scholarly journals The Minimum Merrifield–Simmons Index of Unicyclic Graphs with Diameter at Most Four

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Kun Zhao ◽  
Shangzhao Li ◽  
Shaojun Dai

The Merrifield–Simmons index i G of a graph G is defined as the number of subsets of the vertex set, in which any two vertices are nonadjacent, i.e., the number of independent vertex sets of G . In this paper, we determine the minimum Merrifield–Simmons index of unicyclic graphs with n vertices and diameter at most four.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Shaojun Dai ◽  
Ruihai Zhang

The Merrifield-Simmons indexi(G)of a graphGis defined as the number of subsets of the vertex set, in which any two vertices are nonadjacent, that is, the number of independent vertex sets ofGThe Hosoya indexz(G)of a graphGis defined as the total number of independent edge subsets, that is, the total number of its matchings. ByC(n,k,λ)we denote the set of graphs withnvertices,kcycles, the length of every cycle isλ, and all the edges not on the cycles are pendant edges which are attached to the same vertex. In this paper, we investigate the Merrifield-Simmons indexi(G)and the Hosoya indexz(G)for a graphGinC(n,k,λ).


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 323-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
FANICA GAVRIL

A circle n-gon is the region between n or fewer non-crossing chords of a circle, no chord connecting the arcs between two other chords; the sides of a circle n-gon are either chords or arcs of the circle. A circle n-gon graph is the intersection graph of a family of circle n-gons in a circle. The family of circle trapezoid graphs is exactly the family of circle 2-gon graphs and the family of circle graphs is exactly the family of circle 1-gon graphs. The family of circle n-gon graphs contains the polygon-circle graphs which have an intersection representation by circle polygons, each polygon with at most n chords. We describe a polynomial time algorithm to find a minimum weight feedback vertex set, or equivalently, a maximum weight induced forest, in a circle n-gon graph with positive weights, when its intersection model by n-gon-interval-filaments is given.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Ismael González Yero

We consider in this work a new approach to study the simultaneous strong metric dimension of graphs families, while introducing the simultaneous version of the strong resolving graph. In concordance, we consider here connected graphs G whose vertex sets are represented as V ( G ) , and the following terminology. Two vertices u , v ∈ V ( G ) are strongly resolved by a vertex w ∈ V ( G ) , if there is a shortest w − v path containing u or a shortest w − u containing v. A set A of vertices of the graph G is said to be a strong metric generator for G if every two vertices of G are strongly resolved by some vertex of A. The smallest possible cardinality of any strong metric generator (SSMG) for the graph G is taken as the strong metric dimension of the graph G. Given a family F of graphs defined over a common vertex set V, a set S ⊂ V is an SSMG for F , if such set S is a strong metric generator for every graph G ∈ F . The simultaneous strong metric dimension of F is the minimum cardinality of any strong metric generator for F , and is denoted by Sd s ( F ) . The notion of simultaneous strong resolving graph of a graph family F is introduced in this work, and its usefulness in the study of Sd s ( F ) is described. That is, it is proved that computing Sd s ( F ) is equivalent to computing the vertex cover number of the simultaneous strong resolving graph of F . Several consequences (computational and combinatorial) of such relationship are then deduced. Among them, we remark for instance that we have proved the NP-hardness of computing the simultaneous strong metric dimension of families of paths, which is an improvement (with respect to the increasing difficulty of the problem) on the results known from the literature.


2012 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250031 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIHUA FENG

Let G be a connected graph with vertex set V(G). The Gutman index of G is defined as S(G) = ∑{u, v}⊆V(G) d(u)d(v)d(u, v), where d(u) is the degree of vertex u, and d(u, v) denotes the distance between u and v. In this paper, we characterize n-vertex unicyclic graphs with girth k, having minimal Gutman index.


2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344
Author(s):  
VADIM E. LEVIT ◽  
◽  
EUGEN MANDRESCU ◽  

Let Ψ(G) be the family of all local maximum stable sets of graph G, i.e., S ∈ Ψ(G) if S is a maximum stable set of the subgraph induced by S ∪ N(S), where N(S) is the neighborhood of S. It was shown that Ψ(G) is a greedoid for every forest G [15]. The cases of bipartite graphs, triangle-free graphs, and well-covered graphs, were analyzed in [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24]. If G1, G2 are two disjoint graphs, and B is a bipartite graph having E(B) as an edge set and bipartition {V (G1), V (G2)}, then by B-join of G1, G2 we mean the graph B (G1, G2) whose vertex set is V (G1) ∪ V (G2) and edge set is E(G1) ∪ E(G2) ∪ E (B). In this paper we present several necessary and sufficient conditions for Ψ(B (G1, G2)) to form a greedoid, an antimatroid, and a matroid, in terms of Ψ(G1), Ψ(G2) and E (B).


2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 1 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamamache Kheddouci ◽  
Olivier Togni

Graphs and Algorithms International audience For a set D ⊂ Zn, the distance graph Pn(D) has Zn as its vertex set and the edges are between vertices i and j with |i − j| ∈ D. The circulant graph Cn(D) is defined analogously by considering operations modulo n. The minimum feedback vertex set problem consists in finding the smallest number of vertices to be removed in order to cut all cycles in the graph. This paper studies the minimum feedback vertex set problem for some families of distance graphs and circulant graphs depending on the value of D.


2016 ◽  
Vol 510 ◽  
pp. 192-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungsang Oh ◽  
Sangyop Lee

2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 1 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamamache Kheddouci ◽  
Olivier Togni

Graphs and Algorithms International audience For a set D ⊂ Zn, the distance graph Pn(D) has Zn as its vertex set and the edges are between vertices i and j with |i − j| ∈ D. The circulant graph Cn(D) is defined analogously by considering operations modulo n. The minimum feedback vertex set problem consists in finding the smallest number of vertices to be removed in order to cut all cycles in the graph. This paper studies the minimum feedback vertex set problem for some families of distance graphs and circulant graphs depending on the value of D.


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