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Multithreshold multipartite graphs with small parts

Combinatorics 2022-12-02 v1

Abstract

A graph is a kk-threshold graph with thresholds θ1,θ2,,θk\theta_1, \theta_2, \dots, \theta_k if we can assign a real number rvr_v to each vertex vv such that for any two distinct vertices uu and vv, uvuv is an edge if and only if the number of thresholds not exceeding ru+rvr_u+r_v is odd. The threshold number of a graph is the smallest kk for which it is a kk-threshold graph. Multithreshold graphs were introduced by Jamison and Sprague as a generalization of classical threshold graphs. They asked for the exact threshold numbers of complete multipartite graphs. Recently, Chen and Hao solved the problem for complete multipartite graphs where each part is not too small, and they asked for the case when each part has size 33. We determine the exact threshold numbers of K3,3,,3K_{3, 3, \dots, 3}, K4,4,,4K_{4, 4, \dots, 4} and their complements nK3nK_3, nK4nK_4. This improves a result of Puleo.

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@article{arxiv.2212.00745,
  title  = {Multithreshold multipartite graphs with small parts},
  author = {Teeradej Kittipassorn and Thanaporn Sumalroj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00745},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, submitted

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