scholarly journals A rainbow version of Mantel's Theorem

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Šámal ◽  
Amanda Montejano ◽  
Sebastián González Hermosillo de la Maza ◽  
Matt DeVos ◽  
Ron Aharoni
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Simple Graphs ◽  
Computer Assisted Proof ◽  
Color Class ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Degree Conditions

Mantel's Theorem from 1907 is one of the oldest results in graph theory: every simple $n$-vertex graph with more than $\frac{1}{4}n^2$ edges contains a triangle. The theorem has been generalized in many different ways, including other subgraphs, minimum degree conditions, etc. This article deals with a generalization to edge-colored multigraphs, which can be viewed as a union of simple graphs, each corresponding to an edge-color class. The case of two colors is the same as the original setting: Diwan and Mubayi proved that any two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ on the same set of $n$ vertices, each containing more than $\frac{1}{4}n^2$ edges, give rise to a triangle with one edge from $G_1$ and two edges from $G_2$. The situation is however different for three colors. Fix $\tau=\frac{4-\sqrt{7}}{9}$ and split the $n$ vertices into three sets $A$, $B$ and $C$, such that $|B|=|C|=\lfloor\tau n\rfloor$ and $|A|=n-|B|-|C|$. The graph $G_1$ contains all edges inside $A$ and inside $B$, the graph $G_2$ contains all edges inside $A$ and inside $C$, and the graph $G_3$ contains all edges between $A$ and $B\cup C$ and inside $B\cup C$. It is easy to check that there is no triangle with one edge from $G_1$, one from $G_2$ and one from $G_3$; each of the graphs has about $\frac{1+\tau^2}{4}n^2=\frac{26-2\sqrt{7}}{81}n^2\approx 0.25566n^2$ edges. The main result of the article is that this construction is optimal: any three graphs $G_1$, $G_2$ and $G_3$ on the same set of $n$ vertices, each containing more than $\frac{1+\tau^2}{4}n^2$ edges, give rise to a triangle with one edge from each of the graphs $G_1$, $G_2$ and $G_3$. A computer-assisted proof of the same bound has been found by Culver, Lidický, Pfender and Volec.

scholarly journals Extensions of the Erdős–Gallai theorem and Luo’s theorem

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Ning ◽  
Xing Peng
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Connected Graph ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Extremal Graph ◽  
Extremal Graph Theory ◽  
Classical Theorem ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Turán Number ◽  
Image Position

AbstractThe famous Erdős–Gallai theorem on the Turán number of paths states that every graph with n vertices and m edges contains a path with at least (2m)/n edges. In this note, we first establish a simple but novel extension of the Erdős–Gallai theorem by proving that every graph G contains a path with at least $${{(s + 1){N_{s + 1}}(G)} \over {{N_s}(G)}} + s - 1$$ edges, where Nj(G) denotes the number of j-cliques in G for 1≤ j ≤ ω(G). We also construct a family of graphs which shows our extension improves the estimate given by the Erdős–Gallai theorem. Among applications, we show, for example, that the main results of [20], which are on the maximum possible number of s-cliques in an n-vertex graph without a path with ℓ vertices (and without cycles of length at least c), can be easily deduced from this extension. Indeed, to prove these results, Luo [20] generalized a classical theorem of Kopylov and established a tight upper bound on the number of s-cliques in an n-vertex 2-connected graph with circumference less than c. We prove a similar result for an n-vertex 2-connected graph with circumference less than c and large minimum degree. We conclude this paper with an application of our results to a problem from spectral extremal graph theory on consecutive lengths of cycles in graphs.

scholarly journals Sharp Minimum Degree Conditions for the Existence of Disjoint Theta Graphs

10.37236/9670 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Marshall ◽  
Michael Santana
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Degree Condition ◽  
Sharp Minimum ◽  
Disjoint Cycles ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Degree Conditions ◽  
Delta G

In 1963, Corrádi and Hajnal showed that if $G$ is an $n$-vertex graph with  $n \ge 3k$ and $\delta(G) \ge 2k$, then $G$ will contain $k$ disjoint cycles; furthermore, this result is best possible, both in terms of the number of vertices as well as the minimum degree. In this paper we focus on an analogue of this result for theta graphs.  Results from Kawarabayashi and Chiba et al. showed that if $n = 4k$ and $\delta(G) \ge \lceil \frac{5}{2}k \rceil$, or if $n$ is large with respect to $k$ and $\delta(G) \ge 2k+1$, respectively, then $G$ contains $k$ disjoint theta graphs.  While the minimum degree condition in both results are sharp for the number of vertices considered, this leaves a gap in which no sufficient minimum degree condition is known. Our main result in this paper resolves this by showing if $n \ge 4k$ and $\delta(G) \ge \lceil \frac{5}{2}k\rceil$, then $G$ contains $k$ disjoint theta graphs. Furthermore, we show this minimum degree condition is sharp for more than just $n = 4k$, and we discuss how and when the sharp minimum degree condition may transition from $\lceil \frac{5}{2}k\rceil$ to $2k+1$.

scholarly journals Transversals and Bipancyclicity in Bipartite Graph Families

10.37236/9489 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Perfect Matching ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Color Class ◽  
Degree Conditions ◽  
Graph Families ◽  
Balanced Bipartition

A bipartite graph is called bipancyclic if it contains cycles of every even length from four up to the number of vertices in the graph. A theorem of Schmeichel and Mitchem states that for $n \geqslant 4$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices in which each vertex in one color class has degree greater than $\frac{n}{2}$ and each vertex in the other color class has degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ is bipancyclic. We prove a generalization of this theorem in the setting of graph transversals. Namely, we show that given a family $\mathcal{G}$ of $2n$ bipartite graphs on a common set $X$ of $2n$ vertices with a common balanced bipartition, if each graph of $\mathcal G$ has minimum degree greater than $\frac{n}{2}$ in one color class and minimum degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ in the other color class, then there exists a cycle on $X$ of each even length $4 \leqslant \ell \leqslant 2n$ that uses at most one edge from each graph of $\mathcal G$. We also show that given a family $\mathcal G$ of $n$ bipartite graphs on a common set $X$ of $2n$ vertices meeting the same degree conditions, there exists a perfect matching on $X$ that uses exactly one edge from each graph of $\mathcal G$.

scholarly journals The Diameter of Almost Eulerian Digraphs

10.37236/429 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dankelmann ◽  
L. Volkmann
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Directed Graph ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Additive Constant ◽  
Undirected Graphs

Soares [J. Graph Theory 1992] showed that the well known upper bound $\frac{3}{\delta+1}n+O(1)$ on the diameter of undirected graphs of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ also holds for digraphs, provided they are eulerian. In this paper we investigate if similar bounds can be given for digraphs that are, in some sense, close to being eulerian. In particular we show that a directed graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $\delta$ whose arc set can be partitioned into $s$ trails, where $s\leq \delta-2$, has diameter at most $3 ( \delta+1 - \frac{s}{3})^{-1}n+O(1)$. If $s$ also divides $\delta-2$, then we show the diameter to be at most $3(\delta+1 - \frac{(\delta-2)s}{3(\delta-2)+s} )^{-1}n+O(1)$. The latter bound is sharp, apart from an additive constant. As a corollary we obtain the sharp upper bound $3( \delta+1 - \frac{\delta-2}{3\delta-5})^{-1} n + O(1)$ on the diameter of digraphs that have an eulerian trail.

scholarly journals Densities of Minor-Closed Graph Families

10.37236/408 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Eppstein
Keyword(s):  
Order Type ◽  
Closed Graph ◽  
Simple Graphs ◽  
Minimal Graphs ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Graph Families ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Cluster Points

We define the limiting density of a minor-closed family of simple graphs $\mathcal{F}$ to be the smallest number $k$ such that every $n$-vertex graph in $\mathcal{F}$ has at most $kn(1+o(1))$ edges, and we investigate the set of numbers that can be limiting densities. This set of numbers is countable, well-ordered, and closed; its order type is at least $\omega^\omega$. It is the closure of the set of densities of density-minimal graphs, graphs for which no minor has a greater ratio of edges to vertices. By analyzing density-minimal graphs of low densities, we find all limiting densities up to the first two cluster points of the set of limiting densities, $1$ and $3/2$. For multigraphs, the only possible limiting densities are the integers and the superparticular ratios $i/(i+1)$.

scholarly journals Semi-Degree Threshold for Anti-Directed Hamiltonian Cycles

10.37236/3610 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis DeBiasio ◽  
Theodore Molla
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycles ◽  
Alternate Direction ◽  
Degree Conditions

In 1960 Ghouila-Houri extended Dirac's theorem to directed graphs by proving that if $D$ is a directed graph on $n$ vertices with minimum out-degree and in-degree at least $n/2$, then $D$ contains a directed Hamiltonian cycle. For directed graphs one may ask for other orientations of a Hamiltonian cycle and in 1980 Grant initiated the problem of determining minimum degree conditions for a directed graph $D$ to contain an anti-directed Hamiltonian cycle (an orientation in which consecutive edges alternate direction). We prove that for sufficiently large even $n$, if $D$ is a directed graph on $n$ vertices with minimum out-degree and in-degree at least $\frac{n}{2}+1$, then $D$ contains an anti-directed Hamiltonian cycle. In fact, we prove the stronger result that $\frac{n}{2}$ is sufficient unless $D$ is one of two counterexamples. This result is sharp.

scholarly journals Cryptosystem using double vertex graph

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (44) ◽  
pp. 4483-4489
Author(s):  
C Beaula ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
System Method ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Encryption Method ◽  
The Given ◽  
Edge Labeling

Background/Objective: The Coronavirus Covid-19 has affected almost all the countries and millions of people got infected and more deaths have been reported everywhere. The uncertainty and fear created by the pandemic can be used by hackers to steal the data from both private and public systems. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve the security of the systems. This can be done only by building a strong cryptosystem. So many researchers started embedding different topics of mathematics like algebra, number theory, and so on in cryptography to keep the system, safe and secure. In this study, a cryptosystem using graph theory has been attempted, to strengthen the security of the system. Method: A new graph is constructed from the given graph, known as a double vertex graph. The edge labeling of this double vertex graph is used in encryption and decryption. Findings: A new cryptosystem using the amalgamation of the path, its double vertex graph and edge labeling has been proposed. From the double vertex graph of a path, we have given a method to find the original path. To hack such an encrypted key, the knowledge of graph theory is important, which makes the system stronger. Applications:The one-word encryption method will be useful in every security system that needs a password for secure communication or storage or authentication. Keywords: Double vertex graphs; path; adjacency matrix; encryption; cryptography

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