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We prove that every locally finite, quasi-transitive graph with a thick end whose cycle space is generated by cycles of bounded length contains the full-grid as an asymptotic minor and as a diverging minor. This in particular includes all locally finite Cayley graphs of finitely presented groups, and partially solves problems of Georgakopoulos and Papasoglu and of Georgakopoulos and Hamann. Additionally, we show that every (not necessarily quasi-transitive) graph of finite maximum degree which has a thick end and whose cycle space is generated by cycles of bounded length contains the half-grid as an asymptotic minor and as a diverging minor.

Halin proved that every graph with an end $\omega$ containing infinitely many pairwise disjoint rays admits a subdivision of the infinite quarter-grid as a subgraph where all rays from that subgraph belong to $\omega$. We will prove a corresponding statement for digraphs, that is, we will prove that every digraph that has an end with infinitely many pairwise disjoint directed rays contains a subdivision of a grid-like digraph all of whose directed rays belong to that end., Comment: 20 pages

In this paper we define a degree for ends of infinite digraphs. The well-definedness of our definition in particular resolves a problem by Zuther. Furthermore, we extend our notion of end degree to also respect, among others, the vertices dominating the end, which we denote as combined end degree. Our main result is a characterisation of the combined end degree in terms of certain sequences of vertices, which we call end-exhausting sequences. This establishes a similar, although more complex relationship as known for the combined end degree and end-defining sequences in undirected graphs., Comment: 18 pages

We study the existence of periodic colorings and orientations in locally finite graphs. A coloring or orientation of a graph $G$ is periodic if the resulting colored or oriented graph is quasi-transitive, meaning that $V(G)$ has finitely many orbits under the action of the group of automorphisms of $G$ preserving the coloring or the orientation. When such a periodic coloring or orientation of $G$ exists, $G$ itself must be quasi-transitive and it is natural to investigate when quasi-transitive graphs have such periodic colorings or orientations. We provide examples of Cayley graphs with no periodic orientation or non-trivial coloring, and examples of quasi-transitive graphs of treewidth 2 without periodic orientation or proper coloring. On the other hand we show that every quasi-transitive graph $G$ of bounded pathwidth has a periodic proper coloring with $\chi(G)$ colors and a periodic orientation. We relate these problems with techniques and questions from symbolic dynamics and distributed computing and conclude with a number of open problems., Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures. v2: small corrections in the final section

We prove that every locally finite quasi-transitive graph that does not contain $K_\infty$ as a minor is quasi-isometric to some planar quasi-transitive locally finite graph. This solves a problem of Esperet and Giocanti and improves their recent result that such graphs are quasi-isometric to some planar graph of bounded degree., Comment: 6 pages

In this paper, we prove that infinite cancellative finitely generated hyperbolic monoids never contain $\mathbb N\times\mathbb N$ as a submonoid but that they contain an element of infinite order and, if they are elementary, then they also contain a free monoid of rank at least 2. As a corollary we obtain that the latter have exponential growth. We prove these results by analysing the monoid of self-embeddings of hyperbolic digraphs and proving fixed-point theorems for them., Comment: 28 pages

Based on a notion by Gray and Kambites of hyperbolicity in the setting of semimetric spaces like digraphs or semigroups, we will construct (under a small additional geometric assumption) a boundary based on quasi-geodesic rays and anti-rays that is preserved by quasi-isometries and, in the case of locally finite digraphs and right cancellative semigroups, refines their ends. Among other results, we show that it is possible to equip the space, if it is finitely based, together with its boundary with a pseudo-semimetric., Comment: 30 pages, arXiv:2110.13049v1 was split into two parts, this is the second part

In this note, we show that locally finite quasi-transitive graphs are quasi-isometric to trees if and only if every other locally finite quasi-transitive graph quasi-isometric to them is minor excluded. This generalizes results by Ostrovskii and Rosenthal and by Khukhro on minor exclusion for groups., Comment: 4 pages

Gray and Kambites introduced a notion of hyperbolicity in the setting of semimetric spaces like digraphs or semigroups. We will prove that under a small additional geometric assumption their notion of hyperbolicity is preserved by quasi-isometries. Applied to semigroups, this will partially solve a problem of Gray and Kambites., Comment: 16 pages, previous version (v1) is split into two parts, this is the first part

We generalise the standard constructions of a Cayley graph in terms of a group presentation by allowing some vertices to obey different relators than others. The resulting notion of presentation allows us to represent every vertex transitive graph. As an intermediate step, we prove that every countably infinite, connected, vertex transitive graph has a perfect matching. Incidentally, we construct an example of a 2-ended cubic vertex transitive graph which is not a Cayley graph, answering a question of Watkins from 1990., Comment: 29 pages, 8 figures, main authors: Agelos Georgakopoulos and Alex Wendland, appendix by: Matthias Hamann and Alex Wendland

We prove two characterisations of accessibility of locally finite quasi-transitive connected graphs. First, we prove that any such graph $G$ is accessible if and only if its set of separations of finite order is an ${\rm Aut}(G)$-finitely generated semiring. The second characterisation says that $G$ is accessible if and only if every process of splittings in terms of tree amalgamations stops after finitely many steps., Comment: 20 pages

We prove that every graph has a canonical tree of tree-decompositions that distinguishes all principal tangles (these include the ends and various kinds of large finite dense structures) efficiently. Here `trees of tree-decompositions' are a slightly weaker notion than `tree-decompositions' but much more well-behaved than `tree-like metric spaces'. This theorem is best possible in the sense that we give an example that `trees of tree-decompositions' cannot be strengthened to `tree-decompositions' in the above theorem. This implies results of Dunwoody and Kr\"on as well as of Carmesin, Diestel, Hundertmark and Stein. Beyond that for locally finite graphs our result gives for each $k\in\mathbb N$ canonical tree-decompositions that distinguish all $k$-distinguishable ends efficiently., Comment: 22 pages

We prove the existence of an upper bound on the asymptotic dimension of tree amalgamations of locally finite quasi-transitive connected graphs. This generalises a result of Dranishnikov for free products with amalgamation and a result of Tselekidis for HNN-extensions of groups to tree amalgamations of graphs. As a corollary, we obtain an upper bound on the asymptotic dimension of a multi-ended quasi-transitive locally finite graph based on any of their factorisations., Comment: 7 pages

We look at tree amalgamations of locally finite quasi-transitive hyperbolic graphs and prove that the homeomorphism type of the hyperbolic boundary of such a tree amalgamation only depends on the homeomorphism types of the hyperbolic boundaries of their factors. Additionally, we show that two locally finite quasi-transitive hyperbolic graphs have homeomorphic hyperbolic boundaries if and only if the homeomorphism types of the hyperbolic boundaries of the factors of their terminal factorisations coincide., Comment: 9 pages

We show that a group admits a planar, finitely generated Cayley graph if and only if it admits a special kind of group presentation we introduce, called a planar presentation. Planar presentations can be recognised algorithmically. As a consequence, we obtain an effective enumeration of the planar Cayley graphs, yielding in particular an affirmative answer to a question of Droms et al. asking whether the planar groups can be effectively enumerated., Comment: We split arXiv:1506.03361v2 into two parts. This is the second part

We consider infinite connected quasi-transitive locally finite graphs and show that every such graph with more than one end is a tree amalgamation of two other such graphs. This can be seen as a graph-theoretical version of Stallings' splitting theorem for multi-ended finitely generated groups and indeed it implies this theorem. It will also lead to a characterisation of accessible graphs in terms of tree amalgamations. We obtain applications of our results for hyperbolic graphs, planar graphs and graphs without any thick end. The application for planar graphs answers a question of Mohar in the affirmative., Comment: 24 pages

We investigate the connections between tree amalgamations and quasi-isometries. In particular, we prove that the quasi-isometry type of multi-ended accessible quasi-transitive connected locally finite graphs is determined by the quasi-isometry type of their one-ended factors in any of their terminal factorisations. Our results carry over theorems of Papsoglu and Whyte on quasi-isometries between multi-ended groups to those between multi-ended graphs. In the end, we discuss the impact of our results to a question of Woess., Comment: 14 pages

We prove a fix point theorem for monoids of self-embeddings of trees. As a corollary, we obtain a result by Laflamme, Pouzet and Sauer that a tree either contains a subdivided binary tree as a subtree or has a vertex, and edge, an end or two ends fixed by all its self-embeddings., Comment: 10 pages

We prove that the first homology group of every planar locally transitive finite graph $G$ is a finitely generated ${\rm Aut}(G)$-module and we prove a similar result for the fundamental group of locally finite planar Cayley graphs. Corollaries of these results include Droms's theorem that planar groups are finitely presented and Dunwoody's theorem that planar locally finite transitive graphs are accessible., Comment: 16 pages

We obtain an effective enumeration of the family of finitely generated groups admitting a faithful, properly discontinuous action on some 2-manifold contained in the sphere. This is achieved by introducing a type of group presentation capturing exactly these groups. Extending this in a companion paper, we find group presentations capturing the planar finitely generated Cayley graphs. Thus we obtain an effective enumeration of these Cayley graphs, yielding in particular an affirmative answer to a question of Droms et al., Comment: To appear in Combinatorica. The second half of the previous version is arXiv:1901.00347

Diestel and M\"uller showed that the connected tree-width of a graph $G$, i.e., the minimum width of any tree-decomposition with connected parts, can be bounded in terms of the tree-width of $G$ and the largest length of a geodesic cycle in $G$. We improve their bound to one that is of correct order of magnitude. Finally, we construct a graph whose connected tree-width exceeds the connected order of any of its brambles. This disproves a conjecture by Diestel and M\"uller asserting an analogue of tree-width duality., Comment: 12 pages

We prove that the cycle space of every planar finitely separable 3-connected graph $G$ is generated by some ${\rm Aut}(G)$-invariant nested set of cycles. We also discuss the situation in the case of smaller connectivity., Comment: 7 pages

We prove that the cut space of any transitive graph $G$ is a finitely generated ${\rm Aut}(G)$-module if the same is true for its cycle space. This confirms a conjecture of Diestel which says that every locally finite transitive graph whose cycle space is generated by cycles of bounded length is accessible. In addition, it implies Dunwoody's conjecture that locally finite hyperbolic transitive graphs are accessible. As a further application, we obtain a combinatorial proof of Dunwoody's accessibility theorem of finitely presented groups., Comment: 9 pages

A digraph is connected-homogeneous if every isomorphism between two finite connected induced subdigraphs extends to an automorphism of the whole digraph. In this paper, we completely classify the countable connected-homogeneous digraphs., Comment: 49 pages

We call a 2-partite digraph D homogeneous if every isomorphism between finite induced subdigraphs that respects the 2-partition of D extends to an automorphism of D that does the same. In this note, we classify the homogeneous 2-partite digraphs., Comment: 5 pages

In Part I of this series we described three algorithms that construct canonical tree-decompositions of graphs which distinguish all their k-blocks and tangles of order k. We now establish bounds on the number of parts in these decompositions that contain no such block or tangle, and determine conditions under which such parts contain nothing but a k-block., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures

We construct tree-decompositions of graphs that distinguish all their k-blocks and tangles of order k, for any fixed integer k. We describe a family of algorithms to construct such decompositions, seeking to maximize their diversity subject to the requirement that they commute with graph isomorphisms. In particular, all the decompositions constructed are invariant under the automorphisms of the graph., Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures

A $k$-block in a graph $G$ is a maximal set of at least $k$ vertices no two of which can be separated in $G$ by fewer than $k$ other vertices. The block number $\beta(G)$ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that $G$ has a $k$-block. We investigate how $\beta$ interacts with density invariants of graphs, such as their minimum or average degree. We further present algorithms that decide whether a graph has a $k$-block, or which find all its $k$-blocks. The connectivity invariant $\beta(G)$ has a dual width invariant, the block-width ${\rm bw}(G)$ of $G$. Our algorithms imply the duality theorem $\beta = {\rm bw}$: a graph has a block-decomposition of width and adhesion $< k$ if and only if it contains no $k$-block., Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures. This is an extended version the journal article, which has by now appeared. The version here contains an improved version of Theorem 5.3 (which is now best possible) and an additional section with examples at the end

We look at group actions on metric spaces, particularly at group actions on geodesic hyperbolic spaces. We classify the types of automorphisms on these spaces and prove several results about the density of the hyperbolic limit set of the group in the whole limit set of the group. In the case of graphs, our theorems hold also when the graphs are not hyperbolic., Comment: 18 pages

We show that there is no 1-ended, planar, hyperbolic graph such that the stabilizer of one of its hyperbolic boundary points acts transitively on the vertices of the graph. This gives a partial answer to a question by Kaimanovich and Woess., Comment: 9 pages

In proper hyperbolic geodetic spaces we construct rooted $\mathbb R$-trees with the following properties. On the one hand, every ray starting at the root is quasi-geodetic; so these $\mathbb R$-trees represent the space itself well. At the same time, the trees boundary reflects the boundary of the space in that the number of disjoint rays to a boundary point is bounded in terms of the (Assouad) dimension of the hyperbolic boundary., Comment: 20 pages

We classify the finite connected-homogeneous digraphs, as well as the infinite such digraphs with precisely one end. This completes the classification of all the locally finite connected-homogeneous digraphs., Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures

We classify the connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. We further show that if their underlying undirected graph is not connected-homogeneous, they are highly-arc-transitive., Comment: 23 pages, 2 figures

We investigate the structure of connected graphs, not necessarily locally finite, with infinitely many ends. On the one hand we study end-transitive such graphs and on the other hand we study such graphs with the property that the stabilizer of some end acts transitively on the vertices of the graph. In both cases we show that the graphs have a tree-like structure., Comment: 19 pages

We study transitivity properties of graphs with more than one end. We completely classify the distance-transitive such graphs and, for all $k \geq 3$, the $k$-CS-transitive such graphs., Comment: 20 pages

In this paper we construct spanning trees in hyperbolic graphs that represent their hyperbolic compactification in a good way: so that the tree has a bounded number of distinct rays to each boundary point. The bound depends only on the (Assouad) dimension of the boundary. As a corollary we sharpen a result of Gromov which says that from every hyperbolic graph with bounded degrees one can construct a tree outside the graph with a continuous surjection from the ends of the tree onto the hyperbolic boundary such that the surjection is finite-to-one. We will construct a tree with these properties inside the hyperbolic graph, which in addition is also a spanning tree of that graph., Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure