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A generalized Petersen graph $GP(n,k)$ is a regular cubic graph on $2n$ vertices (the parameter $k$ is used to define some of the edges). It was previously shown (Ball et al., 2015) that the cop number of $GP(n,k)$ is at most $4$, for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Joy Morris , Tigana Runte , Adrian Skelton

The vertices of a $k$-token graph of a graph $G$ correspond to $k$ indistinguishable tokens placed on $k$ different vertices of $G$. Changing some conditions on both the nature of the tokens and the number of tokens allowed in each vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Xiaodi Song , Cristina Dalfó , Miquel Àngel Fiol , Mercè Mora , Shenggui Zhang

Let ${\rm Z}(G)$ and ${\rm gp}(G)$ be the zero forcing number and the general position number of a graph $G$, respectively. Known results imply that ${\rm gp}(T)\ge {\rm Z}(T) + 1$ holds for every nontrivial tree $T$. It is proved that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Hongbo Hua , Xinying Hua , Sandi Klavžar

The power graph $\mathcal{P}(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is the simple undirected graph whose vertex set is $G$, in which two distinct vertices are adjacent if one of them is an integral power of the other. For an integer $n\geq 2$, let $C_n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Ramesh Prasad Panda , Kamal Lochan Patra , Binod Kumar Sahoo

A path cover of a graph is a set of disjoint paths so that every vertex in the graph is contained in one of the paths. The path cover number $p(G)$ of graph $G$ is the cardinality of a path cover with the minimum number of paths. Reed in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Gexin Yu

Let $G$ be a connected graph. Let $N(G)$ and $S(G)$ be the number of connected sets of $G$ and the sum of the orders of these connected sets of $G$, respectively. Then $A(G)=\frac{S(G)}{N(G)}$ is called the average order of a connected set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Mingyuan Ma , Han Ren

In any network, the interconnection of nodes by means of geodesics and the number of geodesics existing between nodes are important. There exists a class of centrality measures based on the number of geodesics passing through a vertex.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Sunil Kumar R , Kannan Balakrishnan

In the geodetic convexity, a set of vertices $S$ of a graph $G$ is $\textit{convex}$ if all vertices belonging to any shortest path between two vertices of $S$ lie in $S$. The cardinality $con(G)$ of a maximum proper convex set $S$ of $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Diane Castonguay , Erika M. M. Coelho , Hebert Coelho , Julliano R. Nascimento

A partition P of the vertex set of a connected graph G is a locating partition of G if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the elements of P. The partition dimension of G is the minimum cardinality of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Carmen Hernando , Merce Mora , Ignacio M Pelayo

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite, simple, and connected graph. The locating-chromatic number of a graph $G$ can be defined as the cardinality of a minimum resolving partition of the vertex set $V(G)$ such that all vertices have different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Dian Kastika Syofyan , Suhadi Wido Saputro , Edy Tri Baskoro , Ira Apni Purwasih

Let $G$ be a graph. The Steiner distance of $W\subseteq V(G)$ is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $W$. Such a subgraph is necessarily a tree called a Steiner $W$-tree. The set $A\subseteq V(G)$ is a $k$-Steiner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Sandi Klavžar , Dorota Kuziak , Iztok Peterin , Ismael G. Yero

The general position problem in graphs seeks the largest set of vertices such that no three vertices lie on a common geodesic. Its counting refinement, the general position polynomial $\psi(G)$, asks for all such possible sets. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Bilal Ahmad Rather

Let $G \otimes _f H$ denote the Sierpi\'nski product of graphs $G$ and $H$ with respect to the function $f$. The Sierpi\'nski general position number ${\rm gp}{_{\rm S}}(G,H)$ is introduced as the cardinality of a largest general position…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Sandi Klavžar , Jing Tian

We show that if $n=7k/i$ with $i \in \{1,2,3\}$ then the cop number of the generalised Petersen graph $GP(n,k)$ is $4$, with some small previously-known exceptions. It was previously proved by Ball et al. (2015) that the cop number of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Harmony Morris , Joy Morris

Let $G$ be a group. The prime index graph of $G$, denoted by $\Pi(G)$, is the graph whose vertex set is the set of all subgroups of $G$ and two distinct comparable vertices $H$ and $K$ are adjacent if and only if the index of $H$ in $K$ or…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-06 S. Akbari , A. Ashtab , F. Heydari , M. Rezaee , F. Sherafati

There has been growing interest in studies of general random intersection graphs. In this paper, we consider a general random intersection graph $\mathbb{G}(n,\overrightarrow{a}, \overrightarrow{K_n},P_n)$ defined on a set $\mathcal{V}_n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Jun Zhao

A dominating set in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices such that every vertex that does not belong to $S$ is adjacent to a vertex in $S$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of $G$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Magda Dettlaff , Michael A. Henning , Jerzy Topp

A subset $S$ of vertices of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is called a $k$-path vertex cover if every path on $k$ vertices in $G$ contains at least one vertex from $S$. Denote by $\psi_k(G)$ the minimum cardinality of a $k$-path vertex cover in $G$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Sławomir Bakalarski , Jakub Zygadło

The connected coalition in a graph $G=(V,E)$ consists of two disjoint sets of vertices $V_{1}$ and $V_{2}$, neither of which is a connected dominating set but whose union $V_{1}\cup V_{2}$, is a connected dominating set. A connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Saeid Alikhani , Davood Bakhshesh , Hamidreza Golmohammadi , Elena V. Konstantinova

In this paper, we study two graph convexity parameters: iteration time and general position number. The iteration time was defined in 1981 in the geodesic convexity, but its computational complexity was so far open. The general position…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Julio Araujo , Mitre C. Dourado , Fábio Protti , Rudini Sampaio