A note on the upper bound and girth pair of (k;g)-cages

نویسندگان

  • Camino Balbuena
  • Diego González-Moreno
  • Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros
چکیده

A (k; g)-cage is a k-regular graph of girth g with minimum order. In this work, for all k ≥ 2 and g ≥ 5 odd, we present an upper bound of the order of a (k; g + 1)-cage, which depends on the order of a (k; g)-cage, improving a previous result of Sauer of 1967. We also show that every (k; 11)-cage contains a cycle of length 12, confirming a case of a conjecture of Harary and Kóvacs of 1983.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics

دوره 161  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013