Olivier Baudon ; Julien Bensmail ; Eric Sopena - Partitioning Harary graphs into connected subgraphs containing prescribed vertices

dmtcs:641 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, December 12, 2014, Vol. 16 no. 3 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.641
Partitioning Harary graphs into connected subgraphs containing prescribed verticesArticle

Authors: Olivier Baudon 1; Julien Bensmail 1; Eric Sopena ORCID1

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A graph G is arbitrarily partitionable (AP for short) if for every partition (n_1, n_2, ..., n_p) of |V(G)| there exists a partition (V_1, V_2, ..., V_p) of V(G) such that each V_i induces a connected subgraph of G with order n_i. If, additionally, k of these subgraphs (k <= p) each contains an arbitrary vertex of G prescribed beforehand, then G is arbitrarily partitionable under k prescriptions (AP+k for short). Every AP+k graph on n vertices is (k+1)-connected, and thus has at least ceil(n(k+1)/2) edges. We show that there exist AP+k graphs on n vertices and ceil(n(k+1)/2) edges for every k >= 1 and n >= k.


Volume: Vol. 16 no. 3
Published on: December 12, 2014
Accepted on: June 9, 2015
Submitted on: May 24, 2012
Keywords: arbitrarily partitionable graph,partition under prescriptions,Harary graph,partition under prescriptions,Harary graph,arbitrarily partitionable graph,[INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]

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