On the number of cycles in a graph

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bader F. AlBdaiwi

AbstractThere is a sizable literature on investigating the minimum and maximum numbers of cycles in a class of graphs. However, the answer is known only for special classes. This paper presents a result on the smallest number of cycles in Hamiltonian 3-connected cubic graphs. Further, it describes a proof technique that could improve an upper bound of the largest number of cycles in a Hamiltonian graph.

2009 ◽  
Vol 309 (5) ◽  
pp. 1142-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Kostochka ◽  
B.Y. Stodolsky

Author(s):  
R. C. Mullin ◽  
B. K. Roy ◽  
P. J. Schellenberg

AbstractGiven a finite graph H and G, a subgraph of it, we define σ (G, H) to be the largest integer such that every pair of subgraphs of H, both isomorphic to G, has at least σ(G, H) edges in common; furthermore, R(G, H) is defined to be the maximum number of subgraphs of H, all isomorphic to G, such that any two of them have σ(G, H) edges common between them. We are interested in the values of σ(G, H) and R(G, H) for general H and G. A number of combinatorial problems can be considered as special cases of this question; for example, the classical set-packing problem is equivalent to evaluating R (G, H) where G is a complete subgraph of the complete graph H and σ(G, H) = 0, and the decomposition of H into subgraphs isomorphic to G is equivalent to showing that σ(G, H) = 0 and R(G, H) = ε(H)/ε(G) where ε(H), ε(G) are the number of edges in H, G respectively.A result of S. M. Johnson (1962) gives an upper bound for R(G, H) in terms of σ(G, H). As a corollary of Johnson's result, we obtain the upper bound of McCarthy and van Rees (1977) for the Cordes problem. The remainder of the paper is a study of σ (G, H) and R(G, H) for special classes of graphs; in particular, H is a complete graph and G is, in most instances, a union of disjoint complete subgraphs.


1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Rosenfeld

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 401-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO LÓPEZ-ORTIZ ◽  
SVEN SCHUIERER

We present lower bounds for on-line searching problems in two special classes of simple polygons called streets and generalized streets. In streets we assume that the location of the target is known to the robot in advance and prove a lower bound of [Formula: see text] on the competitive ratio of any deterministic search strategy—which can be shown to be tight. For generalized streets we show that if the location of the target is not known, then there is a class of orthogonal generalized streets for which the competitive ratio of any search strategy is at least [Formula: see text] in the L2-metric—again matching the competitive ratio of the best known algorithm. We also show that if the location of the target is known, then the competitive ratio for searching in generalized streets in the L1-metric is at least 9 which is tight as well. The former result is based on a lower bound on the average competitive ratio of searching on the real line if an upper bound of D to the target is given. We show that in this case the average competitive ratio is at least 9-O(1/ log D).


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhana Yasmeen ◽  
Shehnaz Akhter ◽  
Kashif Ali ◽  
Syed Tahir Raza Rizvi

Topological invariants are the significant invariants that are used to study the physicochemical and thermodynamic characteristics of chemical compounds. Recently, a new bond additive invariant named the Mostar invariant has been introduced. For any connected graph ℋ, the edge Mostar invariant is described as Moe(ℋ)=∑gx∈E(ℋ)|mℋ(g)−mℋ(x)|, where mℋ(g)(or mℋ(x)) is the number of edges of ℋ lying closer to vertex g (or x) than to vertex x (or g). A graph having at most one common vertex between any two cycles is called a cactus graph. In this study, we compute the greatest edge Mostar invariant for cacti graphs with a fixed number of cycles and n vertices. Moreover, we calculate the sharp upper bound of the edge Mostar invariant for cacti graphs in ℭ(n,s), where s is the number of cycles.


10.37236/7272 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
József Balogh ◽  
Alexandr Kostochka ◽  
Xujun Liu

Let $i(r,g)$ denote the infimum of the ratio $\frac{\alpha(G)}{|V(G)|}$ over the $r$-regular graphs of girth at least $g$, where $\alpha(G)$ is the independence number of $G$, and  let $i(r,\infty) := \lim\limits_{g \to \infty} i(r,g)$. Recently, several new lower bounds of $i(3,\infty)$ were obtained. In particular, Hoppen and Wormald showed in 2015 that $i(3, \infty) \geqslant 0.4375,$ and Csóka improved it to $i(3,\infty) \geqslant 0.44533$ in 2016. Bollobás proved the upper bound  $i(3,\infty) < \frac{6}{13}$  in 1981, and McKay improved it to $i(3,\infty) < 0.45537$in 1987. There were no improvements since then. In this paper, we improve the upper bound to $i(3,\infty) \leqslant 0.454.$


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jianxin Wei ◽  
Uzma Ahmad ◽  
Saira Hameed ◽  
Javaria Hanif

For a connected graph J, a subset W ⊆ V J is termed as a locating-total dominating set if for a ∈ V J ,   N a ∩ W ≠ ϕ , and for a ,   b ∈ V J − W ,   N a ∩ W ≠ N b ∩ W . The number of elements in a smallest such subset is termed as the locating-total domination number of J. In this paper, the locating-total domination number of unicyclic graphs and bicyclic graphs are studied and their bounds are presented. Then, by using these bounds, an upper bound for cacti graphs in terms of their order and number of cycles is estimated. Moreover, the exact values of this domination variant for some families of cacti graphs including tadpole graphs and rooted products are also determined.


2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Fujisawa ◽  
Liming Xiong ◽  
Kiyoshi Yoshimoto ◽  
Shenggui Zhang

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