A fundamental result by Karger [10] states that for any λ-edgeconnected graph with n nodes, independently sampling each edge with probability p = Ω(logn/λ) results in a graph that has edge connectivity Ω(λp), with high probability. This paper proves the analogous result for vertex connectivity, when sampling vertices. We show that for any k-vertex-connected graph G with n nodes, if each node is...

A vertex-coloured graph G is said to be rainbow vertex-connected, if every two vertices of are connected by a path whose internal have distinct colours. The vertex-connection number G, denoted rvc(G), the smallest colours that needed make vertex-connected. This study focuses on deriving formulas for vertex connectivity simple ladder and roach graph.

Design of some crystal and quasicrystal networks, based on rhombellane tiling,is presented. [1,1,1]Propellane,is a synthesized organic molecule; its hydrogenated form, the bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane,may be represented by the complete bipartite graph K2,3 which is the smallest rhombellane. Topology of translational and radial structures involving rhombellanes is described in terms of vertex symbol, c...

A path in a vertex-colored graph G is vertex rainbow if all of its internal vertices have a distinct color. The graph G is said to be rainbow vertex connected if there is a vertex rainbow path between every pair of its vertices. Similarly, the graph G is strongly rainbow vertex connected if there is a shortest path which is vertex rainbow between every pair of its vertices. We consider the comp...

A vertex separator of a connected graph G is a set of vertices removing which will result in two or more connected components and a minimum vertex separator is a set which contains the minimum number of such vertices, i.e., the cardinality of this set is least among all possible vertex separator sets. The cardinality of the minimum vertex separator refers to the connectivity of the graph G. A c...

The augmented eccentric connectivity index is defined as the summation of the quotients of the product of adjacent vertex degrees and eccentricity of the concerned vertex of a graph which is a generalization of eccentric connectivity index. In this paper we present explicit expressions for the values of augmented eccentric connectivity indices of some particular thorn graphs like thorn path, th...

We consider the 2-dimensional generic rigidity matroid R(G) of a graph G. The notions of vertex and edge birigidity are introduced. We prove that vertex birigidity of G implies the connectivity of R(G) and that the connectivity of R(G) implies the edge birigidity of G. These implications are not equivalences. A class of minimal vertex birigid graphs is exhibited and used to show that R(G) is no...

We complement our study of 2-connectivity in directed graphs [7], by considering the computation of the following 2-vertex-connectivity relations: We say that two vertices v and w are 2-vertex-connected if there are two internally vertex-disjoint paths from v to w and two internally vertex-disjoint paths from w to v. We also say that v and w are vertex-resilient if the removal of any vertex dif...

Let $G$ be a non-abelian group. The non-commuting graph $Gamma_G$ of $G$ is defined as the graph whose vertex set is the non-central elements of $G$ and two vertices are joined if and only if they do not commute.In this paper we study some properties of $Gamma_G$ and introduce $n$-regular $AC$-groups. Also we then obtain a formula for Szeged index of $Gamma_G$ in terms of $n$, $|Z(G)|$ and $|G|...

The tenacity of a graph G, T(G), is dened by T(G) = min{[|S|+τ(G-S)]/[ω(G-S)]}, where the minimum is taken over all vertex cutsets S of G. We dene τ(G - S) to be the number of the vertices in the largest component of the graph G - S, and ω(G - S) be the number of components of G - S.In this paper a lower bound for the tenacity T(G) of a graph with genus γ(G) is obtained using the graph's connec...