ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

On arbitrarily vertex decomposable unicyclic graphs with dominating cycle

Authors 1, 1

Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Applied Mathematics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Abstract

A graph G of order n is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for each sequence (n₁,...,nₖ) of positive integers such that k_{i=1}ni=n, there exists a partition (V₁,...,Vₖ) of vertex set of G such that for every i ∈ {1,...,k} the set Vi induces a connected subgraph of G on ni vertices. We consider arbitrarily vertex decomposable unicyclic graphs with dominating cycle. We also characterize all such graphs with at most four hanging vertices such that exactly two of them have a common neighbour.

Keywords

arbitrarily vertex decomposable graph, dominating cycle

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Pages:
403-412
Main language of publication
English
Received
2005-11-30
Accepted
2006-03-31
Published
2006
Exact and natural sciences