Generalized Petersen graphs are commonly used interconnection networks, and wide diameter is an important parameter to measure fault-tolerance and efficiency of parallel processing computer networks. In this paper, we show that the diameter and 3-wide diameter of generalized Petersen graph P (m,a) are both O( m 2a ), where a ≥ 3.

The line graph of a graph with signed edges carries vertex signs. A vertex-signed graph is consistent if every circle (cycle, circuit) has positive vertex-sign product. Acharya, Acharya, and Sinha recently characterized line-consistent signed graphs, i.e., edge-signed graphs whose line graphs, with the naturally induced vertex signature, are consistent. Their proof applies Hoede’s relatively di...

A graph G is k-ordered if for any sequence of k distinct vertices v1, v2, . . . , vk of G there exists a cycle in G containing these k vertices in the specified order. In 1997, Ng and Schultz posed the question of the existence of 3-regular 4-ordered graphs other than K4 and K3,3. In 2008, Meszaros solve the question by proving the Petersen graph and the Heawood graph are 3-regular 4-ordered gr...

Graph coverings are known to induce surjections of their critical groups. Here we describe the kernels of these morphisms in terms of data parametrizing the covering. Regular coverings are parametrized by voltage graphs, and the above kernel can be identified with a naturally defined voltage graph critical group. For double covers, the voltage graph is a signed graph, and the theory takes a par...

A general method for finding elementary abelian regular covering projections of finite connected graphs is applied to the Petersen graph. As a result, a complete list of pairwise nonisomophic elementary abelian covers admitting a lift of a vertex-transitive group of automorphisms is given. The resulting graphs are explicitly described in terms of voltage assignments.

A permutation graph is a cubic graph admitting a 1-factor M whose complement consists of two chordless cycles. Extending results of Ellingham and of Goldwasser and Zhang, we prove that if e is an edge of M such that every 4-cycle containing an edge of M contains e, then e is contained in a subdivision of the Petersen graph of a special type. In particular, if the graph is cyclically 5-edge-conn...

A signed bipartite graph G(U, V ) is a bipartite graph in which each edge is assigned a positive or a negative sign. The signed degree of a vertex x in G(U, V ) is the number of positive edges incident with x less the number of negative edges incident with x. The set S of distinct signed degrees of the vertices of G(U, V ) is called its signed degree set. In this paper, we prove that every set ...

A signed bipartite graph G(U, V) is a bipartite graph in which each edge is assigned a positive or a negative sign. The signed degree of a vertex x in G(U, V) is the number of positive edges incident with x less the number of negative edges incident with x. The set S of distinct signed degrees of the vertices of G(U, V) is called its signed degree set. In this paper, we prove that every set of ...