1. On bipartite (1,1,k)-mixed graphsCristina Dalfó, Grahame Erskine, Geoffrey Exoo, Miquel Àngel Fiol, James Tuite, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Mixed graphs can be seen as digraphs that have both arcs and edges (or digons, that is, two opposite arcs). In this paper, we consider the case where such graphs are bipartite and in which the undirected and directed degrees are one. The best graphs, in terms of the number of vertices, are presented for small diameters. Moreover, two infinite families of such graphs with diameter k and number of vertices of the order of 2k/2 are proposed, one of them being totally regular (1,1)-mixed graphs. In addition, we present two more infinite families called chordal ring and chordal double ring mixed graphs, which are bipartite and related to tessellations of the plane. Finally, we give an upper bound that improves the Moore bound for bipartite mixed graphs for r = z = 1.
Keywords: mixed graph, degree/diameter problem, Moore bound, bipartite graph
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2. On extremal (almost) edge-girth-regular graphsGabriela Araujo-Pardo, György Kiss, István Porupsánszki, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: A k-regular graph of girth g is called an edge-girth-regular graph, or an egr-graph for short, if each of its edges is contained in exactly λ distinct g-cycles. An egr-graph is called extremal for the triple (k, g, λ) if has the smallest possible order. We prove that some graphs arising from incidence graphs of finite planes are extremal egr-graphs. We also prove new lower bounds on the order of egr-graphs.
Keywords: edge-girth-regular graph, cage problem, finite biaffine planes
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4. A sharp upper bound for the harmonious total chromatic number of graphs and multigraphsMarién Abreu, John Baptist Gauci, Davide Mattiolo, Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo, Federico Romaniello, Christian Rubio-Montiel, Tommaso Traetta, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: A proper total colouring of a graph G is called harmonious if it has the further property that when replacing each unordered pair of incident vertices and edgeswith their colours, then no pair of colours appears twice. The smallest number of colours for it to exist is called the harmonious total chromatic number of G, denoted by h_t(G). Here, we give a general upper bound for h_t(G) in terms of the order n of G. Our two main results are obvious consequences of the computation of the harmonious total chromatic number of the complete graph Kn and of the complete multigraph λK_n, where λ is the number of edges joining each pair of vertices of Kn. In particular, Araujo-Pardo et al. have recently shown that 3/2 n ≤ h_t(K_n)≤ 5/3 n + θ(1). In this paper, we prove that h_t(K_n) = ⌈3/2 n⌉ except for h_t(K₁) = 1 and h_t(K₄) = 7; therefore, h_t(G)≤ ⌈3/2 n⌉, for every graph G on n > 4 vertices. Finally, we extend such a result to the harmonious total chromatic number of the complete multigraph λKn and as a consequence show that h_t(G) ≤ (λ-1)(2⌈n/2⌉-1)+⌈3n/2⌉ for n > 4, where G is a multigraph such that λ is the maximum number of edges between any two vertices.
Keywords: total colouring, harmonious colouring, complete graphs, complete multigraphs, Levi graph
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5. Banff designs: difference methods for coloring incidence graphsMarco Buratti, Francesca Merola, Anamari Nakić, Christian Rubio-Montiel, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: We present some results on the harmonious colourings of the Levi graph of a 2-design, focusing on Steiner 2-design. It is easily seen that the harmonious chromatic number of such a Levi graph is at least the number of points of the design: we study and construct Banff designs, that is designs such that this lower bound is attained.
Keywords: Harmonious chromatic number, Levi graph, combinatorial design
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9. The extremal generalised Randić index for a given degree rangeJohn Haslegrave, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: O and Shi proved that the Randić index of any graph G with minimum degree at least δ and maximum degree at most Δ is at least sqrt(δΔ)/(δ+Δ) |G|, with equality if and only if the graph is (δ, Δ)-biregular. In this note we give a short proof via a more general statement. As an application of our more general result, we classify for any given degree range which graphs minimise (or maximise) the generalised Randić index for any exponent, and describe the transitions between different types of behaviour precisely.
Keywords: Randić index, bounded-degree graph, extremal problem
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10. Primitive, edge-short, isometric, and pantochordal cyclesGover E. C. Guzman, Marcos E. González Laffitte, André Fujita, Peter F. Stadler, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: A cycle in a graph G is said to be primitive from its vertex x if at least one of its edges does not belong to any shorter cycle that passes through x. This type of cycle and an associated notion of extended neighborhoods play a key role in message-passing algorithms that compute spectral properties of graphs with short loops. Here, we investigate such primitive cycles and graphs without long primitive cycles in a more traditional graph-theoretic framework. We show that a cycle is primitive from all its vertices if and only if it is isometric. We call a cycle fully redundant cycles if it is not primitive from any of its vertices and show that fully redundant cycles, in particular, are not edge short, i.e., they cannot be represented as the edge-disjoint union of a single edge and two shortest paths in G. The families Rk and Lk of graphs with all cycles of length at least k + 1 being fully redundant and not edge-short, respectively, coincide for k = 3 and k = 4. In these graphs, all cycles of length at least k + 1 are pantochordal, i.e., each of their vertices is incident with a chord. None of these results generalizes to k ≥ 5. Moreover, R₃ = L₃ turn out to be the block graphs, and R₄ = L₄ are the graphs with complete multi-partite blocks. The cographs, finally, are shown to form a proper subset of R₅.
Keywords: edge-short cycle, chord, block-graph, complete multipartite graph, wheel graphs, cographs, geodesic cycles, Hamiltonian cycles
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