scholarly journals Cops and robbers on graphs and hypergraphs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William David Baird

Cops and Robbers is a vertex-pursuit game played on a graph where a set of cops attempts to capture a robber. Meyniel's Conjecture gives as asymptotic upper bound on the cop number, the number of cops required to win on a connected graph. The incidence graphs of affine planes meet this bound from below, they are called Meyniel extremal. The new parameters mқ and Mқ describe the minimum orders of k-cop-win graphs. The relation of these parameters to Meyniel's Conjecture is discussed. Further, the cop number for all connected graphs of order 10 or less is given. Finally, it is shown that cop win hypergraphs, a generalization of graphs, cannot be characterized in terms of retractions in the same manner as cop win graphs. This thesis presents some small steps towards a solution to Meyniel's Conjecture.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William David Baird

Cops and Robbers is a vertex-pursuit game played on a graph where a set of cops attempts to capture a robber. Meyniel's Conjecture gives as asymptotic upper bound on the cop number, the number of cops required to win on a connected graph. The incidence graphs of affine planes meet this bound from below, they are called Meyniel extremal. The new parameters mқ and Mқ describe the minimum orders of k-cop-win graphs. The relation of these parameters to Meyniel's Conjecture is discussed. Further, the cop number for all connected graphs of order 10 or less is given. Finally, it is shown that cop win hypergraphs, a generalization of graphs, cannot be characterized in terms of retractions in the same manner as cop win graphs. This thesis presents some small steps towards a solution to Meyniel's Conjecture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Anh Nguyen Thi Thuy ◽  
Duyen Le Thi

Let l ≥ 1, k ≥ 1 be two integers. Given an edge-coloured connected graph G. A path P in the graph G is called l-rainbow path if each subpath of length at most l + 1 is rainbow. The graph G is called (k, l)-rainbow connected if any two vertices in G are connected by at least k pairwise internally vertex-disjoint l-rainbow paths. The smallest number of colours needed in order to make G (k, l)-rainbow connected is called the (k, l)-rainbow connection number of G and denoted by rck,l(G). In this paper, we first focus to improve the upper bound of the (1, l)-rainbow connection number depending on the size of connected graphs. Using this result, we characterize all connected graphs having the large (1, 2)-rainbow connection number. Moreover, we also determine the (1, l)-rainbow connection number in a connected graph G containing a sequence of cut-edges.


2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 4703-4705
Author(s):  
Xing Bin Ma ◽  
Xiao Yan Liu ◽  
Lai Liang Zhang ◽  
Qiang Lv

The cycle properties of-vertex connected graph are studied as follows pancyclicity and fully cycle extensibility. Two conclusions are drawn by way of argument: Let be a-vertex connected graph, if ,then is fully cycle extendable. Here the upper bound of is best possible. Let be a-vertex connected graph, if ,then is a pancyclic graph or .


2021 ◽  
pp. 2142001
Author(s):  
Yingbin Ma ◽  
Wenhan Zhu

Let [Formula: see text] be an edge-colored graph with order [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] be a fixed integer satisfying [Formula: see text]. For a vertex set [Formula: see text] of at least two vertices, a tree containing the vertices of [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] is called an [Formula: see text]-tree. The [Formula: see text]-tree [Formula: see text] is a total-rainbow [Formula: see text]-tree if the elements of [Formula: see text], except for the vertex set [Formula: see text], have distinct colors. A total-colored graph [Formula: see text] is said to be total-rainbow [Formula: see text]-tree connected if for every set [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] vertices in [Formula: see text], there exists a total-rainbow [Formula: see text]-tree in [Formula: see text], while the total-coloring of [Formula: see text] is called a [Formula: see text]-total-rainbow coloring. The [Formula: see text]-total-rainbow index of a nontrivial connected graph [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is the smallest number of colors needed in a [Formula: see text]-total-rainbow coloring of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we show a sharp upper bound for [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a 2-connected or 2-edge-connected graph.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1490-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Bao Liu ◽  
Muhammad Javaid ◽  
Mohsin Raza ◽  
Naeem Saleem

Abstract The second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix of a graph (network) is called its algebraic connectivity which is used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, distinguish the group differences, measure the robustness, construct multiplex model, synchronize the stability, analyze the diffusion processes and find the connectivity of the graphs (networks). A connected graph containing two or three cycles is called a bicyclic graph if its number of edges is equal to its number of vertices plus one. In this paper, firstly the unique graph with a minimum algebraic connectivity is characterized in the class of connected graphs whose complements are bicyclic with exactly three cycles. Then, we find the unique graph of minimum algebraic connectivity in the class of connected graphs $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{n}={\it\Omega}^c_{1,n}\cup{\it\Omega}^c_{2,n}, \end{array}$ where $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{1,n} \end{array}$ and $\begin{array}{} {\it\Omega}^c_{2,n} \end{array}$ are classes of the connected graphs in which the complement of each graph of order n is a bicyclic graph with exactly two and three cycles, respectively.



10.37236/1211 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Droms ◽  
Brigitte Servatius ◽  
Herman Servatius

We expand on Tutte's theory of $3$-blocks for $2$-connected graphs, generalizing it to apply to infinite, locally finite graphs, and giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a labeled tree to be the $3$-block tree of a $2$-connected graph.


10.37236/8385 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eben Blaisdell ◽  
András Gyárfás ◽  
Robert A. Krueger ◽  
Ronen Wdowinski

We show that for $n \geq 3, n\ne 5$, in any partition of $\mathcal{P}(n)$, the set of all subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, into $2^{n-2}-1$ parts, some part must contain a triangle — three different subsets $A,B,C\subseteq [n]$ such that $A\cap B,A\cap C,B\cap C$ have distinct representatives. This is sharp, since by placing two complementary pairs of sets into each partition class, we have a partition into $2^{n-2}$ triangle-free parts.  We also address a more general Ramsey-type problem: for a given graph $G$, find (estimate) $f(n,G)$, the smallest number of colors needed for a coloring of $\mathcal{P}(n)$, such that no color class contains a Berge-$G$ subhypergraph. We give an upper bound for $f(n,G)$ for any connected graph $G$ which is asymptotically sharp when $G$ is a cycle, path, or star. Additional bounds are given when $G$ is a $4$-cycle and when $G$ is a claw.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-317
Author(s):  
Encarnación Abajo ◽  
Rocío Casablanca ◽  
Ana Diánez ◽  
Pedro García-Vázquez

Let G be a connected graph with n vertices and let k be an integer such that 2 ? k ? n. The generalized connectivity kk(G) of G is the greatest positive integer l for which G contains at least l internally disjoint trees connecting S for any set S ? V (G) of k vertices. We focus on the generalized connectivity of the strong product G1 _ G2 of connected graphs G1 and G2 with at least three vertices and girth at least five, and we prove the sharp bound k3(G1 _ G2) ? k3(G1)_3(G2) + k3(G1) + k3(G2)-1.


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