The tenacity of an incomplete connected graph G is defined as T (G) = min{ |S|+m(G−S) ω(G−S) : S ⊂ V (G), ω(G− S) > 1}, where ω(G− S) and m(G− S), respectively, denote the number of components and the order of a largest component inG−S. This is a reasonable parameter to measure the vulnerability of networks, as it takes into account both the amount of work done to damage the network and how bad...

Topoi are known to be categories with extra properties that make them much alike the category of Sets. In a Topoi it is possible to define adequate notions of membership, elements and subobjects, power ”sets”, and finally, every Topoi has an internal logic able to justify any reasoning carried inside it. Most of the cases, this logic is not Classical (Boolean). The general logic for the Topoi i...

Article history: Available online 25 March 2011 Submitted by J.J. Loiseau AMS classification: 15A80 15A39 15A03

distance-balanced graphs are introduced as graphs in which every edge uv has the followingproperty: the number of vertices closer to u than to v is equal to the number of vertices closerto v than to u. basic properties of these graphs are obtained. in this paper, we study theconditions under which some graph operations produce a distance-balanced graph.

The problem of resource allocation in sparse graphs with real variables is studied using methods of statistical physics. An efficient distributed algorithm is devised on the basis of insight gained from the analysis and is examined using numerical simulations, showing excellent performance and full agreement with the theoretical results.

Quantum graphs of connected one-dimensional wires were introduced by Pauling seven decades ago [1]. The same idea was used a decade later by Kuhn [2] to describe organic molecules by free electron models. Quantum graphs can be considered as idealizations of physical networks in the limit where the lengths of the wires greatly exceed their widths assuming that propagating waves remain in a singl...