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Edge growth in graph powers

Combinatorics 2012-02-29 v1

Abstract

For a graph G, its rth power G^r has the same vertex set as G, and has an edge between any two vertices within distance r of each other in G. We give a lower bound for the number of edges in the rth power of G in terms of the order of G and the minimal degree of G. As a corollary we determine how small the ratio e(G^r)/e(G) can be for regular graphs of diameter at least r.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6085,
  title  = {Edge growth in graph powers},
  author = {Alexey Pokrovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6085},
  year   = {2012}
}
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