On a conjecture of Murty and Simon on diameter two critical graphs II

Teresa W. Haynes, Michael A. Henning, Anders Yeo

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Abstract

A graph G is diameter 2-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion of any edge increases the diameter. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number of edges in a diameter 2-critical graph of order n is at most n2/4 and that the extremal graphs are complete bipartite graphs with equal size partite sets. We use an important association with total domination to prove the conjecture for the graphs whose complements have vertex connectivity k for k∈1,2,3.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)315-323
Number of pages9
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume312
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jan 2012

Keywords

  • Diameter 2-critical
  • Total domination edge critical
  • γ- critical

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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