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Rainbow Connection Number and Connected Dominating Sets
Rainbow connection number rc(G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number
of colours needed to colour the edges of G, so that every pair of vertices is
connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In
this paper we show that for every connected graph G, with minimum degree at
least 2, the rainbow connection number is upper bounded by {\gamma}_c(G) + 2,
where {\gamma}_c(G) is the connected domination number of G. Bounds of the form
diameter(G) \leq rc(G) \leq diameter(G) + c, 1 \leq c \leq 4, for many special
graph classes follow as easy corollaries from this result. This includes
interval graphs, AT-free graphs, circular arc graphs, threshold graphs, and
chain graphs all with minimum degree at least 2 and connected. We also show
that every bridge-less chordal graph G has rc(G) \leq 3.radius(G). In most of
these cases, we also demonstrate the tightness of the bounds. An extension of
this idea to two-step dominating sets is used to show that for every connected
graph on n vertices with minimum degree {\delta}, the rainbow connection number
is upper bounded by 3n/({\delta} + 1) + 3. This solves an open problem of
Schiermeyer (2009), improving the previously best known bound of 20n/{\delta}
by Krivelevich and Yuster (2010). Moreover, this bound is seen to be tight up
to additive factors by a construction of Caro et al. (2008).Comment: 14 page
Note on the upper bound of the rainbow index of a graph
A path in an edge-colored graph , where adjacent edges may be colored the
same, is a rainbow path if every two edges of it receive distinct colors. The
rainbow connection number of a connected graph , denoted by , is the
minimum number of colors that are needed to color the edges of such that
there exists a rainbow path connecting every two vertices of . Similarly, a
tree in is a rainbow~tree if no two edges of it receive the same color. The
minimum number of colors that are needed in an edge-coloring of such that
there is a rainbow tree connecting for each -subset of is
called the -rainbow index of , denoted by , where is an
integer such that . Chakraborty et al. got the following result:
For every , a connected graph with minimum degree at least
has bounded rainbow connection, where the bound depends only on
. Krivelevich and Yuster proved that if has vertices and the
minimum degree then . This bound was later
improved to by Chandran et al. Since , a
natural problem arises: for a general determining the true behavior of
as a function of the minimum degree . In this paper, we
give upper bounds of in terms of the minimum degree in
different ways, namely, via Szemer\'{e}di's Regularity Lemma, connected
-step dominating sets, connected -dominating sets and -dominating
sets of .Comment: 12 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0902.1255 by
other author
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