Title
On non-traceable, non-hypotraceable, arachnoid graphs
Abstract
Motivated by questions concerning optical networks, in 2003 Gargano, Hammar, Hell, Stacho, and Vaccaro defined the notions of spanning spiders and arachnoid graphs. A spider is a tree with at most one branch (vertex of degree at least 3). The spider is centred at the branch vertex (if there is any, otherwise it is centred at any of the vertices). A graph is arachnoid if it has a spanning spider centred at any of its vertices. Traceable graphs are obviously arachnoid, and Gargano et al. observed that hypotraceable graphs (non-traceable graphs with the property that all vertex-deleted subgraphs are traceable) are also easily seen to be arachnoid. However, they did not find any other arachnoid graphs, and asked the question whether they exist. The main goal of this paper is to answer this question in the affirmative, moreover, we show that for any prescribed graph H, there exists a non-traceable, non-hypotraceable, arachnoid graph that contains H as an induced subgraph.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.endm.2015.06.084
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
spanning spider,arachnoid graph,spanning tree,hamiltonian path,hypotraceable graph
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Indifference graph,Forbidden graph characterization,Chordal graph,Cograph,Pathwidth,Symmetric graph,1-planar graph,Mathematics,Split graph
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
49
1571-0653
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gábor Wiener16410.65