On a code problem concerning planar acyclic graphs
The paper is concerned with the existence of non-negative or positive solutions to , where is the vertex-edge incidence matrix of an undirected graph. The paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such a solution.
The concept of the -pairable graphs was introduced by Zhibo Chen (On -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 , called the pair length of a graph , as the maximum such that is -pairable and if is not -pairable for any positive integer . In this paper, we answer the two open questions raised by Chen in the case that the graphs involved...
Location problems concern a wide set of fields where it is usually assumed that exact data are known. However, in real applications, the location of the facility considered can be full of linguistic vagueness, that can be appropriately modeled using networks with fuzzy values. In that way arise Fuzzy Location Problems; this paper deals with their general formulation and the description solution methods. Namely we show the variety of problems that can be considered in this context and, for some of...
We consider, for a positive integer , induced subgraphs in which each component has order at most . Such a subgraph is said to be -divided. We show that finding large induced subgraphs with this property is NP-complete. We also consider a related graph-coloring problem: how many colors are required in a vertex coloring in which each color class induces a -divided subgraph. We show that the problem of determining whether some given number of colors suffice is NP-complete, even for -coloring...
It is shown that the problem of finding a minimum -basis, the -center problem, and the -median problem are -complete even in the case of such communication networks as planar graphs with maximum degree 3. Moreover, a near optimal -center problem is also -complete.
We prove that for any additive hereditary property P > O, it is NP-hard to decide if a given graph G allows a vertex partition V(G) = A∪B such that G[A] ∈ 𝓞 (i.e., A is independent) and G[B] ∈ P.