Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B最新文献

Induced C4-free subgraphs with large average degree 具有较大平均度的无 C4 子图

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.002

Xiying Du , António Girão , Zach Hunter , Rose McCarty , Alex Scott

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Weak diameter choosability of graphs with an excluded minor 具有排除次要项的图的弱直径可选择性

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.005

Joshua Crouch, Chun-Hung Liu

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A matrix realization of spectral bounds 谱界的矩阵实现

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.006

Yen-Jen Cheng , Chih-wen Weng

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Pivot-minors and the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture 支点小调和Erdős-Hajnal猜想

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.004

James Davies

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Haar graphical representations of finite groups and an application to poset representations 有限群的图解表示及其在偏置集表示中的应用

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.001

Joy Morris , Pablo Spiga

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Optimal bounds for zero-sum cycles. I. Odd order 零和循环的最优边界。I. 奇数阶

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.04.003

Rutger Campbell , J. Pascal Gollin , Kevin Hendrey , Raphael Steiner

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A splitter theorem on 3-connected binary matroids and inner fans 3连通二元拟阵和内扇的一个分岔定理

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.03.004

João Paulo Costalonga

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Sparse induced subgraphs of large treewidth 大树宽的稀疏诱导子图

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.03.002

Édouard Bonnet

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Some results and problems on tournament structure

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.02.002

Tung Nguyen , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

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Ramsey numbers of bounded degree trees versus general graphs

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Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2025.02.004

Richard Montgomery , Matías Pavez-Signé , Jun Yan

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