scholarly journals On the average degree of critical graphs with maximum degree six

2011 ◽  
Vol 311 (21) ◽  
pp. 2574-2576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianying Miao ◽  
Jibin Qu ◽  
Qingbo Sun
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Critical Graphs

scholarly journals On Degree Properties of Crossing-Critical Families of Graphs

10.37236/7753 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Drago Bokal ◽  
Mojca Bračič ◽  
Marek Derňár ◽  
Petr Hliněný
Keyword(s):  
Average Degree ◽  
Critical Graphs ◽  
Odd Degree ◽  
Vertex Degrees ◽  
Open Question

Answering an open question from 2007, we construct infinite $k$-crossing-critical families of graphs that contain vertices of any prescribed odd degree, for any sufficiently large $k$. To answer this question, we introduce several properties of infinite families of graphs and operations on the families allowing us to obtain new families preserving those properties. This conceptual setup allows us to answer general questions on behaviour of degrees in crossing-critical graphs: we show that, for any set of integers $D$ such that $\min(D)\geq 3$ and $3,4\in D$, and for any sufficiently large $k$, there exists a $k$-crossing-critical family such that the numbers in $D$ are precisely the vertex degrees that occur arbitrarily often in (large enough) graphs of this family. Furthermore, even if both $D$ and some average degree in the interval $(3,6)$ are prescribed, $k$-crossing-critical families exist for any sufficiently large $k$.

scholarly journals On the size of critical graphs with maximum degree 8

2010 ◽  
Vol 310 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 2215-2218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianying Miao ◽  
Qingbo Sun
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Critical Graphs

A General Upper Bound on the List Chromatic Number of Locally Sparse Graphs

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
VAN H. VU
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Sparse Graphs ◽  
Critical Graphs ◽  
Multiplicative Constant ◽  
List Chromatic Number

Suppose that G is a graph with maximum degree d(G) such that, for every vertex v in G, the neighbourhood of v contains at most d(G)2/f (f > 1) edges. We show that the list chromatic number of G is at most Kd(G)/log f, for some positive constant K. This result is sharp up to the multiplicative constant K and strengthens previous results by Kim [9], Johansson [7], Alon, Krivelevich and Sudakov [3], and the present author [18]. This also motivates several interesting questions.As an application, we derive several upper bounds for the strong (list) chromatic index of a graph, under various assumptions. These bounds extend earlier results by Faudree, Gyárfás, Schelp and Tuza [6] and Mahdian [13] and determine, up to a constant factor, the strong (list) chromatic index of a random graph. Another application is an extension of a result of Kostochka and Steibitz [10] concerning the structure of list critical graphs.

REMARKS ON EDGE CRITICAL GRAPHS WITH MAXIMUM DEGREE OF 3 AND 4

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-514
Author(s):  
Suechao Li ◽  
Xuechao Li ◽  
Bing Wei
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Critical Graphs

scholarly journals A Better Lower Bound on Average Degree of Online $k$-List-Critical Graphs

10.37236/6405 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Landon Rabern
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Critical Graphs ◽  
Critical Graph

We improve the best known bounds on average degree of online $k$-list-critical graphs for $k \geqslant 6$. Specifically, for $k \geqslant 7$ we show that every non-complete online $k$-list-critical graph has average degree at least $k-1 + \frac{(k-3)^2 (2 k-3)}{k^4-2 k^3-11 k^2+28 k-14}$ and every non-complete online $6$-list-critical graph has average degree at least $5 + \frac{93}{766}$. The same bounds hold for offline $k$-list-critical graphs.

scholarly journals The Gn,m Phase Transition is Not Hard for the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 219-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Vandegriend ◽  
J. Culberson
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Hamiltonian Cycle ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
M Phase ◽  
Backtrack Algorithm ◽  
Pruning Techniques

Using an improved backtrack algorithm with sophisticated pruning techniques, we revise previous observations correlating a high frequency of hard to solve Hamiltonian Cycle instances with the Gn,m phase transition between Hamiltonicity and non-Hamiltonicity. Instead all tested graphs of 100 to 1500 vertices are easily solved. When we artificially restrict the degree sequence with a bounded maximum degree, although there is some increase in difficulty, the frequency of hard graphs is still low. When we consider more regular graphs based on a generalization of knight's tours, we observe frequent instances of really hard graphs, but on these the average degree is bounded by a constant. We design a set of graphs with a feature our algorithm is unable to detect and so are very hard for our algorithm, but in these we can vary the average degree from O(1) to O(n). We have so far found no class of graphs correlated with the Gn,m phase transition which asymptotically produces a high frequency of hard instances.

scholarly journals The Degree-Diameter Problem for Sparse Graph Classes

10.37236/4313 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio ◽  
David R. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Sparse Graph ◽  
Sparse Graphs ◽  
Graph Classes ◽  
Minor Free Graphs

The degree-diameter problem asks for the maximum number of vertices in a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ and diameter $k$. For fixed $k$, the answer is $\Theta(\Delta^k)$. We consider the degree-diameter problem for particular classes of sparse graphs, and establish the following results. For graphs of bounded average degree the answer is $\Theta(\Delta^{k-1})$, and for graphs of bounded arboricity the answer is $\Theta(\Delta^{\lfloor k/2\rfloor})$, in both cases for fixed $k$. For graphs of given treewidth, we determine the maximum number of vertices up to a constant factor. Other precise bounds are given for graphs embeddable on a given surface and apex-minor-free graphs.

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