Star complements in regular graphs: Old and new results

We survey results concerning star complements in finite regular graphs, and note the connection with designs and strongly regular graphs in certain cases. We include improved proofs along with new results on stars and windmills as star complements.     

Signless Laplacians of finite graphs

We survey properties of spectra of signless Laplacians of graphs and discuss possibilities for developing a spectral theory of graphs based on this matrix. For regular graphs the whole existing theory of spectra of the adjacency matrix and of the Laplacian matrix transfers directly to the signless Laplacian, and so we consider arbitrary graphs with special emphasis on the non-regular case. The results which we survey (old and new) are of two types: (a) results obtained by applying to the signless Laplacian the same reasoning as for corresponding results concerning the adjacency matrix, (b) results obtained indirectly via line graphs. Among other things, we present eigenvalue bounds for several graph invariants, an interpretation of the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial, a theorem on powers of the signless Laplacian and some remarks on star complements.     

The Factorization of Adjoint Polynomials of E^G（i）-class Graphs and Chromatically Equivalence Analysis

Let Sn be the star with n vertices,and let G be any connected graph with p vertices.We denote by EG(i)rp (r-1) the graph obtained from Sr and rG by coinciding the i-th vertex of G with the vertex of degree r-1 of Sr,while the i-th vertex of each component of (r-1)G be adjacented to r-1 vertices of degree 1 of Sr,respectively.By applying the properties of adjoint polynomials,We prove that factorization theorem of adjoint polynomials of kinds of graphs EG(i)rp (r-1)U(r-1)K1(1≤i≤p).Furthermore,we obtain structure characteristics of chromatically equivalent graphs of their complements.     

ω_(aδ)~ω∪bω_δ形图簇的伴随分解及其补图的色等价性

研究图的伴随分解及其补图的色等价性.采用伴随多项式的性质讨论图的伴随分解式,通过图的伴随分解式确定其补图的色性.证明了形图簇的伴随多项式的分解定理,从上述定理得到了这类图簇的补图的色等价性.结论通过图的伴随分解研究其补图的色等价性,是有效的途径与方法,从图的伴随分解式容易看出其补图的色等价图的结构规律.     

Classes of graphs without star forests and related graphs

This work provides a structural characterisation of hereditary graph classes that do not contain a star forest, several graphs obtained from star forests by subset complementation, a union of cliques, and the complement of a union of cliques as induced subgraphs. This provides, for instance, structural results for graph classes not containing a matching and several complements of a matching. In terms of the speed of hereditary graph classes, our results imply that all such classes have at most factorial speed of growth.     

图的伴随多项式的两个因式分解定理及其应用

设G是m阶连通图,P_m是m个顶点的路.令S_km+1^G(i)表示把kG的每一个分支的第i(1≤i≤m)个顶点依次与星图S_k+1的k个1度顶点重迭后得到的图;令G_i1^S*(q,km)表示q阶图G的顶点V_i1与S_km+1^p(1)的k度顶点重迭后得到的图     

关于双顶边星图的优美性

在文献[1]中,C.Hoede and H.Kuiper证明了所有的轮都是优美图;文献[2]又指出了所有的齿轮图也是优美图.本文将给出在齿轮图每个齿的顶端加上两条长度为1的边所得的图亦为优美图.     

由轮图导出的某些平面图类的星色数

图的星色数是通常色数概念的推广.本文求出了几类由轮图导出的平面图的星色数.前两类是由3-或5-轮图经细分等构造出的,其星色数分别为2+2/(2n+1),2+3/(3n+1)和2+3/(3n-1).第三类平面图是由n-轮图经过Hajos构造得到的,其星色数为3+1/n.本类图的星色数结果推广了已有结论.     

On minimal forbidden subgraph characterizations of balanced graphs

A graph is balanced if its clique-matrix contains no edge–vertex incidence matrix of an odd chordless cycle as a submatrix. While a forbidden induced subgraph characterization of balanced graphs is known, there is no such characterization by minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. In this work, we provide minimal forbidden induced subgraph characterizations of balanced graphs restricted to graphs that belong to one of the following graph classes: complements of bipartite graphs, line graphs of multigraphs, and complements of line graphs of multigraphs. These characterizations lead to linear-time recognition algorithms for balanced graphs within the same three graph classes.     

图的星色数

给出了一些星色数为４的平面图,它们不含有轮图作为子图,这回答了Ｚｈｕ的一个问题,给出了一类４连通平面图其星色数在３与４之间,这也回答了Ａｂｂｏｔｔ和Ｚｈｏｕ的一个问题,应用图的同态概念,讨论了某些图的字典积的星色数,证明了一个图及其补图的星色数的和与积所满足的两个不等式。     

Infinite generalized friendship graphs

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of infinite generalized friendship graphs and show that there are 2° non-isomorphic ones of each admissible order c and chromatic number. Further we prove that such graphs and their complements are almost always regular of degree equal to the order and that various generalizations of the Friendship Theorem do not hold for infinite generalized friendship graphs.     

On the Complexity of Cover-Incomparability Graphs of Posets

In this paper we show that the recognition problem for C-I graphs of posets is NP-complete. On the other hand, we prove that induced subgraphs of C-I graphs are exactly complements of comparability graphs, and hence the recognition problem for induced subgraphs of C-I graphs of posets is polynomial.     

On Deza graphs with triangular and lattice graph complements as parameters

Under consideration are the strictly Deza graphs that are obtained from the complements to triangular and lattice graphs, the Chang graphs, and the Shrikhande graph, by means of their order two automorphisms. It is shown that these graphs are characterized in the class of strictly Deza graphs by the parameters and the structure of neighborhoods.     

图的好符号星控制数

引入了图的好符号星控制的概念,求出了欧拉图、完全二部图、完全图和轮图的好符号星控制数,并改进了图的符号星控制数的两个上界.     

图的星临界性

图的星着色是图的正常着色的推广。本文对图的星临界性及其与图的临界性之间的关系进行研究，给出了两类星临界但非临界的平面图。     

双圈图的Laplace谱跨度

The Laplacian spread of a graph is defined to be the difference between the largest eigenvalue and the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of the graph. In our recent work, we have determined the graphs with maximal Laplacian spreads among all trees of fixed order and among all unicyclic graphs of fixed order, respectively. In this paper, we continue the work on Laplacian spread of graphs, and prove that there exist exactly two bicyclic graphs with maximal Laplacian spread among all bicyclic graphs of fixed order, which are obtained from a star by adding two incident edges and by adding two nonincident edges between the pendant vertices of the star, respectively.     

Threshold tolerance graphs

In this paper, we introduce a class of graphs that generalize threshold graphs by introducing threshold tolerances. Several characterizations of these graphs are presented, one of which leads to a polynomial-time recognition algorithm. It is also shown that the complements of these graphs contain interval graphs and threshold graphs, and are contained in the subclass of chordal graphs called strongly chordal graphs, and in the class of interval tolerance graphs.     

A depth-first search routing algorithm for star graphs and its performance evaluation

A fault-tolerant routing algorithm has been developed for star graph interconnection topology by using a depth-first search strategy. The proposed algorithm routes a message from the source to the destination along an optimal path with a very high probability and is guaranteed to trace a path as long as the source and the destination are not disconnected. We derive exact mathematical expressions for the probabilities that the algorithm will compute an optimal path for a given number of faulty links in the network. The analysis reveals many interesting topological properties of the star graphs.     

Handelman’s hierarchy for the maximum stable set problem

The maximum stable set problem is a well-known NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization, which can be formulated as the maximization of a quadratic square-free polynomial over the (Boolean) hypercube. We investigate a hierarchy of linear programming relaxations for this problem, based on a result of Handelman showing that a positive polynomial over a polytope with non-empty interior can be represented as conic combination of products of the linear constraints defining the polytope. We relate the rank of Handelman’s hierarchy with structural properties of graphs. In particular we show a relation to fractional clique covers which we use to upper bound the Handelman rank for perfect graphs and determine its exact value in the vertex-transitive case. Moreover we show two upper bounds on the Handelman rank in terms of the (fractional) stability number of the graph and compute the Handelman rank for several classes of graphs including odd cycles and wheels and their complements. We also point out links to several other linear and semidefinite programming hierarchies.     

Strong structural properties of unidirectional star graphs

Day and Tripathi [K. Day, A. Tripathi, Unidirectional star graphs, Inform. Process. Lett. 45 (1993) 123-129] proposed an assignment of directions on the star graphs and derived attractive properties for the resulting directed graphs: an important one is that they are strongly connected. In [E. Cheng, M.J. Lipman, On the Day-Tripathi orientation of the star graphs: Connectivity, Inform. Process. Lett. 73 (2000) 5-10] it is shown that the Day-Tripathi orientations are in fact maximally arc-connected when n is odd; when n is even, they can be augmented to maximally arc-connected digraphs by adding a minimum set of arcs. This gives strong evidence that the Day-Tripathi orientations are good orientations. In [E. Cheng, M.J. Lipman, Connectivity properties of unidirectional star graphs, Congr. Numer. 150 (2001) 33-42] it is shown that vertex-connectivity is maximal, and that if we delete as many vertices as the connectivity, we can create at most two strong connected components, at most one of which is not a singleton. In this paper we prove an asymptotically sharp upper bound for the number of vertices we can delete without creating two nonsingleton strong components, and we also give sharp upper bounds on the number of singletons that we might create.