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Title:On the connectivity of bipartite distance-balanced graphs
Authors:ID Miklavič, Štefko (Author)
ID Šparl, Primož (Author)
Files:URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2011.10.002
 
Language:English
Work type:Not categorized
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:IAM - Andrej Marušič Institute
Abstract:A connected graph ▫$\varGamma$▫ is said to be distance-balanced whenever for any pair of adjacent vertices ▫$u,v$▫ of ▫$\varGamma$▫ the number of vertices closer to ▫$u$▫ than to ▫$v$▫ is equal to the number of vertices closer to ▫$v$▫ than to ▫$u$▫. In [K. Handa, Bipartite graphs with balanced ▫$(a,b)$▫-partitions, Ars Combin. 51 (1999), 113-119] Handa asked whether every bipartite distance-balanced graph, that is not a cycle, is 3-connected. In this paper the Handa question is answered in the negative. Moreover, we show that a minimal bipartite distance-balanced graph, that is not a cycle and is not 3-connected, has 18 vertices and is unique. In addition, we give a complete classification of non-3-connected bipartite distance-balanced graphs for which the minimal distance between two vertices in a 2-cut is three. All such graphs are regular and for each ▫$k \geq 3$▫ there exists an infinite family of such graphs which are ▫$k$▫-regular.Furthermore, we determine a number of structural properties that a bipartite distance-balanced graph, which is not 3-connected, must have. As an application, we give a positive answer to the Handa question for the subfamily of bipartite strongly distance-balanced graphs.
Keywords:graph theory, connected graphs, connectivity, distance-balanced graphs, bipartite graphs
Year of publishing:2012
Number of pages:str. 237-247
Numbering:Vol. 33, no. 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUP-1686 This link opens in a new window
ISSN:0195-6698
UDC:519.17
COBISS.SI-ID:1024369748 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUP:15.10.2013
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Keywords:teorija grafov, povezani grafi, povzanost, razdaljno uravnoteženi grafi, dvodelni grafi


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