No optimal 1‐planar graph triangulates any nonorientable closed surface

Suzuki [Discrete Math. 310 (2010), 6–11] proved that for any orientable closed surface F² other than the sphere, there exists an optimal 1‐planar graph which can be embedded on F² as a triangulation. However, for nonorientable closed surfaces, the existence of such graphs is unknown. In this article, we prove that no optimal 1‐planar graph triangulates a nonorientable closed surface.     

基于不同条件的旅游路线规划问题研究

运用2015年全国研究生数学建模竞赛F题的数据资料,针对旅游路线合理规划问题的第一问展开研究.以F题的问题一为起点进行了分析研究,是因为第一问的完成是解决后续问题的关键.首先通过地图搜集并补全了缺失数据并对数据进行合理的处理,然后采用将旅游年数最少目标转化为该最小生成树的"最少圈覆盖"方法来进行对问题一的求解,也可以理解为一个广义的多旅行商问题,以旅行商的人数(即年数)最少为目标.采用Dijkstra算法、最少圈覆盖法、智能算法和图论聚类等方法,通过这些方法建立了单目标优化模型,并运用旅行商问题和模型之间的转换来对问题进行分析与求解.     

On weighted spectral radius of unraveled balls and normalized Laplacian eigenvalues

For a graph G, the unraveled ball of radius r centered at a vertex v is the ball of radius r centered at v in the universal cover of G. We obtain a lower bound on the weighted spectral radius of unraveled balls of fixed radius in a graph with positive weights on edges, which is used to present an upper bound on the $s^{\text{th}}$ (where $s\ge 2$) smallest normalized Laplacian eigenvalue of irregular graphs under minor assumptions. Moreover, when $s=2$, the result may be regarded as an Alon–Boppana type bound for a class of irregular graphs.     

There is no upper bound for the diameter of the commuting graph of a finite group

We construct a family of finite 2-groups which have commuting graph of increasing diameter.     

A contact process with a semi-infected state on the complete graph

In this paper, we are concerned with a contact process with a semi-infected state on the complete graph C_n with n vertices. Our model is a special case of a general model introduced by Schinazi in 2003. In our model, each vertex is in one of three states, namely, “healthy,” “semi-infected,” or “fully-infected.” Only fully-infected vertices can infect others. A healthy vertex becomes semi-infected when being infected while a semi-infected vertex becomes fully-infected when being further infected. Each (semi- and fully-) infected vertex becomes healthy at constant rate. Our main result shows a phase transition for the waiting time until extinction of the fully-infected vertices. Conditioned on all the vertices are fully-infected when t = 0, we show that fully-infected vertices survive for exp?{O(n)} units of time when the infection rate λ > 4 while they die out in O(log?n) units of time when λ < 4.     

Hopf-algebraic renormalization of QED in the linear covariant gauge

In the context of massless quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a linear covariant gauge fixing, the connection between the counterterm and the Hopf-algebraic approach to renormalization is examined. The coproduct formula of Green’s functions contains two invariant charges, which give rise to different renormalization group functions. All formulas are tested by explicit computations to third loop order. The possibility of a finite electron self-energy by fixing a generalized linear covariant gauge is discussed. An analysis of subdivergences leads to the conclusion that such a gauge only exists in quenched QED.     

Connected cubic s-arc-regular Cayley graphs of finite nonabelian simple groups

A graph is said to be s-arc-regular if its full automorphism group acts regularly on the set of its s-arcs. In this paper, we investigate connected cubic s-arc-regular Cayley graphs of finite nonabelian simple groups. Two suffcient and necessary conditions for such graphs to be 1- or 2-arc-regular are given and based on the conditions, several infinite families of 1-or 2-arc-regular cubic Cayley graphs of alternating groups are constructed.