Title
Conditional edge connectivity properties, reliability comparisons and transitivity of graphs
Abstract
The ith conditional edge-connectivity λi for a (simple) graph G is the minimum cardinality of a set of edges, if any, whose deletion disconnecting G and every remaining component has more than i vertices. The usual edge connectivity λ and the restricted edge connectivity λ′ of G correspond to λ0 and λ1, respectively. We first give an improved reliability comparison criterion between two regular graphs by means of λ0,λ1 and λ2. Next we prove that a vertex-transitive graph with degree d⩾4 and girth g⩾5 or an edge-transitive d-regular graph with degree d⩾4 and girth g⩾4 must have the maximum λi, namely, λi=(i+1)d−2i for 0⩽i⩽min(g−2,n/2−1), where n is the order of the graph. Finally, as an application of the above results, we show that both Ka,a(a⩾4) and Ka+1,a+1−(a+1)K2(a⩾5) are the most reliable graphs for sufficiently small edge failure probabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00299-6
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Conditional edge connectivity,Vertex-transitive,Edge-transitive,Locally the most reliable
Discrete mathematics,Strongly regular graph,Combinatorics,Line graph,Graph power,Cycle graph,Independent set,Regular graph,Symmetric graph,Mathematics,Complement graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
258
1
0012-365X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
50
2.25
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming Wang1502.25
Qiao Li2593.61