On optimizing edge connectivity of product graphs

This work studies the super edge connectivity and super restricted edge connectivity of direct product graphs, Cartesian product graphs, strong product graphs and lexicographic product graphs. As a result, sufficient conditions for optimizing the edge connectivity and restricted edge connectivity of these graphs are presented.     

图的笛卡儿积及字典式积的连通性

文章给出了两个图的笛卡儿积及字典式的积为最大边连通的、最大连通的、super-λ,super-κ及hyper-κ的充分条件,同时证明了其中一些条件也是必要的.此外,对这两种积的局部割集和广义割集的性质也进行了考虑.     

On the crossing numbers of Cartesian products with trees

Zip product was recently used in a note establishing the crossing number of the Cartesian product K₁,n □ P_m. In this article, we further investigate the relations of this graph operation with the crossing numbers of graphs. First, we use a refining of the embedding method bound for crossing numbers to weaken the connectivity condition under which the crossing number is additive for the zip product. Next, we deduce a general theorem for bounding the crossing numbers of (capped) Cartesian product of graphs with trees, which yields exact results under certain symmetry conditions. We apply this theorem to obtain exact and approximate results on crossing numbers of Cartesian product of various graphs with trees. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 56: 287–300, 2007     

The hierarchical product of graphs

A new operation on graphs is introduced and some of its properties are studied. We call it hierarchical product, because of the strong (connectedness) hierarchy of the vertices in the resulting graphs. In fact, the obtained graphs turn out to be subgraphs of the cartesian product of the corresponding factors. Some well-known properties of the cartesian product, such as reduced mean distance and diameter, simple routing algorithms and some optimal communication protocols are inherited by the hierarchical product. We also address the study of some algebraic properties of the hierarchical product of two or more graphs. In particular, the spectrum of the binary hypertree T_m (which is the hierarchical product of several copies of the complete graph on two vertices) is fully characterized; turning out to be an interesting example of graph with all its eigenvalues distinct. Finally, some natural generalizations of the hierarchic product are proposed.     

Vizing's conjecture: a survey and recent results

Vizing's conjecture from 1968 asserts that the domination number of the Cartesian product of two graphs is at least as large as the product of their domination numbers. In this paper we survey the approaches to this central conjecture from domination theory and give some new results along the way. For instance, several new properties of a minimal counterexample to the conjecture are obtained and a lower bound for the domination number is proved for products of claw‐free graphs with arbitrary graphs. Open problems, questions and related conjectures are discussed throughout the paper. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 69: 46–76, 2012     

关于图的强乘积的可迁性的研究（英文）

Since many large graphs are composed from some existing smaller graphs by using graph operations, say, the Cartesian product, the Lexicographic product and the Strong product. Many properties of such large graphs are closely related to those of the corresponding smaller ones. In this short note, we give some properties of the Strong product of vertex-transitive graphs. In particular, we show that the Strong product of Cayley graphs is still a Cayley graph.     

SOME PROPERTIES OF A CLASS OF INTERCHANGE GRAPHS

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Topological efficiency under graph operations

In this paper we present explicit formulas for computing the topological efficiency index of the most important graph operations such as the Cartesian product, composition, corona, join and hierarchical product of two graphs. We apply our results to compute this distance-related invariant for some important classes of molecular graphs and nano-structures by specializing components of these graph operations.     

On the hierarchical product of graphs and the generalized binomial tree

In this article we follow the study of the hierarchical product of graphs, an operation recently introduced in the context of networks. A well-known example of such a product is the binomial tree which is the (hierarchical) power of the complete graph on two vertices. An appealing property of this structure is that all the eigenvalues are distinct. Here we show how to obtain a graph with this property by applying the hierarchical product. In particular, we propose a generalization of the binomial tree and study some of its main properties.     

Equistable graphs, general partition graphs, triangle graphs, and graph products

In this paper we examine the connections between equistable graphs, general partition graphs and triangle graphs. While every general partition graph is equistable and every equistable graph is a triangle graph, not every triangle graph is equistable, and a conjecture due to Jim Orlin states that every equistable graph is a general partition graph. The conjecture holds within the class of chordal graphs; if true in general, it would provide a combinatorial characterization of equistable graphs.Exploiting the combinatorial features of triangle graphs and general partition graphs, we verify Orlin’s conjecture for several graph classes, including AT-free graphs and various product graphs. More specifically, we obtain a complete characterization of the equistable graphs that are non-prime with respect to the Cartesian or the tensor product, and provide some necessary and sufficient conditions for the equistability of strong, lexicographic and deleted lexicographic products. We also show that the general partition graphs are not closed under the strong product, answering a question by McAvaney et al.     

On well-dominated direct,Cartesian and strong product graphs

If each minimal dominating set in a graph is a minimum dominating set, then the graph is called well-dominated. Since the seminal paper on well-dominated graphs appeared in 1988, the structure of well-dominated graphs from several restricted classes has been studied. In this paper we give a complete characterization of nontrivial direct products that are well-dominated. We prove that if a strong product is well-dominated, then both of its factors are well-dominated. When one of the factors of a strong product is a complete graph, the other factor being well-dominated is also a sufficient condition for the product to be well-dominated. Our main result gives a complete characterization of well-dominated Cartesian products in which at least one of the factors is a complete graph. In addition, we conjecture that this result is actually a complete characterization of the class of nontrivial, well-dominated Cartesian products.     

Some results on the lexicographic product of vertex-transitive graphs

Many large graphs can be constructed from existing smaller graphs by using graph operations, for example, the Cartesian product and the lexicographic product. Many properties of such large graphs are closely related to those of the corresponding smaller ones. In this short note, we give some properties of the lexicographic products of vertex-transitive and of edge-transitive graphs. In particular, we show that the lexicographic product of Cayley graphs is a Cayley graph.     

Prime graphs and exponential composition of species

In this paper, we enumerate prime graphs with respect to the Cartesian multiplication of graphs. We use the unique factorization of a connected graph into the product of prime graphs given by Sabidussi to find explicit formulas for labeled and unlabeled prime graphs. In the case of species, we construct the exponential composition of species based on the arithmetic product of species of Maia and Méndez, and express the species of connected graphs as the exponential composition of the species of prime graphs.     

Balanced and 1-balanced graph constructions

There are several density functions for graphs which have found use in various applications. In this paper, we examine two of them, the first being given by b(G)=|E(G)|/|V(G)|, and the other being given by g(G)=|E(G)|/(|V(G)|−ω(G)), where ω(G) denotes the number of components of G. Graphs for which b(H)≤b(G) for all subgraphs H of G are called balanced graphs, and graphs for which g(H)≤g(G) for all subgraphs H of G are called 1-balanced graphs (also sometimes called strongly balanced or uniformly dense in the literature). Although the functions b and g are very similar, they distinguish classes of graphs sufficiently differently that b(G) is useful in studying random graphs, g(G) has been useful in designing networks with reduced vulnerability to attack and in studying the World Wide Web, and a similar function is useful in the study of rigidity. First we give a new characterization of balanced graphs. Then we introduce a graph construction which generalizes the Cartesian product of graphs to produce what we call a generalized Cartesian product. We show that generalized Cartesian product derived from a tree and 1-balanced graphs are 1-balanced, and we use this to prove that the generalized Cartesian products derived from 1-balanced graphs are 1-balanced.     

Characterizing Flag Graphs and Induced Subgraphs of Cartesian Product Graphs

The vertices of the flag graph Φ(P) of a graded poset P are its maximal chains. Two vertices are adjacent whenever two maximal chains differ in exactly one element. In this paper we characterize induced subgraphs of Cartesian product graphs and flag graphs of graded posets. The latter class of graphs lies between isometric and induced subgraphs of Cartesian products in the embedding structure theory. Both characterization use certain edge-labelings of graphs.     

卡氏积码的r-MDR码与P_r-MDS码

本文研究了卡氏积码的r-广义Hamming重量计算公式和广义Singleton界,利用r-卡氏积码的子码仍为卡氏积码,证明了r-MDR码或Pr-MDR码的卡氏积码仍为r-MDR码或Pr-MDR码.同时也给出了这一个结果的部分逆命题.     

Applications of the generalized hierarchical product of graphs in computing the vertex and edge PI indices of chemical graphs

The aim of this paper is to present exact formulas for the vertex and edge PI indices of the generalized hierarchical product of graphs. As a consequence of our results, these indices were computed for some chemical graphs.     

Distinguishing chromatic numbers of complements of Cartesian products of complete graphs

The distinguishing chromatic number of a graph, $G$, is the minimum number of colours required to properly colour the vertices of $G$ so that the only automorphism of $G$ that preserves colours is the identity. There are many classes of graphs for which the distinguishing chromatic number has been studied, including Cartesian products of complete graphs (Jerebic and Klav?ar, 2010). In this paper we determine the distinguishing chromatic number of the complement of the Cartesian product of complete graphs, providing an interesting class of graphs, some of which have distinguishing chromatic number equal to the chromatic number, and others for which the difference between the distinguishing chromatic number and chromatic number can be arbitrarily large.     

几类积图的团染色数

设G=（VE）为简单图,V和E分别表示图的点集和边集．图G的一个k-团染色是指点集V到色集{1,2,…,k）的一个映射,使得G的每个至少含两个点的极大团都至少有两种颜色．分别给出了任意两个图的团色数与它们通过笛卡尔积、Kronecker积、强直积或字典积运算后得到的积图的团色数之间的关系．     

$W_m$与$P_n$ 的笛卡儿积图的交叉数

Most results on crossing numbers of graphs focus on some special graphs, such as the Cartesian products of small graphs with path, star and cycle. In this paper, we obtain the crossing number formula of Cartesian products of wheel Wm with path Pn, for arbitrary m ≥ 3 and n≥ 1.