Matching cutsets in graphs of diameter 2

AbstractWe say that a graph has a matching cutset if its vertices can be coloured in red and blue in such a way that there exists at least one vertex coloured in red and at least one vertex coloured in blue, and every vertex has at most one neighbour coloured in the opposite colour. In this paper we study the algorithmic complexity of a problem of recognizing graphs which possess a matching cutset. In particular we present a polynomial-time algorithm which solves this problem for graphs of diameter two

Growth and isoperimetric profile of planar graphs

Let G be a planar graph such that the volume function of G satisfies V(2n)< CV(n) for some constant C > 0. Then for every vertex v of G and integer n, there is a domain \Omega such that B(v,n) \subset \Omega, \Omega \subset B(v, 6n) and the size of the boundary of \Omega is at most order n.Comment: 8 page

Dichotomies for Maximum Matching Cut: H-Freeness, Bounded Diameter, Bounded Radius

The (Perfect) Matching Cut problem is to decide if a graph G has a (perfect) matching cut, i.e., a (perfect) matching that is also an edge cut of G. Both Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut are known to be NP-complete, leading to many complexity results for both problems on special graph classes. A perfect matching cut is also a matching cut with maximum number of edges. To increase our understanding of the relationship between the two problems, we introduce the Maximum Matching Cut problem. This problem is to determine a largest matching cut in a graph. We generalize and unify known polynomial-time algorithms for Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut restricted to graphs of diameter at most 2 and to (P?+sP?)-free graphs. We also show that the complexity of Maximum Matching Cut differs from the complexities of Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut by proving NP-hardness of Maximum Matching Cut for 2P?-free quadrangulated graphs of diameter 3 and radius 2 and for subcubic line graphs of triangle-free graphs. In this way, we obtain full dichotomies of Maximum Matching Cut for graphs of bounded diameter, bounded radius and H-free graphs

Ramified rectilinear polygons: coordinatization by dendrons

Simple rectilinear polygons (i.e. rectilinear polygons without holes or cutpoints) can be regarded as finite rectangular cell complexes coordinatized by two finite dendrons. The intrinsic $l_1$-metric is thus inherited from the product of the two finite dendrons via an isometric embedding. The rectangular cell complexes that share this same embedding property are called ramified rectilinear polygons. The links of vertices in these cell complexes may be arbitrary bipartite graphs, in contrast to simple rectilinear polygons where the links of points are either 4-cycles or paths of length at most 3. Ramified rectilinear polygons are particular instances of rectangular complexes obtained from cube-free median graphs, or equivalently simply connected rectangular complexes with triangle-free links. The underlying graphs of finite ramified rectilinear polygons can be recognized among graphs in linear time by a Lexicographic Breadth-First-Search. Whereas the symmetry of a simple rectilinear polygon is very restricted (with automorphism group being a subgroup of the dihedral group $D_4$), ramified rectilinear polygons are universal: every finite group is the automorphism group of some ramified rectilinear polygon.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figure