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25 citations · 246 across the 55 of their papers we have counts for

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65 papers

math.CO2026

Every graph with no minor is 6-colorable

Zdeněk Dvořák, Sergey Norin, Neil Rahman

The first open case of Hadwiger's conjecture states that every -minor-free graph is 6-colorable. We prove that this is the case for -minor-free graphs, where de…

math.CO2026

Two Relaxations of the Dominating Hadwiger's Conjecture

António Girão, Sergey Norin, Youri Tamitegama +1

Illingworth and Wood recently proposed the Dominating Hadwiger's Conjecture, a strengthening of Hadwiger's Conjecture which asserts that every graph with no dominating -model…

math.CO2026

Nerve-type and invariance theorems for asymptotic dimension

Chun-Hung Liu, Sergey Norin

Asymptotic dimension of metric spaces is a large-scale analog of covering dimension of topological spaces. An intersection graph of a family of sets is the graph whose vertices are…

math.CO2026

The Dominating 4-Colour Theorem

António Girão, Freddie Illingworth, Bojan Mohar +6

A "dominating -model" in a graph is a sequence of pairwise vertex-disjoint connected subgraphs of , such that whenever every vertex…

math.CO2025

Every graph with no -minor is -colorable

Sergey Norin, Agnes Totschnig

Let denote the graph obtained from the complete graph on seven vertices by deleting two edges with a common end. Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture, we prove that ever…

math.CO2025

3-Colouring Planar Graphs

Vida Dujmović, Pat Morin, Sergey Norin +1

We show that every -vertex planar graph is 3-colourable with monochromatic components of size . The best previous bound was due to Linial, Matoušek, She…

math.CO2024

Product Structure and Tree-Decompositions

Chun-Hung Liu, Sergey Norin, David R. Wood

This paper explores the structure of graphs defined by an excluded minor or an excluded odd minor through the lens of graph products and tree-decompositions. We prove that every gr…

math.CO2024★ 2 cited

Optimizing the CGMS upper bound on Ramsey numbers

Parth Gupta, Ndiame Ndiaye, Sergey Norin +1

In a recent breakthrough Campos, Griffiths, Morris and Sahasrabudhe obtained the first exponential improvement of the upper bound on the diagonal Ramsey numbers since 1935. We shor…

math.CO2024

Sparsity of 3-flow critical graphs

Zdeněk Dvořák, Sergey Norin

A connected graph G is 3-flow-critical if G does not have a nowhere-zero 3-flow, but every proper contraction of G does. We prove that every n-vertex 3-flow-critical graph other th…

math.CO2023

Finding dense minors using average degree

Kevin Hendrey, Sergey Norin, Raphael Steiner +1

Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture, we study the problem of finding the densest possible -vertex minor in graphs of average degree at least . We show that if has averag…

math.CO2023

On the density of matroids omitting a complete-graphic minor

Peter Nelson, Sergey Norin, Fernanda Rivera Omana

We show that, if is a simple rank- matroid with no -point line minor and no minor isomorphic to the cycle matroid of a -vertex complete graph, then the ratio $|M| /…

math.CO2023

Limits of degeneracy for colouring graphs with forbidden minors

Sergey Norin, Jérémie Turcotte

Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture, Seymour asked which graphs have the property that every non-null graph with no minor has a vertex of degree at most . We s…

math.CO2023★ 3 cited

Cops and robbers on -free graphs

Maria Chudnovsky, Sergey Norin, Paul Seymour +1

We prove that every connected -free graph has cop number at most two, solving a conjecture of Sivaraman. In order to do so, we first prove that every connected -free grap…

math.CO2022★ 9 cited

Every graph is eventually Turán-good

Natasha Morrison, JD Nir, Sergey Norin +2

Let be a graph. We show that if is large enough as a function of , then the -partite Turán graph maximizes the number of copies of among all -free graphs…

math.CO2022★ 13 cited

The Burning Number Conjecture Holds Asymptotically

Sergey Norin, Jérémie Turcotte

The burning number of a graph is the smallest number of turns required to burn all vertices of a graph if at every turn a new fire is started and existing fires spread t…

math.CO2022★ 2 cited

Dense minors of graphs with independence number two

Sergey Norin, Paul Seymour

Motivated by Hadwiger's conjecture, we prove that every -vertex graph with no independent set of size three contains an -vertex simple minor with $$0.9…

math.CO2022★ 4 cited

The Spectrum of Triangle-free Graphs

József Balogh, Felix Christian Clemen, Bernard Lidický +2

Denote by the smallest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian matrix of an -vertex graph . Brandt conjectured in 1997 that for regular triangle-free graphs $q_n(G) \le…

math.CO2022★ 1 cited

Three-dimensional graph products with unbounded stack-number

David Eppstein, Robert Hickingbotham, Laura Merker +3

We prove that the stack-number of the strong product of three -vertex paths is . The best previously known upper bound was . No non-trivial lower bound was kno…

math.CO2022

Asymptotic dimension of intersection graphs

Zdeněk Dvořák, Sergey Norin

We show that intersection graphs of compact convex sets in R^n of bounded aspect ratio have asymptotic dimension at most 2n+1. More generally, we show this is the case for intersec…

cs.DS2022

Testability and local certification of monotone properties in minor-closed classes

Louis Esperet, Sergey Norin

The main problem in the area of graph property testing is to understand which graph properties are \emph{testable}, which means that with constantly many queries to any input graph…

math.CO2021

Weak diameter coloring of graphs on surfaces

Zdeněk Dvořák, Sergey Norin

Consider a graph drawn on a fixed surface, and assign to each vertex a list of colors of size at least two if is triangle-free and at least three otherwise. We prove that w…

math.CO2021★ 2 cited

Extremal functions for sparse minors

Kevin Hendrey, Sergey Norin, David R. Wood

The "extremal function" of a graph is the supremum of densities of graphs not containing as a minor, where the "density" of a graph is the ratio of the number of…

math.CO2021

Typical structure of hereditary properties of binary matroids

Stefan Grosser, Hamed Hatami, Peter Nelson +1

We prove an arithmetic analogue of the typical structure theorem for graph hereditary properties due to Alon, Balogh, Bollobás and Morris.

math.CO2020

Clustered colouring of graph classes with bounded treedepth or pathwidth

Sergey Norin, Alex Scott, David R. Wood

The "clustered chromatic number" of a class of graphs is the minimum integer such that for some integer every graph in the class is -colourable with monochromatic compon…