combinatorics / Graph theory

The Imbalance Conjecture

The imbalance of an edge uv of a finite simple graph is the absolute difference of the degrees of u and v. Kozerenko and Skochko conjectured that the multiset of all edge imbalances is graphic - realizable as the degree sequence of some graph - whenever every edge has positive imbalance. Proved.

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combinatoricsAug 10, 2026Significance 10/100Registry: unreviewed

The Imbalance Conjecture

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The key step is a lower bound on the truncated imbalance sum, which yields every Erdos-Gallai inequality for the sorted imbalance list; a parity computation finishes it.

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The imbalance of an edge uv of a finite simple graph is the absolute difference of the degrees of u and v. Kozerenko and Skochko conjectured that the multiset of all edge imbalances is graphic - realizable as the degree sequence of some graph - whenever every edge has positive imbalance. Proved.

The key step is a lower bound on the truncated imbalance sum, which yields every Erdos-Gallai inequality for the sorted imbalance list; a parity computation finishes it.

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