On a Sharp Degree Sum Condition for Disjoint Chorded Cycles in Graphs

Let r and s be nonnegative integers, and let G be a graph of order at least 3r + 4s. In Bialostocki et al. (Discrete Math 308:5886–5890, 2008), conjectured that if the minimum degree of G is at least 2r + 3s, then G contains a collection of r + s vertex-disjoint cycles such that s of them are chorded cycles, and they showed that the conjecture is true for r = 0, s = 2 and for s = 1. In this paper, we settle this conjecture completely by proving the following stronger statement; if the minimum degree sum of two nonadjacent vertices is at least 4r + 6s−1, then G contains a collection of r + s vertex-disjoint cycles such that s of them are chorded cycles.     

Neighborhood Unions and Hamilton Cycles in Bipartite Graphs

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Spanning Cyclic Subdivisions of Vertex-Disjoint Cycles and Chorded Cycles in Graphs

Let G be a graph on n ≥ 3 vertices and H be a subgraph of G such that each component of H is a cycle with at most one chord. In this paper we prove that if the minimum degree of G is at least n/2, then G contains a spanning subdivision of H such that only non-chord edges of H are subdivided. This gives a new generalization of the classical result of Dirac on the existence of Hamilton cycles in graphs.     

On the Existence of Disjoint Cycles in a Graph

G is a graph of order at least 3k with . Then G contains k vertex-disjoint cycles. Received: April 23, 1998     

A Minimum Degree Result for Disjoint Cycles and Forests in Graphs

F on s edges and k disjoint cycles. The main result is the following theorem. Let F be a forest on s edges without isolated vertices and let G be a graph of order at least with minimum degree at least , where k, s are nonnegative integers. Then G contains the disjoint union of the forest F and k disjoint cycles. This theorem provides a common generalization of previous results of Corrádi & Hajnal [4] and Brandt [3] who considered the cases (cycles only) and (forests only), respectively. Received: October 13, 1995     

Neighborhood Unions and Z 3-Connectivity in Graphs

Let G be a 2-edge-connected simple graph on n ≥ 14 vertices, and let A be an abelian group with the identity element 0. If a graph G* is obtained by repeatedly contracting nontrivial A-connected subgraphs of G until no such a subgraph left, we say that G can be A-reduced to G*. In this paper, we prove that if for every ${uv\not\in E(G), |N(u) \cup N(v)| \geq \lceil \frac{2n}{3} \rceil}$ , then G is not Z ₃-connected if and only if G can be Z ₃-reduced to one of ${\{C_3,K_4,K_4^-, L\}}$ , where L is obtained from K ₄ by adding a new vertex which is joined to two vertices of K ₄.     

Maximal Total Length Of k Disjoint Cycles In Bipartite Graphs

Let k, s and n be three integers with sk2, n2k+1. Let G=(V ₁,V ₂;E) be a bipartite graph with |V ₁|=|V ₂|=n. If the minimum degree of G is at least s+1, then G contains k vertex-disjoint cycles covering at least min(2n,4s) vertices of G.     

关于图与圈之并图的圈唯一性

Farrell[1]引进图 G 的圈多项式 c(G;■).文[6]猜测:轮形图 W_8是圈唯一的.本文中我们证明上述猜测为真且讨论了某些图与圈之并图的圈唯一性.     

Disjoint Edges in Complete Topological Graphs

It is shown that every complete $n$ -vertex simple topological graph has at $\varOmega (n^{1/3})$ pairwise disjoint edges, and these edges can be found in polynomial time. This proves a conjecture of Pach and Tóth, which appears as Problem 5 from Chapter 9.5 in Research Problems in Discrete Geometry by Brass, Moser, and Pach.     

二部图中的独立6-圈

本文主要证明了对二部图G=(V_1,V_2,E),|V_1|=|V_2|=3k,其中k为正整数.若G的最小度至少为2k-1,则G至少包含k-1个独立6-圈.     

关于图因子的邻集条件

设F为图G的一个支撑子图.如果对所有x∈V(G),有d_F(x)∈{1,3,…,2n-1),则称F为G的一个(1,3,…,2n-1)一因子;如果对所有x∈V(G),有d_F(x)=k,则称F为G的一个k-因子.本文以图的顶点邻集对一个图具有包含任一条给定边的{1,3,…,2n-1)-因子和k-因子分别给出了充分条件.     

Short Disjoint Paths in Locally Connected Graphs

Chartrand and Pippert proved that a connected, locally k-connected graph is (k + 1)-connected. We investigate the lengths of k + 1 disjoint paths between two vertices in locally k-connected graphs with respect to several graph parameters, e.g. the k-diameter of a graph. We also give a generalization of the mentioned result. This research was partly done on a visit to the Institute of Systems Science of Academia Sinica (Beijing, China) under the project ME 418 of the Czech Ministery of Education. These authors are partly supported by the project LN00A056 of the Czech Ministery of Education.     

Induced Cycles in Graphs

The maximum number vertices of a graph G inducing a 2-regular subgraph of G is denoted by \(c_\mathrm{ind}(G)\). We prove that if G is an r-regular graph of order n, then \(c_\mathrm{ind}(G) \ge \frac{n}{2(r-1)} + \frac{1}{(r-1)(r-2)}\) and we prove that if G is a cubic, claw-free graph on order n, then \(c_\mathrm{ind}(G) > \frac{13}{20}n\) and this bound is asymptotically best possible.     

Hypergraph Turan Numbers of Vertex Disjoint Cycles

The Turan number of a k-uniform hypergraph H,denoted by exk(n;H),is the maximum number of edges in any k-uniform hypergraph F on n vertices which does not contain H as a subgraph.Let Cl(k)denote the family of all k-uniform minimal cycles of length l;S(l1,…,lr)denote the family of hypergraphs consisting of unions of r vertex disjoint minimal cycles of lengthl1,…lr,respectively,and Cl(k)denote a k-uniform linear cycle of length l.We determine precisely exk(n;S(l1,…,lr)and exk(n;Cl1(k),…,Cl1(k)for sufficiently large n.Our results extend recent results of Füredi and Jiang who determined the Turan numbers for single k-uniform minimal cycles and linear cycles.     

On Spanning Disjoint Paths in Line Graphs

Spanning connectivity of graphs has been intensively investigated in the study of interconnection networks (Hsu and Lin, Graph Theory and Interconnection Networks, 2009). For a graph G and an integer s > 0 and for ${u, v \in V(G)}$ with u ≠ v, an (s; u, v)-path-system of G is a subgraph H consisting of s internally disjoint (u,v)-paths. A graph G is spanning s-connected if for any ${u, v \in V(G)}$ with u ≠ v, G has a spanning (s; u, v)-path-system. The spanning connectivity κ*(G) of a graph G is the largest integer s such that G has a spanning (k; u, v)-path-system, for any integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ s, and for any ${u, v \in V(G)}$ with u ≠ v. An edge counter-part of κ*(G), defined as the supereulerian width of a graph G, has been investigated in Chen et al. (Supereulerian graphs with width s and s-collapsible graphs, 2012). In Catlin and Lai (Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Applications, vol. 1, pp. 207–222, 1991) proved that if a graph G has 2 edge-disjoint spanning trees, and if L(G) is the line graph of G, then κ*(L(G)) ≥ 2 if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ 3. In this paper, we extend this result and prove that for any integer k ≥ 2, if G ₀, the core of G, has k edge-disjoint spanning trees, then κ*(L(G)) ≥ k if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ max{3, k}.     

Ramsey-Type Results for Unions of Comparability Graphs

 It is well known that the comparability graph of any partially ordered set of n elements contains either a clique or an independent set of size at least . In this note we show that any graph of n vertices which is the union of two comparability graphs on the same vertex set, contains either a clique or an independent set of size at least . On the other hand, there exist such graphs for which the size of any clique or independent set is at most n ^0.4118. Similar results are obtained for graphs which are unions of a fixed number k comparability graphs. We also show that the same bounds hold for unions of perfect graphs. Received: November 1, 1999 Final version received: December 1, 2000     

Disjoint Paths in Graphs III,Characterization

Let G be a graph, $ \{a, b, c\}\subseteq V(G) $, and $ \{a', b', c'\}\subseteq V(G) $ such that $ \{a, b, c\}\neq \{a', b', c'\} $. We say that $ (G, \{a, c\}, \{a', c'\}, (b, b')) $ is an obstruction if, for any three vertex disjoint paths from {a, b, c} to {a', b', c'} in G, one path is from b to b'. In this paper we characterize obstructions. As a consequence, we show that no obstruction can be 8-connected, unless b = b' or {a, c} = {a', c'}.AMS Subject Classification: 05C38.     

Even Cycles in Graphs with Many Odd Cycles

It will be shown that if G is a graph of order n which contains a triangle, a cycle of length n or n−1 and at least cn odd cycles of different lengths for some positive constant c, then there exists some positive constant k=k(c) such that G contains at least kn ^1/6 even cycles of different lengths. Other results on the number of even cycle lengths which appear in graphs with many different odd length cycles will be given. Received: October 15, 1997