scholarly journals Improper colouring of graphs with no odd clique minor

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 740-754
Author(s):  
Dong Yeap Kang ◽  
Sang-Il Oum

AbstractAs a strengthening of Hadwiger’s conjecture, Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph with no oddKtminor is (t− 1)-colourable. We prove two weaker variants of this conjecture. Firstly, we show that for eacht⩾ 2, every graph with no oddKtminor has a partition of its vertex set into 6t− 9 setsV1, …,V6t−9such that eachViinduces a subgraph of bounded maximum degree. Secondly, we prove that for eacht⩾ 2, every graph with no odd Kt minor has a partition of its vertex set into 10t−13 setsV1,…,V10t−13such that eachViinduces a subgraph with components of bounded size. The second theorem improves a result of Kawarabayashi (2008), which states that the vertex set can be partitioned into 496tsuch sets.

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1778
Author(s):  
Fangyun Tao ◽  
Ting Jin ◽  
Yiyou Tu

An equitable partition of a graph G is a partition of the vertex set of G such that the sizes of any two parts differ by at most one. The strong equitable vertexk-arboricity of G, denoted by vak≡(G), is the smallest integer t such that G can be equitably partitioned into t′ induced forests for every t′≥t, where the maximum degree of each induced forest is at most k. In this paper, we provide a general upper bound for va2≡(Kn,n). Exact values are obtained in some special cases.


2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-476
Author(s):  
Bin Jia ◽  
David R. Wood

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 119-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
PROSENJIT BOSE ◽  
MICHIEL SMID ◽  
DAMING XU

Given a triangulation G, whose vertex set V is a set of n points in the plane, and given a real number γ with 0 < γ < π, we design an O(n)-time algorithm that constructs a connected subgraph G' of G with vertex set V whose maximum degree is at most 14 + ⌈2π/γ⌉. If G is the Delaunay triangulation of V, and γ = 2π/3, we show that G' is a t-spanner of V (for some constant t) with maximum degree at most 17, thereby improving the previously best known degree bound of 23. If G is a triangulation satisfying the diamond property, then for a specific range of values of γ dependent on the angle of the diamonds, we show that G' is a t-spanner of V (for some constant t) whose maximum degree is bounded by a constant dependent on γ. If G is the graph consisting of all Delaunay edges of length at most 1, and γ = π/3, we show that a modified version of the algorithm produces a plane subgraph G' of the unit-disk graph which is a t-spanner (for some constant t) of the unit-disk graph of V, whose maximum degree is at most 20, thereby improving the previously best known degree bound of 25.


2016 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650013
Author(s):  
L. Asgharsharghi ◽  
S. M. Sheikholeslami ◽  
L. Volkmann

A 2-rainbow dominating function (2RDF) of a graph [Formula: see text] is a function [Formula: see text] from the vertex set [Formula: see text] to the set of all subsets of the set [Formula: see text] such that for any vertex [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], the condition [Formula: see text] is fulfilled. The weight of a 2RDF [Formula: see text] is the value [Formula: see text]. The [Formula: see text]-rainbow domination number of a graph [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is the minimum weight of a 2RDF of [Formula: see text]. The rainbow bondage number [Formula: see text] of a graph [Formula: see text] with maximum degree at least two is the minimum cardinality of all sets [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text]. Dehgardi, Sheikholeslami and Volkmann, [The [Formula: see text]-rainbow bondage number of a graph, Discrete Appl. Math. 174 (2014) 133–139] proved that the rainbow bondage number of a planar graph does not exceed 15. In this paper, we generalize their result for graphs which admit a [Formula: see text]-cell embedding on a surface with non-negative Euler characteristic.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1572-1580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi-Xia Song ◽  
Brian Thomas

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-199
Author(s):  
Michael O. Albertson

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