Cyclic deficiency of graphs

A proper edge coloring of a graph G with colors 1,2,…,t is called a cyclic intervalt-coloring if for each vertex v of G the edges incident to v are colored by consecutive colors, under the condition that color 1 is considered as consecutive to color t. In this paper we introduce and investigate a ne...

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Veröffentlicht in:Discrete Applied Mathematics 2019-08, Vol.266, p.171-185
Hauptverfasser: Asratian, Armen S., Casselgren, Carl Johan, Petrosyan, Petros A.
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Zusammenfassung:A proper edge coloring of a graph G with colors 1,2,…,t is called a cyclic intervalt-coloring if for each vertex v of G the edges incident to v are colored by consecutive colors, under the condition that color 1 is considered as consecutive to color t. In this paper we introduce and investigate a new notion, the cyclic deficiency of a graph G, defined as the minimum number of pendant edges whose attachment to G yields a graph admitting a cyclic interval coloring; this number can be considered as a measure of closeness of G of being cyclically interval colorable. We determine or bound the cyclic deficiency of several families of graphs. In particular, we present examples of graphs of bounded maximum degree with arbitrarily large cyclic deficiency, and graphs whose cyclic deficiency approaches the number of vertices. Finally, we conjecture that the cyclic deficiency of any graph does not exceed the number of vertices, and we present several results supporting this conjecture.
ISSN:0166-218X
1872-6771
1872-6771
DOI:10.1016/j.dam.2018.12.003