43 research outputs found
The generalized 3-connectivity of Cartesian product graphs
The generalized connectivity of a graph, which was introduced recently by
Chartrand et al., is a generalization of the concept of vertex connectivity.
Let be a nonempty set of vertices of , a collection
of trees in is said to be internally disjoint trees
connecting if and for
any pair of distinct integers , where . For an integer
with , the -connectivity of is the
greatest positive integer for which contains at least internally
disjoint trees connecting for any set of vertices of .
Obviously, is the connectivity of . Sabidussi showed
that for any two connected graphs
and . In this paper, we first study the 3-connectivity of the Cartesian
product of a graph and a tree , and show that if
, then ;
if , then .
Furthermore, for any two connected graphs and with
, if , then ; if , then
. Our result could be seen as
a generalization of Sabidussi's result. Moreover, all the bounds are sharp.Comment: 17 page
Note on minimally -rainbow connected graphs
An edge-colored graph , where adjacent edges may have the same color, is
{\it rainbow connected} if every two vertices of are connected by a path
whose edge has distinct colors. A graph is {\it -rainbow connected} if
one can use colors to make rainbow connected. For integers and
let denote the minimum size (number of edges) in -rainbow connected
graphs of order . Schiermeyer got some exact values and upper bounds for
. However, he did not get a lower bound of for . In this paper, we improve his lower bound of
, and get a lower bound of for .Comment: 8 page
Fault-tolerant Hamiltonian laceability of Cayley graphs generated by transposition trees
AbstractA bipartite graph is Hamiltonian laceable if there exists a Hamiltonian path joining every pair of vertices that are in different parts of the graph. It is well known that Cay(Sn,B) is Hamiltonian laceable, where Sn is the symmetric group on {1,2,…,n} and B is a generating set consisting of transpositions of Sn. In this paper, we show that for any F⊆E(Cay(Sn,B)), if |F|≤n−3 and n≥4, then there exists a Hamiltonian path in Cay(Sn,B)−F joining every pair of vertices that are in different parts of the graph. The result is optimal with respect to the number of edge faults