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{"title":"Maximal Line Digraphs","authors":"Quentin Japhet, Dimitri Watel, Dominique Barth, Marc-Antoine Weisser","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A line digraph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>E</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the digraph constructed from the digraph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> such that there is an arc <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>a</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>b</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> in <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> if the terminal node of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>a</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> in <s","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 4","pages":"456-468"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148194182","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":"Upper Bounds on the Minimum Size of Feedback Arc Set of Directed Multigraphs With Bounded Degree","authors":"Gregory Gutin, Hui Lei, Anders Yeo, Yacong Zhou","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An oriented multigraph is a directed multigraph without directed 2-cycles. Let <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>fas</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> denote the minimum size of a feedback arc set in an oriented multigraph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. In several papers, upper bounds for <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>fas</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> were obtained for oriented multigraphs <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> with maximum degree upper-bounded by a constant. Hanauer conjectured that <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>fas</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≤</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2.5</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>/</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> for every oriented multigraph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> with <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 4","pages":"421-432"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148193888","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":"Tight Bounds for Hypercube Minor-Universality","authors":"Emma Hogan, Lukas Michel, Alex Scott, Youri Tamitegama, Jane Tan, Dmitry Tsarev","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>m</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-minor-universal if every graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> with at most <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>m</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> edges and no isolated vertices is contained as a minor in <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. Recently, Benjamini, Kalifa and Tzalik proved that there is an absolute constant <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>c</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>></mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>0</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> such that the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>-dimensional hypercube <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>c</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>⋅</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>/</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 4","pages":"433-437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148194097","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":"Spanning Weakly Even Trees of Graphs","authors":"Jiangdong Ai,&nbsp;M. N. Ellingham,&nbsp;Zhipeng Gao,&nbsp;Yixuan Huang,&nbsp;Xiangzhou Liu,&nbsp;Songling Shan,&nbsp;Simon Špacapan,&nbsp;Jun Yue","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Let <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> be a graph (with multiple edges allowed) and let <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> be a tree in <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. We say that <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is <i>even</i> if every leaf of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> belongs to the same part of the bipartition of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, and that <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is <i>weakly even</i> if every leaf of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> that has maximum degree in <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> belongs to the same part of the bipartition of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. We confirm two recent conjectures of Jackson and Yoshimoto by showing that every connected graph that is not a regular bipartite graph has a spanning weakly even tree.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 4","pages":"484-490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148193902","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":"On Strongly and Robustly Critical Graphs","authors":"Anton Bernshteyn,&nbsp;Hemanshu Kaul,&nbsp;Jeffrey A. Mudrock,&nbsp;Gunjan Sharma","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70033","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In extremal combinatorics, it is common to focus on structures that are minimal with respect to a certain property. In particular, critical and list-critical graphs occupy a prominent place in graph coloring theory. Stiebitz, Tuza, and Voigt introduced strongly critical graphs, i.e., graphs that are &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;k&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-critical yet &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-colorable with respect to every non-constant assignment &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; of lists of size &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;k&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;−&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;1&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;. Here we strengthen this notion and extend it to the framework of DP-coloring (or correspondence coloring) by defining robustly &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;k&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-critical graphs as those that are not &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;k&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;−&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mn&gt;1&lt;/mn&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-DP-colorable, but only due to the fact that &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;χ&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 4","pages":"469-483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148193901","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":"The Generalized Ramsey Number \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 f\u0000 \u0000 (\u0000 \u0000 n\u0000 ,\u0000 5\u0000 ,\u0000 8\u0000 \u0000 )\u0000 \u0000 =\u0000 \u0000 6\u0000 7\u0000 \u0000 n\u0000 +\u0000 o\u0000 \u0000 (\u0000 n\u0000 )","authors":"Patrick Bennett,&nbsp;Ryan Cushman,&nbsp;Andrzej Dudek","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70015","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;A &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;,&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;q&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-&lt;i&gt;coloring&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msub&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;K&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msub&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; is a coloring of the edges of &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msub&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;K&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msub&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; such that every &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-clique has at least &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;q&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; distinct colors among its edges. The generalized Ramsey number &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;f&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;,&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;p&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;,&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;q&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; is the minimum number of colors such that &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;msub&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;K&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/msub","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 3","pages":"209-234"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148087238","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":"χ\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 -Binding Functions for Squares of Convex Bipartite Graphs and Partite Testability for Bipartite Squares","authors":"Dibyayan Chakraborty,&nbsp;L. Sunil Chandran,&nbsp;Dalu Jacob,&nbsp;Raji R. Pillai","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70014","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;A class of graphs &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; is &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;χ&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;-bounded if there exists a function &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;f&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; such that &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;χ&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;≤&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;f&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;ω&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; for each graph &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;∈&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt;, where &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;χ&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mi&gt;G&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;/semantics&gt;&lt;/math&gt; and &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;semantics&gt;\u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mi&gt;ω&lt;/mi&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;mrow&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 3","pages":"235-254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148088428","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":"Towards Characterization of Five-List-Colorability of Toroidal Graphs","authors":"Zdeněk Dvořák,&nbsp;Félix Moreno Peñarrubia","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through computer-assisted enumeration, we list minimal obstructions for 5-choosability of graphs on the torus with the following additional property: There exists a cyclic system of non-contractible triangles around the torus where the consecutive triangles are at distance at most four. This condition is satisfied by all previously known obstructions, and we verify that there are no additional obstructions with this property. This supports the conjecture that a toroidal graph is 5-choosable if and only if it is 5-colorable.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 3","pages":"267-275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148093483","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":"Disjoint Total Dominating Sets in Planar Graphs","authors":"Eva Rotenberg,&nbsp;Daniel Rutschmann,&nbsp;Carsten Thomassen","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The vertex set of any planar graph of minimum degree at least 3 can be colored in two colors so that every vertex has a neighbor of each color. If the graph is a planar triangulation, the coloring can be chosen such that every vertex has a neighbor of its own color and at least two neighbors of the opposite color.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 3","pages":"290-295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148098790","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":"R\u0000 \u0000 (\u0000 \u0000 5\u0000 ,\u0000 5\u0000 \u0000 )\u0000 \u0000 ≤\u0000 46","authors":"Vigleik Angeltveit,&nbsp;Brendan D. McKay","doi":"10.1002/jgt.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We prove that the Ramsey number <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>5</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>5</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> is less than or equal to 46. The proof uses a combination of linear programming and checking a large number of cases by computer. All of the computational parts of the proof were independently implemented by both authors, with consistent results.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"112 3","pages":"198-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148085510","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}