scholarly journals Induced Paths in Twin-Free Graphs

10.37236/892 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Auger

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple, undirected graph. Given an integer $r \geq 1$, we say that $G$ is $r$-twin-free (or $r$-identifiable) if the balls $B(v,r)$ for $v \in V$ are all different, where $B(v,r)$ denotes the set of all vertices which can be linked to $v$ by a path with at most $r$ edges. These graphs are precisely the ones which admit $r$-identifying codes. We show that if a graph $G$ is $r$-twin-free, then it contains a path on $2r+1$ vertices as an induced subgraph, i.e. a chordless path.

10.37236/1583 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irène Charon ◽  
Iiro Honkala ◽  
Olivier Hudry ◽  
Antoine Lobstein

Consider a connected undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a subset of vertices $C$. If for all vertices $v \in V$, the sets $B_r(v) \cap C$ are all nonempty and pairwise distinct, where $B_r(v)$ denotes the set of all points within distance $r$ from $v$, then we call $C$ an $r$-identifying code. We give general lower and upper bounds on the best possible density of $r$-identifying codes in three infinite regular graphs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sriparna Chattopadhyay ◽  
Kamal Lochan Patra ◽  
Binod Kumar Sahoo

The power graph [Formula: see text] of a given finite group [Formula: see text] is the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the elements of [Formula: see text], in which two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if one of them can be obtained as an integral power of the other. The vertex connectivity [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is the minimum number of vertices which need to be removed from [Formula: see text] so that the induced subgraph of [Formula: see text] on the remaining vertices is disconnected or has only one vertex. For a positive integer [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be the cyclic group of order [Formula: see text]. Suppose that the prime power decomposition of [Formula: see text] is given by [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] are positive integers and [Formula: see text] are prime numbers with [Formula: see text]. The vertex connectivity [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is known for [Formula: see text], see [Panda and Krishna, On connectedness of power graphs of finite groups, J. Algebra Appl. 17(10) (2018) 1850184, 20 pp, Chattopadhyay, Patra and Sahoo, Vertex connectivity of the power graph of a finite cyclic group, to appear in Discr. Appl. Math., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2018.06.001]. In this paper, for [Formula: see text], we give a new upper bound for [Formula: see text] and determine [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text]. We also determine [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] is a product of distinct prime numbers.


10.37236/6397 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Choromanski ◽  
Dvir Falik ◽  
Anita Liebenau ◽  
Viresh Patel ◽  
Marcin Pilipczuk

The long-standing Erdős-Hajnal conjecture states that for every $n$-vertex undirected graph $H$ there exists $\epsilon(H)>0$ such that every graph $G$ that does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph contains a clique or an independent set of size at least $n^{\epsilon(H)}$. A natural weakening of the conjecture states that the polynomial-size clique/independent set phenomenon occurs if one excludes both $H$ and its complement $H^\mathrm{c}$. These conjectures have been shown to hold for only a handful of graphs: it is not even known if they hold for all graphs on $5$ vertices.In a recent breakthrough, the symmetrized version of the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture was shown to hold for all paths. The goal of this paper is to show that the symmetrized conjecture holds for all trees on $6$ (or fewer) vertices. In fact this is a consequence of showing that the symmetrized conjecture holds for any path with a pendant edge at its third vertex; thus we also give a new infinite family of graphs for which the symmetrized conjecture holds.


Author(s):  
Hua Jiang ◽  
Dongming Zhu ◽  
Zhichao Xie ◽  
Shaowen Yao ◽  
Zhang-Hua Fu

Given an undirected graph, the Maximum k-plex Problem (MKP) is to find a largest induced subgraph in which each vertex has at most k−1 non-adjacent vertices. The problem arises in social network analysis and has found applications in many important areas employing graph-based data mining. Existing exact algorithms usually implement a branch-and-bound approach that requires a tight upper bound to reduce the search space. In this paper, we propose a new upper bound for MKP, which is a partitioning of the candidate vertex set with respect to the constructing solution. We implement a new branch-and-bound algorithm that employs the upper bound to reduce the number of branches. Experimental results show that the upper bound is very effective in reducing the search space. The new algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms significantly on real-world massive graphs, DIMACS graphs and random graphs.


Author(s):  
Junjie Luo ◽  
Hendrik Molter ◽  
Ondřej Suchý

AbstractWe study the -hard graph problem Collapsed k-Core where, given an undirected graph G and integers b, x, and k, we are asked to remove b vertices such that the k-core of remaining graph, that is, the (uniquely determined) largest induced subgraph with minimum degree k, has size at most x. Collapsed k-Core was introduced by Zhang et al. (2017) and it is motivated by the study of engagement behavior of users in a social network and measuring the resilience of a network against user drop outs. Collapsed k-Core is a generalization of r-Degenerate Vertex Deletion (which is known to be -hard for all r ≥ 0) where, given an undirected graph G and integers b and r, we are asked to remove b vertices such that the remaining graph is r-degenerate, that is, every its subgraph has minimum degree at most r. We investigate the parameterized complexity of Collapsed k-Core with respect to the parameters b, x, and k, and several structural parameters of the input graph. We reveal a dichotomy in the computational complexity of Collapsed k-Core for k ≤ 2 and k ≥ 3. For the latter case it is known that for all x ≥ 0 Collapsed k-Core is -hard when parameterized by b. For k ≤ 2 we show that Collapsed k-Core is -hard when parameterized by b and in when parameterized by (b + x). Furthermore, we outline that Collapsed k-Core is in when parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph and presumably does not admit a polynomial kernel when parameterized by the vertex cover number of the input graph.


Author(s):  
Shikun Ou ◽  
Yanqi Fan ◽  
Fenglei Tian

The orthogonality graph [Formula: see text] of a ring [Formula: see text] is the undirected graph with vertex set consisting of all nonzero two-sided zero divisors of [Formula: see text], in which for two vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] (needless distinct), [Formula: see text] is an edge if and only if [Formula: see text]. Let [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] be the set of all [Formula: see text] matrices over a finite field [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] the subset of [Formula: see text] consisting of all rank one upper triangular matrices. In this paper, we describe the full automorphism group, and using the technique of generalized equivalent canonical form of matrices, we compute the fixing number of [Formula: see text], the induced subgraph of [Formula: see text] with vertex set [Formula: see text].


Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Rajat Kanti Nath ◽  
Monalisha Sharma ◽  
Parama Dutta ◽  
Yilun Shang

Let R be a finite ring and r∈R. The r-noncommuting graph of R, denoted by ΓRr, is a simple undirected graph whose vertex set is R and two vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if [x,y]≠r and [x,y]≠−r. In this paper, we obtain expressions for vertex degrees and show that ΓRr is neither a regular graph nor a lollipop graph if R is noncommutative. We characterize finite noncommutative rings such that ΓRr is a tree, in particular a star graph. It is also shown that ΓR1r and ΓR2ψ(r) are isomorphic if R1 and R2 are two isoclinic rings with isoclinism (ϕ,ψ). Further, we consider the induced subgraph ΔRr of ΓRr (induced by the non-central elements of R) and obtain results on clique number and diameter of ΔRr along with certain characterizations of finite noncommutative rings such that ΔRr is n-regular for some positive integer n. As applications of our results, we characterize certain finite noncommutative rings such that their noncommuting graphs are n-regular for n≤6.


10.37236/727 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iiro Honkala ◽  
Tero Laihonen

Assume that $G = (V, E)$ is an undirected graph, and $C \subseteq V$. For every $v \in V$, we denote $I_r(G;v) = \{ u \in C: d(u,v) \leq r\}$, where $d(u,v)$ denotes the number of edges on any shortest path from $u$ to $v$. If all the sets $I_r(G;v)$ for $v \in V$ are pairwise different, and none of them is the empty set, the code $C$ is called $r$-identifying. If $C$ is $r$-identifying in all graphs $G'$ that can be obtained from $G$ by deleting at most $t$ edges, we say that $C$ is robust against $t$ known edge deletions. Codes that are robust against $t$ unknown edge deletions form a related class. We study these two classes of codes in the king grid with the vertex set ${\Bbb Z}^2$ where two different vertices are adjacent if their Euclidean distance is at most $\sqrt{2}$.


10.37236/1628 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irène Charon ◽  
Olivier Hudry ◽  
Antoine Lobstein

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected undirected graph and $S$ a subset of vertices. If for all vertices $v \in V$, the sets $B_r(v) \cap S$ are all nonempty and different, where $B_r(v)$ denotes the set of all points within distance $r$ from $v$, then we call $S$ an $r$-identifying code. We give constructive upper bounds on the best possible density of $r$-identifying codes in four infinite regular graphs, for small values of $r$.


2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Pelto

Graph Theory International audience Let G=(V,E) be a simple undirected graph. We call any subset C⊆V an identifying code if the sets I(v)={c∈C | {v,c}∈E or v=c } are distinct and non-empty for all vertices v∈V. A graph is called twin-free if there is an identifying code in the graph. The identifying code with minimum size in a twin-free graph G is called the optimal identifying code and the size of such a code is denoted by γ(G). Let GS denote the induced subgraph of G where the vertex set S⊂V is deleted. We provide a tight upper bound for γ(GS)-γ(G) when both graphs are twin-free and |V| is large enough with respect to |S|. Moreover, we prove tight upper bound when G is a bipartite graph and |S|=1.


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