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On connected simple graphs and their degree sequences

Combinatorics 2015-12-19 v2

Abstract

This note describes necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence of positive integers to be the degree sequence of a connected simple graph. Conditions are also given under which a sequence is necessarily connected i.e. the sequence can only be realised as a connected graph. A matrix is introduced whose non-empty entries partition the set of connected graphs. The note concludes with a result relating the number of edges in a simple graph to the connectedness of the graph.

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@article{arxiv.1512.01377,
  title  = {On connected simple graphs and their degree sequences},
  author = {Jonathan McLaughlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01377},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.09321

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