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math.CO2025

Lollipops, dense cycles and chords

Zdeněk Dvořák, Beatriz Martins, Stéphan Thomassé +1

In 1980, Gupta, Kahn and Robertson proved that every graph with minimum degree at least contains a cycle containing at least vertices each having at least $…

math.CO2025

Small hitting sets for longest paths and cycles

Sergey Norin, Raphael Steiner, Stephan Thomassé +1

Motivated by an old question of Gallai (1966) on the intersection of longest paths in a graph and the well-known conjectures of Lovász (1969) and Thomassen (1978) on the maximum l…

math.CO2025

Two-block paths in oriented graphs of large semidegree

Irena Penev, S Taruni, Stéphan Thomassé +2

We study the existence of oriented paths with two blocks in oriented graphs under semidegree conditions. A block of an oriented path is a maximal directed subpath. Given positive i…

math.CO2024

A structural description of Zykov and Blanche Descartes graphs

Malory Marin, Stéphan Thomassé, Nicolas Trotignon +1

In 1949, Zykov proposed the first explicit construction of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number. We define a Zykov graph as any induced subgraph of a graph…

math.CO2024

On the complexity of Client-Waiter and Waiter-Client games

Valentin Gledel, Nacim Oijid, Sébastien Tavenas +1

Positional games were introduced by Hales and Jewett in 1963, and their study became more popular after Erdos and Selfridge's first result on their connection to Ramsey theory and…