337 research outputs found
On Murty-Simon Conjecture II
A graph is diameter two edge-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion
of any edge increases the diameter. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number
of edges in a diameter two edge-critical graph on vertices is at most
and the extremal graph is the complete
bipartite graph .
In the series papers [7-9], the Murty-Simon Conjecture stated by Haynes et al.
is not the original conjecture, indeed, it is only for the diameter two
edge-critical graphs of even order. In this paper, we completely prove the
Murty-Simon Conjecture for the graphs whose complements have vertex
connectivity , where ; and for the graphs whose
complements have an independent vertex cut of cardinality at least three.Comment: 9 pages, submitted for publication on May 10, 201
Irregular behaviour of class numbers and Euler-Kronecker constants of cyclotomic fields: the log log log devil at play
Kummer (1851) and, many years later, Ihara (2005) both posed conjectures on
invariants related to the cyclotomic field with a
prime. Kummer's conjecture concerns the asymptotic behaviour of the first
factor of the class number of and Ihara's the positivity
of the Euler-Kronecker constant of (the ratio of the
constant and the residue of the Laurent series of the Dedekind zeta function
at ). If certain standard conjectures in
analytic number theory hold true, then one can show that both conjectures are
true for a set of primes of natural density 1, but false in general.
Responsible for this are irregularities in the distribution of the primes. With
this survey we hope to convince the reader that the apparently dissimilar
mathematical objects studied by Kummer and Ihara actually display a very
similar behaviour.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure, survey, to appear in `Irregularities in the
Distribution of Prime Numbers - Research Inspired by Maier's Matrix Method',
Eds. J. Pintz and M. Th. Rassia
Artin's primitive root conjecture -a survey -
This is an expanded version of a write-up of a talk given in the fall of 2000
in Oberwolfach. A large part of it is intended to be understandable by
non-number theorists with a mathematical background. The talk covered some of
the history, results and ideas connected with Artin's celebrated primitive root
conjecture dating from 1927. In the update several new results established
after 2000 are also discussed.Comment: 87 pages, 512 references, to appear in Integer
Long cycles in graphs with large degree sums and neighborhood unions
We present and prove several results concerning the length of longest cycles in 2-connected or 1-tough graphs with large degree sums. These results improve many known results on long cycles in these graphs. We also consider the sharpness of the results and discuss some possible strengthenings
AUTOMATED CONJECTURING ON THE INDEPENDENCE NUMBER AND MINIMUM DEGREE OF DIAMETER-2-CRITICAL GRAPHS
A diameter-2-critical (D2C) graph is a graph with diameter two such that removing any edge increases the diameter or disconnects the graph. In this paper, we look at other lesser-studied properties of D2C graphs, focusing mainly on their independence number and minimum degree. We show that there exist D2C graphs with minimum degree strictly larger than their independence number, and that this gap can be arbitrarily large. We also exhibit D2C graphs with maximum number of common neighbors strictly greater than their independence number, and that this gap can be arbitrarily large. Furthermore, we exhibit a D2C graph whose number of distinct degrees in its degree sequence is strictly greater than its independence number. Additionally, we characterize D2C graphs with independence number 2 and show that all such graphs have independence number greater or equal to their minimum degree
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