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The connectivity of a bipartite graph and its bipartite complementary graph

Combinatorics 2019-09-27 v1

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 GG and the same invariant in the complement GcG^c of GG 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 G=G[X,Y]G=G[X,Y] with bipartition (X,YX,Y), its bipartite complementary graph GbcG^{bc} is a bipartite graph with V(Gbc)=V(G)V(G^{bc})=V(G) and E(Gbc)={xy: xX, yYE(G^{bc})=\{xy:\ x\in X,\ y\in Y and xyE(G)}xy \notin E(G)\}. 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}
}