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 smallest possible diameter $d(m,n)$ for given parameters $m$ and $n$. We give some new upper bounds for the minimum diameter $d(m,n)$ and some exact values.
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.
A graph is called integral if all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix consist entirely of integers. Recently, Csikvari proved the existence of integral trees of any even diameter. In the odd case, integral trees have been constructed with diameter at most 7. In this paper, we show that for every odd integer n > 1, there are infinitely many integral trees of diameter n.
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.
We give an attempt to build a classification of planar integral point sets. For two obtained classes, we provide general constructions of upper bounds for minimal diameter of integral point sets in higher dimensions of certain cardinality. Employing machine search, we give the examples of planar integral point sets to build such bounds.
A point set $M$ in the Euclidean plane is called a planar integral point set if all the distances between the elements of $M$ are integers, and $M$ is not situated on a straight line. A planar integral point set is called to be in semi-general position, if it does not contain collinear triples. The existing lower bound for mininum diameter of planar integral point sets is linear. We prove a new lower bound for mininum diameter of planar integral point sets in semi-general position that is better than linear.
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…
We determine the numbers of integral tetrahedra with diameter $d$ up to isomorphism for all $d\le 1000$ via computer enumeration. Therefore we give an algorithm that enumerates the integral tetrahedra with diameter at most $d$ in $O(d^5)$ time and an algorithm that can check the canonicity of a given integral tetrahedron with at most 6 integer comparisons. For the number of isomorphism classes of integral $4\times 4$ matrices with diameter $d$ fulfilling the triangle inequalities we derive an exact formula.
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 $δ_n=\frac{n}{2} + Θ(\ln n)$.
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…
In this paper we show that the diameter of a d-dimensional lattice polytope in [0,k]^n is at most (k - 1/2) d. This result implies that the diameter of a d-dimensional half-integral polytope is at most 3/2 d. We also show that for half-integral polytopes the latter bound is tight for any d.
Suppose that $G$ is a connected simple graph with the vertex set $V( G ) = \{ v_1,v_2,\cdots ,v_n \} $. Let $d( v_i,v_j ) $ be the distance between $v_i$ and $v_j$. Then the distance matrix of $G$ is $D( G ) =( d_{ij} )_{n\times n}$, where $d_{ij}=d( v_i,v_j ) $. Since $D( G )$ is a non-negative real symmetric matrix, its eigenvalues can be arranged $λ_1(G)\ge λ_2(G)\ge \cdots \ge λ_n(G)$, where eigenvalues $λ_1(G)$ and $λ_n(G)$ are called the distance spectral radius and the least distance eigenvalue of $G$, respectively. The {\it diameter} of graph $G$ is the farthest distance between all pa…
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 …
A set of vertices $S$ \emph{resolves} a connected graph $G$ if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in $S$. The \emph{metric dimension} of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set of $G$. Let $\mathcal{G}_{β,D}$ be the set of graphs with metric dimension $β$ and diameter $D$. It is well-known that the minimum order of a graph in $\mathcal{G}_{β,D}$ is exactly $β+D$. The first contribution of this paper is to characterise the graphs in $\mathcal{G}_{β,D}$ with order $β+D$ for all values of $β$ and $D$. Such a characterisation was previously onl…
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…
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.
We generalise the definition of the characteristic of an integral triangle to integral simplices and prove that each simplex in an integral point set has the same characteristic. This theorem is used for an efficient construction algorithm for integral point sets. Using this algorithm we are able to provide new exact values for the minimum diameter of integral point sets.
We consider the degree-diameter problem for undirected and directed circulant graphs. To date, attempts to generate families of large circulant graphs of arbitrary degree for a given diameter have concentrated mainly on the diameter 2 case. We present a direct product construction yielding improved bounds for small diameters and introduce a new general technique for "stitching" together circulant graphs which enables us to improve the current best known asymptotic orders for every diameter. As an application, we use our constructions in the directed case to obtain upper bounds on the minimum s…
In spite of the extensive studies of the 3-coloring problem with respect to several basic parameters, the complexity status of the 3-coloring problem on graphs with small diameter, i.e. with diameter 2 or 3, has been a longstanding and challenging open question. For graphs with diameter 2 we provide the first subexponential algorithm with complexity $2^{O(\sqrt{n\log n})}$, which is asymptotically the same as the currently best known time complexity for the graph isomorphism (GI) problem. Moreover, we prove that the graph isomorphism problem on 3-colorable graphs with diameter 2 is GI-complete…
A note on integer programming methods for mixed radial Moore graphs
Eindhoven University of Technology（埃因霍温理工大学）；Vrije Universiteit Brussel（布鲁塞尔自由大学）；Universitat Rovira i Virgili（罗维拉-依吉利维尔大学）；Universitat de Lleida（莱里达大学）
The average distance of a vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The proximity $π(G)$ and the remoteness $ρ(G)$ of $G$ are the minimum and the maximum of the average distances of the vertices of $G$. In this paper, we give upper bounds on the difference between the remoteness and proximity, the diameter and proximity, and the radius and proximity of a triangle-free graph with given order and minimum degree. We derive the latter two results by first proving lower bounds on the proximity in terms of order, minimum degree…
We construct several families of perfect sublattices with minimum $4$ of $\mathbb Z^d$. In particular, the number of $d-$dimensional perfect integral lattices with minimum $4$ grows faster than $d^k$ for every exponent $k$.
In this short paper we study the game of Cops and Robbers, played on the vertices of some fixed graph $G$ of order $n$. The minimum number of cops required to capture a robber is called the cop number of $G$. We show that the cop number of graphs of diameter 2 is at most $\sqrt{2n}$, improving a recent result of Lu and Peng by a constant factor. We conjecture that this bound is still not optimal, and obtain some partial results towards the optimal bound.
The degree/diameter problem for mixed graphs asks for the largest possible order of a mixed graph with given diameter and degree parameters. Similarly the \emph{degree/geodecity} problem concerns the smallest order of a $k$-geodetic mixed graph with given minimum undirected and directed degrees; this is a generalisation of the classical degree/girth problem. In this paper we present new bounds on the order of mixed graphs with given diameter or geodetic girth and exhibit new examples of directed and mixed geodetic cages. In particular, we show that any $k$-geodetic mixed graph with excess one …
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 pair of distinct vertices of $G$ is connected by a rainbow path. It is known that for every integer $k\geq 2$ deciding if a graph $G$ has $rc(G)\leq k$ is NP-Hard, and a graph $G$ with $rc(G)\leq k$ has diameter $diam(G)\leq k$. In foregoing papers, we showed that a bridgeless graph with diameter 2 has rainbo…
The Randić index of a graph $G$, denoted by $R(G)$, is defined as the sum of $1/\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}$ over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d(u)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u$ in $G$. In this paper, we partially solve two conjectures on the Randić index $R(G)$ with relations to the diameter $D(G)$ and the average distance $μ(G)$ of a graph $G$. We prove that for any connected graph $G$ of order $n$ with minimum degree $δ(G)$, if $δ(G)\geq 5$, then $R(G)-D(G)\geq \sqrt 2-\frac{n+1} 2$; if $δ(G)\geq n/5$ and $n\geq 15$, $\frac{R(G)}{D(G)} \geq \frac{n-3+2\sqrt 2}{2n-2}$ and $R(G)\geq μ(G)$. Further…
The Steiner distance of a graph, introduced by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian and Zou in 1989, is a natural generalization of the concept of classical graph distance. For a connected graph $G$ of order at least $2$ and $S\subseteq V(G)$, the \emph{Steiner distance} $d_G(S)$ among the vertices of $S$ is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs whose vertex sets contain $S$. Let $n,k$ be two integers with $2\leq k\leq n$. Then the \emph{Steiner $k$-eccentricity $e_k(v)$} of a vertex $v$ of $G$ is defined by $e_k(v)=\max \{d(S)\,|\,S\subseteq V(G), \ |S|=k, \ and \ v\in S \}$. Furthermore, the…
This article is about measuring and visualizing distances between domino tilings. Given two tilings of a simply connected square tiled surface, we're interested in the minimum number of flips between two tilings. Given a certain shape, we're interested in computing the diameters of the flip graphs, meaning the maximal distance between any two of its tilings. Building on work of Thurston and others, we give geometric interpretations of distances which result in formulas for the diameters of the flip graphs of rectangles or Aztec diamonds.
Both the combinatorial and the circuit diameters of polyhedra are of interest to the theory of linear programming for their intimate connection to a best-case performance of linear programming algorithms. We study the diameters of dual network flow polyhedra associated to $b$-flows on directed graphs $G=(V,E)$ and prove quadratic upper bounds for both of them: the minimum of $(|V|-1)\cdot |E|$ and $\frac{1}{6}|V|^3$ for the combinatorial diameter, and $\frac{|V|\cdot (|V|-1)}{2}$ for the circuit diameter. The latter strengthens the cubic bound implied by a result in [De Loera, Hemmecke, Lee; 2…
The Steiner distance of a graph, introduced by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian and Zou in 1989, is a natural generalization of the concept of classical graph distance. For a connected graph $G$ of order at least $2$ and $S\subseteq V(G)$, the \emph{Steiner distance} $d(S)$ among the vertices of $S$ is the minimum size among all connected subgraphs whose vertex sets contain $S$. Let $n$ and $k$ be two integers with $2\leq k\leq n$. Then the \emph{Steiner $k$-eccentricity $e_k(v)$} of a vertex $v$ of $G$ is defined by $e_k(v)=\max \{d(S)\,|\,S\subseteq V(G), \ |S|=k, \ and \ v\in S \}$. Furthermore,…
We study the problem of finding small trees. Classical network design problems are considered with the additional constraint that only a specified number $k$ of nodes are required to be connected in the solution. A prototypical example is the $k$MST problem in which we require a tree of minimum weight spanning at least $k$ nodes in an edge-weighted graph. We show that the $k$MST problem is NP-hard even for points in the Euclidean plane. We provide approximation algorithms with performance ratio $2\sqrt{k}$ for the general edge-weighted case and $O(k^{1/4})$ for the case of points in the plane.…
The Near-Bipartiteness problem is that of deciding whether or not the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into sets $A$ and $B$, where $A$ is an independent set and $B$ induces a forest. The set $A$ in such a partition is said to be an independent feedback vertex set. Yang and Yuan proved that Near-Bipartiteness is polynomial-time solvable for graphs of diameter 2 and NP-complete for graphs of diameter 4. We show that Near-Bipartiteness is NP-complete for graphs of diameter 3, resolving their open problem. We also generalise their result for diameter 2 by proving that even the problem of co…
We find out the number of different partitions of an n-kilogram stone into the minimum number of parts so that all integral weights from 1 to n kilograms can be weighed in one weighing using the parts of any of the partitions on a two-pan balance. In comparison to the traditional partitions, these partitions have advantage where there is a constraint on total weight of a set and the number of parts in the partition. They may have uses in determining the optimal size and number of weights and denominations of notes and coins.
Given a connected undirected graph $\bar{G}$ on $n$ vertices, and non-negative edge costs $c$, the 2ECM problem is that of finding a $2$-edge~connected spanning multisubgraph of $\bar{G}$ of minimum cost. The natural linear program (LP) for 2ECM, which coincides with the subtour LP for the Traveling Salesman Problem on the metric closure of $\bar{G}$, gives a lower bound on the optimal cost. For instances where this LP is optimized by a half-integral solution $x$, Carr and Ravi (1998) showed that the integrality gap is at most $\frac43$: they show that the vector $\frac43 x$ dominates a convex…
Minimum distance diagrams are a way to encode the diameter and routing information of multi-loop networks. For the widely studied case of double-loop networks, it is known that each network has at most two such diagrams and that they have a very definite form "L-shape''. In contrast, in this paper we show that there are triple-loop networks with an arbitrarily big number of associated minimum distance diagrams. For doing this, we build-up on the relations between minimum distance diagrams and monomial ideals.
Inversion diameter and 2-edge-colored homomorphisms
Université Paris Cité（巴黎西岱大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；IRIF（IRIF实验室）；Sorbonne Université（索邦大学）；LIP6（LIP6实验室）；Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales（社会分析与数学中心）；EHESS（高等社会科学研究院）；LISN（LISN实验室）；Université Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷大学）；Univ Lyon（里昂大学）；UCBL（里昂第一大学）；INSA Lyon（里昂国立应用科学学院）；LIRIS（LIRIS实验室）；University of Warsaw（华沙大学）
Geometrical objects with integral side lengths have fascinated mathematicians through the ages. We call a set $P=\{p_1,...,p_n\}\subset\mathbb{Z}^2$ a maximal integral point set over $\mathbb{Z}^2$ if all pairwise distances are integral and every additional point $p_{n+1}$ destroys this property. Here we consider such sets for a given cardinality and with minimum possible diameter. We determine some exact values via exhaustive search and give several constructions for arbitrary cardinalities. Since we cannot guarantee the maximality in these cases we describe an algorithm to prove or disprove …
For each dimension $d$, $d$-dimensional integral simplices with exactly one interior integral point have bounded volume. This was first shown by Hensley. Explicit volume bounds were determined by Hensley, Lagarias and Ziegler, Pikhurko, and Averkov. In this paper we determine the exact upper volume bound for such simplices and characterize the volume-maximizing simplices. We also determine the sharp upper bound on the coefficient of asymmetry of an integral polytope with a single interior integral point. This result confirms a conjecture of Hensley from 1983. Moreover, for an integral simplex …
