scholarly journals Edge condition for long cycles in bipartite graphs

2009 ◽  
Vol Vol. 11 no. 2 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lech Adamus
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Analogous Problem ◽  
Edge Condition ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
Minimum Integer ◽  
Size Condition ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Long Cycles

Graphs and Algorithms International audience The following problem was solved by Woodall in 1972: for any pair of nonnegative integers n and k < n/2 - 1 find the minimum integer g(n, k) such that every graph with n vertices and at least g(n, k) edges contains a cycle of length n - k. Woodall proved even more: the size g(n, k), in fact, guarantees the existence of cycles C, for all 3 <= p <= n - k. <br> <br> In the paper an analogous problem for bipartite graphs is considered. It is proved that every bipartite graph with color classes of cardinalities m and n, m <= n, and size greater than n(m - k - 1) + k + 1 contains a cycle of length 2m - 2k, where m >= 1/2k(2) + 3/2k + 4, k is an element of N. The bound on the number of edges is best possible. Moreover, this size condition guarantees the existence of cycles of all even lengths up to 2m - 2k. We also characterize all extremal graphs for this problem. Finally, we conjecture that the condition on the order may be relaxed to m >= 2k + 2.

scholarly journals Ore and Erdős type conditions for long cycles in balanced bipartite graphs

2009 ◽  
Vol Vol. 11 no. 2 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Adamus ◽  
Lech Adamus
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Long Cycle ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Long Cycles

Graphs and Algorithms International audience We conjecture Ore and Erdős type criteria for a balanced bipartite graph of order 2n to contain a long cycle C(2n-2k), where 0 <= k < n/2. For k = 0, these are the classical hamiltonicity criteria of Moon and Moser. The main two results of the paper assert that our conjectures hold for k = 1 as well.

scholarly journals Detection number of bipartite graphs and cubic graphs

2014 ◽  
Vol Vol. 16 no. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Havet ◽  
Nagarajan Paramaguru ◽  
Rathinaswamy Sampathkumar
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Connected Graph ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Cubic Graphs ◽  
Cubic Graph ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Np Complete

International audience For a connected graph G of order |V(G)| ≥3 and a k-labelling c : E(G) →{1,2,…,k} of the edges of G, the code of a vertex v of G is the ordered k-tuple (ℓ1,ℓ2,…,ℓk), where ℓi is the number of edges incident with v that are labelled i. The k-labelling c is detectable if every two adjacent vertices of G have distinct codes. The minimum positive integer k for which G has a detectable k-labelling is the detection number det(G) of G. In this paper, we show that it is NP-complete to decide if the detection number of a cubic graph is 2. We also show that the detection number of every bipartite graph of minimum degree at least 3 is at most 2. Finally, we give some sufficient condition for a cubic graph to have detection number 3.

scholarly journals Maximal independent sets in bipartite graphs with at least one cycle

2013 ◽  
Vol Vol. 15 no. 2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuchao Li ◽  
Huihui Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Independent Sets ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Proper Subset ◽  
Maximal Independent Set ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Maximal Independent Sets ◽  
Disconnected Graphs

Graph Theory International audience A maximal independent set is an independent set that is not a proper subset of any other independent set. Liu [J.Q. Liu, Maximal independent sets of bipartite graphs, J. Graph Theory, 17 (4) (1993) 495-507] determined the largest number of maximal independent sets among all n-vertex bipartite graphs. The corresponding extremal graphs are forests. It is natural and interesting for us to consider this problem on bipartite graphs with cycles. Let \mathscrBₙ (resp. \mathscrBₙ') be the set of all n-vertex bipartite graphs with at least one cycle for even (resp. odd) n. In this paper, the largest number of maximal independent sets of graphs in \mathscrBₙ (resp. \mathscrBₙ') is considered. Among \mathscrBₙ the disconnected graphs with the first-, second-, \ldots, \fracn-22-th largest number of maximal independent sets are characterized, while the connected graphs in \mathscrBₙ having the largest, the second largest number of maximal independent sets are determined. Among \mathscrBₙ' graphs have the largest number of maximal independent sets are identified.

scholarly journals Extremal K_(s,t)-free bipartite graphs

2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 3 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camino Balbuena ◽  
P. García-Vázquez ◽  
Xavier Marcote ◽  
J. C. Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Extremal Graphs ◽  
International Audience

Graphs and Algorithms International audience In this paper new exact values of the Zarankiewicz function z(m,n;s,t) are obtained assuming certain requirements on the parameters. Moreover, all the corresponding extremal graphs are characterized. Finally, an extension of this problem to 3-partite graphs is studied.

scholarly journals Bipartite powers of k-chordal graphs

2013 ◽  
Vol Vol. 15 no. 2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Chandran ◽  
Rogers Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Positive Integer ◽  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Chordal Graphs ◽  
Discrete Mathematics ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
Chordal Bipartite Graphs

Graph Theory International audience Let k be an integer and k ≥3. A graph G is k-chordal if G does not have an induced cycle of length greater than k. From the definition it is clear that 3-chordal graphs are precisely the class of chordal graphs. Duchet proved that, for every positive integer m, if Gm is chordal then so is Gm+2. Brandstädt et al. in [Andreas Brandstädt, Van Bang Le, and Thomas Szymczak. Duchet-type theorems for powers of HHD-free graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 177(1-3):9-16, 1997.] showed that if Gm is k-chordal, then so is Gm+2. Powering a bipartite graph does not preserve its bipartitedness. In order to preserve the bipartitedness of a bipartite graph while powering Chandran et al. introduced the notion of bipartite powering. This notion was introduced to aid their study of boxicity of chordal bipartite graphs. The m-th bipartite power G[m] of a bipartite graph G is the bipartite graph obtained from G by adding edges (u,v) where dG(u,v) is odd and less than or equal to m. Note that G[m] = G[m+1] for each odd m. In this paper we show that, given a bipartite graph G, if G is k-chordal then so is G[m], where k, m are positive integers with k≥4.

scholarly journals Vertex-Coloring Edge-Weighting of Bipartite Graphs with Two Edge Weights

2016 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 3 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongliang Lu
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Vertex Coloring ◽  
Edge Weighting ◽  
International Audience

International audience Let $G$ be a graph and $\mathcal{S}$ be a subset of $Z$. A vertex-coloring $\mathcal{S}$-edge-weighting of $G$ is an assignment of weights by the elements of $\mathcal{S}$ to each edge of $G$ so that adjacent vertices have different sums of incident edges weights. It was proved that every 3-connected bipartite graph admits a vertex-coloring $\mathcal{S}$-edge-weighting for $\mathcal{S} = \{1,2 \}$ (H. Lu, Q. Yu and C. Zhang, Vertex-coloring 2-edge-weighting of graphs, European J. Combin., 32 (2011), 22-27). In this paper, we show that every 2-connected and 3-edge-connected bipartite graph admits a vertex-coloring $\mathcal{S}$-edge-weighting for $\mathcal{S} \in \{ \{ 0,1 \} , \{1,2 \} \}$. These bounds we obtain are tight, since there exists a family of infinite bipartite graphs which are 2-connected and do not admit vertex-coloring $\mathcal{S}$-edge-weightings for $\mathcal{S} \in \{ \{ 0,1 \} , \{1,2 \} \}$.

scholarly journals Symmetric bipartite graphs and graphs with loops

2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Cairns ◽  
Stacey Mendan
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Degree Sequences ◽  
Graph Automorphism ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Relationship

Graph Theory International audience We show that if the two parts of a finite bipartite graph have the same degree sequence, then there is a bipartite graph, with the same degree sequences, which is symmetric, in that it has an involutive graph automorphism that interchanges its two parts. To prove this, we study the relationship between symmetric bipartite graphs and graphs with loops.

scholarly journals Computing the number of h-edge spanning forests in complete bipartite graphs

2014 ◽  
Vol Vol. 16 no. 1 (Analysis of Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Stones
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Spanning Trees ◽  
Analysis Of Algorithms ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Spanning Forests ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Number Of Spanning Trees

Analysis of Algorithms International audience Let fm,n,h be the number of spanning forests with h edges in the complete bipartite graph Km,n. Kirchhoff\textquoterights Matrix Tree Theorem implies fm,n,m+n-1=mn-1 nm-1 when m &#x2265;1 and n &#x2265;1, since fm,n,m+n-1 is the number of spanning trees in Km,n. In this paper, we give an algorithm for computing fm,n,h for general m,n,h. We implement this algorithm and use it to compute all non-zero fm,n,h when m &#x2264;50 and n &#x2264;50 in under 2 days.

scholarly journals Edge-partitioning graphs into regular and locally irregular components

2016 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 3 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Bensmail ◽  
Brett Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Minimum Integer ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Edge Partition ◽  
Decomposable Graphs ◽  
Edge Partitioning

International audience A graph is locally irregular if every two adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. Recently, Baudon et al. introduced the notion of decomposition into locally irregular subgraphs. They conjectured that for almost every graph $G$, there exists a minimum integer $\chi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{irr}}(G)$ such that $G$ admits an edge-partition into $\chi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{irr}}(G)$ classes, each of which induces a locally irregular graph. In particular, they conjectured that $\chi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{irr}}(G) \leq 3$ for every $G$, unless $G$ belongs to a well-characterized family of non-decomposable graphs. This conjecture is far from being settled, as notably (1) no constant upper bound on$\chi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{irr}}(G)$ is known for $G$ bipartite, and (2) no satisfactory general upper bound on $\chi^{\prime}_{\mathrm{irr}}(G)$ is known. We herein investigate the consequences on this question of allowing a decomposition to include regular components as well. As a main result, we prove that every bipartite graph admits such a decomposition into at most $6$ subgraphs. This result implies that every graph $G$ admits a decomposition into at most $6(\lfloor \mathrm{log} \chi (G) \rfloor +1)$ subgraphs whose components are regular or locally irregular.

scholarly journals On the induced matching problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinglei Song
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Parameterized Complexity ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Matching Problem ◽  
Induced Matching ◽  
Subexponential Time ◽  
Maximum Induced Matching

Abstract In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of the induced matching problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs and the inapproximability of the maximum induced matching problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs. We show that, given a hamiltonian bipartite graph, the induced matching problem is W[1]-hard and cannot be solved in time n o ⁢ ( k ) {n^{o(\sqrt{k})}} , where n is the number of vertices in the graph, unless the 3SAT problem can be solved in subexponential time. In addition, we show that unless NP = P {\operatorname{NP}=\operatorname{P}} , a maximum induced matching in a hamiltonian bipartite graph cannot be approximated within a ratio of n 1 / 4 - ϵ {n^{1/4-\epsilon}} , where n is the number of vertices in the graph.

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