scholarly journals On the Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture with a Forbidden Transitive Tournament

10.37236/5954 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Grzesik
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Oriented Graph ◽  
Extremal Graph ◽  
Directed Cycle ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Flag Algebras ◽  
Transitive Tournament ◽  
Regular Bipartite Graph ◽  
Directed Cycles

The Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture asserts that every oriented graph on $n$ vertices without directed cycles of length less than or equal to $l$ has minimum outdegree at most $(n-1)/l$. In this paper we state a conjecture for graphs missing a transitive tournament on $2^k+1$ vertices, with a weaker assumption on minimum outdegree. We prove that the Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture follows from the presented conjecture and show matching constructions for all $k$ and $l$. The main advantage of considering this generalized conjecture is that it reduces the set of the extremal graphs and allows using an induction.We also prove the triangle case of the conjecture for $k=1$ and $2$ by using the Razborov's flag algebras. In particular, it proves the most interesting and studied case of the Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture in the class of graphs without the transitive tournament on 5 vertices. It is also shown that the extremal graph for the case $k=2$ has to be a blow-up of a directed cycle on 4 vertices having in each blob an extremal graph for the case $k=1$ (complete regular bipartite graph), which confirms the conjectured structure of the extremal examples.

scholarly journals Sharp bounds for decomposing graphs into edges and triangles

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Adam Blumenthal ◽  
Bernard Lidický ◽  
Yanitsa Pehova ◽  
Florian Pfender ◽  
Oleg Pikhurko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Extremal Function ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Real Constant ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Sharp Bounds ◽  
Flag Algebras ◽  
The Extremal Function

Abstract For a real constant α, let $\pi _3^\alpha (G)$ be the minimum of twice the number of K2’s plus α times the number of K3’s over all edge decompositions of G into copies of K2 and K3, where Kr denotes the complete graph on r vertices. Let $\pi _3^\alpha (n)$ be the maximum of $\pi _3^\alpha (G)$ over all graphs G with n vertices. The extremal function $\pi _3^3(n)$ was first studied by Győri and Tuza (Studia Sci. Math. Hungar.22 (1987) 315–320). In recent progress on this problem, Král’, Lidický, Martins and Pehova (Combin. Probab. Comput.28 (2019) 465–472) proved via flag algebras that $\pi _3^3(n) \le (1/2 + o(1)){n^2}$ . We extend their result by determining the exact value of $\pi _3^\alpha (n)$ and the set of extremal graphs for all α and sufficiently large n. In particular, we show for α = 3 that Kn and the complete bipartite graph ${K_{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor,\lceil n/2 \rceil }}$ are the only possible extremal examples for large n.

scholarly journals Turán theorems for unavoidable patterns

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
ANTÓNIO GIRÃO ◽  
BHARGAV NARAYANAN
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Transitive Tournament ◽  
Unavoidable Patterns

Abstract We prove Turán-type theorems for two related Ramsey problems raised by Bollobás and by Fox and Sudakov. First, for t ≥ 3, we show that any two-colouring of the complete graph on n vertices that is δ-far from being monochromatic contains an unavoidable t-colouring when δ ≫ n−1/t, where an unavoidable t-colouring is any two-colouring of a clique of order 2t in which one colour forms either a clique of order t or two disjoint cliques of order t. Next, for t ≥ 3, we show that any tournament on n vertices that is δ-far from being transitive contains an unavoidable t-tournament when δ ≫ n−1/[t/2], where an unavoidable t-tournament is the blow-up of a cyclic triangle obtained by replacing each vertex of the triangle by a transitive tournament of order t. Conditional on a well-known conjecture about bipartite Turán numbers, both our results are sharp up to implied constants and hence determine the order of magnitude of the corresponding off-diagonal Ramsey numbers.

Laplacian Energy of Digraphs and a Minimum Laplacian Energy Algorithm

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 367-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingqin Qi ◽  
Edgar Fuller ◽  
Rong Luo ◽  
Guodong Guo ◽  
Cunquan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Oriented Graph ◽  
Laplacian Matrix ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Spectral Graph Theory ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Lower And Upper Bounds ◽  
Spectral Graph ◽  
Laplacian Energy ◽  
Energy Formula ◽  
Matrix Formula

In spectral graph theory, the Laplacian energy of undirected graphs has been studied extensively. However, there has been little work yet for digraphs. Recently, Perera and Mizoguchi (2010) introduced the directed Laplacian matrix [Formula: see text] and directed Laplacian energy [Formula: see text] using the second spectral moment of [Formula: see text] for a digraph [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] vertices, where [Formula: see text] is the diagonal out-degree matrix, and [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] whenever there is an arc [Formula: see text] from the vertex [Formula: see text] to the vertex [Formula: see text] and 0 otherwise. They studied the directed Laplacian energies of two special families of digraphs (simple digraphs and symmetric digraphs). In this paper, we extend the study of Laplacian energy for digraphs which allow both simple and symmetric arcs. We present lower and upper bounds for the Laplacian energy for such digraphs and also characterize the extremal graphs that attain the lower and upper bounds. We also present a polynomial algorithm to find an optimal orientation of a simple undirected graph such that the resulting oriented graph has the minimum Laplacian energy among all orientations. This solves an open problem proposed by Perera and Mizoguchi at 2010.

scholarly journals On the Turán Number of Forests

10.37236/3142 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Liu ◽  
Bernard Lidicky ◽  
Cory Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Arbitrary Order ◽  
Extremal Graph ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Turán Number

The Turán number of a graph $H$, $\mathrm{ex}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in a graph on $n$ vertices which does not have $H$ as a subgraph. We determine the Turán number and find the unique extremal graph for forests consisting of paths when $n$ is sufficiently large. This generalizes a result of Bushaw and Kettle [Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 20:837--853, 2011]. We also determine the Turán number and extremal graphs for forests consisting of stars of arbitrary order.

scholarly journals Balanced directed cycle designs based on cyclic groups

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaufah Nilrat ◽  
Cheryl E. Praeger
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Cyclic Group ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Directed Cycle ◽  
Group Of Automorphisms ◽  
Edge Disjoint ◽  
Cyclic Groups ◽  
Directed Cycles

AbstractA balanced directed cycle design with parameters (υ, k, 1), sometimes called a (υ, k, 1)-design, is a decomposition of the complete directed graph into edge disjoint directed cycles of length k. A complete classification is given of (υ, k, 1)-designs admitting the holomorph {øa, b: x ↦ ax + b∣ a, b ∈ Zυ, (a, υ1) = 1} of the cyclic group Zυ as a group of automorphisms. In particular it is shown that such a design exists if and ony if one of (a) k = 2, (b) p ≡ 1 (mod k) for each prime p dividing υ, or (c) k is the least prime dividing υ, k2 does not divide υ, and p ≡ 1 (mod k) for each prime p < k dividing υ.

scholarly journals Extremal Bipartite Graphs with Given Parameters on the Resistance–Harary Index

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
Hongzhuan Wang ◽  
Piaoyang Yin
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Graph Invariant ◽  
Resistance Distance ◽  
Harary Index ◽  
H Index ◽  
Electronic Networks ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Graph Parameters

Resistance distance is a concept developed from electronic networks. The calculation of resistance distance in various circuits has attracted the attention of many engineers. This report considers the resistance-based graph invariant, the Resistance–Harary index, which represents the sum of the reciprocal resistances of any vertex pair in the figure G, denoted by R H ( G ) . Vertex bipartiteness in a graph G is the minimum number of vertices removed that makes the graph G become a bipartite graph. In this study, we give the upper bound and lower bound of the R H index, and describe the corresponding extremal graphs in the bipartite graph of a given order. We also describe the graphs with maximum R H index in terms of graph parameters such as vertex bipartiteness, cut edges, and matching numbers.

scholarly journals A scheduling problem with a simple graphical solution

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Beecham ◽  
A. C. Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Graphical Solution ◽  
Marriage Problem ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Golf Clubs ◽  
Directed Cycles

AbstractIt is shown that a problem which arose in the scheduling of two simultaneous competitions between a number of golf clubs may be reduced to that of 4- colouring the edges of a certain bipartite graph which has 4 edges meeting at each vertex. This colouring problem is solved by an analysis in terms of directed cycles, which is simple to carry through in a practical case and is easily extended to the problem with 4 replaced by 2m. The more general colouring problem with 4 replaced by any positive integer is solved by relating it to the marriage problem enunciated by Philip Hall and to the latin multiplication technique of Kaufmann but, in practical applications, this approach involves severe computational difficulties.

scholarly journals Extremal Numbers for Odd Cycles

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZOLTAN FÜREDI ◽  
DAVID S. GUNDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Extremal Graph ◽  
Classical Theorem ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Complete Determination ◽  
Odd Cycles ◽  
Turán Graph

We describe theC2k+1-free graphs onnvertices with maximum number of edges. The extremal graphs are unique forn∉ {3k− 1, 3k, 4k− 2, 4k− 1}. The value ofex(n,C2k+1) can be read out from the works of Bondy [3], Woodall [14], and Bollobás [1], but here we give a new streamlined proof. The complete determination of the extremal graphs is also new.We obtain that the bound forn0(C2k+1) is 4kin the classical theorem of Simonovits, from which the unique extremal graph is the bipartite Turán graph.

scholarly journals Global Alliances and Independent Domination in Some Classes of Graphs

10.37236/847 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Favaron
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Dominating Set ◽  
Independence Number ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Minimum Cardinality ◽  
Independent Domination

A dominating set $S$ of a graph $G$ is a global (strong) defensive alliance if for every vertex $v\in S$, the number of neighbors $v$ has in $S$ plus one is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in $V\setminus S$. The dominating set $S$ is a global (strong) offensive alliance if for every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$, the number of neighbors $v$ has in $S$ is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in $V\setminus S$ plus one. The minimum cardinality of a global defensive (strong defensive, offensive, strong offensive) alliance is denoted by $\gamma_a(G)$ ($\gamma_{\hat a}(G)$, $\gamma_o(G)$, $\gamma_{\hat o}(G))$. We compare each of the four parameters $\gamma_a, \gamma_{\hat a}, \gamma_o, \gamma_{\hat o}$ to the independent domination number $i$. We show that $i(G)\le \gamma ^2_a(G)-\gamma_a(G)+1$ and $i(G)\le \gamma_{\hat{a}}^2(G)-2\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)+2$ for every graph; $i(G)\le \gamma ^2_a(G)/4 +\gamma_a(G)$ and $i(G)\le \gamma_{\hat{a}}^2(G)/4 +\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)/2$ for every bipartite graph; $i(G)\le 2\gamma_a(G)-1$ and $i(G)=3\gamma_{\hat{a}}(G)/2 -1$ for every tree and describe the extremal graphs; and that $\gamma_o(T)\le 2i(T)-1$ and $i(T)\le \gamma_{\hat o}(T)-1$ for every tree. We use a lemma stating that $\beta(T)+2i(T)\ge n+1$ in every tree $T$ of order $n$ and independence number $\beta(T)$.

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