1-planar Graphs without 4-cycles or 5-cycles are 5-colorable

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on the Euclidean plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. A proper vertex k-coloring of a graph G is defined as a vertex coloring from a set of k colors such that no two adjacent vertices have the same color. A graph that can be assigned a proper k-coloring is k-colorable. A cycle is a path of edges and vertices wherein a vertex is reachable from itself. A cycle contains k vertices and k edges is a k-cycle. In this paper, it is proved t...     

Competition Numbers and Phytogeny Numbers of Connected Graphs and Hypergraphs

Let D be a digraph.The competition graph of D is the graph having the same vertex set with D and having an edge joining two different vertices if and only if they have at least one common out-neighbor in D.The phylogeny graph of D is the competition graph of the digraph constructed from D by adding loops at all vertices.The competition/phylogeny number of a graph is the least number of vertices to be added to make the graph a competition/phylogeny graph of an acyclic digraph.In this paper,we show that for any integer k there is a connected graph such that its phylogeny number minus its competition number is greater than k.We get similar results for hypergraphs.     

Joins of 1-planar graphs

A graph is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once.In this paper,we study 1-planar graph joins.We prove that the join G + H is 1-planar if and only if the pair [G,H] is subgraph-majorized by one of pairs [C3 ∪ C3,C3],[C4,C4],[C4,C3],[K2,1,1,P3] in the case when both elements of the graph join have at least three vertices.If one element has at most two vertices,then we give several necessary/sufficient conditions for the bigger element.     

Graphs isomorphic to their maximum matching graphs

The maximum matching graph M（G） of a graph G is a simple graph whose vertices are the maximum matchings of G and where two maximum matchings are adjacent in M（G） if they differ by exactly one edge. In this paper, we prove that if a graph is isomorphic to its maximum matching graph, then every block of the graph is an odd cycle.     

Removable edges in a spanning tree of a k-connected graph

An edge e of a k-connected graph G is said to be a removable edge if G O e is still k-connected, where G O e denotes the graph obtained from G by the following way： deleting e to get G - e, and for any end vertex of e with degree k - 1 in G - e, say x, deleting x, and then adding edges between any pair of non-adjacent vertices in NG-e （x）. The existence of removable edges of k-connected graphs and some properties of k-connected graphs have been investigated. In the present paper, we investigate the distribution of removable edges on a spanning tree of a k-connected graph （k ≥ 4）.     

5连通图中的可去边

An edge e of a k-connected graph G is said to be a removable edge if G O e is still k-connected, where G e denotes the graph obtained from G by deleting e to get G - e, and for any end vertex of e with degree k - 1 in G- e, say x, delete x, and then add edges between any pair of non-adjacent vertices in NG-e （x）. The existence of removable edges of k-connected graphs and some properties of 3-connected and 4-connected graphs have been investigated [1, 11, 14, 15]. In the present paper, we investigate some properties of 5-connected graphs and study the distribution of removable edges on a cycle and a spanning tree in a 5- connected graph. Based on the properties, we proved that for a 5-connected graph G of order at least 10, if the edge-vertex-atom of G contains at least three vertices, then G has at least （3│G│ ＋ 2）/2 removable edges.     

Distance Between Two Vertices of Maximum Matching Graphs

The maximum matching graph of a graph has a vertex for each maximum matching and an edge for each pair of maximum matchings which differ by exactly one edge. In this paper, we obtain a lower bound of distance between two vertices of maximum matching graph, and give a necessary and sufficient condition that the bound can be reached.     

局部大边宽嵌入图的面圈和C-桥的结构

In this paper,we show that for a locally LEW-embedded 3-connected graph G in orientable surface,the following results hold:1) Each of such embeddings is minimum genus embedding;2) The facial cycles are precisely the induced nonseparating cycles which implies the uniqueness of such embeddings;3) Every overlap graph O(G,C) is a bipartite graph and G has only one C-bridge H such that CUH is nonplanar provided C is a contractible cycle shorter than every noncontractible cycle containing an edge of C.This ext...     

On the number of matchings of graphs formed by a graph operation

Let G be a simple graph. Define R(G) to be the graph obtained from G by adding a new vertex e* corresponding to each edge e = (a,b) of G and by joining each new vertex e* to the end vertices a and b of the edge e corresponding to it. In this paper, we prove that the number of matchings of R(G) is completely determined by the degree sequence of vertices of G.     

The backup 2-median problem on block graphs

The backup 2-median problem is a location problem to locate two facilities at vertices with the minimum expected cost where each facility may fail with a given probability. Once a facility fails, the other one takes full responsibility for the services. Here we assume that the facilities do not fail simultaneously. In this paper, we consider the backup 2-median problem on block graphs where any two edges in one block have the same length and the lengths of edges on different blocks may be different. By constructing a tree-shaped skeleton of a block graph, we devise an O（n log n q- m）-time algorithm to solve this problem where n and m are the number of vertices and edges, respectively, in the given block graph.