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Connectivity and spanning trees of graphs
This dissertation focuses on connectivity, edge connectivity and edge-disjoint spanning trees in graphs and hypergraphs from the following aspects.;1. Eigenvalue aspect. Let lambda2(G) and tau( G) denote the second largest eigenvalue and the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees of a graph G, respectively. Motivated by a question of Seymour on the relationship between eigenvalues of a graph G and bounds of tau(G), Cioaba and Wong conjectured that for any integers d, k ≥ 2 and a d-regular graph G, if lambda 2(G)) \u3c d -- 2k-1d+1 , then tau(G) ≥ k. They proved the conjecture for k = 2, 3, and presented evidence for the cases when k ≥ 4. We propose a more general conjecture that for a graph G with minimum degree delta ≥ 2 k ≥ 4, if lambda2(G) \u3c delta -- 2k-1d+1 then tau(G) ≥ k. We prove the conjecture for k = 2, 3 and provide partial results for k ≥ 4. We also prove that for a graph G with minimum degree delta ≥ k ≥ 2, if lambda2( G) \u3c delta -- 2k-1d +1 , then the edge connectivity is at least k. As corollaries, we investigate the Laplacian and signless Laplacian eigenvalue conditions on tau(G) and edge connectivity.;2. Network reliability aspect. With graphs considered as natural models for many network design problems, edge connectivity kappa\u27(G) and maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees tau(G) of a graph G have been used as measures for reliability and strength in communication networks modeled as graph G. Let kappa\u27(G) = max{lcub}kappa\u27(H) : H is a subgraph of G{rcub}. We present: (i) For each integer k \u3e 0, a characterization for graphs G with the property that kappa\u27(G) ≤ k but for any additional edge e not in G, kappa\u27(G + e) ≥ k + 1. (ii) For any integer n \u3e 0, a characterization for graphs G with |V(G)| = n such that kappa\u27(G) = tau( G) with |E(G)| minimized.;3. Generalized connectivity. For an integer l ≥ 2, the l-connectivity kappal( G) of a graph G is defined to be the minimum number of vertices of G whose removal produces a disconnected graph with at least l components or a graph with fewer than l vertices. Let k ≥ 1, a graph G is called (k, l)-connected if kappa l(G) ≥ k. A graph G is called minimally (k, l)-connected if kappal(G) ≥ k but ∀e ∈ E( G), kappal(G -- e) ≤ k -- 1. A structural characterization for minimally (2, l)-connected graphs and some extremal results are obtained. These extend former results by Dirac and Plummer on minimally 2-connected graphs.;4. Degree sequence aspect. An integral sequence d = (d1, d2, ···, dn) is hypergraphic if there is a simple hypergraph H with degree sequence d, and such a hypergraph H is a realization of d. A sequence d is r-uniform hypergraphic if there is a simple r- uniform hypergraph with degree sequence d. It is proved that an r-uniform hypergraphic sequence d = (d1, d2, ···, dn) has a k-edge-connected realization if and only if both di ≥ k for i = 1, 2, ···, n and i=1ndi≥ rn-1r-1 , which generalizes the formal result of Edmonds for graphs and that of Boonyasombat for hypergraphs.;5. Partition connectivity augmentation and preservation. Let k be a positive integer. A hypergraph H is k-partition-connected if for every partition P of V(H), there are at least k(| P| -- 1) hyperedges intersecting at least two classes of P. We determine the minimum number of hyperedges in a hypergraph whose addition makes the resulting hypergraph k-partition-connected. We also characterize the hyperedges of a k-partition-connected hypergraph whose removal will preserve k-partition-connectedness
Extremal Infinite Graph Theory
We survey various aspects of infinite extremal graph theory and prove several
new results. The lead role play the parameters connectivity and degree. This
includes the end degree. Many open problems are suggested.Comment: 41 pages, 16 figure
Graphs that do not contain a cycle with a node that has at least two neighbors on it
We recall several known results about minimally 2-connected graphs, and show
that they all follow from a decomposition theorem. Starting from an analogy
with critically 2-connected graphs, we give structural characterizations of the
classes of graphs that do not contain as a subgraph and as an induced subgraph,
a cycle with a node that has at least two neighbors on the cycle. From these
characterizations we get polynomial time recognition algorithms for these
classes, as well as polynomial time algorithms for vertex-coloring and
edge-coloring
Properties of minimally -tough graphs
A graph is minimally -tough if the toughness of is and the
deletion of any edge from decreases the toughness. Kriesell conjectured
that for every minimally -tough graph the minimum degree . We
show that in every minimally -tough graph . We
also prove that every minimally -tough claw-free graph is a cycle. On the
other hand, we show that for every any graph can be embedded
as an induced subgraph into a minimally -tough graph
One brick at a time: a survey of inductive constructions in rigidity theory
We present a survey of results concerning the use of inductive constructions
to study the rigidity of frameworks. By inductive constructions we mean simple
graph moves which can be shown to preserve the rigidity of the corresponding
framework. We describe a number of cases in which characterisations of rigidity
were proved by inductive constructions. That is, by identifying recursive
operations that preserved rigidity and proving that these operations were
sufficient to generate all such frameworks. We also outline the use of
inductive constructions in some recent areas of particularly active interest,
namely symmetric and periodic frameworks, frameworks on surfaces, and body-bar
frameworks. We summarize the key outstanding open problems related to
inductions.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figures, final versio
On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs
Rigid frameworks in some Euclidian space are embedded graphs having a unique
local realization (up to Euclidian motions) for the given edge lengths,
although globally they may have several. We study the number of distinct planar
embeddings of minimally rigid graphs with vertices. We show that, modulo
planar rigid motions, this number is at most . We also exhibit several families which realize lower bounds of the order
of , and .
For the upper bound we use techniques from complex algebraic geometry, based
on the (projective) Cayley-Menger variety over the complex numbers . In this context, point configurations
are represented by coordinates given by squared distances between all pairs of
points. Sectioning the variety with hyperplanes yields at most
zero-dimensional components, and one finds this degree to be
. The lower bounds are related to inductive
constructions of minimally rigid graphs via Henneberg sequences.
The same approach works in higher dimensions. In particular we show that it
leads to an upper bound of for the number of spatial embeddings
with generic edge lengths of the 1-skeleton of a simplicial polyhedron, up to
rigid motions
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