Mock threshold graphs

Mock threshold graphs are a simple generalization of threshold graphs that, like threshold graphs, are perfect graphs. Our main theorem is a characterization of mock threshold graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs. Other theorems characterize mock threshold graphs that are claw-free and that are line graphs. We also discuss relations with chordality and well-quasi-ordering as well as algorithmic aspects.     

Characterizations and recognition of circular-arc graphs and subclasses: A survey

Circular graphs are intersection graphs of arcs on a circle. These graphs are reported to have been studied since 1964, and they have been receiving considerable attention since a series of papers by Tucker in the 1970s. Various subclasses of circular-arc graphs have also been studied. Among these are the proper circular-arc graphs, unit circular-arc graphs, Helly circular-arc graphs and co-bipartite circular-arc graphs. Several characterizations and recognition algorithms have been formulated for circular-arc graphs and its subclasses. In particular, it should be mentioned that linear time algorithms are known for all these classes of graphs. In the present paper, we survey these characterizations and recognition algorithms, with emphasis on the linear time algorithms.     

Two characterisations of the minimal triangulations of permutation graphs

A minimal triangulation of a graph is a chordal supergraph with an inclusion-minimal edge set. Minimal triangulations are obtained from adding edges only to minimal separators, completing minimal separators into cliques. Permutation graphs are the comparability graphs whose complements are also comparability graphs. Permutation graphs can be characterised as the intersection graphs of specially arranged line segments in the plane, which is called a permutation diagram. The minimal triangulations of permutation graphs are known to be interval graphs, and they can be obtained from permutation diagrams by applying a geometric operation, that corresponds to the completion of separators into cliques. We precisely specify this geometric completion process to obtain minimal triangulations, and we completely characterise those interval graphs that are minimal triangulations of permutation graphs.     

On the Natural Imprint Function of a Graph

In this paper, some characterizations of median and quasi-median graphs are extended to general isometric subgraphs of Cartesian products using the concept of an imprint function as introduced by Tardif. This extends the well known concepts of medians in median graphs as well as imprints in quasi-median graphs. We introduce absolute C-median graphs in analogy to absolute retracts, and derive a connection with the canonical isometric embedding of graphs into Cartesian products. Absolute C-median graphs strictly include classes of irreducible graphs and absolute (weak) retracts as well as many median-like classes, such as weakly median graphs, pre-median graphs, and weakly modular graphs. New characterizations of quasi-median graphs and of median graphs are obtained along the way. Finally, we propose a conjecture on the amalgamation procedure for absolute C-median graphs, and prove the fixed box theorem for this class modulo the conjecture.     

Almost self-centered graphs

The center of a graph is the set of vertices with minimum eccentricity. Graphs in which all vertices are central are called self-centered graphs. In this paper almost self-centered (ASC) graphs are introduced as the graphs with exactly two non-central vertices. The block structure of these graphs is described and constructions for generating such graphs are proposed. Embeddings of arbitrary graphs into ASC graphs are studied. In particular it is shown that any graph can be embedded into an ASC graph of prescribed radius. Embeddings into ASC graphs of radius two are studied in more detail. ASC index of a graph G is introduced as the smallest number of vertices needed to add to G such that G is an induced subgraph of an ASC graph.     

Signed graphs

A signed graph is a graph with a sign attached to each arc. This article introduces the matroids of signed graphs, which generalize both the polygon matroids and the even-circle (or unoriented cycle) matroids of ordinary graphs. The concepts of balance, switching, restriction and contraction, double covering graphs, and linear representation of signed graphs are treated in terms of the matroid, and a matrix-tree theorem for signed graphs is proved. The examples treated include the all-positive and all-negative graphs (whose matroids are the polygon and even-circle matroids), sign-symmetric graphs (related to the classical root systems), and signed complete graphs (equivalent to two-graphs).Replacing the sign group by an arbitrary group leads to voltage graphs. Most of our results on signed graphs extend to all voltage graphs.     

𝒢-constructibility of planar graphs

In this paper, the concept of the ??-constructibility of graphs is introduced and investigated with particular reference to planar graphs. It is conjectured that the planar graphs are minimally N-constructible, where N is a finite set of graphs and an infinite set ?? is obtained such that the planar graphs are also minimally ??-constructible. Finally, some properties of the set of all N-constructible graphs are discussed and compared with the corresponding properties of planar graphs.     

Enumeration of point-determining graphs

Point-determining graphs are graphs in which no two vertices have the same neighborhoods, co-point-determining graphs are those whose complements are point-determining, and bi-point-determining graphs are those both point-determining and co-point-determining. Bicolored point-determining graphs are point-determining graphs whose vertices are properly colored with white and black. We use the combinatorial theory of species to enumerate these graphs as well as the connected cases.     

Semigroups of mappings on graphs

At present, there are quite a few investigations in the theory of semigroups devoted to semigroups of mappings on graphs. Up to now, endomorphism semigroups of graphs, extensive transformation semigroups of graphs, coloring semigroups of graphs and other semigroups of special mappings on graphs have been studied. The results obtained show the way graphs are determined by the above-mentioned semigroups. They also show the structure of semigroups of mappings and interrelations between properties of graphs and corresponding properties of semigroups associated with the graphs. This paper gives a survey of the main results in this field.     

On the Polarity and Monopolarity of Graphs

Polarity and monopolarity are properties of graphs defined in terms of the existence of certain vertex partitions; graphs with polarity and monopolarity are respectively called polar and monopolar graphs. These two properties commonly generalize bipartite and split graphs, but are hard to recognize in general. In this article we identify two classes of graphs, triangle‐free graphs and claw‐free graphs, restricting to which provide novel impact on the complexity of the recognition problems. More precisely, we prove that recognizing polarity or monopolarity remains NP‐complete for triangle‐free graphs. We also show that for claw‐free graphs the former is NP‐complete and the latter is polynomial time solvable. This is in sharp contrast to a recent result that both polarity and monopolarity can be recognized in linear time for line graphs. Our proofs for the NP‐completeness are simple reductions. The polynomial time algorithm for recognizing the monopolarity of claw‐free graphs uses a subroutine similar to the well‐known breadth‐first search algorithm and is based on a new structural characterization of monopolar claw‐free graphs, a generalization of one for monopolar line graphs obtained earlier.     

Locally Transitive Graphs Admitting a Group with Cyclic Sylow Subgroups

All graphs are finite simple undirected and of no isolated vertices in this paper. Using the theory of coset graphs and permutation groups, it is completed that a classification of locally transitive graphs admitting a non-Abelian group with cyclic Sylow subgroups. They are either the union of the family of arc-transitive graphs, or the union of the family of bipartite edge-transitive graphs.     

Enumerative Properties of Rooted Circuit Maps

In 1966, Barnette introduced a set of graphs, called circuit graphs, which are obtained from 3-connected planar graphs by deleting a vertex. Circuit graphs and 3-connected planar graphs share many interesting properties which are not satisfied by general 2-connected planar graphs. Circuit graphs have nice closure properties which make them easier to deal with than 3-connected planar graphs for studying some graph-theoretic properties. In this paper, we study some enumerative properties of circuit graphs. For enumeration purpose, we define rooted circuit maps and compare the number of rooted circuit maps with those of rooted 2-connected planar maps and rooted 3-connected planar maps.     

On the second largest Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs

The second largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph is the second largest eigenvalue of the associated Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we study extremal graphs for the extremal values of the second largest Laplacian eigenvalue and the Laplacian separator of a connected graph, respectively. All simple connected graphs with second largest Laplacian eigenvalue at most 3 are characterized. It is also shown that graphs with second largest Laplacian eigenvalue at most 3 are determined by their Laplacian spectrum. Moreover, the graphs with maximum and the second maximum Laplacian separators among all connected graphs are determined.     

On bounds for the index of double nested graphs

The index of a simple graph is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. It is well-known that in the set of all connected graphs with fixed order and size the graphs with maximal index are nested split graphs. It was recently observed that double nested graphs assume the same role if we restrict ourselves to bipartite graphs. In this paper we provide some bounds (lower and upper) for the index of double nested graphs. Some computational results are also included.     

Graph structural properties of non-Yutsis graphs allowing fast recognition

Yutsis graphs are connected simple graphs which can be partitioned into two vertex-induced trees. Cubic Yutsis graphs were introduced by Jaeger as cubic dual Hamiltonian graphs, and these are our main focus.Cubic Yutsis graphs also appear in the context of the quantum theory of angular momenta, where they are used to generate summation formulae for general recoupling coefficients. Large Yutsis graphs are of interest for benchmarking algorithms which generate these formulae.In an earlier paper we showed that the decision problem of whether a given cubic graph is Yutsis is NP-complete. We also described a heuristic that was tested on graphs with up to 300,000 vertices and found Yutsis decompositions for all large Yutsis graphs very quickly.In contrast, no fast technique was known by which a significant fraction of bridgeless non-Yutsis cubic graphs could be shown to be non-Yutsis. One of the contributions of this article is to describe some structural impediments to Yutsisness. We also provide experimental evidence that almost all non-Yutsis cubic graphs can be rapidly shown to be non-Yutsis by applying a heuristic based on some of these criteria. Combined with the algorithm described in the earlier paper this gives an algorithm that, according to experimental evidence, runs efficiently on practically every large random cubic graph and can decide on whether the graph is Yutsis or not.The second contribution of this article is a set of construction techniques for non-Yutsis graphs implying, for example, the existence of 3-connected non-Yutsis cubic graphs of arbitrary girth and with few non-trivial 3-cuts.     

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.     

三圈图的Harary指数

图G的Harary指数是指图G中所有顶点对间的距离倒数之和. 三圈图是指边数等于顶点数加2的连通图. 研究了三圈图的Harary数, 给出了所有三圈图中具有极大Harary指数的图的结构以及含有三个圈的三圈图中具有次大Harary指数的图的结构.     

Locally 4-by-4 grid graphs

We investigate locally grid graphs. The main results are (i) a characterization of the Johnson graphs (and certain quotients of these) as locally grid graphs such that two points at distance 2 have precisely four common neighbors, and (ii) a complete determination of all graphs that are locally a 4 × 4 grid (it turns out that there are four such graphs, with 35, 40, 40, and 70 vertices).     

Orderly algorithms for generating restricted classes of graphs

Orderly algorithms for the generation of exhaustive lists of nonisomorphic graphs are discussed. The existence of orderly methods to generate the graphs with a given subgraph and without a given subgraph is established. This method can be used to list all the nonisomorphic subgraphs of a given graph, as well as to produce catalogs of Hamiltonian graphs, pancyclic graphs, degree-constrained graphs, and other classes. A generalization of this method is given that can be used to generate lists of graphs with given girth, planar graphs, k-colorable graphs, and k-connected graphs, for example. Finally, these observations are employed to generate restricted classes of digraphs, notably acyclic digraphs and poset digraphs. The generation of poset digraphs is shown to supply a practical orderly method for producing a catalog of lattices. Similar observations concerning vertex addition generation methods allow one to improve on existing methods for the generation of catalog of interval and circle graphs.     

Ring graphs and complete intersection toric ideals

We study the family of graphs whose number of primitive cycles equals its cycle rank. It is shown that this family is precisely the family of ring graphs. Then we study the complete intersection property of toric ideals of bipartite graphs and oriented graphs. An interesting application is that complete intersection toric ideals of bipartite graphs correspond to ring graphs and that these ideals are minimally generated by Gröbner bases. We prove that any graph can be oriented such that its toric ideal is a complete intersection with a universal Gröbner basis determined by the cycles. It turns out that bipartite ring graphs are exactly the bipartite graphs that have complete intersection toric ideals for any orientation.