The cubical dimension of a graph $G$ is the smallest dimension of a hypercube into which $G$ is embeddable as a subgraph. The conjecture of Havel (1984) claims that the cubical dimension of every balanced binary tree with $2^n$ vertices, $n\ge 1$, is $n$. The 2-rooted complete binary tree of depth $n$ is obtained from two copies of the complete binary tree of depth $n$ by adding an edge linking their respective roots. In this paper, we determine the cubical dimension of trees obtained by subdividing twice a 2-rooted...

The nth-order determinant of a Toeplitz-Hessenberg matrix is expressed as a sum over the integer partitions of n. Many combinatorial identities involving integer partitions and multinomial coefficients can be generated using this formula.

If $G$ is a simple graph of size $n$ without isolated vertices and $\overline{G}$ is its complement, we show that the domination numbers of $G$ and $\overline{G}$ satisfy $$\gamma \left(G\right)+\gamma \left(\overline{G}\right)\le \left\}\begin{array}{c}n-\delta +2\text{if}\gamma \left(G\right)>3,\delta +3\text{if}\gamma \left(\overline{G}\right)>3,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\delta$ is the minimum degree of vertices in $G$.

For a graph $G=(V,E)$, a double Roman dominating function is a function $f:V\to \{0,1,2,3\}$ having the property that if $f\left(v\right)=0$, then the vertex $v$ must have at least two neighbors assigned $2$ under $f$ or one neighbor with $f\left(w\right)=3$, and if $f\left(v\right)=1$, then the vertex $v$ must have at least one neighbor with $f\left(w\right)\ge 2$. The weight of a double Roman dominating function $f$ is the sum $f\left(V\right)={\sum }_{v\in V}f\left(v\right)$. The minimum weight of a double Roman dominating function on $G$ is called the double Roman domination number of $G$ and is denoted by ${\gamma }_{\mathrm{dR}}\left(G\right)$. In this paper, we establish a new upper bound...

In this note, we strengthen the inapproximation bound of O(logn) for the labeled perfect matching problem established in J. Monnot, The Labeled perfect matching in bipartite graphs, Information Processing Letters96 (2005) 81–88, using a self improving operation in some hard instances. It is interesting to note that this self improving operation does not work for all instances. Moreover, based on this approach we deduce that the problem does not admit constant approximation algorithms for connected...

The independent domination number $i\left(G\right)$ (independent number $\beta \left(G\right)$) is the minimum (maximum) cardinality among all maximal independent sets of $G$. Haviland (1995) conjectured that any connected regular graph $G$ of order $n$ and degree $\delta \le \frac{1}{2}n$ satisfies $i\left(G\right)\le \lceil \frac{2n}{3\delta }\rceil \frac{1}{2}\delta$. For $1\le k\le l\le m$, the subset graph $S_m(k,l)$ is the bipartite graph whose vertices are the $k$- and $l$-subsets of an $m$ element ground set where two vertices are adjacent if and only if one subset is contained in the other. In this paper, we give a sharp upper bound for $i\left(S_m(k,l)\right)$ and prove that...

Let $\gamma \left(G\right)$ and $i\left(G\right)$ be the domination number and the independent domination number of $G$, respectively. Rad and Volkmann posted a conjecture that $i\left(G\right)/\gamma \left(G\right)\le \Delta \left(G\right)/2$ for any graph $G$, where $\Delta \left(G\right)$ is its maximum degree (see N. J. Rad, L. Volkmann (2013)). In this work, we verify the conjecture for bipartite graphs. Several graph classes attaining the extremal bound and graphs containing odd cycles with the ratio larger than $\Delta \left(G\right)/2$ are provided as well.