Saturation numbers for trees.
Certain numerical invariants of directed graphs, analogous to the domatic number and to the total domatic number of an undirected graph, are introduced and studied.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C35.Let Γ(M ) where M ⊂ V (G) be the set of all vertices of the graph G adjacent to any vertex of M. If v1, . . . , vr is a vertex sequence in G such that Γ(v1, . . . , vr ) = ∅ and vi is a maximal degree vertex in Γ(v1, . . . , vi−1), we prove that e(G) ≤ e(K(p1, . . . , pr)) where K(p1, . . . , pr ) is the complete r-partite graph with pi = |Γ(v1, . . . , vi−1) Γ(vi )|.
For a nontrivial connected graph , let be a vertex coloring of where adjacent vertices may be colored the same. For a vertex , the neighborhood color set is the set of colors of the neighbors of . The coloring is called a set coloring if for every pair of adjacent vertices of . The minimum number of colors required of such a coloring is called the set chromatic number . We show that the decision variant of determining is NP-complete in the general case, and show that can be...
The signed total domination number of a graph is a certain variant of the domination number. If is a vertex of a graph , then is its oper neighbourhood, i.e. the set of all vertices adjacent to in . A mapping , where is the vertex set of , is called a signed total dominating function (STDF) on , if for each . The minimum of values , taken over all STDF’s of , is called the signed total domination number of and denoted by . A theorem stating lower bounds for is stated for the...
In this note we present a sharp lower bound on the number of vertices in a regular graph of given degree and diameter.
We describe some new applications of nonabelian pq-groups to construction problems in Graph Theory. The constructions include the smallest known trivalent graph of girth 17, the smallest known regular graphs of girth five for several degrees, along with four edge colorings of complete graphs that improve lower bounds on classical Ramsey numbers.
Shannon-Vizing-type problems concerning the upper bound for a distance chromatic index of multigraphs G in terms of the maximum degree Δ(G) are studied. Conjectures generalizing those related to the strong chromatic index are presented. The chromatic d-index and chromatic d-number of paths, cycles, trees and some hypercubes are determined. Among hypercubes, however, the exact order of their growth is found.
For a finite undirected graph G on n vertices some continuous optimization problems taken over the n-dimensional cube are presented and it is proved that their optimum values equal the independence number of G.