Sandpile groups and the coeulerian property for random directed graphs

We consider random directed graphs, and calculate the distribution of the cokernels of their laplacian, following the methods used by Wood. As a corollary, we show that the probability that a random digraph is coeulerian is asymptotically upper bounded by a constant around 0.43.     

Independent spanning trees with small depths in iterated line digraphs

We show that the independent spanning tree conjecture on digraphs is true if we restrict ourselves to line digraphs. Also, we construct independent spanning trees with small depths in iterated line digraphs. From the results, we can obtain independent spanning trees with small depths in de Bruijn and Kautz digraphs that improve the previously known upper bounds on the depths.     

Queue layouts of iterated line directed graphs

In this paper, we study queue layouts of iterated line directed graphs. A k-queue layout of a directed graph consists of a linear ordering of the vertices and an assignment of each arc to exactly one of the k queues so that any two arcs assigned to the same queue do not nest. The queuenumber of a directed graph is the minimum number of queues required for a queue layout of the directed graph.We present upper and lower bounds on the queuenumber of an iterated line directed graph L^k(G) of a directed graph G. Our upper bound depends only on G and is independent of the number of iterations k. Queue layouts can be applied to three-dimensional drawings. From the results on the queuenumber of L^k(G), it is shown that for any fixed directed graph G, L^k(G) has a three-dimensional drawing with O(n) volume, where n is the number of vertices in L^k(G). These results are also applied to specific families of iterated line directed graphs such as de Bruijn, Kautz, butterfly, and wrapped butterfly directed graphs. In particular, the queuenumber of k-ary butterfly directed graphs is determined if k is odd.     

On the number of rainbow spanning trees in edge-colored complete graphs

A spanning tree of a properly edge-colored complete graph, $K_n$, is rainbow provided that each of its edges receives a distinct color. In 1996, Brualdi and Hollingsworth conjectured that if $K_{2m}$ is properly $(2m?1)$-edge-colored, then the edges of $K_{2m}$ can be partitioned into $m$ rainbow spanning trees except when $m=2$. By means of an explicit, constructive approach, in this paper we construct $?\sqrt{6m+9}∕3?$ mutually edge-disjoint rainbow spanning trees for any positive value of $m$. Not only are the rainbow trees produced, but also some structure of each rainbow spanning tree is determined in the process. This improves upon best constructive result to date in the literature which produces exactly three rainbow trees.     

Signless Laplacian spectral characterization of line graphs of T-shape trees

A T-shape tree is a tree with exactly one vertex of maximum degree 3. The line graphs of the T-shape trees are triangles with a hanging path at each vertex. Let C_a,b,c be such a graph, where a, b and c are the lengths of the paths. In this paper, we show that line graphs of T-shape trees, with the sole exception of C_a,a,2a+1, are determined by the spectra of their signless Laplacian matrices. For the graph C_a,a,2a+1 we identify the unique non-isomorphic graph sharing the same signless Laplacian characteristic polynomial.     

Locally connected spanning trees in strongly chordal graphs and proper circular-arc graphs

A locally connected spanning tree of a graph G is a spanning tree T of G such that the set of all neighbors of v in T induces a connected subgraph of G for every v∈V(G). The purpose of this paper is to give linear-time algorithms for finding locally connected spanning trees on strongly chordal graphs and proper circular-arc graphs, respectively.     

Enumerating spanning trees of graphs with an involution

As the extension of the previous work by Ciucu and the present authors [M. Ciucu, W.G. Yan, F.J. Zhang, The number of spanning trees of plane graphs with reflective symmetry, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 112 (2005) 105-116], this paper considers the problem of enumeration of spanning trees of weighted graphs with an involution which allows fixed points. We show that if G is a weighted graph with an involution, then the sum of weights of spanning trees of G can be expressed in terms of the product of the sums of weights of spanning trees of two weighted graphs with a smaller size determined by the involution of G. As applications, we enumerate spanning trees of the almost-complete bipartite graph, the almost-complete graph, the Möbius ladder, and the almost-join of two copies of a graph.     

广义de Bruijn有向图及其叠线图的支撑树与欧拉环游的计数

给出了一类特殊的广义deBruijn有向图的支撑树与欧环游的数目的简洁表示式，并得到了广义deBruijn有向叠线图的支撑树与欧拉环境数目的计算公式。     

图和线图的谱性质

Let G be a simple connected graph with n vertices and m edges,Lo be the line graph of G and λ1(LG)≥λ2 (LG)≥...≥λm(LG) be the eigenvalues of the graph LG,.. In this paper, the range of eigenvalues of a line graph is considered. Some sharp upper bounds and sharp lower bounds of the eigenvalues of Lc. are obtained. In oarticular,it is oroved that-2cos(π/n)≤λn-1(LG)≤n-4 and λn(LG)=-2 if and only if G is bipartite.     

Connectivity of iterated line graphs

Let k≥0 be an integer and L^k(G) be the kth iterated line graph of a graph G. Niepel and Knor proved that if G is a 4-connected graph, then κ(L²(G))≥4δ(G)−6. We show that the connectivity of G can be relaxed. In fact, we prove in this note that if G is an essentially 4-edge-connected and 3-connected graph, then κ(L²(G))≥4δ(G)−6. Similar bounds are obtained for essentially 4-edge-connected and 2-connected (1-connected) graphs.     

On low bound of degree sequences of spanning trees in K-edge-connected graphs

A graph G = (V, E) is k-edge-connected if for any subset E′ ⊆ E,|E′| < k, G − E′ is connected. A d_k-tree T of a connected graph G = (V, E) is a spanning tree satisfying that ∀v ∈ V, d_T(v) ≤ + α, where [·] is a lower integer form and α depends on k. We show that every k-edge-connected graph with k ≥ 2, has a d_k-tree, and α = 1 for k = 2, α = 2 for k ≥ 3. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 28: 87–95, 1998     

Critical groups for homeomorphism classes of graphs

In this paper the weighted fundamental circuits intersection matrix of an edge-labeled graph is introduced for computing the critical groups for homeomorphism classes of graphs. As an application, it is proved that for any given finite connected simple graph there is a homeomorphic graph with cyclic critical group.     

Essential edge connectivity of line graphs

Let $G$ be a graph and $L\left(G\right)$ be its line graph. In 1969, Chartrand and Stewart proved that ${\kappa }^{\prime }\left(L\left(G\right)\right)\ge 2{\kappa }^{\prime }\left(G\right)?2$, where ${\kappa }^{\prime }\left(G\right)$ and ${\kappa }^{\prime }\left(L\left(G\right)\right)$ denote the edge connectivity of $G$ and $L\left(G\right)$ respectively. We show a similar relationship holds for the essential edge connectivity of $G$ and $L\left(G\right)$, written ${\kappa }_e^{\prime }\left(G\right)$ and ${\kappa }_e^{\prime }\left(L\left(G\right)\right)$, respectively. In this note, it is proved that if $L\left(G\right)$ is not a complete graph and $G$ does not have a vertex of degree two, then ${\kappa }_e^{\prime }\left(L\left(G\right)\right)\ge 2{\kappa }_e^{\prime }\left(G\right)?2$. An immediate corollary is that $\kappa \left(L^2\left(G\right)\right)\ge 2\kappa \left(L\left(G\right)\right)?2$ for such graphs $G$, where the vertex connectivity of the line graph $L\left(G\right)$ and the second iterated line graph $L^2\left(G\right)$ are written as $\kappa \left(L\left(G\right)\right)$ and $\kappa \left(L^2\left(G\right)\right)$ respectively.     

Undirected simple connected graphs with minimum number of spanning trees

We show that for positive integers n, m with n(n−1)/2≥m≥n−1, the graph L_n,m having n vertices and m edges that consists of an (n−k)-clique and k−1 vertices of degree 1 has the fewest spanning trees among all connected graphs on n vertices and m edges. This proves Boesch’s conjecture [F.T. Boesch, A. Satyanarayana, C.L. Suffel, Least reliable networks and reliability domination, IEEE Trans. Commun. 38 (1990) 2004-2009].     

The existence of even factors in iterated line graphs

An even factor of a graph is a spanning subgraph of G in which all degrees are even, positive integers. In this paper, we characterize the claw-free graphs having even factors and then prove that the n-iterated line graph Lⁿ(G) of G has an even factor if and only if every end branch of G has length at most n and every odd branch-bond of G has a branch of length at most n+1.     

On the Laplacian spectral radius of weighted trees with a positive weight set

The spectrum of weighted graphs is often used to solve the problems in the design of networks and electronic circuits. We first give some perturbational results on the (signless) Laplacian spectral radius of weighted graphs when some weights of edges are modified; we then determine the weighted tree with the largest Laplacian spectral radius in the set of all weighted trees with a fixed number of pendant vertices and a positive weight set. Furthermore, we also derive the weighted trees with the largest Laplacian spectral radius in the set of all weighted trees with a fixed positive weight set and independence number, matching number or total independence number.