Extremal results for rooted minor problems

Extremal functions for rooted minors

The graph G contains a graph H as a minor if there exist pair-wise disjoint sets {Si ⊆ V (G)|i = 1, . . . , |V (H)|} such that for every i, G[Si] is a connected subgraph and for every edge uv in H, there exists an edge of G with one end in Su and the other end in Sv. A rooted H minor in G is a minor where each Si of minor contains a predetermined xi ∈ V (G). We prove that if the constant c is s...

Extremal Functions for Graph Linkages and Rooted Minors

Chain hexagonal cacti: extremal with respect to the eccentric connectivity index

In this paper we present explicit formulas for the eccentric connectivity index of three classes of chain hexagonal cacti. Further, it is shown that the extremal chain hexagonal cacti with respect to the eccentric connectivity index belong to one of the considered types. Some open problems and possible directions of further research are mentioned in the concluding section.

On Out-Trees With Many Leaves

The k-LEAF OUT-BRANCHING problem is to find an out-branching, that is a rooted oriented spanning tree, with at least k leaves in a given digraph. The problem has recently received much attention from the viewpoint of parameterized algorithms. Here, we take a kernelization based approach to the k-LEAF-OUTBRANCHING problem. We give the first polynomial kernel for ROOTED k-LEAF-OUT-BRANCHING, a va...

The forbidden minor characterization of line-search antimatroids of rooted digraphs

An antimatroid is an accessible union-closed family of subsets of a 0nite set. A number of classes of antimatroids are closed under taking minors such as point-search antimatroids of rooted (di)graphs, line-search antimatroids of rooted (di)graphs, shelling antimatroids of rooted trees, shelling antimatroids of posets, etc. The forbidden minor characterizations are known for point-search antima...