Title
Hypercube subgraphs with minimal detours
Abstract
Define a minimal detour subgraph of the n-dimensional cube to be a spanning subgraph G of Q(n) having the property that for vertices x, y of Q(n), distances are related by d(G)(x, y) less than or equal to d(Qn) (x, y) + 2. Let f(n) be the minimum number of edges of such a subgraph of Q(n). After preliminary work on distances in subgraphs of product graphs, we show that f(n)/\E((Qn)\ < c/root n. The subgraphs we construct to establish this bound have the property that the longest distances are the same as in Q(n), and thus the diameter does not increase. We establish a lower bound for f(n), show that vertices of high degree must be distributed throughout a minimal detour subgraph of Q(n), and end with conjectures and questions. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
3.3.CO;2-9" target="_self" class="small-link-text"10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199610)23:23.3.CO;2-9
Journal of Graph Theory
Field
DocType
Volume
Topology,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Hypercube,Mathematics
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0364-9024
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Erdös119239.34
Peter Hamburger25414.61
Raymond E. Pippert3415.89
William D. Weakley45610.40