scholarly journals Perfect Matchings in $\epsilon$-regular Graphs

10.37236/1351 ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noga Alon ◽  
Vojtech Rödl ◽  
Andrzej Ruciński

A super $(d,\epsilon)$-regular graph on $2n$ vertices is a bipartite graph on the classes of vertices $V_1$ and $V_2$, where $|V_1|=|V_2|=n$, in which the minimum degree and the maximum degree are between $ (d-\epsilon)n$ and $ (d+\epsilon) n$, and for every $U \subset V_1, W \subset V_2$ with $|U| \geq \epsilon n$, $|W| \geq \epsilon n$, $|{{e(U,W) }\over{|U||W|}}-{{e(V_1,V_2)}\over{|V_1||V_2|}}| < \epsilon.$ We prove that for every $1>d >2 \epsilon >0$ and $n>n_0(\epsilon)$, the number of perfect matchings in any such graph is at least $(d-2\epsilon)^n n!$ and at most $(d+2 \epsilon)^n n!$. The proof relies on the validity of two well known conjectures for permanents; the Minc conjecture, proved by Brégman, and the van der Waerden conjecture, proved by Falikman and Egorichev.


10.37236/2114 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Henning ◽  
Anders Yeo

An identifying vertex cover in a graph $G$ is a subset $T$ of vertices in $G$ that has a nonempty intersection with every edge of $G$ such that $T$ distinguishes the edges, that is, $e \cap T \ne \emptyset$ for every edge $e$ in $G$ and $e \cap T \ne f \cap T$ for every two distinct edges $e$ and $f$ in $G$. The identifying vertex cover number $\tau_D(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum size of an identifying vertex cover in $G$. We observe that $\tau_D(G) + \rho(G) = |V(G)|$, where $\rho(G)$ denotes the packing number of $G$. We conjecture that if $G$ is a graph of order $n$ and size $m$ with maximum degree $\Delta$, then $\tau_D(G) \le \left( \frac{\Delta(\Delta - 1)}{\Delta^2 + 1} \right) n + \left( \frac{2}{\Delta^2 + 1} \right) m$. If the conjecture is true, then the bound is best possible for all $\Delta \ge 1$. We prove this conjecture when $\Delta \ge 1$ and $G$ is a $\Delta$-regular graph. The three known Moore graphs of diameter two, namely the $5$-cycle, the Petersen graph and the Hoffman-Singleton graph, are examples of regular graphs that achieves equality in the upper bound. We also prove this conjecture when $\Delta \in \{2,3\}$.



10.37236/5481 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Przybyło

The Total Colouring Conjecture suggests that $\Delta+3$ colours ought to suffice in order to provide a proper total colouring of every graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta$. Thus far this has been confirmed up to an additive constant factor, and the same holds even if one additionally requires every pair of neighbours in $G$ to differ with respect to the sets of their incident colours, so called pallets. Within this paper we conjecture that an upper bound of the form $\Delta+C$, for a constant $C>0$ still remains valid even after extending the distinction requirement to pallets associated with vertices at distance at most $r$, if only $G$ has minimum degree $\delta$ larger than a constant dependent on $r$. We prove that such assumption on $\delta$ is then unavoidable and exploit the probabilistic method in order to provide two supporting results for the conjecture. Namely, we prove the upper bound $(1+o(1))\Delta$ for every $r$, and show that for any fixed $\epsilon\in(0,1]$ and $r$, the conjecture holds if $\delta\geq \varepsilon\Delta$, i.e., in particular for regular graphs.



2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULETTE LIEBY ◽  
BRENDAN D. McKAY ◽  
JEANETTE C. McLEOD ◽  
IAN M. WANLESS

LetG=G(n) be a randomly chosenk-edge-colouredk-regular graph with 2nvertices, wherek=k(n). Such a graph can be obtained from a random set ofkedge-disjoint perfect matchings ofK2n. Leth=h(n) be a graph withm=m(n) edges such thatm2+mk=o(n). Using a switching argument, we find an asymptotic estimate of the expected number of subgraphs ofGisomorphic toh. Isomorphisms may or may not respect the edge colouring, and other generalizations are also presented. Special attention is paid to matchings and cycles.The results in this paper are essential to a forthcoming paper of McLeod in which an asymptotic estimate for the number ofk-edge-colouredk-regular graphs fork=o(n5/6) is found.



10.37236/2722 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Alexander ◽  
Jonathan Cutler ◽  
Tim Mink

The enumeration of independent sets in graphs with various restrictions has been a topic of much interest of late.  Let $i(G)$ be the number of independent sets in a graph $G$ and let $i_t(G)$ be the number of independent sets in $G$ of size $t$.  Kahn used entropy to show that if $G$ is an $r$-regular bipartite graph with $n$ vertices, then $i(G)\leq i(K_{r,r})^{n/2r}$.  Zhao used bipartite double covers to extend this bound to general $r$-regular graphs.  Galvin proved that if $G$ is a graph with $\delta(G)\geq \delta$ and $n$ large enough, then $i(G)\leq i(K_{\delta,n-\delta})$.  In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a bipartite graph on $n$ vertices with $\delta(G)\geq\delta$ where $n\geq 2\delta$, then $i_t(G)\leq i_t(K_{\delta,n-\delta})$ when $t\geq 3$.  We note that this result cannot be extended to $t=2$ (and is trivial for $t=0,1$).  Also, we use Kahn's entropy argument and Zhao's extension to prove that if $G$ is a graph with $n$ vertices, $\delta(G)\geq\delta$, and $\Delta(G)\leq \Delta$, then $i(G)\leq i(K_{\delta,\Delta})^{n/2\delta}$.



Author(s):  
Padraig Condon ◽  
Alberto Espuny Díaz ◽  
António Girão ◽  
Daniela Kühn ◽  
Deryk Osthus

Abstract We prove a ‘resilience’ version of Dirac’s theorem in the setting of random regular graphs. More precisely, we show that whenever d is sufficiently large compared to $\epsilon > 0$ , a.a.s. the following holds. Let $G'$ be any subgraph of the random n-vertex d-regular graph $G_{n,d}$ with minimum degree at least $$(1/2 + \epsilon )d$$ . Then $G'$ is Hamiltonian. This proves a conjecture of Ben-Shimon, Krivelevich and Sudakov. Our result is best possible: firstly the condition that d is large cannot be omitted, and secondly the minimum degree bound cannot be improved.



10.37236/1699 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cariolaro ◽  
Gianfranco Cariolaro

A petal graph is a connected graph $G$ with maximum degree three, minimum degree two, and such that the set of vertices of degree three induces a $2$–regular graph and the set of vertices of degree two induces an empty graph. We prove here that, with the single exception of the graph obtained from the Petersen graph by deleting one vertex, all petal graphs are Class $1$. This settles a particular case of a conjecture of Hilton and Zhao.



10.37236/3628 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikio Kano ◽  
Kenta Ozeki ◽  
Kazuhiro Suzuki ◽  
Masao Tsugaki ◽  
Tomoki Yamashita

A tree is called a $k$-tree if its maximum degree is at most $k$. We prove the following theorem. Let $k \geq 2$ be an integer, and $G$ be a connected bipartite graph with bipartition $(A,B)$ such that $|A| \le |B| \le (k-1)|A|+1$. If $\sigma_k(G) \ge |B|$, then $G$ has a spanning $k$-tree, where $\sigma_k(G)$ denotes the minimum degree sum of $k$ independent vertices of $G$. Moreover, the condition on $\sigma_k(G)$ is sharp. It was shown by Win (Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg, 43, 263–267, 1975) that if a connected graph $H$ satisfies $\sigma_k(H) \ge |H|-1$, then $H$ has a spanning $k$-tree. Thus our theorem shows that the condition becomes much weaker if the graph is bipartite.



2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Hongliang Lu ◽  
David Wang

We obtain a sharp result that for any even n ? 34, every {Dn,Dn+1}-regular graph of order n contains ?n/4? disjoint perfect matchings, where Dn = 2?n/4?-1. As a consequence, for any integer D ? Dn, every {D, D+1}- regular graph of order n contains (D-?n/4?+1) disjoint perfect matchings.



Author(s):  
Henry Garrett

Constructing new graph from the graph's parameters and related notions in the way that, the study on the new graph and old graph in their parameters could be facilitated. As graph, new graph has some characteristics and results which are related to the structure of this graph. For this purpose, regular graph is considered so the internal relation and external relation on this new graph are studied. The kind of having same number of edges when this number is originated by common number of graphs like maximum degree, minimum degree, domination number, coloring number and clique number, is founded in the word of having regular graph



10.37236/2036 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Foucaud ◽  
Guillem Perarnau

An identifying code is a subset of vertices of a graph such that each vertex is uniquely determined by its neighbourhood within the identifying code. If $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)$ denotes the minimum size of an identifying code of a graph $G$, it was conjectured by F. Foucaud, R. Klasing, A. Kosowski and A. Raspaud that there exists a constant $c$ such that if a connected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $d$ admits an identifying code, then $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)\leq n-\tfrac{n}{d}+c$. We use probabilistic tools to show that for any $d\geq 3$, $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)\leq n-\tfrac{n}{\Theta(d)}$ holds for a large class of graphs containing, among others, all regular graphs and all graphs of bounded clique number. This settles the conjecture (up to constants) for these classes of graphs. In the general case, we prove $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)\leq n-\tfrac{n}{\Theta(d^{3})}$. In a second part, we prove that in any graph $G$ of minimum degree $\delta$ and girth at least 5, $\gamma^{\text{ID}}(G)\leq(1+o_\delta(1))\tfrac{3\log\delta}{2\delta}n$. Using the former result, we give sharp estimates for the size of the minimum identifying code of random $d$-regular graphs, which is about $\tfrac{\log d}{d}n$.



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