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Yimo Su

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Average degrees of edge-$\Delta$-critical multigraphs

Let $G$ be a loopless multigraph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$, average degree $\overline{d}(G)$, density $\Gamma(G)$, and chromatic index $\chi'(G)$. A multigraph $G$ is called edge-$\Delta$-critical if $\Delta(G)=\Delta$, $\chi'(G)=\Delta(G)+1$ and $\chi'(H) \le \Delta(G)$ for every proper subgraph $H\subset G$. Vizing conjectured that if $G$ is an edge-$\Delta$-critical simple graph on $n$ vertices, then $\overline{d}(G) \ge \Delta-1+\tfrac{3}{n}$. Motivated by this, we conjecture that every edge-$\Delta$-critical multigraph $G$ satisfies $\overline{d}(G) \ge \tfrac{2\Delta+2}{3}$, which is best possible. We first give a general lower bound in this direction. For any such graph $G$, \[ \overline{d}(G) \ge \begin{cases} \frac{\sqrt{17}-3}{2}(\Delta+1) & \text{if } \Delta \le 112;\\[4pt] \frac{\Delta+\sqrt{2\Delta-1}}{2} & \text{if } \Delta \ge 113. \end{cases} \] This bound can be further improved under an additional condition on the multiplicity $\mu$. In this case, \[ \overline{d}(G)\ge \min\left\{ \frac{2\mu\Delta+2\mu(2\mu-1)}{4\mu-1},\; \frac{\sqrt{17}-3}{2}(\Delta+1) \right\}. \] We also confirm the conjecture for $\Delta \in \{2,3,4,5,6,7,8\}$. As a consequence, Goldberg's conjecture~\cite{Goldberg1984} holds for $\Delta(G)\in\{2,3,4,5\}$, that is, every multigraph $G$ with $\chi'(G)\ge \Delta(G)+1$ satisfies $\Gamma(G)\ge \Delta(G)$.

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Bipartite graphs with the double Hall property

The super-neighborhood of a vertex set $A$ in a graph $G$, denoted by $\Lambda^2(A)$, is the set of vertices adjacent to at least two vertices in $A$. We say that a bipartite graph $G=(X, Y)$ with $|X| \geq 2$ satisfies the double Hall property (with respect to $X$) if $|\Lambda^2(A)| \geq |A|$ for any subset $A \subseteq X$ with $|A| \geq 2$. Kostochka et al. first conjectured that if a bipartite graph $G=(X, Y)$ satisfies a slightly weaker version of the double Hall property, then $G$ contains a cycle that covers all vertices of $X$. They verified their conjecture for $|X| \leq 6$. In this paper, we extend their result to $|X| = 7$. Later, Salia conjectured that every bipartite graph satisfying the double Hall property has a cycle covering all vertices of $X$. We show that Salia's conjecture is almost equivalent to a much weaker conjecture requiring vertices in $Y$ to have high degrees. By extending a result of Bar\'at et al., we also show that Salia's conjecture holds for some graphs where the vertices of $Y$ have degree either $2$ or very high. Finally, we establish a lower bound for the maximum degree of graphs satisfying the double Hall property and present deterministic and probabilistic constructions of such graphs that approach this bound.

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