A maximum degree theorem for diameter-2-critical graphs

Autor: Teresa W. Haynes, Michael A. Henning, Lucas C. van der Merwe, Anders Yeo
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Open Mathematics, Vol 12, Iss 12, Pp 1882-1889 (2014)
ISSN: 2391-5455
DOI: 10.2478/s11533-014-0449-3
Popis: A graph is diameter-2-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion of any edge increases the diameter. Let G be a diameter-2-critical graph of order n. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number of edges in G is at most ⌊n 2/4⌋ and that the extremal graphs are the complete bipartite graphs K ⌊n/2⌋,⌊n/2⌉. Fan [Discrete Math. 67 (1987), 235–240] proved the conjecture for n ≤ 24 and for n = 26, while Füredi [J. Graph Theory 16 (1992), 81–98] proved the conjecture for n > n 0 where n 0 is a tower of 2’s of height about 1014. The conjecture has yet to be proven for other values of n. Let Δ denote the maximum degree of G. We prove the following maximum degree theorems for diameter-2-critical graphs. If Δ ≥ 0.7 n, then the Murty-Simon Conjecture is true. If n ≥ 2000 and Δ ≥ 0.6789 n, then the Murty-Simon Conjecture is true.
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