On the ｛P_2,P_3｝-Factor of Cubic Graphs

Ler G = （ V, E） be a finite simple graph and Pn denote the path of order n. A spanning subgraph F is called a { P2, P3 }-factor of G if each component of F is isomorphic to P2 or P3. With the path-covering method, it is proved that any connected cubic graph with at least 5 vertices has a { P2, P3 }-factor F such that｜P3（F）｜P2（F）｜, where P2（F） and P3（F） denote the set of components of P2 and P3 in F, respectively.

Full Friendly Index Sets of a Family of Cubic Graphs

Let G=(V,E)be a graph.For a vertex labeling f:V→Z2,it induces an edge labeling f+:E→Z2,where for each edge v1 v2∈E we have f+(v1 v2)=f(v1)+f(v2).For each i∈Z2,we use vf(i)(respectively,ef(i))to denote the number of vertices(respectively,edges)with label i.A vertex labeling f of G is said to be friendly if vertices with different labels differ in size by at most one.The full friendly index set of a graph G,denoted by F F I(G),consists of all possible values of ef(1)-ef(0),where f ranges over all friendly labelings of G.In this paper,motivated by a problem raised by[6],we study the full friendly index sets of a family of cubic graphs.

Characterizations of Cycle-Forced 2-Connected Claw-Free Cubic Graphs

Let G be a graph and C be an arbitrary even cycle of G.The graph G is called a cycle-forced graph if G-V(C)has a unique perfect matching.When C is an arbitrary induced even cycle of G,G is called an induced-cycle-forced graph.If G-V(C)has no perfect matching,G is said to be cycle-bad.This paper gives characterizations of these three type of graphs in the class of 2-connected claw-free cubic graphs.

Connectivity of Minimum Non-5-injectively Colorable Planar Cubic Graphs

Suppose that G is a planar cubic graph withχi(G)>5.We show that ifχi(H)<χi(G)for each planar cubic graph H of order less thanG,thenG is either a 3-connected simple planar cubic graph,or a planar graph obtained from a simple cubic 3-connected planar graph by adding some earrings.This shows that a minimum non-5-injectively colorable simple planar cubic graph must be 3-connected.

Super-edge-graceful Labelings of Some Cubic Graphs

The notion of super-edge-graceful graphs was introduced by Mitchem and Simoson in 1994.However, few examples except trees are known. In this paper, we exhibit two classes of infinitely many cubic graphs which are super-edge-graceful. A conjecture is proposed.

ARC-TRANSITIVE CUBIC GRAPHS OF ORDER 4_p

In this paper, a complete classification of arc-transitive cubic graphs of order 4p is given.

On k-Star Arboricity of Graphs

A star forest is a forest whose components are stars. The star arboricity of a graph G,denoted by sa（ G）,is the minimum number of star forests needed to decompose G. Let k be a positive integer. A k-star forest is a forest whose components are stars of order at most k ＋ 1. The k-star arboricity of a graph G,denoted by sak（ G）,is the minimum number of k-star forests needed to decompose G. In this paper,it is proved that if any two vertices of degree 3 are nonadjacent in a subcubic graph G then sa2（ G） ≤2.For general subcubic graphs G, a polynomial-time algorithm is described to decompose G into three 2-star forests. For a tree T and[Δ k, T）/k]t≤ sak（ T） ≤[Δ（ T）- 1/K]＋1,where Δ（ T） is the maximum degree of T.kMoreover,a linear-time algorithm is designed to determine whether sak（ T） ≤m for any tree T and any positive integers m and k.

ON CLASSES OF REGULAR GRAPHS WITH CONSTANT METRIC DIMENSION

In this paper, we are dealing with the study of the metric dimension of some classes of regular graphs by considering a class of bridgeless cubic graphs called the flower snarks Jn, a class of cubic convex polytopes considering the open problem raised in [M. Imran et al., families of plane graphs with constant metric dimension, Utilitas Math., in press] and finally Harary graphs H5,n by partially answering to an open problem proposed in Ⅱ. Javaid et al., Families of regular graphs with constant metric dimension, Utilitas Math., 2012, 88： 43-57]. We prove that these classes of regular graphs have constant metric dimension.

关于3正则图的三匹配交猜想 (Ⅱ)(英文)

In 1994, FAN and RASPAUD posed the following conjecture: every bridgeless cubic graph contains three perfect matchings M 1, M 2 and M 3 such that M 1∩M 2∩M 3=*I.In this paper we obtain the following result: let G be a cyclely-4-edge-connected cubic graph, which has a perfect matching M 1 such that G-M 1 consists of four odd cycles. Then G contains two perfect matchings M 2 and M 3 such that M 1∩M 2∩M 3=*I.

Traceability of Subsets in Cubic Graphs

If X is a set of 20 vertices of a 3 connected cubic graph, then either every 13 subset of X is traceable or X is traceable in G .

Bounds on the clique-transversal number of regular graphs

A clique-transversal set D of a graph G is a set of vertices of G such that D meets all cliques of G. The clique-transversal number, denoted τ c (G), is the minimum cardinality of a clique-transversal set in G. In this paper we present the bounds on the clique-transversal number for regular graphs and characterize the extremal graphs achieving the lower bound. Also, we give the sharp bounds on the clique-transversal number for claw-free cubic graphs and we characterize the extremal graphs achieving the lower bound.

Minus domination number in cubic graph

An upper bound is established on the parameter Γ -(G) for a cubic graph G and two infinite families of 3-connected graphs G k, G * k are constructed to show that the bound is sharp and, moreover, the difference Γ -(G * k)-γ s(G * k) can be arbitrarily large, where Г -(G * k) and γ s(G * k) are the upper minus domination and signed domination numbers of G * k, respectively. Thus two open problems are solved.