English

Vizing-type bounds for graphs with induced subgraph restrictions

Combinatorics 2017-05-16 v1

Abstract

For any graphs GG and HH, we say that a bound is of Vizing-type if γ(GH)cγ(G)γ(H)\gamma(G\square H)\geq c \gamma(G)\gamma(H) for some constant cc. We show several bounds of Vizing-type for graphs GG with forbidden induced subgraphs. In particular, if GG is a triangle and K1,rK_{1,r}-free graph, then for any graph HH, γ(GH)r2r1γ(G)γ(H)\gamma(G\square H)\geq \frac{r}{2r-1}\gamma(G)\gamma(H). If GG is a KrK_r and P5P_5-free graph for some integer r2r\geq 2, then for any graph HH, γ(GH)r12r3γ(G)γ(H)\gamma(G\square H)\geq \frac{r-1}{2r-3}\gamma(G)\gamma(H). We do this by bounding the power of GG, π(G)\pi(G). We show that if GG is claw-free and P6P_6-free or K4K_4 and P5P_5-free, then for any graph HH, γ(GH)γ(G)γ(H)\gamma(G\square H)\geq \gamma(G)\gamma(H). Furthermore, we show Vizing-type bounds in terms of the diameter of GG.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.04954,
  title  = {Vizing-type bounds for graphs with induced subgraph restrictions},
  author = {Elliot Krop and Pritul Patel and Gaspar Porta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04954},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T19:46:28.263Z