Connection on differential modules
We approach the problem of defining curvature on a graph by attempting to attach a ‘best-fit polytope’ to each vertex, or more precisely what we refer to as a configured star. How this should be done depends upon the global structure of the graph which is reflected in its geometric spectrum. Mean curvature is the most natural curvature that arises in this context and corresponds to local liftings of the graph into a suitable Euclidean space. We discuss some examples.
We study two topological properties of the 5-ary -cube . Given two arbitrary distinct nodes and in , we prove that there exists an - path of every length ranging from to , where . Based on this result, we prove that is 5-edge-pancyclic by showing that every edge in lies on a cycle of every length ranging from to .
We study two topological properties of the 5-ary n-cube . Given two arbitrary distinct nodes x and y in , we prove that there exists an x-y path of every length ranging from 2n to 5n - 1, where n ≥ 2. Based on this result, we prove that is 5-edge-pancyclic by showing that every edge in lies on a cycle of every length ranging from 5 to 5n.
In this paper, we study the existence of cycle double covers for infinite planar graphs. We show that every infinite locally finite bridgeless k-indivisible graph with a 2-basis admits a cycle double cover.
An edge coloring of a plane graph G is facially proper if no two faceadjacent edges of G receive the same color. A facial (facially proper) parity edge coloring of a plane graph G is an (facially proper) edge coloring with the property that, for each color c and each face f of G, either an odd number of edges incident with f is colored with c, or color c does not occur on the edges of f. In this paper we deal with the following question: For which integers k does there exist a facial (facially proper)...
W. He et al. showed that a planar graph not containing 4-cycles can be decomposed into a forest and a graph with maximum degree at most 7. This degree restriction was improved to 6 by Borodin et al. We further lower this bound to 5 and show that it cannot be improved to 3.
We study new equivalence relations in spatial graph theory. We consider natural generalizations of delta link-homotopy on links, which is an equivalence relation generated by delta moves on the same component and ambient isotopies. They are stronger than edge-homotopy and vertex-homotopy on spatial graphs which are natural generalizations of link-homotopy on links. Relationship to existing familiar equivalence relations on spatial graphs are stated, and several invariants are defined by using the...