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Stable structure on safe set problems in vertex-weighted graphs

Combinatorics 2020-02-25 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a graph, and let ww be a positive real-valued weight function on V(G)V(G). For every subset SS of V(G)V(G), let w(S)=vSw(v).w(S)=\sum_{v \in S} w(v). A non-empty subset SV(G)S \subset V(G) is a weighted safe set of (G,w)(G,w) if, for every component CC of the subgraph induced by SS and every component DD of GSG-S, we have w(C)w(D)w(C) \geq w(D) whenever there is an edge between CC and DD. If the subgraph of GG induced by a weighted safe set SS is connected, then the set SS is called a connected weighted safe set of (G,w)(G,w). The weighted safe number s(G,w)\mathrm{s}(G,w) and connected weighted safe number cs(G,w)\mathrm{cs}(G,w) of (G,w)(G,w) are the minimum weights w(S)w(S) among all weighted safe sets and all connected weighted safe sets of (G,w)(G,w), respectively. Note that for every pair (G,w)(G,w), s(G,w)cs(G,w)\mathrm{s}(G,w) \le \mathrm{cs}(G,w) by their definitions. Recently, it was asked which pair (G,w)(G,w) satisfies the equality and shown that every weighted cycle satisfies the equality. In this paper, we give a complete list of connected bipartite graphs GG such that s(G,w)=cs(G,w)\mathrm{s}(G,w)=\mathrm{cs}(G,w) for every weight function ww on V(G)V(G).

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@article{arxiv.1909.02718,
  title  = {Stable structure on safe set problems in vertex-weighted graphs},
  author = {Shinya Fujita and Tadashi Sakuma and Boram Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02718},
  year   = {2020}
}
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