A POLYNOMIAL ALGORITHM FOR FINDING THE MINIMUM FEEDBACK VERTEX SET OF A 3-REGULAR SIMPLE GRAPH 1

A subset of the vertex set of a graph is a feedback vertex set of the graph if the resulting graph is a forest after removed the vertex subset from the graph. A polynomial algorithm for finding a minimum feedback vertex set of a 3-regular simple graph is provided.     

一个求外平面图最小顶点赋权反馈点集的线性时间算法

若从一个图中去掉某些顶点后得到的导出子图是无圈图,则所去的那些顶点组成的集合就是原图的反馈点集.本文主要考虑外平面图中的反馈点集并给出了一个求外平面图最小顶点赋权反馈点集的线性时间算法.     

A POLYNOMIAL ALGORITHM FOR FINDING THE MINIMUM FEEDBACKVERTEX SET OF A 3-REGULAR SIMPLE GRAPHR1

A subset of the vertex set of a graph is a feedback vertex set of thegraph if the resulting graph is a forest after removed the vertexsubset from the graph. A polynomial algorithm for finding a minimumfeedback vertex set of a 3-regular simple graph is provided.     

A Linear Time Algorithm for the Minimum-weight Feedback Vertex Set Problem in Series-parallel Graphs

A feedback vertex set is a subset of vertices in a graph, whose deletion from the graph makes the resulting graph acyclic. In this paper, we study the minimum-weight feedback vertex set problem in seriesparallel graphs and present a linear-time exact algorithm to solve it.     

A class of planar four-colorable graphs

A sufficient condition is given for a planar graph to be 4-colorable. This condition is in terms of the sums of the degrees of a subset of the vertex set of the graph.     

上连通和超连通的三次Bi-Cayley图

Let G be a finite group and let S(possibly, contains the identity element) be a subset of G. The Bi-Cayley graph BC(G, S) is a bipartite graph with vertex set G×{0, 1} and edge set {(g, 0) (sg, 1) : g∈G, s ∈ S}. A graph is said to be super-connected if every minimum vertex cut isolates a vertex. A graph is said to be hyper-connected if every minimum vertex cut creates two components, one of which is an isolated vertex. In this paper, super-connected and/or hyper-connected cubic Bi-Cayley graphs are characterized.     

Total restrained bondage in graphs

A subset S of vertices of a graph G with no isolated vertex is a total restrained dominating set if every vertex is adjacent to a vertex in S and every vertex in V (G) S is also adjacent to a vertex in V (G) S. The total restrained domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a total restrained dominating set of G. In this paper we initiate the study of total restrained bondage in graphs. The total restrained bondage number in a graph G with no isolated vertex, is the minimum cardinality of a subset of edges E such that G E has no isolated vertex and the total restrained domination number of G E is greater than the total restrained domination number of G. We obtain several properties, exact values and bounds for the total restrained bondage number of a graph.     

笛卡尔乘积图里的最小k-路点覆盖

对于子集$S\subseteq V(G)$,如果图$G$里的每一条$k$路都至少包含$S$中的一个点,那么我们称集合$S$是图$G$的一个$k$-路点覆盖.很明显,这个子集并不唯一.我们称最小的$k$-路点覆盖的基数为$k$-路点覆盖数, 记作$\psi_k(G)$.本文给出了一些笛卡尔乘积图上$\psi_k(G)$值的上界或下界.     

5-正则图的全控制数的一个注记

设G是不含孤立点的图,S是G的一个顶点子集,若G的每一个顶点都与S中的某顶点邻接,则称S是G的全控制集.G的最小全控制集所含顶点的个数称为G的全控制数,记为γt(G).Thomasse和Yeo证明了若G是最小度至少为5的n阶连通图,则γt(G)≤17n/44.在5-正则图上改进了Thomasse和Yeo的结论,证明了若G是n阶5-正则图,则,γt(G)≤106n/275.     

A sharp upper bound on algebraic connectivity using domination number

Let G be a connected graph of order n. The algebraic connectivity of G is the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of G. A dominating set in G is a vertex subset S such that each vertex of G that is not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. The least cardinality of a dominating set is the domination number. In this paper, we prove a sharp upper bound on the algebraic connectivity of a connected graph in terms of the domination number and characterize the associated extremal graphs.     

图与超图中的彩色匹配综述

超图H=(V,E)是一个二元组(V,E),其中超边集E中的元素是点集V的非空子集.因此图是一种特殊的超图,超图也可以看作是一般图的推广.特别地,如果超边集E中的元素均是点集V的k元子集,则称该超图为k-一致的.通常情况下,为叙述简便,我们也会将超边简称为边.图(超图)中的匹配是指图(超图)中互不相交的边的集合.对于图(超图)中的彩色匹配,有两种定义方式:一为染色图(超图)中互不相交且颜色不同的边的集合;二为顶点集均为[n]的多个染色图(超图)所构成的集族中互不相交且颜色均不同的边的集合,且每条边均来自集族中不同的图(超图).现主要介绍了图与超图中关于彩色匹配的相关结果.     

本刊英文版Vol.29(2013),No.6论文摘要

<正>Total Restrained Bondage in Graphs Nader JAFARI RAD Roslan HASNI Joanna RACZEK Lutz VOLKMANN Abstract A subset S of vertices of a graph G with no isolated vertex is a total restrained dominating set if every vertex is adjacent to a vertex in S and every vertex in V(G)-S is also adjacent to a vertex in V(G)-S.The total restrained domination number of G is the minimum cardinality of a total restrained dominating set of G.In this paper we initiate the study of     

Domination-balanced graphs

A set D of vertices in a graph is said to be a dominating set if every vertex not in D is adjacent to some vertex in D. The domination number β(G) of a graph G is the size of a smallest dominating set. G is called domination balanced if its vertex set can be partitioned into β(G) subsets so that each subset is a smallest dominating set of the complement G of G. The purpose of this paper is to characterize these graphs.     

A linear algorithm for the domination number of a series-parallel graph

A vertex u in an undirected graph G = (V, E) is said to dominate all its adjacent vertices and itself. A subset D of V is a dominating set in G if every vertex in G is dominated by a vertex in D, and is a minimum dominating set in G if no other dominating set in G has fewer vertices than D. The domination number of G is the cardinality of a minimum dominating set in G.The problem of determining, for a given positive integer k and an undirected graph G, whether G has a dominating set D in G satisfying ¦D¦ ≤ k, is a well-known NP-complete problem. Cockayne have presented a linear time algorithm for finding a minimum dominating set in a tree. In this paper, we will present a linear time algorithm for finding a minimum dominating set in a series-parallel graph.     

Neighbour-transitive codes and partial spreads in generalised quadrangles

Designs, Codes and Cryptography - A code C in a generalised quadrangle $${\mathcal {Q}}$$ is defined to be a subset of the vertex set of the point-line incidence graph $${\Gamma }$$ of $${\mathcal...     

An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem

Given an undirected graph and a weighting function defined on the vertex set, the minimum weight vertex cover problem is to find a vertex subset whose total weight is minimum subject to the premise that the selected vertices cover all edges in the graph. In this paper, we introduce a meta-heuristic based upon the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach, to find approximate solutions to the minimum weight vertex cover problem. In the literature, the ACO approach has been successfully applied to several well-known combinatorial optimization problems whose solutions might be in the form of paths on the associated graphs. A solution to the minimum weight vertex cover problem however needs not to constitute a path. The ACO algorithm proposed in this paper incorporates several new features so as to select vertices out of the vertex set whereas the total weight can be minimized as much as possible. Computational experiments are designed and conducted to study the performance of our proposed approach. Numerical results evince that the ACO algorithm demonstrates significant effectiveness and robustness in solving the minimum weight vertex cover problem.     

Coincidence of the sets of minimal and irreducible join graphs over primary structure of algebraic Bayesian networks

An algebraic Bayesian network (ABN) is a probabilistic-logic graphical model of bases of knowledge patterns with uncertainty. A primary structure of an ABN is a set of knowledge patterns, that are ideals of conjunctions of positive literals except the empty conjunction endowed with scalar or interval probability estimates. A secondary ABN structure is represented by a graph constructed over the primary structure, which is called a join graph. From the point of view of learning of a global ABN structure, of interest are join graphs with the minimum number of edges and irreducible join graphs. A theorem on the coincidence of the sets of minimal and irreducible join graphs over the same primary structure is proved. A greedy algorithm constructing an arbitrary minimal join graph from a given primary structure is described. A theorem expressing the number of edges in a minimal join graph as the sum of the ranks of the incidence matrices of strong restrictions of a maximal join graph minus the number of significant weights is stated and proved. A generalized graph of maximal knowledge patterns (GGMKP) is a graph with the same vertex set as the join graph which is not subject to any constraints concerning the possibility of joining two vertices by an edge. It is proved that the pair consisting of the edge set of a maximal GGMKP and the set of all subsets of this graph such that the subtraction of any such subset from the maximal GGMKP yields an edge of the join graph on the same vertex set is a matroid.     

和图、整和图与模和图的几个结果

Let N denote the set of positive integers. The sum graph G^＋（S） of a finite subset S belong to N is the graph （S, E） with uv ∈ E if and only if u ＋ v ∈ S. A graph G is said to be a sum graph if it is isomorphic to the sum graph of some S belong to N. By using the set Z of all integers instead of N, we obtain the definition of the integral sum graph. A graph G = （V, E） is a mod sum graph if there exists a positive integer z and a labelling, λ, of the vertices of G with distinct elements from {0, 1, 2,..., z - 1} so that uv ∈ E if and only if the sum, modulo z, of the labels assigned to u and v is the label of a vertex of G. In this paper, we prove that flower tree is integral sum graph. We prove that Dutch m-wind-mill （Dm） is integral sum graph and mod sum graph, and give the sum number of Dm.     

ON EDGE-HAMILTONIAN PROPERTY OF BI-CAYLEY GRAPHS

Let G be a finite group, and S be a subset of G. The bi-Cayley graph BCay(G, S)of G with respect to S is defined as the bipartite graph with vertex set G × {0, 1} and edge set {(g, 0),(gs, 1)| g ∈ G, s ∈ S}. In this paper, we first provide two interesting results for edge-hamiltonian property of Cayley graphs and bi-Cayley graphs. Next,we investigate the edge-hamiltonian property of Γ = BCay(G, S), and prove that Γis hamiltonian if and only if Γ is edge-hamiltonian when Γ is a connected bi-Cayley graph.