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On restricted edge-connectivity of half-transitive multigraphs

Combinatorics 2016-11-15 v2

Abstract

Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a multigraph (it has multiple edges, but no loops). The edge connectivity, denoted by λ(G)\lambda(G), is the cardinality of a minimum edge-cut of GG. We call GG maximally edge-connected if λ(G)=δ(G)\lambda(G)=\delta(G), and GG super edge-connected if every minimum edge-cut is a set of edges incident with some vertex. The restricted edge-connectivity λ(G)\lambda'(G) of GG is the minimum number of edges whose removal disconnects GG into non-trivial components. If λ(G)\lambda'(G) achieves the upper bound of restricted edge-connectivity, then GG is said to be λ\lambda'-optimal. A bipartite multigraph is said to be half-transitive if its automorphism group is transitive on the sets of its bipartition. In this paper, we will characterize maximally edge-connected half-transitive multigraphs, super edge-connected half-transitive multigraphs, and λ\lambda'-optimal half-transitive multigraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3187,
  title  = {On restricted edge-connectivity of half-transitive multigraphs},
  author = {Yingzhi Tian and Jixiang Meng and Xing Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3187},
  year   = {2016}
}
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