In 2010, Mader [W. Mader, Connectivity keeping paths in $k$-connected graphs, J. Graph Theory 65 (2010) 61-69.] proved that every $k$-connected graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $\lfloor\frac{3k}{2}\rfloor+m-1$ contains a path $P$ of order $m$ such that $G-V(P)$ is still $k$-connected. In this paper, we consider similar problem for bipartite graphs, and prove that every $k$-connected bipartite graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+m$ contains a path $P$ of order $m$ such that $G-V(P)$ is still $k$-connected.
A conjecture of Luo, Tian and Wu (2022) says that for every positive integer $k$ and every finite tree $T$ with bipartition $X$ and $Y$ (denote $t = \max\{|X|,|Y |\})$, every $k$-connected bipartite graph $G$ with $δ(G) \geq k + t$ contains a subtree $T' \cong T$ such that $κ(G-V (T')) \geq k$. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture for caterpillars when $k=3$ and spiders when $k\leq 3$.
The difference between the two largest eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a graph $G$ is called the spectral gap of $G.$ If $G$ is a regular graph, then its spectral gap is equal to algebraic connectivity. Abdi, Ghorbani and Imrich, in [European J. Combin. 95 (2021) 103328], showed that the minimum algebraic connectivity of cubic connected graphs on $2n$ vertices is $(1+o(1))\frac{π^{2}}{2n^{2}}$, which is attained on non-bipartite graphs. Motivated by the above result, we in this paper investigate the algebraic connectivity of cubic bipartite graphs. We prove that the minimum algebraic co…
Hasunuma [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023) 423-435] conjectured that for any tree $T$ of order $m$, every $k$-connected (or $k$-edge-connected) graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k+m-1$ contains a tree $T'\cong T$ such that $G-E(T')$ is still $k$-connected (or $k$-edge connected). Hasunuma verified this conjecture for $k\leq 2$. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture for $k=3$.
For a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $S\subseteq V(G)$ of size at least $2$, a path in $G$ is said to be an $S$-path if it connects all vertices of $S$. Two $S$-paths $P_1$ and $P_2$ are said to be internally disjoint if $E(P_1)\cap E(P_2)=\emptyset$ and $V(P_1)\cap V(P_2)=S$. Let $π_G (S)$ denote the maximum number of internally disjoint $S$-paths in $G$. The $k$-path-connectivity $π_k(G)$ of $G$ is then defined as the minimum $π_G (S)$, where $S$ ranges over all $k$-subsets of $V(G)$. In [M. Hager, Path-connectivity in graphs, Discrete Math. 59(1986), 53--59], the $k$-path-connectivity of the com…
The first Zagreb index $M_{1}$ of a graph is defined as the sum of the square of every vertex degree, and the second Zagreb index $M_{2}$ of a graph is defined as the sum of the product of vertex degrees of each pair of adjacent vertices. In this paper, we study the Zagreb indices of bipartite graphs of order $n$ with $κ(G)=k$ (resp. $κ'(G)=s$) and sharp upper bounds are obtained for $M_1(G)$ and $M_2(G)$ for $G\in \mathcal{V}^k_n$ (resp. $\mathcal{E}^s_n$), where $\mathcal{V}^k_n$ is the set of bipartite graphs of order $n$ with $κ(G)=k$, and $\mathcal{E}^s_n$ is the set of bipartite graphs o…
Connectivity keeping pendant extensions of paths in $k$-connected triangle-free graphs
Fuzhou University（福州大学）；Center for Discrete Mathematics, Fuzhou University（福州大学离散数学中心）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuzhou University（福州大学数学与统计学院）；Key Laboratory for Operations Research and Cybernetics of Fujian Universities（福建省高校运筹与控制论重点实验室）
Connectivity keeping trees in triangle-free graphs
Korea Institute for Advanced Study（韩国高等科学研究院）；School of Data Science, Yokohama City University（横滨市立大学数据科学学院）；Department of Mathematics Education, Seoul National University（首尔国立大学数学教育系）；Department of Mathematics, Ajou University（阿丘大学数学系）
Connectivity keeping pendant extensions of paths in $k$-connected graphs and triangle-free graphs
Center for Discrete Mathematics, Fuzhou University（福州大学离散数学中心）；Key Laboratory for Operations Research and Cybernetics of Fujian Universities（福建省高校运筹与控制论重点实验室）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuzhou University（福州大学数学与统计学院）
A graph is called dispersable if it has a book embedding in which each page has maximum degree 1 and the number of pages is the maximum degree. Bernhart and Kainen conjectured every k-regular bipartite graph is dispersable. Forty years later, Alam, Bekos, Gronemann, Kaufmann, and Pupyrev have disproved this conjecture, identifying nonplanar 3- and 4-regular bipartite graphs that are not dispersable. They also proved all cubic planar bipartite 3-connected graphs are dispersable and conjectured that the connectivity condition could be relaxed. We prove that every cubic planar bipartite multigrap…
Generalizing well-known results of Erdős and Lovász, we show that every graph $G$ contains a spanning $k$-partite subgraph $H$ with $λ(H)\geq \lceil{}\frac{k-1}{k}λ(G)\rceil$, where $λ(G)$ is the edge-connectivity of $G$. In particular, together with a well-known result due to Nash-Williams and Tutte, this implies that every $7$-edge-connected graphs contains a spanning bipartite graph whose edge set decomposes into two edge-disjoint spanning trees. We show that this is best possible as it does not hold for infintely many $6$-edge-connected graphs. For directed graphs, it was shown in [6] that…
n the $k$-diameter component connectivity model a network is consider operational if there is a component with diameter at least $k$. Therefore, a network is in a failure state if every component has diameter less than $k$. In this paper we find the vertex variant of the $k$-diameter component connectivity parameter, which is the minimum number of vertex deletions in order to put a network into a failure state, for particular classes of graphs. We also show the mixed variant by allowing vertex and edge failures within the network. We show results for paths, cycles, complete, and complete bipar…
On a conjecture of Kolokolnikov on algebraic connectivity
School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学数学科学学院）；College of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan Normal University（湖南师范大学数学与统计学院）；School of Mathematical Sciences, East China Normal University（华东师范大学数学科学学院）
Matching Connectivity: On the Structure of Graphs with Perfect Matchings
我们引入匹配连通度的概念，作为图的连通度的概念，允许完美匹配，这在很大程度上依赖于这些匹配的结构性质。我们推广了Robertson，Seymour和Thomas关于具有完美匹配的二部图的一个结果（参见[Neil Roberts，Paul D Seymour，and Robin Thomas.永久性的，pfestrian方向，甚至定向curcurriculum。Annals of Mathematics，150（2）：929-975，1999]），以便获得交替路径的概念，该交替路径的概念被证明足以描述我们的连通性参数。本文介绍了匹配连通度的一些基本性质，并证明了匹配n连通图的一个Menger型结果。此外，我们发现，匹配连通性填补了空白的调查，n-可扩展的图和它们的连通性。更精确地说，我们证明了每一个n-可扩图都是匹配n-连通的，反之，每一个匹配（n+1）-连通图要么是n-可扩的，要么属于一个很好描述的图类：支撑h-临界图.
