A subset X of edges in a graph G is called an edge dominating set of G if every edge not in X is adjacent to some edge in X. The edge domination number γ′(G) of G is the minimum cardinality taken over all edge dominating sets of G. Let m,n and k be positive integers with n − 1 ≤ m ≤ (n 2 ) , G(m,n) be the set of all non-isomorphic connected graphs of order n and size m, and G(m,n; k) = {G ∈ G(m...

Let (G) be the domination number of graph G, thus a graph G is k -edge-critical if (G) 1⁄4 k ; and for every nonadjacent pair of vertices u and v, (Gþ uv) 1⁄4 k 1. In Chapter 16 of the book ‘‘Domination in Graphs— Advanced Topics,’’ D. Sumner cites a conjecture of E. Wojcicka under the form ‘‘3-connected 4-critical graphs are Hamiltonian and perhaps, in general (i.e., for any k 4), (k 1)-connec...

This paper determines that the connectivity of the Cartesian product G1 G2 of two graphs G1 and G2 is equal to min{κ1v2, κ2v1, δ1 + δ2}, where vi, κi, δi is the order, the connectivity and the minimum degree of Gi, respectively, for i = 1, 2, and gives some necessary and sufficient conditions for G1 G2 to be maximally connected and super-connected.

We study the interplay between the maximum genus of a graph and bases of its cycle space via the corresponding intersection graph. Our main results show that the matching number of the intersection graph is independent of the basis precisely when the graph is upper-embeddable, and completely describe the range of matching numbers when the graph is not upper-embeddable. Particular attention is p...

Maximal outerplanar graphs are characterized using three different classes of graphs. A path-neighborhood graph is a connected graph in which every neighborhood induces a path. The triangle graph T (G) has the triangles of the graph G as its vertices, two of these being adjacent whenever as triangles in G they share an edge. A graph is edge-triangular if every edge is in at least one triangle. ...

Let G and H be connected graphs. The tensor product G + H is a graph with vertex set V(G+H) = V (G) X V(H) and edge set E(G + H) ={(a , b)(x , y)| ax ∈ E(G) & by ∈ E(H)}. The graph H is called the strongly triangular if for every vertex u and v there exists a vertex w adjacent to both of them. In this article the tensor product of G + H under some distancebased topological indices are investiga...

We investigate the supereulerian graph problems within planar graphs, and we prove that if a 2-edge-connected planar graph G is at most three edges short of having two edge-disjoint spanning trees, then G is supereulerian except a few classes of graphs. This is applied to show the existence of spanning Eulerian subgraphs in planar graphs with small edge cut conditions. We also determine several...

Recent work of Lazarovich provides necessary and sufficient conditions on a graph L for there to exist a unique simply-connected (k, L)-complex. The two conditions are symmetry properties of the graph, namely star-transitivity and st(edge)-transitivity. In this paper we investigate star-transitive and st(edge)-transitive graphs by studying the structure of the vertex and edge stabilisers of suc...

Abstract A maximally linkless graph is a that can be embedded in without any links, but cannot such way if other edge added. Recently, family of ‐vertex graphs was found with edges. We improve upon this by demonstrating new at most

Finding edge-disjoint odd cycles is one of the most important problems in graph theory, graph algorithm and combinatorial optimization. In fact, it is closely related to the well-known max-cut problem. One of the difficulties of this problem is that the Erdős-Pósa property does not hold for odd cycles in general. Motivated by this fact, we prove that for any positive integer k, there exists an ...