The connectivity of a bipartite graph and its bipartite complementary graph
Abstract
In 1956, Nordhaus and Gaddum gave lower and upper bounds on the sum and the product of the chromatic number of a graph and its complement, in terms of the order of the graph. Since then, any bound on the sum and/or the product of an invariant in a graph and the same invariant in the complement of is called a Nordhaus-Gaddum type inequality or relation. The Nordhaus-Gaddum type inequalities for connectivity have been studied by several authors. For a bipartite graph with bipartition (), its bipartite complementary graph is a bipartite graph with and and . In this paper, we obtain the Nordhaus-Gaddum type inequalities for connectivity of bipartite graphs and its bipartite complementary graphs. Furthermore, we prove that these inequalities are best possible.
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@article{arxiv.1909.11982,
title = {The connectivity of a bipartite graph and its bipartite complementary graph},
author = {Huaping Ma and Yingzhi Tian and Liyun Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11982},
year = {2019}
}