Rainbow Connection Number of Graph Power and Graph Products

Rainbow connection number, rc(G), of a connected graph G is the minimum number of colors needed to color its edges so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are colored the same (note that the coloring need not be proper). In this paper we study the rainbow connection number with respect to three important graph product operations (namely the Cartesian product, the lexicographic product and the strong product) and the operation of taking the power of a graph. In this direction, we show that if G is a graph obtained by applying any of the operations mentioned above on non-trivial graphs, then rc(G) ≤ 2r(G) + c, where r(G) denotes the radius of G and \({c \in \{0, 1, 2\}}\) . In general the rainbow connection number of a bridgeless graph can be as high as the square of its radius [1]. This is an attempt to identify some graph classes which have rainbow connection number very close to the obvious lower bound of diameter (and thus the radius). The bounds reported are tight up to additive constants. The proofs are constructive and hence yield polynomial time \({(2 + \frac{2}{r(G)})}\) -factor approximation algorithms.     

Rainbow Connection Number and Independence Number of a Graph

A path in an edge-colored graph is called rainbow if any two edges of the path have distinct colors. An edge-colored graph is called rainbow connected if there exists a rainbow path between every two vertices of the graph. For a connected graph G, the minimum number of colors that are needed to make G rainbow connected is called the rainbow connection number of G, denoted by rc(G). In this paper, we investigate the relation between the rainbow connection number and the independence number of a graph. We show that if G is a connected graph without pendant vertices, then \(\mathrm{rc}(G)\le 2\alpha (G)-1\). An example is given showing that the upper bound \(2\alpha (G)-1\) is equal to the diameter of G, and so the upper bound is sharp since the diameter of G is a lower bound of \(\mathrm{rc}(G)\).     

Rainbow Connection and Graph Products

A path in an edge colored graph G is called a rainbow path if all its edges have pairwise different colors. Then G is rainbow connected if there exists a rainbow path between every pair of vertices of G and the least number of colors needed to obtain a rainbow connected graph is the rainbow connection number. If we demand that there must exist a shortest rainbow path between every pair of vertices, we speak about strongly rainbow connected graph and the strong rainbow connection number. In this paper we study the (strong) rainbow connection number on the direct, strong, and lexicographic product and present several upper bounds for these products that are attained by many graphs. Several exact results are also obtained.     

Rainbow Connection Number and Radius

The rainbow connection number, rc(G), of a connected graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour its edges, so that every pair of its vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In this note we show that for every bridgeless graph G with radius r, rc(G) ≤  r(r + 2). We demonstrate that this bound is the best possible for rc(G) as a function of r, not just for bridgeless graphs, but also for graphs of any stronger connectivity. It may be noted that for a general 1-connected graph G, rc(G) can be arbitrarily larger than its radius (K _1,n for instance). We further show that for every bridgeless graph G with radius r and chordality (size of a largest induced cycle) k, rc(G) ≤  rk. Hitherto, the only reported upper bound on the rainbow connection number of bridgeless graphs is 4n/5 ? 1, where n is order of the graph (Caro et al. in Electron J Comb 15(1):Research paper 57, 13, 2008). It is known that computing rc(G) is NP-Hard (Chakraborty and fischer in J Comb Optim 1–18, 2009). Here, we present a (r + 3)-factor approximation algorithm which runs in O(nm) time and a (d + 3)-factor approximation algorithm which runs in O(dm) time to rainbow colour any connected graph G on n vertices, with m edges, diameter d and radius r.     

The Rainbow Connection Number of the Power Graph of a Finite Group

This paper studies the rainbow connection number of the power graph \(\Gamma _G\) of a finite group G. We determine the rainbow connection number of \(\Gamma _G\) if G has maximal involutions or is nilpotent, and show that the rainbow connection number of \(\Gamma _G\) is at most three if G has no maximal involutions. The rainbow connection numbers of power graphs of some nonnilpotent groups are also given.     

Rainbow Connection Number, Bridges and Radius

Let G be a connected graph. The notion of rainbow connection number rc(G) of a graph G was introduced by Chartrand et al. (Math Bohem 133:85–98, 2008). Basavaraju et al. (arXiv:1011.0620v1 [math.CO], 2010) proved that for every bridgeless graph G with radius r, ${rc(G)\leq r(r+2)}$ and the bound is tight. In this paper, we show that for a connected graph G with radius r and center vertex u, if we let D ^r  = {u}, then G has r?1 connected dominating sets ${ D^{r-1}, D^{r-2},\ldots, D^{1}}$ such that ${D^{r} \subset D^{r-1} \subset D^{r-2} \cdots\subset D^{1} \subset D^{0}=V(G)}$ and ${rc(G)\leq \sum_{i=1}^{r} \max \{2i+1,b_i\}}$ , where b _i is the number of bridges in E[D ⁱ , N(D ⁱ )] for ${1\leq i \leq r}$ . From the result, we can get that if ${b_i\leq 2i+1}$ for all ${1\leq i\leq r}$ , then ${rc(G)\leq \sum_{i=1}^{r}(2i+1)= r(r+2)}$ ; if b _i  > 2i + 1 for all ${1\leq i\leq r}$ , then ${rc(G)= \sum_{i=1}^{r}b_i}$ , the number of bridges of G. This generalizes the result of Basavaraju et al. In addition, an example is given to show that there exist infinitely graphs with bridges whose rc(G) is only dependent on the radius of G, and another example is given to show that there exist infinitely graphs with bridges whose rc(G) is only dependent on the number of bridges in G.     

On a Connection of Number Theory with Graph Theory

We assign to each positive integer n a digraph whose set of vertices is H = {0, 1, ..., n – 1} and for which there is a directed edge from a H to b H if a ² b (mod n). We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of isolated fixed points. We also examine when the digraph is semiregular. Moreover, we present simple conditions for the number of components and length of cycles. Two new necessary and sufficient conditions for the compositeness of Fermat numbers are also introduced.     

Vertex Distinguishing Equitable Total Chromatic Number of Join Graph

A vertex distinguishing equitable total coloring of graph G is a proper total coloring of graph G such that any two distinct vertices＇ coloring sets are not identical and the difference of the elements colored by any two colors is not more than 1. In this paper we shall give vertex distinguishing equitable total chromatic number of join graphs Pn VPn, Cn VCn and prove that they satisfy conjecture 3, namely, the chromatic numbers of vertex distinguishing total and vertex distinguishing equitable total are the same for join graphs Pn V Pn and Cn ∨ Cn.     

Bounds on the Total Restrained Domination Number of a Graph

Let G = (V, E) be a graph. A set S í V{S \subseteq V} is a total restrained dominating set if every vertex is adjacent to a vertex in S and every vertex of V − S is adjacent to a vertex in V − S. The total restrained domination number of G, denoted by γ _tr (G), is the smallest cardinality of a total restrained dominating set of G. We show that if δ ≥ 3, then γ _tr (G) ≤ n − δ − 2 provided G is not one of several forbidden graphs. Furthermore, we show that if G is r − regular, where 4 ≤ r ≤ n − 3, then γ _tr (G) ≤ n − diam(G) − r + 1.     

Rainbow Connection in Some Digraphs

An edge-coloured graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colours. This concept was introduced by Chartrand et al. (Math Bohemica 133(1):85–98, 2008), and it was extended to oriented graphs by Dorbec et al. (Discrete Appl Math 179(31):69–78, 2014). In this paper we present some results regarding this extension, mostly for the case of circulant digraphs.     

偶阶完全图的点-边全符号控制数

设γ_s~*(G)表示图G的点-边全符号控制数,本文给出了偶阶完全图的点-边全符号控制数的精确值.     

Rainbow Connection in 3-Connected Graphs

An edge-colored graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph G, denoted by rc(G), is the smallest number of colors that are needed in order to make G rainbow connected. In this paper, we proved that rc(G) ≤ 3(n + 1)/5 for all 3-connected graphs.     

An Upper Bound for the Total Domination Subdivision Number of a Graph

A set S of vertices of a graph G = (V, E) without isolated vertex is a total dominating set if every vertex of V(G) is adjacent to some vertex in S. The total domination number γ _t (G) is the minimum cardinality of a total dominating set of G. The total domination subdivision number sd_gt(G){{\rm sd}_{\gamma_t}(G)} is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (each edge in G can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the total domination number. In this paper, we prove that sd_gt(G) ￡ 2g_t(G)-1{{\rm sd}_{\gamma_t}(G)\leq 2\gamma_t(G)-1} for every simple connected graph G of order n ≥ 3.     

完全图全符号控制数的较小上界和下确界

设图G=G(V,E),令函数f∶V∪E→{-1,1},f的权w(f)=∑x∈V∪Ef[x],对V∪E中任一元素,定义f[x]=∑y∈NT[x]f(y),这里NT[x]表示V∪E中x及其关联边、邻点的集合.图G的全符号控制函数为f∶V∪E→{-1,1},满足对所有的x∈V∪E有f[x]1,图G的全符号控制数γT(G)就是图G上全符号控制数的最小权,称其f为图G的γT-函数.本文得到了完全图全符号控制数的一个较小上界和下确界.     

完全二部图广义Mycielski图的邻点可区别全色数与邻强边色数

得到了完全二部图Km,n的广义Mycielski图Ml(Km,n),当(l≥1,n≥m≥2)时的邻点可区别全色数与邻强边色数.     

三类平方图的点边邻点可区别全色数

根据平方图的结构性质,用穷染,递推的方法,讨论了路,圈,扇的平方图的点边邻点可区别全染色,得到了相应的色数,即并给出了一种染色方案.     

图的邻点强可区别全色数的上界

本文利用概率方法得到了图的邻点强可区别全色数的上界.     

两类Mycielski图及一些平面图的均匀全色数

对于图G(V,E)的正常k-全染色φ称为G(V,E)的k-均匀全染色,当且仅当任意两个色类中的元素总数至多相差1.xvee(G)=m in{k存在图G的一个k-均匀全染色}称为G的均匀全色数.本文得到了两类M ycielsk i图及圈,轮图和扇形的均匀全色数.