Hamiltonian connectedness in 3-connected line graphs

The research of my dissertation was motivated by the conjecture of Thomassen that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian and by the conjecture of Matthews and Sumner that every 4-connected claw-free graph is hamiltonian. Towards the hamiltonian line graph problem, we proved that every 3-edge-connected, essentially 4-edge-connected graph G has a spanning eulerian subgraph, if for every pair of adjacent vertices u and v, dG(u) + dG(v) ≥ 9. A straight forward corollary is that every 4-connected, essentially 6-connected line graph with minimum degree at least 7 is hamiltonian.;We also investigate graphs G such that the line graph L(G) is hamiltonian connected when L( G) is 4-connected. Ryjacek and Vrana recently further conjectured that every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian-connected. In 2001, Kriesell proved that every 4-connected line graph of a claw free graph is hamiltonian connected. Recently, Lai et al showed that every 4-connected line graph of a quasi claw free graph is hamiltonian connected, and that every 4-connected line graph of an almost claw free graph is hamiltonian connected. In 2009, Broersma and Vumer discovered the P3-dominating (P3D) graphs as a superfamily that properly contains all quasi claw free graphs, and in particular, all claw-free graphs. Here we prove that every 4-connected line graph of a P3D graph is hamiltonian connected, which extends several former results in this area.;R. Gould [15] asked what natural graph properties of G and H are sufficient to imply that the product of G and H is hamiltonian. We first investigate the sufficient and necessary conditions for G x H being hamiltonian or traceable when G is a hamiltonian graph and H is a tree. Then we further investigate sufficient and necessary conditions for G x H being hamiltonian connected, or edge-pancyclic, or pan-connected.;The problem of group colorings of graphs is also investigated in this dissertation. Group coloring was first introduced by Jeager et al. [21]. They introduced a concept of group connectivity as a generalization of nowhere-zero flows. They also introduced group coloring as a dual concept to group connectivity. Prior research on group chromatic number was restricted to simple graphs, and considered only Abelian groups in the definition of chi g(G). The behavior of group coloring for multigraphs is different to that of simple graphs. Thus we extend the definition of group coloring by considering general groups (both Abelian groups and non-Abelian groups), and investigate the properties of chig for multigraphs

An hourglass is the only graph with degree sequence 4, 2, 2, 2, 2 (i.e. two triangles meeting in exactly one vertex). There are infinitely many claw-free graphs G such that G is not hamiltonian connected while its Ryjacek closure cl(G) is hamiltonian connected. This raises such a problem what conditions can guarantee that a claw-free graph G is hamiltonian connected if and only if cl(G) is hamiltonian connected. In this paper, we will do exploration toward the direction, and show that a 3-connected {claw, (P6)2, hourglass}-free graph G with minimum degree at least 4 is hamiltonian connected if and only if cl(G) is hamiltonian connected, where (P6)2 is the square of a path P6 on 6 vertices. Using the result, we prove that every 4-connected {claw, (P6)2, hourglass}-free graph is hamiltonian connected, hereby generalizing the result that every 4-connected hourglass-free line graph is hamiltonian connected by Kriesell [J Combinatorial Theory (B) 82 (2001), 306–315]. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 68:285-298, 2011 © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Every 3-connected, essentially 11-connected line graph is Hamiltonian

We investigate the generalized line graph, total graph and middle graph of the given graphs. First, replace a given graph G with a multigraph M having the same point set as G, then it constructs the total graph T(G) from G. Two suitable subgraphs Mx(G), Lx(G), of Tx(G) are considered as extensions of middle graph M(G) and line graph L(G) respectively.We also consider the connectivities of graphs which are obtained as a special case of Lx(G), Mx(G) and Tx(G). Then we get some extensions of established theorems.

Hamilton cycles in 3-connected claw-free and net-free graphs

On weighted efficient total domination

We construct a basis for the many-particle ground states of the positive hopping Bose–Hubbard model on line graphs of finite 2-connected planar bipartite graphs at sufficiently low filling factors. The particles in these states are localized on non-intersecting vertex-disjoint cycles of the line graph which correspond to non-intersecting edge-disjoint cycles of the original graph. The construction works up to a critical filling factor at which the cycles are close-packed.

Spanning tree packing and 2-essential edge-connectivity

We survey results and open problems in hamiltonian graph theory centered around two conjectures of the 1980s that are still open: every 4-connected claw-free graph (line graph) is hamiltonian. These conjectures have lead to a wealth of interesting concepts, techniques, results and equivalent conjectures.

Connectivity of vertex and edge transitive graphs

The edge-closure concept for claw-free graphs and the stability of forbidden subgraphs

4-factors in 2-connected star-free graphs

Given an undirected graph G and a positive integer k, the k-vertex-connectivity augmentation problem is to find a smallest set F of new edges for which G+F is k-vertex-connected. Polynomial algorithms for this problem have been found only for k ≤ 4 and a major open question in graph connectivity is whether this problem is solvable in polynomial time in general.In this paper we develop the first algorithm which delivers an optimal solution in polynomial time for every fixed k. In the case when the size of an optimal solution is large compared to k, we also give a min-max formula for the size of a smallest augmenting set.A key step in our proofs is a complete solution of the augmentation problem for a new family of graphs which we call k-independence free graphs. We also prove new splitting off theorems for vertex connectivity.

Temporal graphs are graphs in which arcs have temporal labels, specifying at which time they can be traversed. Motivated by recent results concerning the reliability analysis of a temporal graph through the enumeration of minimal cutsets in the corresponding line graph, in this paper we attack the problem of enumerating minimal s-d separators in s-d directed acyclic graphs (in short, s-d DAGs), also known as 2-terminal DAGs or s-t digraphs. Our main result is an algorithm for enumerating all the minimal s-d separators in a DAG with O(nm) delay, where n and m are respectively the number of nodes and arcs, and the delay is the time between the output of two consecutive solutions. To this aim, we give a characterization of the minimal s-d separators in a DAG through vertex cuts of an expanded version of the DAG itself. As a consequence of our main result, we provide an algorithm for enumerating all the minimal s-d cutsets in a temporal graph with delay O(m³), where m is the number of temporal arcs.

Clinical Implications