An extremal theorem in the hypercube.
In this short note we provide an extension of the notion of Hessenberg matrix and observe an identity between the determinant and the permanent of such matrices. The celebrated identity due to Gibson involving Hessenberg matrices is consequently generalized.
For a vertex v in a weighted graph G, idw(v) denotes the implicit weighted degree of v. In this paper, we obtain the following result: Let G be a 2-connected weighted graph which satisfies the following conditions: (a) The implicit weighted degree sum of any three independent vertices is at least t; (b) w(xz) = w(yz) for every vertex z ∈ N(x) ∩ N(y) with xy /∈ E(G); (c) In every triangle T of G, either all edges of T have different weights or all edges of T have the same weight. Then G contains...
We present a new proof of Whitney's broken circuit theorem based on induction on the number of edges and the deletion-contraction formula.
We prove that the smallest cardinality of a maximal packing in any tree is at most the cardinality of an R-annihilated set. As a corollary to this result we point out that a set of parameters of trees involving packing, perfect neighbourhood, R-annihilated, irredundant and dominating sets is totally ordered. The class of trees for which all these parameters are equal is described and we give an example of a tree in which most of them are distinct.
Let be the number of edges in a convex 3-polytope joining the vertices of degree i with the vertices of degree j. We prove that for every convex 3-polytope there is ; moreover, each coefficient is the best possible. This result brings a final answer to the conjecture raised by B. Grünbaum in 1973.