k-Subdomination in graphs

For a positive integer k, a k-subdominating function of a graph G=(V,E) is a function f : V→{−1,1} such that ∑_uNG[v]f(u)1 for at least k vertices v of G. The k-subdomination number of G, denoted by γ_ks(G), is the minimum of ∑_vVf(v) taken over all k-subdominating functions f of G. In this article, we prove a conjecture for k-subdomination on trees proposed by Cockayne and Mynhardt. We also give a lower bound for γ_ks(G) in terms of the degree sequence of G. This generalizes some known results on the k-subdomination number γ_ks(G), the signed domination number γ_s(G) and the majority domination number γ_maj(G).     

On L(d,1)-labelings of graphs

Given a graph G and a positive integer d, an L(d,1)-labeling of G is a function f that assigns to each vertex of G a non-negative integer such that if two vertices u and v are adjacent, then |f(u)−f(v)|d; if u and v are not adjacent but there is a two-edge path between them, then |f(u)−f(v)|1. The L(d,1)-number of G, λ_d(G), is defined as the minimum m such that there is an L(d,1)-labeling f of G with f(V){0,1,2,…,m}. Motivated by the channel assignment problem introduced by Hale (Proc. IEEE 68 (1980) 1497–1514), the L(2,1)-labeling and the L(1,1)-labeling (as d=2 and 1, respectively) have been studied extensively in the past decade. This article extends the study to all positive integers d. We prove that λ_d(G)Δ²+(d−1)Δ for any graph G with maximum degree Δ. Different lower and upper bounds of λ_d(G) for some families of graphs including trees and chordal graphs are presented. In particular, we show that the lower and the upper bounds for trees are both attainable, and the upper bound for chordal graphs can be improved for several subclasses of chordal graphs.     

路的字典积的邻和可区别边染色

图G的正常[k]-边染色σ是指颜色集合为[k]={1,2,…,k}的G的一个正常边染色.用w_σ（x）表示顶点x关联边的颜色之和,即w_σ（x）=∑_e∋x σ（e）,并称w_σ（x）关于σ的权.图G的k-邻和可区别边染色是指相邻顶点具有不同权的正常[k]-边染色,最小的k值称为G的邻和可区别边色数,记为χ'_∑（G）.现得到了路P_n与简单连通图H的字典积P_n[H]的邻和可区别边色数的精确值,其中H分别为正则第一类图、路、完全图的补图.     

Primitive graphs with given exponents and minimum number of edges

A graph G = (V, E) on n vertices is primitive if there is a positive integer k such that for each pair of vertices u, v of G, there is a walk of length k from u to v. The minimum value of such an integer, k, is the exponent, exp(G), of G. In this paper, we find the minimum number, h(n, k), of edges of a simple graph G on n vertices with exponent k, and we characterize all graphs which have h(n, k) edges when k is 3 or even.     

Ramsey linear families and generalized subdivided graphs

The following results are obtained. (i) Let p, d, and k be fixed positive integers, and let G be a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into parts V₁, V₂,…, V_a such that for each i at most d vertices in V₁ … V_i have neighbors in V_i+1 and r(K_k, V_i) p | V(G) |, where V_i denotes the subgraph of G induced by V_i. Then there exists a number c depending only on p, d, and k such that r(K_k, G)c | V(G) |. (ii) Let d be a positive integer and let G be a graph in which there is an independent set I V(G) such that each component of G−I has at most d vertices and at most two neighbors in I. Then r(G,G)c | V(G) |, where c is a number depending only on d. As a special case, r(G, G) 6 | V(G) | for a graph G in which all vertices of degree at least three are independent. The constant 6 cannot be replaced by one less than 4.     

A Note on Strong Edge Coloring of Sparse Graphs

A strong edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring where the edges at distance at most 2 receive distinct colors. The strong chromatic index χ'_s(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colors used in a strong edge coloring of G. In an ordering Q of the vertices of G, the back degree of a vertex x of G in Q is the number of vertices adjacent to x, each of which has smaller index than x in Q. Let G be a graph of maximum degree Δ and maximum average degree at most 2 k. Yang and Zhu [J. Graph Theory, 83, 334–339(2016)] presented an algorithm that produces an ordering of the edges of G in which each edge has back degree at most 4 kΔ-2 k in the square of the line graph of G, implying that χ'_s(G) ≤ 4 kΔ-2 k + 1. In this note, we improve the algorithm of Yang and Zhu by introducing a new procedure dealing with local structures. Our algorithm generates an ordering of the edges of G in which each edge has back degree at most(4 k-1)Δ-2 k in the square of the line graph of G, implying that χ'_s(G) ≤(4 k-1)Δ-2 k + 1.     

Length-bounded disjoint paths in planar graphs

The following problem is considered: given: an undirected planar graph G=(V,E) embedded in , distinct pairs of vertices {r₁,s₁},…,{r_k,s_k} of G adjacent to the unbounded face, positive integers b₁,…,b_k and a function ; find: pairwise vertex-disjoint paths P₁,…,P_k such that for each i=1,…,k, P_i is a r_i−s_i-path and the sum of the l-length of all edges in P_i is at most b_i. It is shown that the problem is NP-hard in the strong sense. A pseudo-polynomial-time algorithm is given for the case of k=2.     

ContributionsOn optimal orientations of cartesian products of graphs (I)

For a graph G, let D(G) be the family of strong orientations of G, and define [ovbar|d] (G) = min[d(D) vb D ] D(G), where d(D) denotes the diameter of the digraph D. Let G × H denote the cartesian product of the graphs G and H. In this paper, we determine completely the values of and , except , where K_n, P_n and C_n denote the complete graph, path and cycle of order n, respectively.     

Magic Labeling of Disjoint Union Graphs

Let G be a graph with vertex set V (G), edge set E(G) and maximum degree Δ respectively. G is called degree-magic if it admits a labelling of the edges by integers {1, 2, …,|E(G)|} such that for any vertex v the sum of the labels of the edges incident with v is equal to (1+|E(G)|)/2·d(v), where d(v) is the degree of v. Let f be a proper edge coloring of G such that for each vertex v ∈ V (G),|{e:e ∈ E_v, f(e) ≤ Δ/2}|=|{e:e ∈ E_v, f(e) > Δ/2}|, and such an f is called a balanced edge coloring of G. In this paper, we show that if G is a supermagic even graph with a balanced edge coloring and m ≥ 1, then (2m + 1)G is a supermagic graph. If G is a d-magic even graph with a balanced edge coloring and n ≥ 2, then nG is a d-magic graph. Results in this paper generalise some known results.     

Algorithmic complexity of list colorings

Given a graph G = (V,E) and a finite set L(v) at each vertex v ε V, the List Coloring problem asks whether there exists a function f:V → _vεVL(V) such that (i) f(v)εL(v) for each vεV and (ii) f(u) ≠f(v) whenever u, vεV and uvεE. One of our results states that this decision problem remains NP-complete even if all of the followingconditions are met: (1) each set L(v) has at most three elements, (2) each “color” xε_vεVL(v) occurs in at most three sets L(v), (3) each vertex vεV has degree at most three, and (4) G is a planar graph. On the other hand, strengthening any of the assumptions (1)–(3) yields a polynomially solvable problem. The connection between List Coloring and Boolean Satisfiability is discussed, too.     

Bandwidth of the composition of two graphs

The bandwidth B(G) of a graph G is the minimum of the quantity max{|f(x)−f(y)| : xyE(G)} taken over all proper numberings f of G. The composition of two graphs G and H, written as G[H], is the graph with vertex set V(G)×V(H) and with (u₁,v₁) is adjacent to (u₂,v₂) if either u₁ is adjacent to u₂ in G or u₁=u₂ and v₁ is adjacent to v₂ in H. In this paper, we investigate the bandwidth of the composition of two graphs. Let G be a connected graph. We denote the diameter of G by D(G). For two distinct vertices x,yV(G), we define w_G(x,y) as the maximum number of internally vertex-disjoint (x,y)-paths whose lengths are the distance between x and y. We define w(G) as the minimum of w_G(x,y) over all pairs of vertices x,y of G with the distance between x and y is equal to D(G). Let G be a non-complete connected graph and let H be any graph. Among other results, we prove that if |V(G)|=B(G)D(G)−w(G)+2, then B(G[H])=(B(G)+1)|V(H)|−1. Moreover, we show that this result determines the bandwidth of the composition of some classes of graphs composed with any graph.     

Some results on characterizing the edges of connected graphs with a given domination number

A dominating set for a graph G = (V, E) is a subset of vertices V′ V such that for all v ε V − V′ there exists some u ε V′ for which {v, u} ε E. The domination number of G is the size of its smallest dominating set(s). For a given graph G with minimum size dominating set D, let m₁ (G, D) denote the number of edges that have neither endpoint in D, and let m₂ (G, D) denote the number of edges that have at least one endpoint in D. We characterize the possible values that the pair (m₁ (G, D), m₂ (G, D)) can attain for connected graphs having a given domination number.     

Decomposition of some planar graphs into trees

We prove that each simple planar graph G whose all faces are quadrilaterals can be decomposed into two disjoint trees T_r and T_b such that V(T_r) = V(G − u) and V(T_b) = V(G − v) for any two non-adjacent vertices u and v of G.     

The smallest degree sum that yields potentially kCℓ-graphic sequences

Gould et al. (Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Algorithms, Vol. 1, 1999, pp. 387–400) considered a variation of the classical Turán-type extremal problems as follows: For a given graph H, determine the smallest even integer σ(H,n) such that every n-term graphic sequence π=(d₁,d₂,…,d_n) with term sum σ(π)=d₁+d₂++d_nσ(H,n) has a realization G containing H as a subgraph. In this paper, for given integers k and ℓ, ℓ7 and 3kℓ, we completely determine the smallest even integer σ(_kC_ℓ,n) such that each n-term graphic sequence π=(d₁,d₂,…,d_n) with term sum σ(π)=d₁+d₂++d_nσ(_kC_ℓ,n) has a realization G containing a cycle of length r for each r, krℓ.     

Choosability of planar graphs

A graph G = G(V, E) with lists L(v), associated with its vertices v V, is called L-list colourable if there is a proper vertex colouring of G in which the colour assigned to a vertex v is chosen from L(v). We say G is k-choosable if there is at least one L-list colouring for every possible list assignment L with L(v) = k v V(G).

Now, let an arbitrary vertex v of G be coloured with an arbitrary colour f of L(v). We investigate whether the colouring of v can be continued to an L-list colouring of the whole graph. G is called free k-choosable if such an L-list colouring exists for every list assignment L (L(v) = k v V(G)), every vertex v and every colour f L(v). We prove the equivalence of the well-known conjecture of Erd s et al. (1979): “Every planar graph is 5-choosable” with the following conjecture: “Every planar graph is free 5-choosable”.     

Budget constrained minimum cost connected medians

Several practical instances of network design and location theory problems require the network to satisfy multiple constraints. In this paper, we study a graph-theoretic problem that aims to simultaneously address a network design task and a location-theoretic constraint. The Budget Constrained Connected Median Problem is the following: We are given an undirected graph G=(V,E) with two different edge-weight functions c (modeling the construction or communication cost) and d (modeling the service distance), and a bound B on the total service distance. The goal is to find a subtree T of G with minimum c-cost c(T) subject to the constraint that the sum ∑_vVTdist_d(v,T) of the service distances of all the remaining nodes vVT does not exceed the specified budget B. Here, the service distance dist_d(v,T) denotes the shortest path distance of v to a vertex in T with respect to d. This problem has applications in optical network design and the efficient maintenance of distributed databases.

We formulate this problem as a bicriteria network design problem, and present bicriteria approximation algorithms. We also prove lower bounds on the approximability of the problem which demonstrate that our performance ratios are close to best possible.     

The connectivity of a graph on uniform points on [0,1]

A random graph G_n(x) is constructed on independent random points U₁,…,U_n distributed uniformly on [0,1]^d, d1, in which two distinct such points are joined by an edge if the l_∞-distance between them is at most some prescribed value 0<x<1. The connectivity distance c_n, the smallest x for which G_n(x) is connected, is shown to satisfy

(1)

For d2, the random graph G_n(x) behaves like a d-dimensional version of the random graphs of Erdös and Rényi, despite the fact that its edges are not independent: c_n/d_n→1, a.s., as n→∞, where d_n is the largest nearest-neighbor link, the smallest x for which G_n(x) has no isolated vertices.     

Sum coloring and interval graphs: a tight upper bound for the minimum number of colors

The SUM COLORING problem consists of assigning a color c(v_i)Z⁺ to each vertex v_iV of a graph G=(V,E) so that adjacent nodes have different colors and the sum of the c(v_i)'s over all vertices v_iV is minimized. In this note we prove that the number of colors required to attain a minimum valued sum on arbitrary interval graphs does not exceed min{n;2χ(G)−1}. Examples from the papers [Discrete Math. 174 (1999) 125; Algorithmica 23 (1999) 109] show that the bound is tight.     

Bipartite dimensions and bipartite degrees of graphs

A cover (bipartite) of a graph G is a family of complete bipartite subgraphs of G whose edges cover G's edges. G'sbipartite dimension d(G) is the minimum cardinality of a cover, and its bipartite degree η(G) is the minimum over all covers of the maximum number of covering members incident to a vertex. We prove that d(G) equals the Boolean interval dimension of the irreflexive complement of G, identify the 21 minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for d 2, and investigate the forbidden graphs for d n that have the fewest vertices. We note that for complete graphs, d(K_n) = [log₂n], η(K_n) = d(K_n) for n 16, and η(K_n) is unbounded. The list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs for η 2 is infinite. We identify two infinite families in this list along with all members that have fewer than seven vertices.