The Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture for Planar Graphs

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Independent Sets ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Perfect Graph ◽  
Stability Number ◽  
Partition Number ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
The Stability

A graph G is called γ-perfect if ƛ (H) = γ(H) for every vertex-generated subgraph H of G. Here, ƛ(H) is the clique number of H (the size of the largest clique of H) and γ(H) is the chromatic number of H (the minimum number of independent sets of vertices that cover all vertices of H). A graph G is called α-perfect if α(H) = θ(H) for every vertex-generated subgraph H of G, where α (H) is the stability number of H (the size of the largest independent set of H) and θ(H) is the partition number of H (the minimum number of cliques that cover all vertices of H).

scholarly journals Extremal Problems for Independent Set Enumeration

10.37236/656 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cutler ◽  
A. J. Radcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Initial Segment ◽  
Independence Number ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Independent Sets ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Extremal Problems ◽  
Fixed Number ◽  
Regular Graphs ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Rich History

The study of the number of independent sets in a graph has a rich history. Recently, Kahn proved that disjoint unions of $K_{r,r}$'s have the maximum number of independent sets amongst $r$-regular bipartite graphs. Zhao extended this to all $r$-regular graphs. If we instead restrict the class of graphs to those on a fixed number of vertices and edges, then the Kruskal-Katona theorem implies that the graph with the maximum number of independent sets is the lex graph, where edges form an initial segment of the lexicographic ordering. In this paper, we study three related questions. Firstly, we prove that the lex graph has the maximum number of weighted independent sets for any appropriate weighting. Secondly, we solve the problem of maximizing the number of independents sets in graphs with specified independence number or clique number. Finally, for $m\leq n$, we find the graphs with the minimum number of independent sets for graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges.

scholarly journals A new graph over semi-direct products of groups

Filomat ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-619
Author(s):  
Sercan Topkaya ◽  
Sinan Cevik
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Perfect Graph ◽  
Direct Products ◽  
Products Of Groups ◽  
Minimum Degrees ◽  
Product Of Groups

In this paper, by establishing a new graph ?(G) over the semi-direct product of groups, we will first state and prove some graph-theoretical properties, namely, diameter, maximum and minimum degrees, girth, degree sequence, domination number, chromatic number, clique number of ?(G). In the final section we will show that ?(G) is actually a perfect graph.

scholarly journals Tensor Product Of Zero-divisor Graphs With Finite Free Semilattices

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Kemal Toker
Keyword(s):  
Tensor Product ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Zero Divisor ◽  
Independence Number ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Perfect Graph ◽  
Chromatic Index

$\Gamma (SL_{X})$ is defined and has been investigated in (Toker, 2016). In this paper our main aim is to extend this study over  $\Gamma (SL_{X})$ to the tensor product. The diameter, radius, girth, domination number, independence number, clique number, chromatic number and chromatic index of $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ has been established. Moreover, we have determined when $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ is a perfect graph.

scholarly journals Recognition and Optimization Algorithms for P5-Free Graphs

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Mihai Talmaciu ◽  
Luminiţa Dumitriu ◽  
Ioan Şuşnea ◽  
Victor Lepin ◽  
László Barna Iantovics
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Dominating Set ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Recognition Algorithm ◽  
Feedback Vertex Set ◽  
Free Graph ◽  
Dominating Number ◽  
Vertex Set ◽  
Np Complete

The weighted independent set problem on P 5 -free graphs has numerous applications, including data mining and dispatching in railways. The recognition of P 5 -free graphs is executed in polynomial time. Many problems, such as chromatic number and dominating set, are NP-hard in the class of P 5 -free graphs. The size of a minimum independent feedback vertex set that belongs to a P 5 -free graph with n vertices can be computed in O ( n 16 ) time. The unweighted problems, clique and clique cover, are NP-complete and the independent set is polynomial. In this work, the P 5 -free graphs using the weak decomposition are characterized, as is the dominating clique, and they are given an O ( n ( n + m ) ) recognition algorithm. Additionally, we calculate directly the clique number and the chromatic number; determine in O ( n ) time, the size of a minimum independent feedback vertex set; and determine in O ( n + m ) time the number of stability, the dominating number and the minimum clique cover.

scholarly journals Planar graphs have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vida Dujmović ◽  
Louis Esperet ◽  
Gwenaël Joret ◽  
Bartosz Walczak ◽  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Binary Representation ◽  
Strong Product ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Shaped Graph

The following seemingly simple question with surprisingly many connections to various problems in computer science and mathematics can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century to the work of [Axel Thue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Thue): How many colors are needed to color the positive integers in a way such that no two consecutive segments of the same length have the same color pattern? Clearly, at least three colors are needed: if there was such a coloring with two colors, then any two consecutive integers would have different colors (otherwise, we would get two consecutive segments of length one with the same color pattern) and so the colors would have to alternate, i.e., any two consecutive segments of length two would have the same color pattern. Suprisingly, three colors suffice. The coloring can be constructed as follows. We first define a sequence of 0s and 1s recursively as follows: we start with 0 only and in each step we take the already constructed sequence, flip the 0s and 1s in it and append the resulting sequence at the end. In this way, we sequentially obtain the sequences 0, 01, 0110, 01101001, etc., which are all extensions of each other. The limiting infinite sequence is known as the [Thue-Morse sequence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence). Another view of the sequence is that the $i$-th element is the parity of the number of 1s in the binary representation of $i-1$, i.e., it is one if the number is odd and zero if it is even. The coloring of integers is obtained by coloring an integer $i$ by the difference of the $(i+1)$-th and $i$-th entries in the Thue-Morse sequence, i.e., the sequence of colors will be 1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 0, 1, 0, etc. One of the properties of the Thue-Morse sequence is that it does not containing two overlapping squares, i.e., there is no sequence X such that 0X0X0 or 1X1X1 would be a subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence. This implies that the coloring of integers that we have constructed has no two consecutive segments with the same color pattern. The article deals with a generalization of this notion to graphs. The _nonrepetitive chromatic number_ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors required to color the vertices of $G$ in such way that no path with an even number of vertices is comprised of two paths with the same color pattern. The construction presented above yields that the nonrepetitive chromatic number of every path with at least four vertices is three. The article answers in the positive the following question of Alon, Grytczuk, Hałuszczak and Riordan from 2002: Is the nonrepetitive chromatic number of planar graphs bounded? They show that the nonrepetitive chromatic number of every planar graph is at most 768 and provide generalizations to graphs embeddable to surfaces of higher genera and more generally to classes of graphs excluding a (topological) minor. Before their work, the best upper bound on the nonrepetitive chromatic number of planar graphs was logarithmic in their number of vertices, in addition to a universal upper bound quadratic in the maximum degree of a graph obtained using probabilistic method. The key ingredient for the argument presented in the article is the recent powerful result by Dujmović, Joret, Micek, Morin, Ueckerdt and Wood asserting that every planar graph is a subgraph of the strong product of a path and a graph of bounded tree-width (tree-shaped graph).

scholarly journals More Counterexamples to the Alon-Saks-Seymour and Rank-Coloring Conjectures

10.37236/513 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian M. Cioabă ◽  
Michael Tait
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Adjacency Matrix ◽  
Proper Coloring ◽  
Partition Number ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Minimum Number

The chromatic number $\chi(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors in a proper coloring of the vertices of $G$. The biclique partition number ${\rm bp}(G)$ is the minimum number of complete bipartite subgraphs whose edges partition the edge-set of $G$. The Rank-Coloring Conjecture (formulated by van Nuffelen in 1976) states that $\chi(G)\leq {\rm rank}(A(G))$, where ${\rm rank}(A(G))$ is the rank of the adjacency matrix of $G$. This was disproved in 1989 by Alon and Seymour. In 1991, Alon, Saks, and Seymour conjectured that $\chi(G)\leq {\rm bp}(G)+1$ for any graph $G$. This was recently disproved by Huang and Sudakov. These conjectures are also related to interesting problems in computational complexity. In this paper, we construct new infinite families of counterexamples to both the Alon-Saks-Seymour Conjecture and the Rank-Coloring Conjecture. Our construction is a generalization of similar work by Razborov, and Huang and Sudakov.

scholarly journals Blockers for the Stability Number and the Chromatic Number

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bazgan ◽  
C. Bentz ◽  
C. Picouleau ◽  
B. Ries
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Stability Number ◽  
The Stability

Coloring of a non-zero component graph associated with a finite dimensional vector space

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (09) ◽  
pp. 1750173 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nikandish ◽  
H. R. Maimani ◽  
A. Khaksari
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Perfect Graph ◽  
Dimensional Vector Space ◽  
Finite Dimensional Vector Space ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Vertex Set ◽  
Component Graph

A graph is called weakly perfect if its vertex chromatic number equals its clique number. Let [Formula: see text] be a vector space over a field [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] as a basis and [Formula: see text] as the null vector. The non-zero component graph of [Formula: see text] with respect to [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is a graph with the vertex set [Formula: see text] and two distinct vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are adjacent if and only if there exists at least one [Formula: see text] along which both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] have non-zero components. In this paper, it is shown that [Formula: see text] is a weakly perfect graph. Also, we give an explicit formula for the vertex chromatic number of [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, it is proved that the edge chromatic number of [Formula: see text] is equal to the maximum degree of [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Getting new algorithmic results by extending distance-hereditary graphs via split composition

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e627
Author(s):  
Serafino Cicerone ◽  
Gabriele Di Stefano
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Graph Isomorphism ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Efficient Algorithms ◽  
Combinatorial Problems ◽  
Stability Number ◽  
New Class ◽  
Graph Classes ◽  
Graph Class

In this paper, we consider the graph class denoted as Gen(∗;P3,C3,C5). It contains all graphs that can be generated by the split composition operation using path P3, cycle C3, and any cycle C5 as components. This graph class extends the well-known class of distance-hereditary graphs, which corresponds, according to the adopted generative notation, to Gen(∗;P3,C3). We also use the concept of stretch number for providing a relationship between Gen(∗;P3,C3) and the hierarchy formed by the graph classes DH(k), with k ≥1, where DH(1) also coincides with the class of distance-hereditary graphs. For the addressed graph class, we prove there exist efficient algorithms for several basic combinatorial problems, like recognition, stretch number, stability number, clique number, domination number, chromatic number, and graph isomorphism. We also prove that graphs in the new class have bounded clique-width.

scholarly journals Total Colorings of $F_5$-Free Planar Graphs with Maximum Degree 8

10.37236/3303 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Chang ◽  
Jian-Liang Wu ◽  
Hui-Juan Wang ◽  
Zhan-Hai Guo
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Total Chromatic Number ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Fan Graph

The total chromatic number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\chi′′(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices and edges of $G$ such that no two adjacent or incident elements get the same color. It is known that if a planar graph $G$ has maximum degree $\Delta ≥ 9$, then $\chi′′(G) = \Delta + 1$. The join $K_1 \vee P_n$ of $K_1$ and $P_n$ is called a fan graph $F_n$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a $F_5$-free planar graph with maximum degree 8, then $\chi′′(G) = 9$.

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