scholarly journals Biregular Cages of Girth Five

10.37236/2594 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marién Abreu ◽  
Gabriela Araujo-Pardo ◽  
Camino Balbuena ◽  
Domenico Labbate ◽  
Gloria López-Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Prime Power ◽  
Discrete Math ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Minimum Order ◽  
Degree Set ◽  
Positive Integers

Let $2 \le r < m$ and $g$ be positive integers. An $(\{r,m\};g)$-graph (or biregular graph) is a graph with degree set $\{r,m\}$ and girth $g$, and an $(\{r,m\};g)$-cage (or biregular cage) is an $(\{r,m\};g)$-graph of minimum order $n(\{r,m\};g)$. If $m=r+1$, an $(\{r,m\};g)$-cage is said to be a semiregular cage.In this paper we generalize the reduction and graph amalgam operations from [M. Abreu,  G. Araujo-Pardo, C. Balbuena, D. Labbate. Families of Small Regular Graphs of Girth $5$. Discrete Math. 312 (2012) 2832--2842] on the incidence graphs of an affine and a biaffine plane obtaining two new infinite families of biregular cages and two new semiregular cages. The constructed new families are $(\{r,2r-3\};5)$-cages for all $r=q+1$ with $q$ a prime power, and $(\{r,2r-5\};5)$-cages for all $r=q+1$ with $q$ a prime. The new semiregular cages are constructed for $r=5$ and $6$ with $31$ and $43$ vertices respectively.

scholarly journals Small Regular Graphs of Girth 7

10.37236/4205 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Abreu ◽  
G. Araujo-Pardo ◽  
C. Balbuena ◽  
D. Labbate ◽  
J. Salas
Keyword(s):  
Prime Power ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Geometric Properties

In this paper, we construct new infinite families of regular graphs of girth 7 of smallest order known so far. Our constructions are based on combinatorial and geometric properties of $(q+1,8)$-cages, for $q$ a prime power. We remove vertices from such cages and add matchings among the vertices of minimum degree to achieve regularity in the new graphs. We obtain $(q+1)$-regular graphs of girth 7 and order $2q^3+q^2+2q$ for each even prime power $q \ge 4$, and of order $2q^3+2q^2-q+1$ for each odd prime power $q\ge 5$. A corrigendum was added to this paper on 21 June 2016.

Upper triangle free detour number of a graph

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150094
Author(s):  
S. Sethu Ramalingam ◽  
S. Athisayanathan
Keyword(s):  
Free Path ◽  
Connected Graph ◽  
Proper Subset ◽  
Maximum Order ◽  
Minimum Order ◽  
Geodetic Number ◽  
Number Formula ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
Distance Formula

For any two vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in a connected graph [Formula: see text], the [Formula: see text] path [Formula: see text] is called a [Formula: see text] triangle free path if no three vertices of [Formula: see text] induce a triangle. The triangle free detour distance [Formula: see text] is the length of a longest [Formula: see text] triangle free path in [Formula: see text]. A [Formula: see text] path of length [Formula: see text] is called a [Formula: see text] triangle free detour. A set [Formula: see text] is called a triangle free detour set of [Formula: see text] if every vertex of [Formula: see text] lies on a [Formula: see text] triangle free detour joining a pair of vertices of [Formula: see text]. The triangle free detour number [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is the minimum order of its triangle free detour sets and any triangle free detour set of order [Formula: see text] is a triangle free detour basis of [Formula: see text]. A triangle free detour set [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is called a minimal triangle free detour set if no proper subset of [Formula: see text] is a triangle free detour set of [Formula: see text]. The upper triangle free detour number [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is the maximum order of its minimal triangle free detour sets and any minimal triangle free detour set of order [Formula: see text] is an upper triangle free detour basis of [Formula: see text]. We determine bounds for it and characterize graphs which realize these bounds. For any connected graph [Formula: see text] of order [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. Also, for any four positive integers [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], it is shown that there exists a connected graph [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the upper detour number, [Formula: see text] is the upper detour monophonic number and [Formula: see text] is the upper geodetic number of a graph [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Absolutely split metacyclic groups and weak metacirculants

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Cui ◽  
Jin-Xin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Prime Power ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Prime Power Order ◽  
Metacyclic Groups ◽  
Vertex Transitive ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Condition

Let [Formula: see text] be positive integers, and let [Formula: see text] be a split metacyclic group such that [Formula: see text]. We say that [Formula: see text] is absolutely split with respect to[Formula: see text] provided that for any [Formula: see text], if [Formula: see text], then there exists [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we give a sufficient and necessary condition for the group [Formula: see text] being absolutely split. This generalizes a result of Sanming Zhou and the second author in [Weak metacirculants of odd prime power order, J. Comb. Theory A 155 (2018) 225–243]. We also use this result to investigate the relationship between metacirculants and weak metacirculants. Metacirculants were introduced by Alspach and Parsons in [Formula: see text] and have been a rich source of various topics since then. As a generalization of this class of graphs, Marušič and Šparl in 2008 introduced the so-called weak metacirculants. A graph is called a weak metacirculant if it has a vertex-transitive metacyclic automorphism group. In this paper, it is proved that a weak metacirculant of [Formula: see text]-power order is a metacirculant if and only if it has a vertex-transitive split metacyclic automorphism group. This provides a partial answer to an open question in the literature.

scholarly journals On(a,1)-Vertex-Antimagic Edge Labeling of Regular Graphs

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bača ◽  
Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková ◽  
Tao-Ming Wang ◽  
Guang-Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Arithmetic Sequence ◽  
Bijective Mapping ◽  
Vertex Weight ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
Edge Labeling

An(a,s)-vertex-antimagic edge labeling(or an(a,s)-VAElabeling, for short) ofGis a bijective mapping from the edge setE(G)of a graphGto the set of integers1,2,…,|E(G)|with the property that the vertex-weights form an arithmetic sequence starting fromaand having common differences, whereaandsare two positive integers, and the vertex-weight is the sum of the labels of all edges incident to the vertex. A graph is called(a,s)-antimagic if it admits an(a,s)-VAElabeling. In this paper, we investigate the existence of(a,1)-VAE labeling for disconnected 3-regular graphs. Also, we define and study a new concept(a,s)-vertex-antimagic edge deficiency, as an extension of(a,s)-VAE labeling, for measuring how close a graph is away from being an(a,s)-antimagic graph. Furthermore, the(a,1)-VAE deficiency of Hamiltonian regular graphs of even degree is completely determined. More open problems are mentioned in the concluding remarks.

Decompositions of some regular graphs into unicyclic graphs of order five

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950042 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Paulraja ◽  
T. Sivakaran
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Discrete Math ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Unicyclic Graphs ◽  
Multipartite Graphs ◽  
Complete Multipartite ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Product Of Graphs

For a graph [Formula: see text] and a subgraph [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] an [Formula: see text]-decomposition of [Formula: see text] is a partition of the edge set of [Formula: see text] into subsets [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] such that each [Formula: see text] induces a graph isomorphic to [Formula: see text] It is proved that the necessary conditions are sufficient for the existence of an [Formula: see text]-decomposition of the graph [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is any simple connected unicyclic graph of order five, × denotes the tensor product of graphs and [Formula: see text] denotes the multiplicity of the edges. In fact, using the above characterization, a necessary and sufficient condition for the graph [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] to admit an [Formula: see text]-decomposition is obtained. Similar results for the complete graphs and complete multipartite graphs are proved in: [J.-C. Bermond et al. [Formula: see text]-decomposition of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] has four vertices or less, Discrete Math. 19 (1977) 113–120, J.-C. Bermond et al. Decomposition of complete graphs into isomorphic subgraphs with five verices, Ars Combin. 10 (1980) 211–254, M. H. Huang, Decomposing complete equipartite graphs into connected unicyclic graphs of size five, Util. Math. 97 (2015) 109–117].

The solvability comes from a given set of character degrees

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 1650164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farideh Shafiei ◽  
Ali Iranmanesh
Keyword(s):  
Finite Group ◽  
Irreducible Character ◽  
Prime Power ◽  
Character Degree ◽  
Character Degrees ◽  
Degree Set ◽  
A Finite Group ◽  
Irreducible Character Degree

Let [Formula: see text] be a finite group and the irreducible character degree set of [Formula: see text] is contained in [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] are distinct integers. We show that one of the following statements holds: [Formula: see text] is solvable; [Formula: see text]; or [Formula: see text] for some prime power [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Some Graphs Determined by their Signless Laplacian (Distance) Spectra

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (36) ◽  
pp. 461-472
Author(s):  
Chandrashekar Adiga ◽  
Kinkar Das ◽  
B. R. Rakshith
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Discrete Math ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Spectral Determination ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Bipartite Subgraph ◽  
Signless Laplacian Spectrum ◽  
Signless Laplacian

In literature, there are some results known about spectral determination of graphs with many edges. In [M.~C\'{a}mara and W.H.~Haemers. Spectral characterizations of almost complete graphs. {\em Discrete Appl. Math.}, 176:19--23, 2014.], C\'amara and Haemers studied complete graph with some edges deleted for spectral determination. In fact, they found that if the deleted edges form a matching, a complete graph $K_m$ provided $m \le n-2$, or a complete bipartite graph, then it is determined by its adjacency spectrum. In this paper, the graph $K_{n}\backslash K_{l,m}$ $(n>l+m)$ which is obtained from the complete graph $K_{n}$ by removing all the edges of a complete bipartite subgraph $K_{l,m}$ is studied. It is shown that the graph $K_{n}\backslash K_{1,m}$ with $m\ge4$ is determined by its signless Laplacian spectrum, and it is proved that the graph $K_{n}\backslash K_{l,m}$ is determined by its distance spectrum. The signless Laplacian spectral determination of the multicone graph $K_{n-2\alpha}\vee \alpha K_{2}$ was studied by Bu and Zhou in [C.~Bu and J.~Zhou. Signless Laplacian spectral characterization of the cones over some regular graphs. {\em Linear Algebra Appl.}, 436:3634--3641, 2012.] and Xu and He in [L. Xu and C. He. On the signless Laplacian spectral determination of the join of regular graphs. {\em Discrete Math. Algorithm. Appl.}, 6:1450050, 2014.] only for $n-2\alpha=1 ~\text{or}~ 2$. Here, this problem is completely solved for all positive integer $n-2\alpha$. The proposed approach is entirely different from those given by Bu and Zhou, and Xu and He.

scholarly journals Vertex Covering with Monochromatic Pieces of few Colours

10.37236/7469 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlo Eugster ◽  
Frank Mousset
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Independence Number ◽  
Vertex Cover ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Kneser Graph ◽  
Vertex Covering ◽  
Vertex Graph ◽  
Positive Integers

In 1995, Erdös and Gyárfás proved that in every $2$-colouring of the edges of $K_n$, there is a vertex cover by $2\sqrt{n}$ monochromatic paths of the same colour, which is optimal up to a constant factor. The main goal of this paper is to study the natural multi-colour generalization of this problem: given two positive integers $r,s$, what is the smallest number $pc_{r,s}(K_n)$ such that in every colouring of the edges of $K_n$ with $r$ colours, there exists a vertex cover of $K_n$ by $pc_{r,s}(K_n)$ monochromatic paths using altogether at most $s$ different colours?For fixed integers $r>s$ and as $n\to\infty$, we prove that $pc_{r,s}(K_n) = \Theta(n^{1/\chi})$, where $\chi=\max{\{1,2+2s-r\}}$ is the chromatic number of the Kneser graph $KG(r,r-s)$. More generally, if one replaces $K_n$ by an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph with fixed independence number $\alpha$, then we have $pc_{r,s}(G) = O(n^{1/\chi})$, where this time around $\chi$ is the chromatic number of the Kneser hypergraph $KG^{(\alpha+1)}(r,r-s)$. This result is tight in the sense that there exist graphs with independence number $\alpha$ for which $pc_{r,s}(G) = \Omega(n^{1/\chi})$. This is in sharp contrast to the case $r=s$, where it follows from a result of Sárközy (2012) that $pc_{r,r}(G)$ depends only on $r$ and $\alpha$, but not on the number of vertices.We obtain similar results for the situation where instead of using paths, one wants to cover a graph with bounded independence number by monochromatic cycles, or a complete graph by monochromatic $d$-regular graphs.

scholarly journals A Construction of Small $(q-1)$-Regular Graphs of Girth 8

10.37236/4397 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Abreu ◽  
G. Araujo-Pardo ◽  
C. Balbuena ◽  
D. Labbate
Keyword(s):  
Prime Power ◽  
Infinite Family ◽  
Regular Graphs

In this note we construct a new infinite family of $(q-1)$-regular graphs of girth 8 and order $2q(q-1)^2$ for all prime powers $q\geq 16$, which are the smallest known so far whenever $q-1$ is not a prime power or a prime power plus one itself.

scholarly journals Exponential Domination in Subcubic Graphs

10.37236/5711 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Bessy ◽  
Pascal Ochem ◽  
Dieter Rautenbach
Keyword(s):  
Dominating Set ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Discrete Math ◽  
Cubic Graphs ◽  
Cubic Graph ◽  
Minimum Order ◽  
Natural Variant ◽  
Dominating Set Problem ◽  
Subcubic Graphs ◽  
Domination In Graphs

As a natural variant of domination in graphs, Dankelmann et al. [Domination with exponential decay, Discrete Math. 309 (2009) 5877-5883] introduced exponential domination, where vertices are considered to have some dominating power that decreases exponentially with the distance, and the dominated vertices have to accumulate a sufficient amount of this power emanating from the dominating vertices. More precisely, if $S$ is a set of vertices of a graph $G$, then $S$ is an exponential dominating set of $G$ if $\sum\limits_{v\in S}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^{{\rm dist}_{(G,S)}(u,v)-1}\geq 1$ for every vertex $u$ in $V(G)\setminus S$, where ${\rm dist}_{(G,S)}(u,v)$ is the distance between $u\in V(G)\setminus S$ and $v\in S$ in the graph $G-(S\setminus \{ v\})$. The exponential domination number $\gamma_e(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum order of an exponential dominating set of $G$.In the present paper we study exponential domination in subcubic graphs. Our results are as follows: If $G$ is a connected subcubic graph of order $n(G)$, then $$\frac{n(G)}{6\log_2(n(G)+2)+4}\leq \gamma_e(G)\leq \frac{1}{3}(n(G)+2).$$ For every $\epsilon>0$, there is some $g$ such that $\gamma_e(G)\leq \epsilon n(G)$ for every cubic graph $G$ of girth at least $g$. For every $0<\alpha<\frac{2}{3\ln(2)}$, there are infinitely many cubic graphs $G$ with $\gamma_e(G)\leq \frac{3n(G)}{\ln(n(G))^{\alpha}}$. If $T$ is a subcubic tree, then $\gamma_e(T)\geq \frac{1}{6}(n(T)+2).$ For a given subcubic tree, $\gamma_e(T)$ can be determined in polynomial time. The minimum exponential dominating set problem is APX-hard for subcubic graphs.

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