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The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing stability, of a graph $G$ is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A graph $\Gamma$ is said to be stable if for the direct product $\Gamma\times\mathbf{K}_2$, ${\rm Aut}(\Gamma \times \mathbf{K}_2)$ is isomorphic to ${\rm Aut}(\Gamma) \times \mathbb{Z}_2$; otherwise, it is called unstable. An unstable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Milad Ahanjideh , István Kovács , Klavdija Kutnar

The chromatic vertex (resp.\ edge) stability number ${\rm vs}_{\chi}(G)$ (resp.\ ${\rm es}_{\chi}(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of vertices (resp.\ edges) whose deletion results in a graph $H$ with $\chi(H)=\chi(G)-1$. In the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Saieed Akbari , Arash Beikmohammadi , Sandi Klavžar , Nazanin Movarraei

Stable gonality is a multigraph parameter that measures the complexity of a graph. It is defined using maps to trees. Those maps, in some sense, divide the edges equally over the edges of the tree; stable gonality asks for the map with the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ragnar Groot Koerkamp , Marieke van der Wegen

Let $G$ be a graph without isolated vertices and let $\alpha(G)$ be its stability number and $\tau(G)$ its covering number. The {\it $\alpha_{v}$-cover} number of a graph, denoted by $\alpha_{v}(G)$, is the maximum natural number $m$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Isidoro Gitler , Carlos E. Valencia

A pair of graphs $(\Gamma,\Sigma)$ is said to be stable if the full automorphism group of $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ is isomorphic to the product of the full automorphism groups of $\Gamma$ and $\Sigma$ and unstable otherwise, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Yan-Li Qin , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou

The $\Delta$-edge stability number ${\rm es}_{\Delta}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges of $G$ whose removal results in a subgraph $H$ with $\Delta(H) = \Delta(G)-1$. Sets whose removal results in a subgraph with smaller…

The canonical double cover $\mathrm{D}(\Gamma)$ of a graph $\Gamma$ is the direct product of $\Gamma$ and $K_2$. If $\mathrm{Aut}(\mathrm{D}(\Gamma))=\mathrm{Aut}(\Gamma)\times\mathbb{Z}_2$ then $\Gamma$ is called stable; otherwise $\Gamma$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Yan-Li Qin , Binzhou Xia , Sanming Zhou

A graph pair $(\Gamma, \Sigma)$ is called stable if $\aut(\Gamma)\times\aut(\Sigma)$ is isomorphic to $\aut(\Gamma\times\Sigma)$ and unstable otherwise, where $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ is the direct product of $\Gamma$ and $\Sigma$. A graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Xiaomeng Wang , Shou-Jun Xu , Sanming Zhou

In an improper colouring an edge $uv$ for which, $c(u)=c(v)$ is called a \emph{bad edge}. The notion of the \emph{chromatic completion number} of a graph $G$ denoted by $\zeta(G),$ is the maximum number of edges over all chromatic…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Eunice Mphako-Banda , Johan Kok

An automorphism on a graph $G$ is a bijective mapping on the vertex set $V(G)$, which preserves the relation of adjacency between any two vertices of $G$. An automorphism $g$ fixes a vertex $v$ if $g$ maps $v$ onto itself. The stabilizer of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-03 I. Javaid , M. Murtaza , M. Asif , F. Iftikhar

Given graphs $H$ and $F$, $\mathrm{ex}(n,H,F)$ denotes the largest number of copies of $H$ in $F$-free $n$-vertex graphs. Let $\chi(H)<\chi(F)=r+1$. We say that $H$ is $F$-Tur\'an-stable if the following holds. For any $\varepsilon>0$ there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Dániel Gerbner , Hilal Hama Karim

Given a graph G = (V,E), a vertex subset S is called t-stable (or t-dependent) if the subgraph G[S] induced on S has maximum degree at most t. The t-stability number of G is the maximum order of a t-stable set in G. We investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Ross J. Kang , Colin McDiarmid

The fixing number of a graph $G$ is the order of the smallest subset $S$ of its vertex set $V(G)$ such that stabilizer of $S$ in $G$, $\Gamma_{S}(G)$ is trivial. Let $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$ be disjoint copies of a graph $G$, and let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Muhammad Fazil , Imran Javaid , Muhammad Murtaza

The Fibonacci index of a graph is the number of its stable sets. This parameter is widely studied and has applications in chemical graph theory. In this paper, we establish tight upper bounds for the Fibonacci index in terms of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Véronique Bruyère , Hadrien Mélot

A graph $G$ is well-covered if all its maximal stable sets have the same size, denoted by alpha(G) (M. D. Plummer, 1970). If for any $k$ the $k$-th coefficient of a polynomial I(G;x) is equal to the number of stable sets of cardinality $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

A pair of graphs $(\Gamma,\Sigma)$ is called unstable if their direct product $\Gamma\times\Sigma$ admits automorphisms not from $\mathrm{Aut}(\Gamma)\times\mathrm{Aut}(\Sigma)$, and such automorphisms are said to be unexpected. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Xiaomeng Wang , Yan-Li Qin , Binzhou Xia

A graph $G$ is $\alpha$-excellent if every vertex of $G$ is contained in some maximum independent set of $G$. In this paper, we characterize $\alpha$-excellent bipartite graphs, $\alpha$-excellent unicyclic graphs, $\alpha$-excellent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-19 M. Dettlaff , M. A. Henning , J. Topp

An edge-weighted, vertex-capacitated graph G is called stable if the value of a maximum-weight capacity-matching equals the value of a maximum-weight fractional capacity-matching. Stable graphs play a key role in characterizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Matthew Gerstbrein , Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

Given a hereditary family $\mathcal{G}$ of admissible graphs and a function $\lambda(G)$ that linearly depends on the statistics of order-$\kappa$ subgraphs in a graph $G$, we consider the extremal problem of determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Oleg Pikhurko , Jakub Sliacan , Konstantinos Tyros