412 research outputs found
Generalized centrality in trees
In 1982, Slater defined path subgraph analogues to the center, median, and (branch or branchweight) centroid of a tree. We define three families of central substructures of trees, including three types of central subtrees of degree at most D that yield the center, median, and centroid for D = 0 and Slater's path analogues for D = 2. We generalize these results concerning paths and include proofs that each type of generalized center and generalized centroid is unique. We also present algorithms for finding one or all generalized central substructures of each type.
On distinguishing trees by their chromatic symmetric functions
Let be an unrooted tree. The \emph{chromatic symmetric function} ,
introduced by Stanley, is a sum of monomial symmetric functions corresponding
to proper colorings of . The \emph{subtree polynomial} , first
considered under a different name by Chaudhary and Gordon, is the bivariate
generating function for subtrees of by their numbers of edges and leaves.
We prove that , where is the Hall inner
product on symmetric functions and is a certain symmetric function that
does not depend on . Thus the chromatic symmetric function is a stronger
isomorphism invariant than the subtree polynomial. As a corollary, the path and
degree sequences of a tree can be obtained from its chromatic symmetric
function. As another application, we exhibit two infinite families of trees
(\emph{spiders} and some \emph{caterpillars}), and one family of unicyclic
graphs (\emph{squids}) whose members are determined completely by their
chromatic symmetric functions.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures. Added references [2], [13], and [15
Generalized centrality in trees
In 1982, Slater defined path subgraph analogues to the center, median, and (branch or branchweight) centroid of a tree. We define three families of central substructures of trees, including three types of central subtrees of degree at most D that yield the center, median, and centroid for D = 0 and Slater's path analogues for D = 2. We generalize these results concerning paths and include proofs that each type of generalized center and generalized centroid is unique. We also present algorithms for finding one or all generalized central substructures of each type
4−Equitable Tree Labelings
We assign the labels {0,1,2,3} to the vertices of a graph; each edge is assigned the absolute difference of the incident vertices’ labels. For the labeling to be 4−equitable, we require the edge labels and vertex labels to each be distributed as uniformly as possible.
We study 4−equitable labelings of different trees and prove all cater-pillars, symmetric generalized n−stars (or symmetric spiders), and complete n −ary trees for all n ∈ N are 4−equitable
On distinguishing trees by their chromatic symmetric functions
This is the author's accepted manuscript
Extremal Problems in Graph Saturation and Covering
This dissertation considers several problems in extremal graph theory with the aim of finding the maximum or minimum number of certain subgraph counts given local conditions. The local conditions of interest to us are saturation and covering. Given graphs F and H, a graph G is said to be F-saturated if it does not contain any copy of F, but the addition of any missing edge in G creates at least one copy of F. We say that G is H-covered if every vertex of G is contained in at least one copy of H. In the former setting, we prove results regarding the minimum number of copies of certain subgraphs, primarily cliques and stars. Special attention will be given to the somewhat surprising challenge of minimizing the number of cherries, i.e. stars with two vertices of degree 1, in triangle-saturated graphs and its connection to Moore graphs. In the latter setting, we are interested in maximizing the number of independent sets of a fixed size in H-covered graphs, primarily when H is a star, path, or disjoint union of edges. Along the way, we will introduce and prove several results regarding a new style of question regarding graph saturation, namely determining for which graphs F there exist trees that are F-saturated. We will call such graphs tree-saturating.
Adviser: Jamie Radcliff
Antimagic Labeling for Unions of Graphs with Many Three-Paths
Let be a graph with edges and let be a bijection from to
. For any vertex , denote by the sum of
over all edges incident to . If holds
for any two distinct vertices and , then is called an {\it antimagic
labeling} of . We call {\it antimagic} if such a labeling exists.
Hartsfield and Ringel in 1991 conjectured that all connected graphs except
are antimagic. Denote the disjoint union of graphs and by , and the disjoint union of copies of by . For an antimagic graph
(connected or disconnected), we define the parameter to be the
maximum integer such that is antimagic for all .
Chang, Chen, Li, and Pan showed that for all antimagic graphs , is
finite [Graphs and Combinatorics 37 (2021), 1065--1182]. Further, Shang, Lin,
Liaw [Util. Math. 97 (2015), 373--385] and Li [Master Thesis, National Chung
Hsing University, Taiwan, 2019] found the exact value of for special
families of graphs: star forests and balanced double stars respectively. They
did this by finding explicit antimagic labelings of and proving a
tight upper bound on for these special families. In the present
paper, we generalize their results by proving an upper bound on for
all graphs. For star forests and balanced double stars, this general bound is
equivalent to the bounds given in \cite{star forest} and \cite{double star} and
tight. In addition, we prove that the general bound is also tight for every
other graph we have studied, including an infinite family of jellyfish graphs,
cycles where , and the double triangle
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