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The peaceable queens problem asks to determine the maximum number $a(n)$ such that there is a placement of $a(n)$ white queens and $a(n)$ black queens on an $n \times n$ chessboard so that no queen can capture any queen of the opposite color. We consider the peaceable queens problem and its variant on the toroidal …
A replacement action is a function $\mathcal L$ that maps each graph to a collection of subgraphs of smaller size. Given a graph class $\mathcal H$, we consider a general family of graph modification problems, called "$\mathcal L$-Replacement to $\mathcal H$", where the input is a graph $G$ and the question is whether it is …
The group \( S_n \) of permutations on \(=\{1,2,\dots,n\} \) is generated by simple transpositions \( s_i = (i,i+1) \). The length \( \ell(\pi) \) of a permutation \( \pi \) is defined to be the minimum number of generators whose product is \( \pi \). It is well-known that the longest element in \( …
An induced packing of cycles in a graph is a set of vertex-disjoint cycles such that the graph has no edge between distinct cycles of the set. The classic Erdős-Pósa theorem shows that for every positive integer $k$, every graph contains $k$ vertex-disjoint cycles or a set of $O(k\log k)$ vertices which intersects every cycle of $G$. …
A family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs is said to satisfy the Erdős-Pósa property if there exists a function $f$ such that for every positive integer $k$, every graph $G$ contains either $k$ (vertex-)disjoint subgraphs in $\mathcal{F}$ or a set of at most $f(k)$ vertices intersecting every subgraph of $G$ in $\mathcal{F}$. We characterize the obstructions to …
We present a full characterization of the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large pathwidth. This consists of two results. The first result says that for every forest H, every graph of sufficiently large pathwidth contains either a large complete subgraph, a large complete bipartite induced minor, or an induced minor isomorphic to H. The …
In 1996, Reed, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas proved Younger's Conjecture, which states that for all directed graphs D, there exists a function f such that if D does not contain k disjoint cycles, D contains a feedback vertex set, i.e. a subset of vertices whose deletion renders the graph acyclic, of size bounded by f(k). …