A nonincreasing sequence $\pi =(d_1,...,d_n)$ of nonnegative integers is a graphic sequence if it is realizable by a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. In this case, $G$ is referred to as a realization of $\pi$. Given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, A. Busch et al. (2014) introduced the potential-Ramsey number of $G_1$ and $G_2$, denoted by $r_{\mathrm{pot}}(G_1,G_2)$, as the smallest nonnegative integer $m$ such that for every $m$-term graphic sequence $\pi$, there is a realization $G$ of $\pi$ with $G_1\subseteq G$ or with $G_2\subseteq \overline{G}$, where $\overline{G}$ is the complement of $G$. For $t\ge 2$ and $0\le k\le \lfloor \frac{t}{2}\rfloor$, let $K_t^{-k}$ be the graph obtained...

For any two graphs F1 and F2, the graph Ramsey number r(F1, F2) is the smallest positive integer N with the property that every graph on at least N vertices contains F1 or its complement contains F2 as a subgraph. In this paper, we consider the Ramsey numbers for theta-complete graphs. We determine r(θn,Km) for m = 2, 3, 4 and n > m. More specifically, we establish that r(θn,Km) = (n − 1)(m − 1) + 1 for m = 3, 4 and n > m

Bondy and Erdős [2] have conjectured that the Ramsey number for three cycles Cₖ of odd length has value r(Cₖ,Cₖ,Cₖ) = 4k-3. We give a proof that r(C₇,C₇,C₇) = 25 without using any computer support.

Let $L(n,d)$ denote the minimum possible number of leaves in a tree of order $n$ and diameter $d.$ Lesniak (1975) gave the lower bound $B(n,d)=\lceil 2(n-1)/d\rceil$ for $L(n,d).$ When $d$ is even, $B(n,d)=L(n,d).$ But when $d$ is odd, $B(n,d)$ is smaller than $L(n,d)$ in general. For example, $B(21,3)=14$ while $L(21,3)=19.$ In this note, we determine $L(n,d)$ using new ideas. We also consider the converse problem and determine the minimum possible diameter of a tree with given order and number of leaves.

A degree monotone path in a graph G is a path P such that the sequence of degrees of the vertices in the order in which they appear on P is monotonic. The length (number of vertices) of the longest degree monotone path in G is denoted by mp(G). This parameter, inspired by the well-known Erdős- Szekeres theorem, has been studied by the authors in two earlier papers. Here we consider a saturation problem for the parameter mp(G). We call G saturated if, for every edge e added to G, mp(G + e) > mp(G),...

The Wiener index W(G) of a connected graph G, introduced by Wiener in 1947, is defined as W(G) = ∑u,v∈V(G) d(u, v) where dG(u, v) is the distance between vertices u and v of G. The Steiner distance in a graph, introduced by Chartrand et al. in 1989, is a natural generalization of the concept of classical graph distance. For a connected graph G of order at least 2 and S ⊆ V (G), the Steiner distance d(S) of the vertices of S is the minimum size of a connected subgraph whose vertex set is S. We now...

If a graph G has a drawing in the plane in such a way that every two crossings are independent, then we call G a plane graph with independent crossings or IC-planar graph for short. In this paper, the structure of IC-planar graphs with minimum degree at least two or three is studied. By applying their structural results, we prove that the edge chromatic number of G is Δ if Δ ≥ 8, the list edge (resp. list total) chromatic number of G is Δ (resp. Δ + 1) if Δ ≥ 14 and the linear arboricity of G is...

We prove a structure theorem asserting that each superflat graph is tree-decomposable in a very nice way. As a consequence we fully determine the spectrum functions of theories of superflat graphs.