We construct a locally compact Hausdorff topology on the path space of a finitely aligned k-graph Λ. We identify the boundary-path space ∂Λ as the spectrum of a commutative C*-subalgebra $D_{\Lambda }$ of C*(Λ). Then, using a construction similar to that of Farthing, we construct a finitely aligned k-graph Λ̃ with no sources in which Λ is embedded, and show that ∂Λ is homeomorphic to a subset of ∂Λ̃. We show that when Λ is row-finite, we can identify C*(Λ) with a full corner of C*(Λ̃), and deduce that $D_{\Lambda }$ is isomorphic...

The path-distance-width of a connected graph G is the minimum integer w satisfying that there is a nonempty subset of S ⊆ V (G) such that the number of the vertices with distance i from S is at most w for any nonnegative integer i. In this note, we determine the path-distance-width of hypercubes.

The recently announced Strong Perfect Graph Theorem states that the class of perfect graphs coincides with the class of graphs containing no induced odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of such a cycle. A graph in this second class is called Berge. A bull is a graph with five vertices $x,a,b,c,d$ and five edges $xa,xb,ab,ad,bc$. A graph is bull-reducible if no vertex is in two bulls. In this paper we give a simple proof that every bull-reducible Berge graph is perfect. Although this result follows directly from...

The recently announced Strong Perfect Graph Theorem states that the class of perfect graphs coincides with the class of graphs containing no induced odd cycle of length at least 5 or the complement of such a cycle. A graph in this second class is called Berge. A bull is a graph with five vertices x, a, b, c, d and five edges xa, xb, ab, ad, bc. A graph is bull-reducible if no vertex is in two bulls. In this paper we give a simple proof that every bull-reducible Berge graph is perfect. Although this...

The periphery graph of a median graph is the intersection graph of its peripheral subgraphs. We show that every graph without a universal vertex can be realized as the periphery graph of a median graph. We characterize those median graphs whose periphery graph is the join of two graphs and show that they are precisely Cartesian products of median graphs. Path-like median graphs are introduced as the graphs whose periphery graph has independence number 2, and it is proved that there are path-like...

The competition graph of a doubly partial order is known to be an interval graph. The CCE graph and the niche graph of a doubly partial order are also known to be interval graphs if the graphs do not contain a cycle of length four and three as an induced subgraph, respectively. Phylogeny graphs are variant of competition graphs. The phylogeny graph P(D) of a digraph D is the (simple undirected) graph defined by V (P(D)) := V (D) and E(P(D)) := {xy | N+D (x) ∩ N+D(y) ¹ ⊘ } ⋃ {xy | (x,y) ∈ A(D)},...

A nonincreasing sequence $\pi =(d_1,...,d_n)$ of nonnegative integers is a graphic sequence if it is realizable by a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. In this case, $G$ is referred to as a realization of $\pi$. Given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, A. Busch et al. (2014) introduced the potential-Ramsey number of $G_1$ and $G_2$, denoted by $r_{\mathrm{pot}}(G_1,G_2)$, as the smallest nonnegative integer $m$ such that for every $m$-term graphic sequence $\pi$, there is a realization $G$ of $\pi$ with $G_1\subseteq G$ or with $G_2\subseteq \overline{G}$, where $\overline{G}$ is the complement of $G$. For $t\ge 2$ and $0\le k\le \lfloor \frac{t}{2}\rfloor$, let $K_t^{-k}$ be the graph obtained...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unity and $U\left(R\right)$ be the set of unit elements of $R$. In this paper, we introduce and investigate some properties of a new kind of graph on the ring $R$, namely, the prime ideals intersection graph of $R$, denoted by $G_p\left(R\right)$. The $G_p\left(R\right)$ is a graph with vertex set $R^{*}-U\left(R\right)$ and two distinct vertices $a$ and $b$ are adjacent if and only if there exists a prime ideal $𝔭$ of $R$ such that $a,b\in 𝔭$. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on $R$ such that $G_p\left(R\right)$ is disconnected. We find the diameter and girth of $G_p\left(R\right)$....

The scrambling index of an $n\times n$ primitive Boolean matrix $A$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ such that $A^k{\left(A^{\mathrm{T}}\right)}^k=J$, where $A^{\mathrm{T}}$ denotes the transpose of $A$ and $J$ denotes the $n\times n$ all ones matrix. For an $m\times n$ Boolean matrix $M$, its Boolean rank $b\left(M\right)$ is the smallest positive integer $b$ such that $M=AB$ for some $m\times b$ Boolean matrix $A$ and $b\times n$ Boolean matrix $B$. In 2009, M. Akelbek, S. Fital, and J. Shen gave an upper bound on the scrambling index of an $n\times n$ primitive matrix $M$ in terms of its Boolean rank $b\left(M\right)$, and they also characterized all primitive...