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Several extremal problems on graphs involving the circumference, girth, and hyperbolicity constant

Combinatorics 2020-03-27 v1

Abstract

To compute the hyperbolicity constant is an almost intractable problem, thus it is natural to try to bound it in terms of some parameters of the graph. Let G(g,c,n)\mathcal{G}(g,c,n) be the set of graphs GG with girth g(G)=gg(G)=g, circumference c(G)=cc(G)=c, and nn vertices; and let H(g,c,m)\mathcal{H}(g,c,m) be the set of graphs with girth gg, circumference cc, and mm edges. In this work, we study the four following extremal problems on graphs: A(g,c,n)=min{δ(G)  GG(g,c,n)}A(g,c,n)=\min\{\delta(G)\,|\; G \in \mathcal{G}(g,c,n) \}, B(g,c,n)=max{δ(G)  GG(g,c,n)}B(g,c,n)=\max\{\delta(G)\,|\; G \in \mathcal{G}(g,c,n) \}, α(g,c,m)=min{δ(G)  H(g,c,m)}\alpha(g,c,m)=\min\{\delta(G)\,|\; \in \mathcal{H}(g,c,m) \} and β(g,c,m)=max{δ(G)  GH(g,c,m)}\beta(g,c,m)=\max\{\delta(G)\,|\; G \in \mathcal{H}(g,c,m) \}. In particular, we obtain bounds for A(g,c,n)A(g,c,n) and α(g,c,m)\alpha(g,c,m), and we compute the precise value of B(g,c,n)B(g,c,n) and β(g,c,m)\beta(g,c,m) for all values of gg, cc, nn and mm.

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@article{arxiv.2003.11993,
  title  = {Several extremal problems on graphs involving the circumference, girth, and hyperbolicity constant},
  author = {Veronica Hernandez and Domingo Pestana and Jose M. Rodriguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11993},
  year   = {2020}
}
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