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On Rainbow Connection Number and Connectivity
Rainbow connection number, , of a connected graph is the minimum
number of colours needed to colour its edges, 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 investigate the relationship of rainbow connection number with
vertex and edge connectivity. It is already known that for a connected graph
with minimum degree , the rainbow connection number is upper bounded by
[Chandran et al., 2010]. This directly gives an upper
bound of and for rainbow
connection number where and , respectively, denote the edge
and vertex connectivity of the graph. We show that the above bound in terms of
edge connectivity is tight up-to additive constants and show that the bound in
terms of vertex connectivity can be improved to , for any . We conjecture that rainbow connection
number is upper bounded by and show that it is true for
. We also show that the conjecture is true for chordal graphs and
graphs of girth at least 7.Comment: 10 page
Boxicity and Cubicity of Asteroidal Triple free graphs
An axis parallel -dimensional box is the Cartesian product where each is a closed interval on the real line.
The {\it boxicity} of a graph , denoted as \boxi(G), is the minimum
integer such that can be represented as the intersection graph of a
collection of -dimensional boxes. An axis parallel unit cube in
-dimensional space or a -cube is defined as the Cartesian product where each is a closed interval on the
real line of the form . The {\it cubicity} of , denoted as
\cub(G), is the minimum integer such that can be represented as the
intersection graph of a collection of -cubes.
Let denote a star graph on nodes. We define {\it claw number} of
a graph as the largest positive integer such that is an induced
subgraph of and denote it as \claw.
Let be an AT-free graph with chromatic number and claw number
\claw. In this paper we will show that \boxi(G) \leq \chi(G) and this bound
is tight. We also show that \cub(G) \leq \boxi(G)(\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +2)
\chi(G)(\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +2). If is an AT-free graph having
girth at least 5 then \boxi(G) \leq 2 and therefore \cub(G) \leq
2\ceil{\log_2 \claw} +4.Comment: 15 pages: We are replacing our earlier paper regarding boxicity of
permutation graphs with a superior result. Here we consider the boxicity of
AT-free graphs, which is a super class of permutation graph
Representing a cubic graph as the intersection graph of axis-parallel boxes in three dimensions
We show that every graph of maximum degree 3 can be represented as the
intersection graph of axis parallel boxes in three dimensions, that is, every
vertex can be mapped to an axis parallel box such that two boxes intersect if
and only if their corresponding vertices are adjacent. In fact, we construct a
representation in which any two intersecting boxes just touch at their
boundaries. Further, this construction can be realized in linear time
Cubicity of interval graphs and the claw number
Let be a simple, undirected graph where is the set of vertices
and is the set of edges. A -dimensional cube is a Cartesian product
, where each is a closed interval of
unit length on the real line. The \emph{cubicity} of , denoted by \cub(G)
is the minimum positive integer such that the vertices in can be mapped
to axis parallel -dimensional cubes in such a way that two vertices are
adjacent in if and only if their assigned cubes intersect. Suppose
denotes a star graph on nodes. We define \emph{claw number} of
the graph to be the largest positive integer such that is an induced
subgraph of . It can be easily shown that the cubicity of any graph is at
least \ceil{\log_2\psi(G)}.
In this paper, we show that, for an interval graph
\ceil{\log_2\psi(G)}\le\cub(G)\le\ceil{\log_2\psi(G)}+2. Till now we are
unable to find any interval graph with \cub(G)>\ceil{\log_2\psi(G)}. We also
show that, for an interval graph , \cub(G)\le\ceil{\log_2\alpha}, where
is the independence number of . Therefore, in the special case of
, \cub(G) is exactly \ceil{\log_2\alpha}.
The concept of cubicity can be generalized by considering boxes instead of
cubes. A -dimensional box is a Cartesian product , where each is a closed interval on the real
line. The \emph{boxicity} of a graph, denoted , is the minimum
such that is the intersection graph of -dimensional boxes. It is clear
that box(G)\le\cub(G). From the above result, it follows that for any graph
, \cub(G)\le box(G)\ceil{\log_2\alpha}
Bipartite powers of k-chordal graphs
Let k be an integer and k \geq 3. A graph G is k-chordal if G does not have
an induced cycle of length greater than k. From the definition it is clear that
3-chordal graphs are precisely the class of chordal graphs. Duchet proved that,
for every positive integer m, if G^m is chordal then so is G^{m+2}.
Brandst\"adt et al. in [Andreas Brandst\"adt, Van Bang Le, and Thomas Szymczak.
Duchet-type theorems for powers of HHD-free graphs. Discrete Mathematics,
177(1-3):9-16, 1997.] showed that if G^m is k-chordal, then so is G^{m+2}.
Powering a bipartite graph does not preserve its bipartitedness. In order to
preserve the bipartitedness of a bipartite graph while powering Chandran et al.
introduced the notion of bipartite powering. This notion was introduced to aid
their study of boxicity of chordal bipartite graphs. Given a bipartite graph G
and an odd positive integer m, we define the graph G^{[m]} to be a bipartite
graph with V(G^{[m]})=V(G) and E(G^{[m]})={(u,v) | u,v \in V(G), d_G(u,v) is
odd, and d_G(u,v) \leq m}. The graph G^{[m]} is called the m-th bipartite power
of G.
In this paper we show that, given a bipartite graph G, if G is k-chordal then
so is G^{[m]}, where k, m are positive integers such that k \geq 4 and m is
odd.Comment: 10 page
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