ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Potentially H-bigraphic sequences

Authors 1, 1, 2, 3

Affiliations

  1. University of Colorado at Denver
  2. Middlebury College
  3. Kyungpook National University

Abstract

We extend the notion of a potentially H-graphic sequence as follows. Let A and B be nonnegative integer sequences. The sequence pair S = (A,B) is said to be bigraphic if there is some bipartite graph G = (X ∪ Y,E) such that A and B are the degrees of the vertices in X and Y, respectively. If S is a bigraphic pair, let σ(S) denote the sum of the terms in A. Given a bigraphic pair S, and a fixed bipartite graph H, we say that S is potentially H-bigraphic if there is some realization of S containing H as a subgraph. We define σ(H,m,n) to be the minimum integer k such that every bigraphic pair S = (A,B) with |A| = m, |B| = n and σ(S) ≥ k is potentially H-bigraphic. In this paper, we determine σ(Ks,t,m,n), σ(Pₜ,m,n) and σ(C2t,m,n).

Keywords

degree sequence, bipartite graph, potential number

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Pages:
583-596
Main language of publication
English
Received
2008-06-05
Accepted
2008-09-05
Published
2009
Exact and natural sciences