On the spanning tree packing number of a graph: a survey

The spanning tree packing number or STP number of a graph G is the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees contained in G. We use an observation of Paul Catlin to investigate the STP numbers of several families of graphs including quasi-random graphs, regular graphs, complete bipartite graphs, cartesian products and the hypercubes.     

Vertex pancyclicity in quasi claw-free graphs

This paper generalizes the concept of locally connected graphs. A graph G is triangularly connected if for every pair of edges e₁,e₂∈E(G), G has a sequence of 3-cycles C₁,C₂,…,C_l such that e₁∈C₁,e₂∈C_l and E(C_i)∩E(C_i+1)≠∅ for 1?i?l-1. In this paper, we show that every triangularly connected quasi claw-free graph on at least three vertices is vertex pancyclic. Therefore, the conjecture proposed by Ainouche is solved.     

On Vertex Connectivity and Absolute Algebraic Connectivity for Graphs

Let G be a graph on n vertices with vertex connectivity v with 1 ≤ v ≤ n -2. We produce an attainable upper bound on the absolute algebraic connectivity of G in terms of n and v .     

Vertex PI indices of four sums of graphs

Suppose that e is an edge of a graph G. Denote by m_e(G) the number of vertices of G that are not equidistant from both ends of e. Then the vertex PI index of G is defined as the summation of m_e(G) over all edges e of G. In this paper we give the explicit expressions for the vertex PI indices of four sums of two graphs in terms of other indices of two individual graphs, which correct the main results in a paper published in Ars Combin. 98 (2011).     

On Vertex Connectivity and Absolute Algebraic Connectivity for Graphs

Let G be a graph on n vertices with vertex connectivity v with 1 h v h n m 2. We produce an attainable upper bound on the absolute algebraic connectivity of G in terms of n and v .     

广义稠密随机交集图的度分布(英文)

广义随机交集图是一类重要的随机图模型,它是E-R随机图的变种,被广泛用于复杂社会网络的研究中.本文研究了在顶点度的期望趋于无穷的情况下,广义随机交集图的度分布.我们对二项模型给出了中心极限定理,并且对一致模型给出了极限定理.     

Vertex splitting and the recognition of trapezoid graphs

Trapezoid graphs are the intersection family of trapezoids where every trapezoid has a pair of opposite sides lying on two parallel lines. These graphs have received considerable attention and lie strictly between permutation graphs (where the trapezoids are lines) and cocomparability graphs (the complement has a transitive orientation). The operation of “vertex splitting”, introduced in (Cheah and Corneil, 1996) [3], first augments a given graph G and then transforms the augmented graph by replacing each of the original graph’s vertices by a pair of new vertices. This “splitted graph” is a permutation graph with special properties if and only if G is a trapezoid graph. Recently vertex splitting has been used to show that the recognition problems for both tolerance and bounded tolerance graphs is NP-complete (Mertzios et al., 2010) [11]. Unfortunately, the vertex splitting trapezoid graph recognition algorithm presented in (Cheah and Corneil, 1996) [3] is not correct. In this paper, we present a new way of augmenting the given graph and using vertex splitting such that the resulting algorithm is simpler and faster than the one reported in (Cheah and Corneil, 1996) [3].     

笛卡尔乘积图的圈点连通度

图G的圈点连通度,记为κ_c(G),是所有圈点割中最小的数目,其中每个圈点割S满足G-S不连通且至少它的两个分支含圈.这篇文章中给出了两个连通图的笛卡尔乘积的圈点连通度:(1)如果G_1≌K_m且G_2≌K_n,则κ_c(G_1×G_2)=min{3m+n-6,m+3n-6},其中m+n≥8,m≥n+2,或n≥m+2,且κ_c(G_1×G_2)=2m+2n-8,其中m+n≥8,m=n,或n=m+1,或m=n+11;(2)如果G_1≌K_m(m≥3)且G_2■K_n,则min{3m+κ(G_2)-4,m+3κ(G_2)-3,2m+2κ(G_2)-4}≤κ_c(G_1×G_2)≤mκ(G2);(3)如果G_1■K_m,K_(1,m-1)且G_2■K_n,K_(1,n-1),其中m≥4,n≥4,则min{3κ(G_1)+κ(G_2)-1,κ(G_1)+3κ(G_2)-1,2_κ(G_1)+2_κ(G_2)-2}≤κ_c(G_1×G_2)≤min{mκ(G_2),nκ(G_1),2m+2n-8}.     

Vertex pancyclicity in quasi-claw-free graphs

A graph G is called quasi-claw-free if for any two vertices x and y with distance two there exists a vertex u∈N(x)∩N(y) such that N[u]⊆N[x]∪N[y]. This concept is a natural extension of the classical claw-free graphs. In this paper, we present two sufficient conditions for vertex pancyclicity in quasi-claw-free graphs, namely, quasilocally connected and almost locally connected graphs. Our results include some well-known results on claw-free graphs as special cases. We also give an affirmative answer to a problem proposed by Ainouche.     

Some results on R 2-edge-connectivity of even regular graphs

Let G be a connected k(≥3)-regular graph with girth g. A set S of the edges in G is called an Rredge-cut if G-S is disconnected and comains neither an isolated vertex nor a one-degree vertex. The R2-edge-connectivity of G, denoted by λ^n(G), is the minimum cardinality over all R2-edge-cuts, which is an important measure for fault-tolerance of computer interconnection networks. In this paper, λ^n(G)=g(2k-2) for any 2k-regular connected graph G (≠K5) that is either edge-transitive or vertex-transitive and g≥5 is given.     

Strong clique trees,neighborhood trees,and strongly chordal graphs

Maximal complete subgraphs and clique trees are basic to both the theory and applications of chordal graphs. A simple notion of strong clique tree extends this structure to strongly chordal graphs. Replacing maximal complete subgraphs with open or closed vertex neighborhoods discloses new relationships between chordal and strongly chordal graphs and the previously studied families of chordal bipartite graphs, clique graphs of chordal graphs (dually chordal graphs), and incidence graphs of biacyclic hypergraphs. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J. Graph Theory 33: 151–160, 2000     

Connectivity of Cartesian product graphs

Use v_i,κ_i,λ_i,δ_i to denote order, connectivity, edge-connectivity and minimum degree of a graph G_i for i=1,2, respectively. For the connectivity and the edge-connectivity of the Cartesian product graph, up to now, the best results are κ(G₁×G₂)?κ₁+κ₂ and λ(G₁×G₂)?λ₁+λ₂. This paper improves these results by proving that κ(G₁×G₂)?min{κ₁+δ₂,κ₂+δ₁} and λ(G₁×G₂)=min{δ₁+δ₂,λ₁v₂,λ₂v₁} if G₁ and G₂ are connected undirected graphs; κ(G₁×G₂)?min{κ₁+δ₂,κ₂+δ₁,2κ₁+κ₂,2κ₂+κ₁} if G₁ and G₂ are strongly connected digraphs. These results are also generalized to the Cartesian products of connected graphs and n strongly connected digraphs, respectively.     

Color-critical graphs have logarithmic circumference

A graph G is k-critical if every proper subgraph of G is (k−1)-colorable, but the graph G itself is not. We prove that every k-critical graph on n vertices has a cycle of length at least , improving a bound of Alon, Krivelevich and Seymour from 2000. Examples of Gallai from 1963 show that the bound cannot be improved to exceed . We thus settle the problem of bounding the minimal circumference of k-critical graphs, raised by Dirac in 1952 and Kelly and Kelly in 1954.     

关于偶正则图的R2边连通度的某些结果

Let G be a connected k(≥3)-regular graph with girth g. A set S of the edges in G is called an R2-edge-cut if G-S is disconnected and contains neither an isolated vertex nor a one-degree vertex. The R2-edge-connectivity of G, denoted by λ″(G), is the minimum cardinality over all R2-edge-cuts, which is an important measure for fault-tolerance of computer interconnection networks. In this paper, λ″(G)=g(2k-2) for any 2k-regular connected graph G(≠K5) that is either edge-transitive or vertex-transitive and g≥5 is given.     

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.     

极大全控点临界图

图G的点集S如果满足:VG-S(或VG)中每个点相邻于S中的某个点(或而不是它本身),则称点集S是一个控制集(或全控制集).图G的所有控制集(或全控制集)中最小基数的控制集(或全控制集)中的点数,称为控制数(或全控数),记为γ(G)(或γt(G)).在这篇文章中我们特征化γt-临界图且满足γt(G)=n-Δ(G)的图特征,这回答了Goddard等人提出的一个问题.     

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.