A hypergraph ℋ is a sum hypergraph iff there are a finite S ⊆ ℕ⁺ and d̲,d̅ ∈ ℕ⁺ with 1 < d̲ < d̅ such that ℋ is isomorphic to the hypergraph ${\mathscr{H}}_{d̲,d̅}\left(S\right)=(V,)$ where V = S and $=e\subseteq S:d̲<\left|e\right|<d̅\wedge {\sum }_{v\in e}v\in S$. For an arbitrary hypergraph ℋ the sum number(ℋ ) is defined to be the minimum number of isolatedvertices $w₁,...,w_{\sigma }\notin V$ such that $\mathscr{H}\cup w₁,...,w_{\sigma }$ is a sum hypergraph. For graphs it is known that cycles Cₙ and wheels Wₙ have sum numbersgreater than one. Generalizing these graphs we prove for the hypergraphs ₙ and ₙ that under a certain condition for the edgecardinalities...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with nonzero identity and $J\left(R\right)$ the Jacobson radical of $R$. The Jacobson graph of $R$, denoted by ${𝔍}_R$, is defined as the graph with vertex set $R\setminus J\left(R\right)$ such that two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $1-xy$ is not a unit of $R$. The genus of a simple graph $G$ is the smallest nonnegative integer $n$ such that $G$ can be embedded into an orientable surface $S_n$. In this paper, we investigate the genus number of the compact Riemann surface in which ${𝔍}_R$ can be embedded and explicitly...

In the category of symmetric graphs there are exactly five closed tensor products. If we omit the requirement of units, we obtain twelve more.

The eccentricity of a vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is the distance from $v$ to a vertex farthest from $v$ in $G$. The center of $G$ is the subgraph of $G$ induced by the vertices having minimum eccentricity. For a vertex $v$ in a 2-edge-connected graph $G$, the edge-deleted eccentricity of $v$ is defined to be the maximum eccentricity of $v$ in $G-e$ over all edges $e$ of $G$. The edge-deleted center of $G$ is the subgraph induced by those vertices of $G$ having minimum edge-deleted eccentricity. The edge-deleted central...

A graph is ptolemaic if and only if it is both chordal and distance-hereditary. Thus, a ptolemaic graph G has two kinds of intersection graph representations: one from being chordal, and the other from being distance-hereditary. The first of these, called a clique tree representation, is easily generated from the clique graph of G (the intersection graph of the maximal complete subgraphs of G). The second intersection graph representation can also be generated from the clique graph, as a very special...

In this paper, two notions, the clique irreducibility and clique vertex irreducibility are discussed. A graph G is clique irreducible if every clique in G of size at least two, has an edge which does not lie in any other clique of G and it is clique vertex irreducible if every clique in G has a vertex which does not lie in any other clique of G. It is proved that L(G) is clique irreducible if and only if every triangle in G has a vertex of degree two. The conditions for the iterations of line graph,...

In this paper we consider partitions (resp. packings) of graphs without odd chordless cycles into cliques of order at least 2. We give a structure theorem, min-max results and characterization theorems for this kind of partitions and packings.

Given a graph G = (V,E) and a “cost function” $f:2^V\to ℝ$ (provided by an oracle), the problem [PCliqW] consists in finding a partition into cliques of V(G) of minimum cost. Here, the cost of a partition is the sum of the costs of the cliques in the partition. We provide a polynomial time dynamic program for the case where G is an interval graph and f belongs to a subclass of submodular set functions, which we call “value-polymatroidal”. This provides a common solution for various generalizations of the...

Let G = (V,E) be a simple undirected graph. A forest F ⊆ E of G is said to be clique-connecting if each tree of F spans a clique of G. This paper adresses the clique-connecting forest polytope. First we give a formulation and a polynomial time separation algorithm. Then we show that the nontrivial nondegenerate facets of the stable set polytope are facets of the clique-connecting polytope. Finally we introduce a family of rank inequalities which are facets, and which generalize the clique inequalities. ...

A graph G on a topological space X as its set of vertices is clopen if the edge relation of G is a clopen subset of X² without the diagonal. We study clopen graphs on Polish spaces in terms of their finite induced subgraphs and obtain information about their cochromatic numbers. In this context we investigate modular profinite graphs, a class of graphs obtained from finite graphs by taking inverse limits. This continues the investigation of continuous colorings on Polish spaces and their homogeneity...

Given a connected graph G, a vertex w ∈ V (G) strongly resolves two vertices u, v ∈ V (G) if there exists some shortest u − w path containing v or some shortest v − w path containing u. A set S of vertices is a strong metric generator for G if every pair of vertices of G is strongly resolved by some vertex of S. The smallest cardinality of a strong metric generator for G is called the strong metric dimension of G. In this paper we obtain several relationships between the strong metric dimension...