{"title":"On the Hardness of Switching to a Small Number of Edges","authors":"Vít Jelínek, Eva Jelínková, Jan Kratochvíl","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Seidel's switching is a graph operation which makes a given vertex adjacent to precisely those vertices to which it was non-adjacent before, while keeping the rest of the graph unchanged. Two graphs are called switching-equivalent if one can be made isomorphic to the other one by a sequence of switches. Jelínková et al. [DMTCS 13, no. 2, 2011] presented a proof that it is NP-complete to decide whether the input graph is switching-equivalent to a graph that contains at most a given number of edges. There turns out to be a flaw in their proof. We present a correct proof. Furthermore, we prove that the problem remains NP-complete even when restricted to graphs whose density is bounded from above by an arbitrary fixed constant. This partially answers a question of Matoušek and Wagner [Discrete Comput. Geom. 52, no. 1, 2014].</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 2","pages":"237-251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148704255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikołaj Nieradko, Wojciech Michalczuk, Grzegorz Serafin
{"title":"Normal Approximation for Subgraph Count in Random Hypergraphs","authors":"Mikołaj Nieradko, Wojciech Michalczuk, Grzegorz Serafin","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A nonuniform and inhomogeneous random hypergraph model is considered, which is a straightforward extension of the celebrated binomial random graph model <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt70066:jgt70066-math-0001\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt70066-math-0001.png\"><mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"double-struck\">G</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>p</mi></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the small hypergraph count to be asymptotically normal, and complement them with convergence rates in both the Wasserstein and Kolmogorov distances. Next we narrow our attention to the homogeneous model and relate the obtained results to the fourth moment phenomenon. Additionally, a short proof of the necessity of the aforementioned conditions is presented, which seems to be absent in the literature, even in the context of the model <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt70066:jgt70066-math-0002\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt70066-math-0002.png\"><mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"double-struck\">G</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>p</mi></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 2","pages":"311-347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148704301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turán Problems for Suspension of a Balanced Tree","authors":"Xiutao Zhu, Xiaolin Wang, Yanbo Zhang, Fangfang Zhang","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Turán number <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>ex</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the maximum number of edges that an <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-vertex <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-free graph can have. The suspension <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mover>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>^</mo>\u0000 </mover>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is obtained from <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> by adding a new vertex which is adjacent to all vertices of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> and a tree <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is balanced if the size of one color class is <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> and the other is <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> or <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 1","pages":"61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbora Dohnalová, Jiří Kalvoda, Gaurav Kucheriya, Sophie Spirkl
{"title":"Orientations of Graphs With at Most One Directed Path Between Every Pair of Vertices","authors":"Barbora Dohnalová, Jiří Kalvoda, Gaurav Kucheriya, Sophie Spirkl","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given a graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, we say that an orientation <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is a <i>KT orientation</i> if, for all <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>u</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∈</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, there is at most one directed path (in any direction) between <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>u</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> and <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>v</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. Graphs that admit such orientations have been used to construct graphs with large chromatic number and small clique number that served as counterexamples to various conjectures. Motivated by this, we consider which graphs admit KT orientations (named after Kierstead and Trotter). In particular, we construct a graph family with small independence number (sub-linear in the number of vertices) which admits a KT orientation. We show that the problem of determining whether a given graph admits a KT orientation is NP-complete, even if we restrict ourselves to planar graphs. Finally, we provide an algorithm to decide if a graph with maximum degree at most 3 admits a KT orientation, whereas, for graphs with maximum degree 4, the problem remains NP-complete.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 1","pages":"143-164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signed Projective Cubes, a Homomorphism Point of View","authors":"Meirun Chen, Reza Naserasr, Alessandra Sarti","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The (signed) projective cubes, as a special class of graphs closely related to the hypercubes, are on the crossroad of geometry, algebra, discrete mathematics and linear algebra. Defined as Cayley graphs on binary groups, they represent basic linear dependencies. Capturing the four-color theorem as a homomorphism target they show how mapping of discrete objects, namely graphs, may relate to special mappings of plane to projective spaces of higher dimensions. In this work, viewed as a signed graph, first we present a number of equivalent definitions each of which leads to a different development. In particular, the new notion of common product of signed graphs is introduced which captures both Cartesian and tensor products of graphs. With a nonstandard use of homomorphism between signed projective cubes, we show that they all have circular chromatic number 4. Observing that the 4-color theorem is about mapping planar graphs into <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>S</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>C</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, we study some conjectures in extension of 4CT and show the importance of extended double cover operation in formulating such conjectures. As a particular corollary we build a highly symmetric triangle-free graph on 12 vertices admitting a homomorphism from every planar graph of odd girth at least 7. Considering their connection to algebraic geometry, we observe that <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>C</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>4</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, widely known as the Clebsh graph, also known as Greenwood-Gleason graph, is the intersection graph of the 16 straight lines of an algebraic surface known as Segre surface, which is a Del Pezzo surface of degree 4. Noting that the Clebsch surface is one of the most symmetric presentations of a cubic surface all of which contains 27 lines. Hence, from hereafter, we believe, a proper name for <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 1","pages":"38-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reza Naserasr, Lan Anh Pham, Cyril Pujol, Huan Zhou
{"title":"Fractional Balanced Chromatic Number and Arboricity of Planar (Signed) Graphs","authors":"Reza Naserasr, Lan Anh Pham, Cyril Pujol, Huan Zhou","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A balanced <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-coloring of a signed graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>σ</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is an assignment of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> colors to each vertex of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> from a platter of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>p</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> colors, such that each color class induces a balanced set (a set that does not induce a negative cycle). The fractional balanced chromatic number of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>σ</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, denoted <span></span><","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"113 1","pages":"5-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}