Found problems: 79
Given a positive integer number $n$, determine the maximum number of edges a triangle-free Hamiltonian simple graph on $n$ vertices may have.
Determine the (real) domain of a function $$y=\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{4}|x|+\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{2}|x|\,}\,}-\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{4}|x|-\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{2}|x|\,}\,}$$ and draw its graph.
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[*] Let $G$ be a $(4, 4)$ unoriented graph, 2-regulate, containing a cycle with the length 3. Find the characteristic polynomial $P_G (\lambda)$ , its spectrum $Spec (G)$ and draw the graph $G$.
[*] Let $G'$ be another 2-regulate graph, having its characteristic polynomial $P_{G'} (\lambda) = \lambda^4 - 4\lambda^2 + \alpha, \alpha \in \mathbb{R}$. Find the spectrum $Spec(G')$ and draw the graph $G'$.
[*] Are the graphs $G$ and $G'$ cospectral or isomorphic?
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Let $ G$ be a graph with $ 2n$ vertexes and $ 2n(n\minus{}1)$ edges.If we color some edge to red,then vertexes,which are connected by this edge,must be colored to red too. But not necessary that all edges from the red vertex are red.
Prove that it is possible to color some vertexes and edges in $ G$,such that all red vertexes has exactly $ n$ red edges.
It is known that in a group of $2024$ students each student has at least $1011$ acquaintances among the remaining members of the group. What is more, there exists a student that has at least $1012$ acquaintances in the group. Prove that for every pair of students $X, Y$, there exist students $X_0 = X, X_1, ..., X_{n - 1}, X_n = Y$ in the group such that for every index $i = 0, ..., n - 1$, the students $X_i$ and $X_{i + 1}$ are acquaintances.
[i]Proposed by Mirko Petruševski[/i]
The REAL country has $n$ islands, and there are $n-1$ two-way bridges connecting these islands. Any two islands can be reached through a series of bridges. Arctan, the king of the REAL country, found that it is too difficult to manage $n$ islands, so he wants to bomb some islands and their connecting bridges to divide the country into multiple small areas. Arctan wants the number of connected islands in each group is less than $\delta n$ after bombing these islands, and the island he bomb must be a connected area. Besides, Arctan wants the number of islands to be bombed to be as less as possible. Find all real numbers $\delta$ so that for any positive integer $n$ and the layout of the bridge, the method of bombing the islands is the only one.
[i]Proposed by chengbilly[/i]
Given is a natural number $n>4$. There are $n$ points marked on the plane, no three of which lie on the same line. Vasily draws one by one all the segments connecting pairs of marked points. At each step, drawing the next segment $S$, Vasily marks it with the smallest natural number, which hasn't appeared on a drawn segment that has a common end with $S$. Find the maximal value of $k$, for which Vasily can act in such a way that he can mark some segment with the number $k$?
For each $a$, $1<a<2$, the graphs of functions $y=1-|x-1|$ and $y=|2x-a|$ determine a figure. Prove that the area of this figure is less than $\frac13$.
Lavidópolis is a city with 2024 neighborhoods. Lavi Dopes was elected mayor, and since he saw that there were no roads in the city, he asked Gil Bento, the monster engineer, to design the city's roads according to the following rules:
1. Any two neighborhoods are connected by at most one two-way road;
2. For any two neighborhoods, there is exactly one route from one neighborhood to another, which may pass through some intermediate neighborhoods, but never passes through the same neighborhood more than once.
Mayor Lavi Dopes wants to try for re-election, but since he knows nothing about the city and only shows up during campaign times (he spent all this time stealing... I mean, thinking about math problems), he wants to find a pair of neighborhoods such that the number of roads that are part of the route connecting them is maximized among all pairs of neighborhoods. To do this, he starts asking Gil Bento various questions, all in the following manner: he chooses two of the 2024 neighborhoods, say A and B, and asks:
"Given neighborhoods A and B, how many roads are part of the route connecting A to B?"
Knowing that Gil Bento always answers correctly to each question, determine the minimum number of questions that Lavi Dopes needs to ask to achieve his goal, regardless of how Gil Bento has designed the roads of Lavidópolis.
A graph is called 2-connected if after removing any vertex the remaining graph is still connected. Prove that for any 2-connected graph with degrees more than two, one can remove a vertex so that the remaining graph is still 2-connected.
* Let $A, B, C$ be three nodes of a graph paper. Prove that if $\vartriangle ABC$ is an acute one, then there is at least one more node either inside $\vartriangle ABC$ or on one of its sides.
On the Alphamegacentavra planet there are $2023$ cities, some of which are connected by non-directed flights. It turned out that among any $4$ cities one can find two with no flight between them.
Find the maximum number of triples of cities such that between any two of them there is a flight.
Let the vertex set \( V \) of a graph be partitioned into \( h \) parts \( (V = V_1 \cup V_2 \cup \cdots \cup V_h) \), with \(|V_1| = n_1, |V_2| = n_2, \ldots, |V_h| = n_h \). If there is an edge between any two vertices only when they belong to different parts, the graph is called a complete \( h \)-partite graph, denoted as \( k(n_1, n_2, \ldots, n_h) \). Let \( n \) and \( r \) be positive integers, \( n \geq 6 \), \( r \leq \frac{2}{3}n \). Consider the complete \( r + 1 \)-partite graph \( k\left(\underbrace{1, 1, \ldots, 1}_{r}, n - r\right) \).
Answer the following questions:
1. Find the maximum number of disjoint circles (i.e., circles with no common vertices) in this complete \( r + 1 \)-partite graph.
2. Given \( n \), for all \( r \leq \frac{2}{3}n \), find the maximum number of edges in a complete \( r + 1 \)-partite graph \( k(1, 1, \ldots, 1, n - r) \) where no more than one circle is disjoint.
A graph contains $p$ vertices numbered from $1$ to $p$, and $q$ edges numbered from $p + 1$ to $p + q$. It turned out that for each edge the sum of the numbers of its ends and of the edge itself equals the same number $s$. It is also known that the numbers of edges starting in all vertices are equal. Prove that
\[s = \dfrac{1}{2} (4p+q+3).\]
Consider a complete graph on $4046$ nodes, whose edges are colored in some colors. Let's call this graph $k$-good if we can split all its nodes into $2023$ pairs so that there are exactly $k$ distinct colors among the colors of $2023$ edges that connect the nodes from the same pairs. Is it possible that the graph is $999$-good and $1001$-good but not $1000$-good?
[i]Proposed by Anton Trygub[/i]
Given distinct positive integers \( g \) and \( h \), let all integer points on the number line \( OX \) be vertices. Define a directed graph \( G \) as follows: for any integer point \( x \), \( x \rightarrow x + g \), \( x \rightarrow x - h \). For integers \( k, l (k < l) \), let \( G[k, l] \) denote the subgraph of \( G \) with vertices limited to the interval \([k, l]\). Find the largest positive integer \( \alpha \) such that for any integer \( r \), the subgraph \( G[r, r + \alpha - 1] \) of \( G \) is acyclic. Clarify the structure of subgraphs \( G[r, r + \alpha - 1] \) and \( G[r, r + \alpha] \) (i.e., how many connected components and what each component is like).
A graph has $n$ points and $\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$ edges. Each edge is colored with one of $k$ colors so that there are no closed monochrome paths. What is the largest possible value of $n$ (given $k$)?
The towns in one country are connected with bidirectional airlines, which are paid in at least one of the two directions. In a trip from town A to town B there are exactly 22 routes that are free. Find the least possible number of towns in the country.
A boa of size $k$ is a graph with $k+1$ vertices $\{0,1,\dots,k-1,k\}$ and edges only between the vertices $i$ and $i+1$ for $0\leq i < k.$ The boa is place in a graph $G$ through a injection of graphs. (This is an injective function form the vertices of the boa to the vertices of the graph in such a way that if there is an edge between the vertices $x$ and $y$ in the boa then there must be an edge between $f(x)$ and $f(y)$ in $G$).
The Boa can move in the graph $G$ using to type of movement each time. If the boa is initially on the vertices $f(0),f(1),\dots,f(k)$ then it moves in one of the following ways:
(i) It choose $v$ a neighbor of $f(k)$ such that $v\not\in\{f(0),f(1),\dots,f(k-1)\}$ and the boa now moves to $f(0),f(1),\dots,f(k)$ with $f'(k)=v$ and $f'(i) = f(i+1)$ for $0 \leq i < k,$ or
(ii) It choose $v$ a neighbor of $f(0)$ such that $v\not\in\{f(1),f(2),\dots,f(k)\}$ and the boa now moves to $f(0),f(1),\dots,f(k)$ with $f'(0)=v$ and $f'(i) = f'(i-1)$ for $0 < i \leq k.$
Prove that if $G$ is a connected graph with diameter $d$, then it is possible to put a size $\lceil d/2 \rceil$ boa in $G$ such that the boa can reach any vertex of $G$.
There is a population $P$ of $10000$ bacteria, some of which are friends (friendship is mutual),
so that each bacterion has at least one friend and if we wish to assign to each bacterion a coloured
membrane so that no two friends have the same colour, then there is a way to do it with $2021$
colours, but not with $2020$ or less.
Two friends $A$ and $B$ can decide to merge in which case they become a single bacterion whose
friends are precisely the union of friends of $A$ and $B$. (Merging is not allowed if $A$ and $B$ are
not friends.) It turns out that no matter how we perform one merge or two consecutive merges,
in the resulting population it would be possible to assign $2020$ colours or less so that no two
friends have the same colour. Is it true that in any such population $P$ every bacterium has at
least $2021$ friends?
Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $G_n$ be the set of all simple graphs on $n$ vertices. For each vertex $v$ of a graph in $G_n$, let $k(v)$ be the maximal cardinality of an independent set of neighbours of $v$. Determine $max_{G \in G_n} \Sigma_{v\in V (G)}k(v)$ and the graphs in $G_n$ that achieve this value.
What is the largest possible number of edges in a graph on $2n$ nodes, if there exists exactly one way to split its nodes into $n$ pairs so that the nodes from each pair are connected by an edge?
[i]Proposed by Anton Trygub[/i]
Is it possible to draw in the plane the graph presented in the figure so that all the vertices are different points and all the edges are unit segments? (The segments can intersect at points different from vertices.)
Given is a natural number $n>4$. There are $n$ points marked on the plane, no three of which lie on the same line. Vasily draws one by one all the segments connecting pairs of marked points. At each step, drawing the next segment $S$, Vasily marks it with the smallest natural number, which hasn't appeared on a drawn segment that has a common end with $S$. Find the maximal value of $k$, for which Vasily can act in such a way that he can mark some segment with the number $k$?
We say that a graph $G$ is [i]divisive[/i], if we can write a positive integer on each of its vertices such that all the integers are distinct, and any two of these integers divide each other if and only if there is an edge running between them in $G$. Which Platonic solids form a divisive graph?
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