria Axenovich, Lea Weber
We call a pair of integers, , , \emph{absolutely avoidable} if there is such that for any pair of integers with an…
The ErdÅs-Hajnal conjecture for three colors and multiple forbidden patterns
Maria Axenovich, Richard Snyder, Lea Weber
ErdÅs and Szekeres's quantitative version of Ramsey's theorem asserts that any complete graph on n vertices that is edge-colored with two colors has a monochromatic clique on at l…
On the editing distance of graphs
Maria Axenovich, André Kézdy, Ryan R. Martin
An edge-operation on a graph is defined to be either the deletion of an existing edge or the addition of a nonexisting edge. Given a family of graphs , the editing…
Interval colorings of graphs -- coordinated and unstable no-wait schedules
Maria Axenovich, Michael Zheng
A proper edge-coloring of a graph is an interval coloring if the labels on the edges incident to any vertex form an interval of consecutive integers. Interval thickness s(G) of a g…
On the strong chromatic number of graphs
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
The strong chromatic number, , of an -vertex graph is the smallest number such that after adding isolated vertices to and considering…
Poset Ramsey numbers: large Boolean lattice versus a fixed poset
Maria Axenovich, Christian Winter
Given partially ordered sets (posets) and , we say that contains a copy of if for some injective function and for any $…
Visibility in hypercubes
Maria Axenovich, Dingyuan Liu
A subset of vertices in a graph is a mutual-visibility set if any two vertices and in ``see'' each other in , that is, there exists a shortest -path in…
Large cliques or co-cliques in hypergraphs with forbidden order-size pairs
Maria Axenovich, Domagoj BradaÄ, Lior Gishboliner +2
The well-known ErdÅs-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph , there exists such that every -vertex graph that contains no induced copy of has a homogeneo…
Bipartite independence number in graphs with bounded maximum degree
Maria Axenovich, Jean-Sébastien Sereni, Richard Snyder +1
We consider a natural, yet seemingly not much studied, extremal problem in bipartite graphs. A bi-hole of size in a bipartite graph is a copy of in the bipartite…
Poset Ramsey number . II. N-shaped poset
Maria Axenovich, Christian Winter
Given partially ordered sets (posets) and , we say that contains a copy of if for some injective function and for…
Density of Range Capturing Hypergraphs
Maria Axenovich, Torsten Ueckerdt
For a finite set of points in the plane, a set in the plane, and a positive integer , we say that a -element subset of is captured by if there is a homoth…
A note on the mutual-visibility coloring of hypercubes
Maria Axenovich, Dingyuan Liu
A subset of vertices in a graph is a mutual-visibility set if for any two vertices there exists a shortest - path in that contains no elements of …
Sum-distinguishing number of sparse hypergraphs
Maria Axenovich, Yair Caro, Raphael Yuster
A vertex labeling of a hypergraph is sum distinguishing if it uses positive integers and the sums of labels taken over the distinct hyperedges are distinct. Let s(H) be the smalles…
Vertex-Ramsey theorems for Cartesian powers of graphs
Nóra Almási, Maria Axenovich, Arsenii Sagdeev
For graphs and positive integers and we write if every -vertex-coloring of the Cartesian power of contains a…
Splits with forbidden subgraphs
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
In this note, we fix a graph and ask into how many vertices can each vertex of a clique of size can be "split" such that the resulting graph is -free. Formally: A graph…
Turán problems for simplicial complexes
Maria Axenovich, Dániel Gerbner, Dániel Gerbner +3
An abstract simplicial complex is a non-uniform hypergraph without isolated vertices, whose edge set is closed under taking subsets. The extremal number $\mathrm{ex}(n…
A regularity lemma and twins in words
Maria Axenovich, Yury Person, Svetlana Puzynina
For a word , let be the largest integer such that there are two disjoints identical (scattered) subwords of length . Let $f(n, Σ) = \min \{f(S): S \text{is of len…
Long path and cycle decompositions of even hypercubes
Maria Axenovich, David Offner, Casey Tompkins
We consider edge decompositions of the -dimensional hypercube into isomorphic copies of a given graph . While a number of results are known about decomposing into…
A note on saturation for Berge-G hypergraphs
Maria Axenovich, Christian Winter
For a graph G, a hypergraph H is called Berge-G if there is a hypergraph H', isomorphic to H, containing all vertices of G, so that e is contained in f(e) for each edge e of G, whe…
Fork-forests in bi-colored complete bipartite graphs
Maria Axenovich, Marcus Krug, Georg Osang +1
Motivated by the problem in [6], which studies the relative efficiency of propositional proof systems, 2-edge colorings of complete bipartite graphs are investigated. It is shown t…
High girth hypergraphs with unavoidable monochromatic or rainbow edges
Maria Axenovich, Annette Karrer
A classical result of ErdÅs and Hajnal claims that for any integers there is an -uniform hypergraph of girth at least with chromatic number at least . T…
An improved upper bound for the multicolour Ramsey number of odd cycles
Maria Axenovich, Wouter Cames van Batenburg, Oliver Janzer +2
We show that the -colour Ramsey number of an odd cycle of length is at most . This proves a conjecture of Fox and is the first improvem…
Polychromatic Colorings on the Integers
Maria Axenovich, John Goldwasser, Bernard Lidický +4
We show that for any set , there exists a 3-coloring of in which every translate of receives all three colors. This implies that …
Homogeneous sets in hypergraphs with forbidden order-size pairs
Maria Axenovich, Dhruv Mubayi, Lea Weber
The well-known ErdÅs-Hajnal conjecture states that for any graph , there exists such that every -vertex graph that contains no induced copy of has a homogeneo…
Extremal numbers for cycles in a hypercube
Maria Axenovich
Let be the largest number of edges in a subgraph of a hypercube such that there is no subgraph of isomorphic to . We show that for any integer $k\geq…
Chromatic number of ordered graphs with forbidden ordered subgraphs
Maria Axenovich, Jonathan Rollin, Torsten Ueckerdt
It is well-known that the graphs not containing a given graph H as a subgraph have bounded chromatic number if and only if H is acyclic. Here we consider ordered graphs, i.e., grap…
Large homogeneous subgraphs in bipartite graphs with forbidden induced subgraphs
Maria Axenovich, Casey Tompkins, Lea Weber
For a bipartite graph G, let h(G) be the largest t such that either G or the bipartite complement of G contain K_{t,t}. For a class F of graphs, let h(F)= min {h(G): G\in F}. We sa…
Brooks Type Results for Conflict-Free Colorings and {a, b}-factors in graphs
Maria Axenovich, Jonathan Rollin
A vertex-coloring of a hypergraph is conflict-free, if each edge contains a vertex whose color is not repeated on any other vertex of that edge. Let be the smallest inte…
Faces in girth-saturated graphs on surfaces
Maria Axenovich, Leon KieÃle, Arsenii Sagdeev +1
What is the maximum length of a facial cycle of an inclusion-maximal graph with girth at least embedded on a given surface ? If $Σ=\mathca…
Canonical theorems for colored integers with respect to some linear combinations
Maria Axenovich, David S. Gunderson, Hanno Lefmann
Hindman proved in 1979 that no matter how natural numbers are colored in r colors, for a fixed positive integer r, there is an infinite subset X of numbers and a color t such that…
Chromatic Ramsey numbers and two-color Turán densities
Maria Axenovich, Simon Gaa, Dingyuan Liu
Given a graph , its -color Turán number is the maximum number of edges in an -vertex graph, such that the edges can be colored with two colors av…
Multicolor and directed edit distance
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
The editing of a combinatorial object is the alteration of some of its elements such that the resulting object satisfies a certain fixed property. The edit problem for graphs, when…
Induced Turán problem in bipartite graphs
Maria Axenovich, Jakob Zimmermann
The classical extremal function for a graph , is the largest number of edges in a subgraph of that contains no subgraph isomorphic to . Note that defining…
On weighted Ramsey numbers
Maria Axenovich, Ryan Martin
The weighted Ramsey number, , is the minimum such that there is an assignment of nonnegative real numbers (weights) to the edges of with the total sum of t…
Boolean lattices: Ramsey properties and embeddings
Maria Axenovich, Stefan Walzer
A subposet of a poset is a copy of a poset if there is a bijection between elements of and such that in iff in . For pos…
Induced and Weak Induced Arboricities
Maria Axenovich, Philip Dörr, Jonathan Rollin +1
We define the induced arboricity of a graph , denoted by , as the smallest such that the edges of can be covered with induced forests in . This notio…
Generalized Turán densities in the hypercube
Maria Axenovich, Laurin Benz, David Offner +1
A classical extremal, or Turán-type problem asks to determine , the largest number of edges in a subgraph of a graph which does not contain a subgraph isomorph…
Ramsey problems for graphs in Euclidean spaces and Cartesian powers
Maria Axenovich, Dingyuan Liu, Arsenii Sagdeev
Given a graph , let be the smallest positive integer such that there exists an -coloring of with no monochromatic unit-copy of , th…
Twins in graphs
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin, Torsten Ueckerdt
A basic pigeonhole principle insures an existence of two objects of the same type if the number of objects is larger than the number of types. Can such a principle be extended to a…
Multicolor Ramsey numbers for triple systems
Maria Axenovich, Andras Gyarfas, Hong Liu +1
Given an -uniform hypergraph , the multicolor Ramsey number is the minimum such that every -coloring of the edges of the complete -uniform hypergraph $K_n^…
Sub-Ramsey numbers for arithmetic progressions
Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin
Let the integers be assigned colors. Szemerédi's theorem implies that if there is a dense color class then there is an arithmetic progression of length three in that…
Strong complete minors in digraphs
Maria Axenovich, António Girão, Richard Snyder +1
Kostochka and Thomason independently showed that any graph with average degree contains a minor. In particular, any graph with chromatic number $Ω(r\sqr…
Clumsy packings of graphs
Maria Axenovich, Anika Kaufmann, Raphael Yuster
Let and be graphs. We say that is an -packing of if is a set of edge-disjoint copies of in . An -packing is maximal if there is no other -pa…
Avoiding rainbow induced subgraphs in vertex-colorings
Maria Axenovich, Ryan Martin
For a fixed graph on vertices, and a graph on at least vertices, we write if in any vertex-coloring of with colors, there is an induced sub…
Largest density of a layered subgraph of a hypercube
Maria Axenovich, Arsenii Sagdeev
Let denote the largest number of edges induced by vertices from two vertex layers of a hypercube. We show that $$\frac14 t\log_2 t+\frac18 t\log_2\log_2 t-O(t) \leq L(t)…
Polychromatic colorings of complete graphs with respect to 1-,2-factors and Hamiltonian cycles
Maria Axenovich, John Goldwasser, Ryan Hansen +5
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-polych…