For each fixed pair α,c > 0 let INDEPENDENT SET ($m ≤ cn^α$) and INDEPENDENT SET ($m ≥ (ⁿ₂) - cn^α$) be the problem INDEPENDENT SET restricted to graphs on n vertices with $m ≤ cn^α$ or $m ≥ (ⁿ₂) - cn^α$ edges, respectively. Analogously, HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT ($m ≤ n + cn^α$) and HAMILTONIAN PATH ($m ≤ n + cn^α$) are the problems HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT and HAMILTONIAN PATH restricted to graphs with $m ≤ n + cn^α$ edges. For each ϵ > 0 let HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT (m ≥ (1 - ϵ)(ⁿ₂)) and HAMILTONIAN PATH (m ≥ (1 - ϵ)(ⁿ₂)) be the problems HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT and HAMILTONIAN PATH restricted to graphs with m ≥ (1 - ϵ)(ⁿ₂) edges. We prove that these six restricted problems remain NP-complete. Finally, we consider sufficient conditions for a graph to have a Hamiltonian circuit. These conditions are based on degree sums and neighborhood unions of independent vertices, respectively. Lowering the required bounds the problem HAMILTONIAN CIRCUIT jumps from 'easy' to 'NP-complete'.
A property P defined on all graphs of order n is said to be k-stable if for any graph of order n that does not satisfy P, the fact that uv is not an edge of G and that G + uv satisfies P implies $d_G(u) + d_G(v) < k$. Every property is (2n-3)-stable and every k-stable property is (k+1)-stable. We denote by s(P) the smallest integer k such that P is k-stable and call it the stability of P. This number usually depends on n and is at most 2n-3. A graph of order n is said to be pancyclic if it contains cycles of all lengths from 3 to n. We show that the stability s(P) for the graph property "G is pancyclic" satisfies max(⎡6n/5]⎤-5, n+t) ≤ s(P) ≤ max(⎡4n/3]⎤-2,n+t), where t = 2⎡(n+1)/2]⎤-(n+1).
An edge-coloured graph G is rainbow-connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colours. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colours that are needed in order to make G rainbow-connected. In this paper we show some new bounds for the rainbow connection number of graphs depending on the minimum degree and other graph parameters. Moreover, we discuss sharpness of some of these bounds.
Let G be a graph of order n with clique number ω(G), chromatic number χ(G) and independence number α(G). We show that χ(G) ≤ [(n+ω+1-α)/2]. Moreover, χ(G) ≤ [(n+ω-α)/2], if either ω + α = n + 1 and G is not a split graph or α + ω = n - 1 and G contains no induced $K_{ω+3}- C₅$.
The cycle-complete graph Ramsey number r(Cₘ,Kₙ) is the smallest integer N such that every graph G of order N contains a cycle Cₘ on m vertices or has independence number α(G) ≥ n. It has been conjectured by Erdős, Faudree, Rousseau and Schelp that r(Cₘ,Kₙ) = (m-1)(n-1)+1 for all m ≥ n ≥ 3 (except r(C₃,K₃) = 6). This conjecture holds for 3 ≤ n ≤ 6. In this paper we will present a proof for r(C₅,K₇) = 25.
We say that a spanning eulerian subgraph F ⊂ G is a flower in a graph G if there is a vertex u ∈ V(G) (called the center of F) such that all vertices of G except u are of the degree exactly 2 in F. A graph G has the flower property if every vertex of G is a center of a flower. Kaneko conjectured that G has the flower property if and only if G is hamiltonian. In the present paper we prove this conjecture in several special classes of graphs, among others in squares and in a certain subclass of claw-free graphs.
We prove that for any additive hereditary property P > O, it is NP-hard to decide if a given graph G allows a vertex partition V(G) = A∪B such that G[A] ∈ 𝓞 (i.e., A is independent) and G[B] ∈ P.
In this paper we study the chromatic number of graphs with two prescribed induced cycle lengths. It is due to Sumner that triangle-free and P₅-free or triangle-free, P₆-free and C₆-free graphs are 3-colourable. A canonical extension of these graph classes is $𝓖^I(4,5)$, the class of all graphs whose induced cycle lengths are 4 or 5. Our main result states that all graphs of $𝓖^I(4,5)$ are 3-colourable. Moreover, we present polynomial time algorithms to 3-colour all triangle-free graphs G of this kind, i.e., we have polynomial time algorithms to 3-colour every $G ∈ 𝓖^I(n₁,n₂)$ with n₁,n₂ ≥ 4 (see Table 1). Furthermore, we consider the related problem of finding a χ-binding function for the class $𝓖^I(n₁,n₂)$. Here we obtain the surprising result that there exists no linear χ-binding function for $𝓖^I(3,4)$.
An edge-coloured graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colours. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colours that are needed in order to make G rainbow connected. In this paper we prove that rc(G) = 2 for every connected graph G of order n and size m, where $\binom{n-1}{2} + 1 ≤ m ≤ \binom{n}{2} - 1$. We also characterize graphs with rainbow connection number two and large clique number.
For a graph G of order n we consider the unique partition of its vertex set V(G) = A ∪ B with A = {v ∈ V(G): d(v) ≥ n/2} and B = {v ∈ V(G):d(v) < n/2}. Imposing conditions on the vertices of the set B we obtain new sufficient conditions for hamiltonian and pancyclic graphs.
For a connected and non-complete graph, a new lower bound on its independence number is proved. It is shown that this bound is realizable by the well known efficient algorithm MIN.
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The weight of an edge xy of a graph is defined to be the sum of degrees of the vertices x and y. The weight of a graph G is the minimum of weights of edges of G. More than twenty years ago Erd˝os was interested in finding the maximum weight of a graph with n vertices and m edges. This paper presents a complete solution of a modification of the above problem in which a graph is required to be bipartite. It is shown that there is a function w*(n,m) such that the optimum weight is either w*(n,m) or w*(n,m) + 1.
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An edge-colored graph G is rainbow connected, if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colors that are needed in order to make G rainbow connected. In this paper we show that rc(G) ≤ 3 if |E(G)| ≥ [...] + 2, and rc(G) ≤ 4 if |E(G)| ≥ [...] + 3. These bounds are sharp.
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An edge-coloured connected graph G = (V,E) is called rainbow-connected if each pair of distinct vertices of G is connected by a path whose edges have distinct colours. The rainbow connection number of G, denoted by rc(G), is the minimum number of colours such that G is rainbow-connected. In this paper we prove that rc(G) ≤ k if |V (G)| = n and for all integers n and k with n − 6 ≤ k ≤ n − 3. We also show that this bound is tight.
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The maximum independent set problem is an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we consider Algorithm MAX, which is a polynomial time algorithm for finding a maximal independent set in a graph G. We present a set of forbidden induced subgraphs such that Algorithm MAX always results in finding a maximum independent set of G. We also describe two modifications of Algorithm MAX and sets of forbidden induced subgraphs for the new algorithms.
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Let G = (V (G),E(G)) be a nontrivial connected graph of order n with an edge-coloring c : E(G) → {1, 2, . . . , q}, q ∈ N, where adjacent edges may be colored the same. A tree T in G is a rainbow tree if no two edges of T receive the same color. For a vertex set S ⊆ V (G), a tree connecting S in G is called an S-tree. The minimum number of colors that are needed in an edge-coloring of G such that there is a rainbow S-tree for each k-subset S of V (G) is called the k-rainbow index of G, denoted by rxk(G), where k is an integer such that 2 ≤ k ≤ n. Chartrand et al. got that the k-rainbow index of a tree is n−1 and the k-rainbow index of a unicyclic graph is n−1 or n−2. So there is an intriguing problem: Characterize graphs with the k-rainbow index n − 1 and n − 2. In this paper, we focus on k = 3, and characterize the graphs whose 3-rainbow index is n − 1 and n − 2, respectively.
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A graph G of order n is called arbitrarily partitionable (AP for short) if, for every sequence (n1, . . . , nk) of positive integers with n1 + ⋯ + nk = n, there exists a partition (V1, . . . , Vk) of the vertex set V (G) such that Vi induces a connected subgraph of order ni for i = 1, . . . , k. In this paper we show that every connected graph G of order n ≥ 22 and with [...] ‖G‖ > (n−42)+12 $||G||\; > \;\left( {\matrix{{n - 4} \cr 2 \cr } } \right) + 12$ edges is AP or belongs to few classes of exceptional graphs.
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Let G be a nontrivial connected graph with an edge-coloring c : E(G) → {1, 2, . . . , q}, q ∈ ℕ, where adjacent edges may be colored the same. A tree T in G is called a rainbow tree if no two edges of T receive the same color. For a vertex set S ⊆ V (G), a tree that connects S in G is called an S-tree. The minimum number of colors that are needed in an edge-coloring of G such that there is a rainbow S-tree for every set S of k vertices of V (G) is called the k-rainbow index of G, denoted by rxk(G). Notice that a lower bound and an upper bound of the k-rainbow index of a graph with order n is k − 1 and n − 1, respectively. Chartrand et al. got that the k-rainbow index of a tree with order n is n − 1 and the k-rainbow index of a unicyclic graph with order n is n − 1 or n − 2. Li and Sun raised the open problem of characterizing the graphs of order n with rxk(G) = n − 1 for k ≥ 3. In early papers we characterized the graphs of order n with 3-rainbow index 2 and n − 1. In this paper, we focus on k = 4, and characterize the graphs of order n with 4-rainbow index 3 and n − 1, respectively.
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We consider sequential heuristics methods for the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. Three classical algorithms, VO [11], MIN [12], or MAX [6] , are revisited. We combine Algorithm MIN with the α-redundant vertex technique[3]. Induced forbidden subgraph sets, under which the algorithms give maximum independent sets, are described. The Caro-Wei bound [4,14] is verified and performance of the algorithms on some special graphs is considered.