The concept of the $k$-pairable graphs was introduced by Zhibo Chen (On $k$-pairable graphs, Discrete Mathematics 287 (2004), 11–15) as an extension of hypercubes and graphs with an antipodal isomorphism. In the same paper, Chen also introduced a new graph parameter $p\left(G\right)$, called the pair length of a graph $G$, as the maximum $k$ such that $G$ is $k$-pairable and $p\left(G\right)=0$ if $G$ is not $k$-pairable for any positive integer $k$. In this paper, we answer the two open questions raised by Chen in the case that the graphs involved...

For a nonempty set $S$ of vertices in a strong digraph $D$, the strong distance $d\left(S\right)$ is the minimum size of a strong subdigraph of $D$ containing the vertices of $S$. If $S$ contains $k$ vertices, then $d\left(S\right)$ is referred to as the $k$-strong distance of $S$. For an integer $k\ge 2$ and a vertex $v$ of a strong digraph $D$, the $k$-strong eccentricity ${\mathrm{s}e}_k\left(v\right)$ of $v$ is the maximum $k$-strong distance $d\left(S\right)$ among all sets $S$ of $k$ vertices in $D$ containing $v$. The minimum $k$-strong eccentricity among the vertices of $D$ is its $k$-strong radius ${\mathrm{s}rad}_{k}D$ and the maximum...

D. Hart, A. Iosevich, D. Koh, S. Senger and I. Uriarte-Tuero (2008) showed that the distance graphs has kaleidoscopic pseudo-random property, i.e. sufficiently large subsets of d-dimensional vector spaces over finite fields contain every possible finite configurations. In this paper we study the kaleidoscopic pseudo-randomness of finite Euclidean graphs using probabilistic methods.

In this paper we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of kernels by monochromatic paths in the corona of digraphs. Using these results, we are able to prove the main result of this paper which provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the corona of digraphs to be monochromatic kernel-perfect. Moreover we calculate the total numbers of kernels by monochromatic paths, independent by monochromatic paths sets and dominating by monochromatic paths sets in this digraphs...

A graph is said to be k-factor-critical if the removal of any set of k vertices results in a graph with a perfect matching. We study some properties of k-factor-critical graphs and show that many results on q-extendable graphs can be improved using this concept.

We propose the following problem. For some k ≥ 1, a graph G is to be properly edge coloured such that any two adjacent vertices share at most k colours. We call this the k-intersection edge colouring. The minimum number of colours sufficient to guarantee such a colouring is the k-intersection chromatic index and is denoted χ’ₖ(G). Let fₖ be defined by $fₖ\left(\Delta \right)=ma{x}_{G:\Delta \left(G\right)=\Delta }{\chi }^{\text{'}}ₖ\left(G\right)$. We show that fₖ(Δ) = Θ(Δ²/k). We also discuss some open problems.

In the first part of this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for some special classes of digraphs to have a (k,l)-kernel. One of them is the duplication of a set of vertices in a digraph. This duplication come into being as the generalization of the duplication of a vertex in a graph (see [4]). Another one is the D-join of a digraph D and a sequence α of nonempty pairwise disjoint digraphs. In the second part we prove theorems, which give necessary and sufficient conditions for special...

In [5] the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of (k,l)-kernels in a D-join of digraphs were given if the digraph D is without circuits of length less than k. In this paper we generalize these results for an arbitrary digraph D. Moreover, we give the total number of (k,l)-kernels, k-independent sets and l-dominating sets in a D-join of digraphs.

The concept of (k,l)-kernels of digraphs was introduced in [2]. Next, H. Galeana-Sanchez [4] proved a sufficient condition for a digraph to have a (k,l)-kernel. The result generalizes the well-known theorem of P. Duchet and it is formulated in terms of symmetric pairs of arcs. Our aim is to give necessary and sufficient conditions for digraphs without symmetric pairs of arcs to have a (k,l)-kernel. We restrict our attention to special superdigraphs of digraphs Pₘ and Cₘ.

For integers k and n with 2 ≤ k ≤ n − 1, a graph G of order n is k-path pancyclic if every path P of order k in G lies on a cycle of every length from k + 1 to n. Thus a 2-path pancyclic graph is edge-pancyclic. In this paper, we present sufficient conditions for graphs to be k-path pancyclic. For a graph G of order n ≥ 3, we establish sharp lower bounds in terms of n and k for (a) the minimum degree of G, (b) the minimum degree-sum of nonadjacent vertices of G and (c) the size of G such that G...

Let $G$ be an undirected connected graph with $n$, $n\ge 3$, vertices and $m$ edges with Laplacian eigenvalues ${\mu }_1\ge {\mu }_2\ge \cdots \ge {\mu }_{n-1}>{\mu }_n=0$. Denote by ${\mu }_I={\mu }_{r_1}+{\mu }_{r_2}+\cdots +{\mu }_{r_k}$, $1\le k\le n-2$, $1\le r_1<r_2<\cdots <r_k\le n-1$, the sum of $k$ arbitrary Laplacian eigenvalues, with ${\mu }_{I_1}={\mu }_1+{\mu }_2+\cdots +{\mu }_k$ and ${\mu }_{I_n}={\mu }_{n-k}+\cdots +{\mu }_{n-1}$. Lower bounds of graph invariants ${\mu }_{I_1}-{\mu }_{I_n}$ and ${\mu }_{I_1}/{\mu }_{I_n}$ are obtained. Some known inequalities follow as a special case.