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Monochromatic disconnection of graphs

Combinatorics 2019-11-05 v3

Abstract

For an edge-colored graph GG, we call an edge-cut MM of GG monochromatic if the edges of MM are colored with a same color. The graph GG is called monochromatically disconnected if any two distinct vertices of GG are separated by a monochromatic edge-cut. For a connected graph GG, the monochromatic disconnection number, denoted by md(G)md(G), of GG is the maximum number of colors that are needed in order to make GG monochromatically disconnected. We will show that almost all graphs have monochromatic disconnection numbers equal to 1. We also obtain the Nordhaus-Gaddum-type results for md(G)md(G).

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@article{arxiv.1901.01372,
  title  = {Monochromatic disconnection of graphs},
  author = {Ping Li and Xueliang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01372},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages

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