Matrices and α-Stable Bipartite Graphs
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A square (0, 1)-matrix X of order n ≥ 1 is called fully indecomposable if there exists no integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ n− 1, such that X has a k by n− k zero submatrix. The reduced adjacency matrix of a bipartite graph G = (A,B,E) (having A ∪ B = {a1, ..., am} ∪ {b1, ..., bn} as vertex set, and E as edge set), is X = [xij ], 1 ≤ i ≤ m, 1 ≤ j ≤ n, where xij = 1 if aibj ∈ E and xij = 0 otherwise. A stable set of a graph G is a subset of pairwise nonadjacent vertices. The stability number of G, denoted by α(G), is the cardinality of a maximum stable set in G. A graph is called α-stable if its stability number remains the same upon both the deletion and the addition of any edge. We show that a connected bipartite graph has exactly two maximum stable sets that partition its vertex set if and only if its reduced adjacency matrix is fully indecomposable. We also describe a decomposition structure of α-stable bipartite graphs in terms of their reduced adjacency matrices. On the base of these findings we obtain both new proofs for a number of well-known theorems on the structure of matrices due to Brualdi (1966), Marcus and Minc (1963), Dulmage and Mendelsohn (1958), and some generalizations of these statements. Several new results on α-stable bipartite graphs and their corresponding reduced adjacency matrices are presented, as well. Two kinds of matrix product are also considered (namely, Boolean product and Kronecker product), and their corresponding graph operations. As a consequence, we obtain a strengthening of one Lewin’s theorem claiming that the product of two fully indecomposable matrices is a fully indecomposable matrix.
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