We consider the problem of finding an orientation with minimum diameter of a connected bridgeless graph. Fomin et. al. discovered a relation between the minimum oriented diameter an the size of a minimal dominating set. We improve their upper bound.
In 1978, Chvátal and Thomassen showed that every bridgeless graph with diameter 2 has an orientation with diameter at most 6. They also gave general bounds on the smallest value $f(d)$ such that every bridgeless graph $G$ with diameter $d$ has an orientation with diameter at most $f(d)$. For $d=3$, they proved that $8\leq f(d)\leq 24$. Until recently, Kwok, Liu and West improved the above bounds by proving $9\leq f(3)\leq 11$ in [P.K. Kwok, Q. Liu and D.B. West, Oriented diameter of graphs with diameter 3, J. Combin. Theory Ser.B 100(2010), 265-274]. In this paper, we determine the oriented di…
Oriented matroids (often called order types) are combinatorial structures that generalize point configurations, vector configurations, hyperplane arrangements, polyhedra, linear programs, and directed graphs. Oriented matroids have played a key role in combinatorics, computational geometry, and optimization. This paper surveys prior work and presents an update on the search for bounds on the diameter of the cocircuit graph of an oriented matroid. We review the diameter problem and show the diameter bounds of general oriented matroids reduce to those of uniform oriented matroids. We give the la…
Let $S(G^σ)$ be the skew-adjacency matrix of the oriented graph $G^σ$, which is obtained from a simple undirected graph $G$ by assigning an orientation $σ$ to each of its edges. The skew energy of an oriented graph $G^σ$ is defined as the sum of absolute values of all eigenvalues of $S(G^σ)$. For any positive integer $d$ with $3\leq d\leq n-3$, we determine the graph with minimal skew energy among all oriented bicyclic graphs that contain no vertex disjoint odd cycle of lengths $s$ and $l$ with $s+l\equiv 2(mod 4)$ on $n$ vertices with a given diameter $d$.
The oriented diameter of a bridgeless graph $G$ is $\min\{diam(H)\ | H\ is\ an orientation\ of\ G\}$. A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called rainbow if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ for which there exists a $k$-edge-coloring of $G$ such that every two distinct vertices of $G$ are connected by a rainbow path. In this paper, we obtain upper bounds for the oriented diameter and the rainbow connection number of a graph in terms of $rad(G)$ and $η(G)$, wher…
In 2015, Dankelmann and Bau proved that for every bridgeless graph $G$ of order $n$ and minimum degree $δ$ there is an orientation of diameter at most $11\frac{n}{δ+1}+9$. In 2016, Surmacs reduced this bound to $7\frac{n}{δ+1}.$ In this paper, we consider the girth of a graph $g$ and show that for any $\varepsilon>0$ there is a bound of the form $(2g+\varepsilon)\frac{n}{h(δ,g)}+O(1)$, where $h(δ,g)$ is a polynomial. Letting $g=3$ and $\varepsilon<1$ gives an inprovement on the result by Surmacs.
{\em Arrowhead} and {\em diamond} are two hierarchical Cayley graphs defined on the triangular grid. In their undirected version, they are isomorphic and merely define two distinct representations of the same graph. This paper gives the expression of their diameter, in the oriented and non--oriented case. It also displays the full distribution of antipodals.
The harmonic index of a graph $G$, is defined as the sum of weights $\frac{2}{d(u)+d(v)}$ of all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d(u)$ is the degree of the vertex $u$ in $G$. In this paper we find the minimum harmonic index of bicyclic graph of order $n$ and diameter $d$. We also characterized all bicyclic graphs reaching the minimum bound.
An orientation of an undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of exactly one direction to each edge of $G$. The oriented diameter of a graph $G$ is the smallest diameter among all the orientations of $G$. The maximum oriented diameter of a family of graphs $\mathscr{F}$ is the maximum oriented diameter among all the graphs in $\mathscr{F}$. Chvátal and Thomassen [JCTB, 1978] gave a lower bound of $\frac{1}{2}d^2+d$ and an upper bound of $2d^2+2d$ for the maximum oriented diameter of the family of $2$-edge connected graphs of diameter $d$. We improve this upper bound to $ 1.373 d^2 + 6.971d-1 $, w…
Geometrical objects with integral sides have attracted mathematicians for ages. For example, the problem to prove or to disprove the existence of a perfect box, that is, a rectangular parallelepiped with all edges, face diagonals and space diagonals of integer lengths, remains open. More generally an integral point set $\mathcal{P}$ is a set of $n$ points in the $m$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^m$ with pairwise integral distances where the largest occurring distance is called its diameter. From the combinatorial point of view there is a natural interest in the determination of the s…
We show that every sufficiently large oriented graph with minimum in- and outdegree at least (3n-4)/8 contains a Hamilton cycle. This is best possible and solves a problem of Thomassen from 1979.
Since ancient times mathematicians consider geometrical objects with integral side lengths. We consider plane integral point sets $\mathcal{P}$, which are sets of $n$ points in the plane with pairwise integral distances where not all the points are collinear. The largest occurring distance is called its diameter. Naturally the question about the minimum possible diameter $d(2,n)$ of a plane integral point set consisting of $n$ points arises. We give some new exact values and describe state-of-the-art algorithms to obtain them. It turns out that plane integral point sets with minimum diameter c…
Let $\vec{T}_k$ be the transitive tournament on $k$ vertices. We show that every oriented graph on $n=4m$ vertices with minimum total degree $(11/12+o(1))n$ can be partitioned into vertex disjoint $\vec{T}_4$'s, and this bound is asymptotically tight. We also improve the best known bound on the minimum total degree for partitioning oriented graphs into vertex disjoint $\vec{T}_k$'s.
An asymptotically tight bound on oriented diameter
Nankai University(南开大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);East China Normal University(华东师范大学);Fuzhou University(福州大学)
Embracing exchange sequences and oriented matroid polyhedron diameter
MTA-ELTE Matroid Optimization Research Group and HUN-REN-ELTE Egerváry Research Group, Department of Operations Research, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University(匈牙利科学院-罗兰大学拟阵优化研究组和匈牙利研究与创新网络-罗兰大学埃格瓦里研究组,运筹学系,罗兰大学);HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics(匈牙利研究与创新网络阿尔弗雷德·雷尼数学研究所);Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica(巴塞罗那大学数学与计算机科学系,数学研究中心);Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili(加泰罗尼亚理工大学生物信息学与数学工程系)
The Steiner $k$-diameter $sdiam_k(G)$ of a graph $G$, introduced by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian and Zou in 1989, is a natural generalization of the concept of classical diameter. When $k=2$, $sdiam_2(G)=diam(G)$ is the classical diameter. The problem of determining the minimum size of a graph of order $n$ whose diameter is at most $d$ and whose maximum is $\ell$ was first introduced by Erdös and Rényi. In this paper, we generalize the above problem for Steiner $k$-diameter, and study the problem of determining the minimum size of a graph of order $n$ whose Steiner $3$-diameter is at most $d$ a…
The Steiner diameter $sdiam_k(G)$ of a graph $G$, introduced by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian and Zou in 1989, is a natural generalization of the concept of classical diameter. When $k=2$, $sdiam_2(G)=diam(G)$ is the classical diameter. The problem of determining the minimum size of a graph of order $n$ whose diameter is at most $d$ and whose maximum is $\ell$ was first introduced by Erdös and Rényi. Recently, Mao considered the problem of determining the minimum size of a graph of order $n$ whose Steiner $k$-diameter is at most $d$ and whose maximum is at most $\ell$, where $3\leq k\leq n$, and…
Erdős, Pach, Pollack and Tuza [J. Combin. Theory, B 47, (1989), 279-285] conjectured that the diameter of a $K_{2r}$-free connected graph of order $n$ and minimum degree $δ\geq 2$ is at most $\frac{2(r-1)(3r+2)}{(2r^2-1)}\cdot \frac{n}δ + O(1)$ for every $r\ge 2$, if $δ$ is a multiple of $(r-1)(3r+2)$. For every $r>1$ and $δ\ge 2(r-1)$, we create $K_{2r}$-free graphs with minimum degree $δ$ and diameter $\frac{(6r-5)n}{(2r-1)δ+2r-3}+O(1)$, which are counterexamples to the conjecture for every $r>1$ and $δ>2(r-1)(3r+2)(2r-3)$. The rest of the paper proves positive results under a stronger hypot…
Minimum $k$-Section denotes the NP-hard problem to partition the vertex set of a graph into $k$ sets of sizes as equal as possible while minimizing the cut width, which is the number of edges between these sets. When $k$ is an input parameter and $n$ denotes the number of vertices, it is NP-hard to approximate the width of a minimum $k$-section within a factor of $n^c$ for any $c<1$, even when restricted to trees with constant diameter. Here, we show that every tree $T$ allows a $k$-section of width at most $(k-1) (2 + 16n / diam(T) ) Δ(T)$. This implies a polynomial-time constant-factor appro…
For $n \in \mathbb{N}$ let $δ_n$ be the smallest value such that every graph of order $n$ and minimum degree at least $δ_n$ admits an orientation of diameter two. We show that $δ_n=\frac{n}{2} + Θ(\ln n)$.
An oriented k-uniform hypergraph (a family of ordered k-sets) has the ordering property (or Property O) if for every linear order of the vertex set, there is some edge oriented consistently with the linear order. We find bounds on the minimum number of edges in a hypergraph with Property O.
A particular case of Caccetta-Häggkvist conjecture, says that a digraph of order $n$ with minimum out-degree at least $1/3n$ contains a directed cycle of length at most 3. Recently, Kral, Hladky and Norine proved that a digraph of order $n$ with minimum out-degree at least $0.3465n$ contains a directed cycle of length at most 3 (which currently is the best result). A weaker particular case says that a digraph of order $n$ with minimum semi-degree at least $1/3n$ contains a directed triangle. In a recent paper, by using the result of Kral et al, the author proved that for $β\geq 0.343545$, any …
An {\em orientation} of an undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of exactly one direction to each edge of $G$. Converting two-way traffic networks to one-way traffic networks and bidirectional communication networks to unidirectional communication networks are practical instances of graph orientations. In these contexts minimising the diameter of the resulting oriented graph is of prime interest. The $n$-star network topology was proposed as an alternative to the hypercube network topology for multiprocessor systems by Akers and Krishnamurthy [IEEE Trans. on Computers (1989)]. The $n$-star gra…
Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus conjectured that for any l>3 and the smallest number k>2 that does not divide l, any large enough oriented graph G with minimum indegree and minimum outdegree at least \lfloor |V(G)|/k\rfloor +1 contains a directed cycle of length l. We prove this conjecture asymptotically for the case when l is large enough compared to k and k>6. The case when k<7 was already settled asymptotically by Kelly, Kuehn and Osthus.
It was conjectured by Koh and Tay [Graphs Combin. 18(4) (2002), 745--756] that for $n\geq 5$ every simple graph of order $n$ and size at least $\binom{n}{2}-n+5$ has an orientation of diameter two. We prove this conjecture and hence determine for every $n\geq 5$ the minimum value of $m$ such that every graph of order $n$ and size $m$ has an orientation of diameter two.
A special case of a conjecture by Thomassé is that any oriented graph with minimum outdegree k contains a dipath of length 2k. For the sake of proving whether or not a counterexample exists, we present reductions and establish bounds on both connectivity and the number of vertices in a counterexample. We further conjecture that in any oriented graph with minimum outdegree k, every vertex belongs to a dipath of length 2k.
A sum graph is a finite simple graph whose vertex set is labeled with distinct positive integers such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the sum of their labels is itself another label. The spum of a graph $G$ is the minimum difference between the largest and smallest labels in a sum graph consisting of $G$ and the minimum number of additional isolated vertices necessary so that a sum graph labeling exists. We investigate the spum of various families of graphs, namely cycles, paths, and matchings. We introduce the sum-diameter, a modification of the definition of spum that omits the…
We show that for each \ell\geq 4 every sufficiently large oriented graph G with δ^+(G), δ^-(G) \geq \lfloor |G|/3 \rfloor +1 contains an \ell-cycle. This is best possible for all those \ell\geq 4 which are not divisible by 3. Surprisingly, for some other values of \ell, an \ell-cycle is forced by a much weaker minimum degree condition. We propose and discuss a conjecture regarding the precise minimum degree which forces an \ell-cycle (with \ell \geq 4 divisible by 3) in an oriented graph. We also give an application of our results to pancyclicity and consider \ell-cycles in general digraphs.
Let $L(n,d)$ denote the minimum possible number of leaves in a tree of order $n$ and diameter $d.$ In 1975 Lesniak gave the lower bound $B(n,d)=\lceil 2(n-1)/d\rceil$ for $L(n,d).$ When $d$ is even, $B(n,d)=L(n,d).$ But when $d$ is odd, $B(n,d)$ is smaller than $L(n,d)$ in general. For example, $B(21,3)=14$ while $L(21,3)=19.$ We prove that for $d\ge 2,$ $ L(n,d)=\left\lceil \frac{2(n-1)}{d}\right\rceil$ if $d$ is even and $L(n,d)=\left\lceil \frac{2(n-2)}{d-1}\right\rceil$ if $d$ is odd. The converse problem is also considered. Let $D(n,f)$ be the minimum possible diameter of a tree of order …
Assignment of one of the two possible directions to every edge of an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is called an orientation of $G$. The resulting directed graph is denoted by $\overrightarrow{G}$. A strong orientation is one in which every vertex is reachable from every other vertex via a directed path. The diameter of $\overrightarrow{G}$, i.e., the maximum distance from one vertex to another, depends on the particular orientation. The minimum diameter among all possible orientations is called the oriented diameter $\overrightarrow{\text{diam}}(G)$ of $G$. Let $n,k$ be two integers with $1 \leq …
We use a randomised embedding method to prove that for all α>0 any sufficiently large oriented graph G with minimum in-degree and out-degree δ^+(G),δ^-(G)\geq (3/8+α)|G| contains every possible orientation of a Hamilton cycle. This confirms a conjecture of Häggkvist and Thomason.
In the complete graph on n vertices, when each edge has a weight which is an exponential random variable, Frieze proved that the minimum spanning tree has weight tending to zeta(3)=1/1^3+1/2^3+1/3^3+... as n goes to infinity. We consider spanning trees constrained to have depth bounded by k from a specified root. We prove that if k > log_2 log n+omega(1), where omega(1) is any function going to infinity with n, then the minimum bounded-depth spanning tree still has weight tending to zeta(3) as n -> infinity, and that if k < log_2 log n, then the weight is doubly-exponentially large in log_2 lo…