Given a graph G = (V,E) together with a nonnegative integer requirement on vertices r : V → Z+, the annotated edge dominating set problem is to find a minimum set M ⊆ E such that, each edge in E −M is adjacent to some edge in M , and M contains at least r(v) edges incident on each vertex v ∈ V . The annotated edge dominating set problem is a natural extension of the classical edge dominating se...

A path in an edge-colored graph, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. A nontrivial connected graph G is rainbow connected if there is a rainbow path connecting any two vertices, and the rainbow connection number of G, denoted by rc(G), is the minimum number of colors that are needed in order to make G rainbow connected. Char...

Given two graphs G and H, let f(G,H) denote the maximum number c for which there is a way to color the edges of G with c colors such that every subgraph H of G has at least two edges of the same color. Equivalently, any edge-coloring of G with at least rb(G,H) = f(G,H) + 1 colors contains a rainbow copy of H, where a rainbow subgraph of an edge-colored graph is such that no two edges of it have...

We give the bipartite theory of vertex-edge weak dominating set and edge-vertex strong dominating set of a graph. Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C69

An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset M ⊆ E of edges in the graph such that each edge in E −M is incident with at least one edge in M . In an instance of the parameterized edge dominating set problem we are given a graph G = (V,E) and an integer k and we are asked to decide whether G has an edge dominating set of size at most k. In this paper we show that the parameterized edg...

In a graph G with a given edge colouring, a rainbow path is a path all of whose edges have distinct colours. The minimum number of colours required to colour the edges of G so that every pair of vertices is joined by at least one rainbow path is called the rainbow connection number rc(G) of the graph G. For any graph G, rc(G) > diam(G). We will show that for the Erdős–Rényi random graph G(n, p)...

A path in an edge-colored graph G, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. For a κ-connected graph G and an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ κ, the rainbow kconnectivity rck(G) of G is defined as the minimum integer j for which there exists a j-edge-coloring of G such that any two distinct vertices of G are connected by k in...

An edge e ∈ E(G) dominates a vertex v ∈ V (G) if e is incident with v or e is incident with a vertex adjacent to v. An edge-vertex dominating set of a graph G is a set D of edges of G such that every vertex of G is edgevertex dominated by an edge of D. The edge-vertex domination number of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of an edge-vertex dominating set of G. A subset D ⊆ V (G) is a total d...

Let HPn,m,k be drawn uniformly from all m-edge, k-uniform, k-partite hypergraphs where each part of the partition is a disjoint copy of [n]. We let HP (κ) n,m,k be an edge colored version, where we color each edge randomly from one of κ colors. We show that if κ = n and m = Kn log n where K is sufficiently large then w.h.p. there is a rainbow colored perfect matching. I.e. a perfect matching in...

In this paper we study the randomly edge colored graph that is obtained by adding randomly colored random edges to an arbitrary randomly edge colored dense graph. In particular we ask how many colors and how many random edges are needed so that the resultant graph contains a fixed number of edge disjoint rainbow Hamilton cycles. We also ask when in the resultant graph every pair of vertices is ...