A global defensive (respectively, offensive) alliance in a graph G = (V,E) is a set of vertices S ⊆ V with the properties that every vertex in V-S has at least one neighbor in S, and for each vertex v in S (respectively, in V-S) at least half the vertices from the closed neighborhood of v are in S. These alliances are called strong if a strict majority of vertices from the closed neighborhood of v must be in S. For each kind of alliance, the associated parameter is the minimum cardinality of such...

For any graph $G$, let $V\left(G\right)$ and $E\left(G\right)$ denote the vertex set and the edge set of $G$ respectively. The Boolean function graph $B(G,L(G),\mathrm{N}INC)$ of $G$ is a graph with vertex set $V\left(G\right)\cup E\left(G\right)$ and two vertices in $B(G,L(G),\mathrm{N}INC)$ are adjacent if and only if they correspond to two adjacent vertices of $G$, two adjacent edges of $G$ or to a vertex and an edge not incident to it in $G$. In this paper, global domination number, total global domination number, global point-set domination number and neighborhood number for this graph are obtained.

A $(p,q)$-sigraph $S$ is an ordered pair $(G,s)$ where $G=(V,E)$ is a $(p,q)$-graph and $s$ is a function which assigns to each edge of $G$ a positive or a negative sign. Let the sets $E^{+}$ and $E^{-}$ consist of $m$ positive and $n$ negative edges of $G$, respectively, where $m+n=q$. Given positive integers $k$ and $d$, $S$ is said to be $(k,d)$-graceful if the vertices of $G$ can be labeled with distinct integers from the set $\{0,1,\cdots ,k+(q-1\left)d\right\}$ such that when each edge $uv$ of $G$ is assigned the product of its sign and the absolute difference of the integers assigned to $u$ and $v$ the...

In our earlier paper [9], generalizing the well known notion of graceful graphs, a $(p,m,n)$-signed graph $S$ of order $p$, with $m$ positive edges and $n$ negative edges, is called graceful if there exists an injective function $f$ that assigns to its $p$ vertices integers $0,1,\cdots ,q=m+n$ such that when to each edge $uv$ of $S$ one assigns the absolute difference $\left|f\right(u)-f(v\left)\right|$ the set of integers received by the positive edges of $S$ is $\{1,2,\cdots ,m\}$ and the set of integers received by the negative edges of $S$ is $\{1,2,\cdots ,n\}$. Considering the conjecture therein that all...

Systems of consistent linear equations with symmetric positive semidefinite matrices arise naturally while solving many scientific and engineering problems. In case of a "floating" static structure, the boundary conditions are not sufficient to prevent its rigid body motions. Traditional solvers based on Cholesky decomposition can be adapted to these systems by recognition of zero rows or columns and also by setting up a well conditioned regular submatrix of the problem that...

The homology theory of colored posets, defined by B. Everitt and P. Turner, is generalized. Two graph categories are defined and Khovanov type graph cohomology are interpreted as Ext* groups in functor categories associated to these categories. The connection, described by J. H. Przytycki, between the Hochschild homology of an algebra and the graph cohomology, defined for the same algebra and a cyclic graph, is explained from the point of view of homological algebra in functor categories.

We survey the literature on those variants of the chromatic number problem where not only a proper coloring has to be found (i.e., adjacent vertices must not receive the same color) but some further local restrictions are imposed on the color assignment. Mostly, the list colorings and the precoloring extensions are considered. In one of the most general formulations, a graph G = (V,E), sets L(v) of admissible colors, and natural numbers $c_v$ for the vertices v ∈ V are given, and the question is whether...