Under suitable conditions of connectivity or non-bipartiteness, each of the three standard graph products (the Cartesian product, the direct product and the strong product) satisfies the unique prime factorization property, and there are polynomial algorithms to determine the prime factors. This is most easily proved for the Cartesian product. For the other products, current proofs involve a no...

for two normal edge-transitive cayley graphs on groups h and k which have no common direct factor and gcd(jh=h ′j; jz(k)j) = 1 = gcd(jk=k ′j; jz(h)j), we consider four standard products of them and it is proved that only tensor product of factors can be normal edge-transitive.

Sometimes information in a network model is based on multi-agent, multi-attribute, multi-object, multi-polar information or uncertainty rather than a single bit. An m-polar fuzzy model is useful for such network models which gives more and more precision, flexibility, and comparability to the system as compared to the classical, fuzzy and bipolar fuzzy models. In this research article, we intro...

A regular nonempty graph Γ is called edge regular, whenever there exists a nonegative integer λΓ, such that any two adjacent vertices of Γ have precisely λΓ common neighbours. An edge regular graph Γ with at least one pair of vertices at distance 2 is called amply regular, whenever there exists a nonegative integer μΓ, such that any two vertices at distance 2 have precisely μΓ common neighbours...

V. Chv atal proved that no minimal imperfect graph has a small transversal, that is, a set of vertices of cardinality at most + ! 1 which meets every !-clique and every -stable set. In this paper we prove that a slight generalization of this notion of small transversal leads to a conjecture which is as strong as Berge's Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture for a very large class of graphs, although ...

In order to prove the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, the existence of a ”simple” property P holding for any minimal non-quasi-parity Berge graph G would really reduce the difficulty of the problem. We prove here that this property cannot be of type ”G is F-free”, where F is any fixed family of Berge graphs.

Our proof (with Robertson and Thomas) of the strong perfect graph conjecture ran to 179 pages of dense matter; and the most impenetrable part was the final 55 pages, on what we called “wheel systems”. In this paper we give a replacement for those 55 pages, much easier and shorter, using “even pairs”. This is based on an approach of Maffray and Trotignon.

We investigate graphs and hypergraphs that have (relaxed) product structures. In the class of graphs, we discuss in detail RSP-relations, a relaxation of relations fulfilling the square property and therefore of the product relation σ, that identifies the copies of the prime factors of a graph w.r.t. the Cartesian product. For K2,3-free graphs finest RSP-relations can be computed in polynomial-...

The strong isometric dimension of a reflexive graph is related to its injective hull: both deal with embedding reflexive graphs in the strong product of paths. We give several upper and lower bounds for the strong isometric dimension of general graphs; the exact strong isometric dimension for cycles and hypercubes; and the isometric dimension for trees is found to within a factor of two.