On the edge-connectivity and restricted edge-connectivity of a product of graphs

  • Authors:
  • C. Balbuena;M. Cera;A. Diánez;P. García-Vázquez;X. Marcote

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament de Matemítica Aplicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Departament de Matemítica Aplicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The product graph G"m*G"p of two given graphs G"m and G"p was defined by Bermond et al. [Large graphs with given degree and diameter II, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 36 (1984) 32-48]. For this kind of graphs we provide bounds for two connectivity parameters (@l and @l^', edge-connectivity and restricted edge-connectivity, respectively), and state sufficient conditions to guarantee optimal values of these parameters. Moreover, we compare our results with other previous related ones for permutation graphs and cartesian product graphs, obtaining several extensions and improvements. In this regard, for any two connected graphs G"m, G"p of minimum degrees @d(G"m), @d(G"p), respectively, we show that @l(G"m*G"p) is lower bounded by both @d(G"m)+@l(G"p) and @d(G"p)+@l(G"m), an improvement of what is known for the edge-connectivity of G"mxG"p.