We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of perfect matchings in a plane bipartite graph in terms of elementary edge-cut, which extends the result for the existence of perfect matchings in a hexagonal system given in the paper of F. Zhang, R. Chen and X. Guo (1985).

For a nontrivial connected graph $F$, the $F$-degree of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ is the number of copies of $F$ in $G$ containing $v$. A graph $G$ is $F$-continuous (or $F$-degree continuous) if the $F$-degrees of every two adjacent vertices of $G$ differ by at most 1. All $P_3$-continuous graphs are determined. It is observed that if $G$ is a nontrivial connected graph that is $F$-continuous for all nontrivial connected graphs $F$, then either $G$ is regular or $G$ is a path. In the case of a 2-connected graph $F$, however, there...

By a result of McKenzie [4] finite directed graphs that satisfy certain connectivity and thinness conditions have the unique prime factorization property with respect to the cardinal product. We show that this property still holds under weaker connectivity and stronger thinness conditions. Furthermore, for such graphs the factorization can be determined in polynomial time.

By a result of McKenzie [7] all finite directed graphs that satisfy certain connectivity conditions have unique prime factorizations with respect to the cardinal product. McKenzie does not provide an algorithm, and even up to now no polynomial algorithm that factors all graphs satisfying McKenzie's conditions is known. Only partial results [1,3,5] have been published, all of which depend on certain thinness conditions of the graphs to be factored. In this paper we weaken the...

A property of graphs is any isomorphism closed class of simple graphs. For given properties of graphs ₁,₂,...,ₙ a vertex (₁, ₂, ...,ₙ)-partition of a graph G is a partition V₁,V₂,...,Vₙ of V(G) such that for each i = 1,2,...,n the induced subgraph $G\left[V_i\right]$ has property ${}_i$. The class of all graphs having a vertex (₁, ₂, ...,ₙ)-partition is denoted by ₁∘₂∘...∘ₙ. A property is said to be reducible with respect to a lattice of properties of graphs if there are n ≥ 2 properties ₁,₂,...,ₙ ∈ such that = ₁∘₂∘...∘ₙ;...

We give several characterisations of strongly projective graphs which generalise in many respects odd cycles and complete graphs [7]. We prove that all known families of projective graphs contain only strongly projective graphs, including complete graphs, odd cycles, Kneser graphs and non-bipartite distance-transitive graphs of diameter d ≥ 3.

A consecutive colouring of a graph is a proper edge colouring with posi- tive integers in which the colours of edges incident with each vertex form an interval of integers. The idea of this colouring was introduced in 1987 by Asratian and Kamalian under the name of interval colouring. Sevast- janov showed that the corresponding decision problem is NP-complete even restricted to the class of bipartite graphs. We focus our attention on the class of consecutively colourable graphs whose all induced...

Let r, s ∈ N, r ≥ s, and P and Q be two additive and hereditary graph properties. A (P,Q)-total (r, s)-coloring of a graph G = (V,E) is a coloring of the vertices and edges of G by s-element subsets of Zr such that for each color i, 0 ≤ i ≤ r − 1, the vertices colored by subsets containing i induce a subgraph of G with property P, the edges colored by subsets containing i induce a subgraph of G with property Q, and color sets of incident vertices and edges are disjoint. The fractional (P,Q)-total...

In this paper Gallai’s inequality on the number of edges in critical graphs is generalized for reducible additive induced-hereditary properties of graphs in the following way. Let $₁,₂,...,ₖ$ (k ≥ 2) be additive induced-hereditary properties, $=₁\circ ₂\circ ...\circ ₖ$ and $\delta ={\sum }_{i=1}^k\delta {(}_i)$. Suppose that G is an -critical graph with n vertices and m edges. Then 2m ≥ δn + (δ-2)/(δ²+2δ-2)*n + (2δ)/(δ²+2δ-2) unless = ² or $G=K_{\delta +1}$. The generalization of Gallai’s inequality for -choice critical graphs is also presented.

We present an algebraic treatment of the correspondence of gaps and dualities in partial ordered classes induced by the morphism structures of certain categories which we call Heyting (such are for instance all cartesian closed categories, but there are other important examples). This allows to extend the results of [14] to a wide range of more general structures. Also, we introduce a notion of combined dualities and discuss the relation of their structure to that of the plain ones.

Let P be a graph property and r,s ∈ N, r ≥ s. A strong circular (P,r,s)-colouring of a graph G is an assignment f:V(G) → {0,1,...,r-1}, such that the edges uv ∈ E(G) satisfying |f(u)-f(v)| < s or |f(u)-f(v)| > r - s, induce a subgraph of G with the propery P. In this paper we present some basic results on strong circular (P,r,s)-colourings. We introduce the strong circular P-chromatic number of a graph and we determine the strong circular P-chromatic number of complete graphs for additive...

Gallai and Roy proved that a graph is k-colorable if and only if it has an orientation without directed paths of length k. We initiate the study of analogous characterizations for the existence of generalized graph colorings, where each color class induces a subgraph satisfying a given (hereditary) property. It is shown that a graph is partitionable into at most k independent sets and one induced matching if and only if it admits an orientation containing no subdigraph from a family of k+3 directed...

We study the generalized $k$-connectivity ${\kappa }_k\left(G\right)$ as introduced by Hager in 1985, as well as the more recently introduced generalized $k$-edge-connectivity ${\lambda }_k\left(G\right)$. We determine the exact value of ${\kappa }_k\left(G\right)$ and ${\lambda }_k\left(G\right)$ for the line graphs and total graphs of trees, unicyclic graphs, and also for complete graphs for the case $k=3$.

Let P and Q be additive and hereditary graph properties, r, s ∈ N, r ≥ s, and [ℤr]s be the set of all s-element subsets of ℤr. An (r, s)-fractional (P,Q)-total coloring of G is an assignment h : V (G) ∪ E(G) → [ℤr]s such that for each i ∈ ℤr the following holds: the vertices of G whose color sets contain color i induce a subgraph of G with property P, edges with color sets containing color i induce a subgraph of G with property Q, and the color sets of incident vertices and edges are disjoint. If...

In this paper we translate Ramsey-type problems into the language of decomposable hereditary properties of graphs. We prove a distributive law for reducible and decomposable properties of graphs. Using it we establish some values of graph theoretical invariants of decomposable properties and show their correspondence to generalized Ramsey numbers.

Let G = (V,E) be a graph, and k ≥ 1 an integer. A subgraph D is said to be k-dominating in G if every vertex of G-D is at distance at most k from some vertex of D. For a given class of graphs, Domₖ is the set of those graphs G in which every connected induced subgraph H has some k-dominating induced subgraph D ∈ which is also connected. In our notation, Dom coincides with Dom₁. In this paper we prove that $DomDo{m}_u=Dom{₂}_u$ holds for ${}_u$ = all connected graphs without induced $P_u$ (u ≥ 2). (In particular, ₂ = K₁ and...