The strong distance problem on the Cartesian product of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Justie Su-Tzu Juan;Chun-Ming Huang;I-fan Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Nantou 54561, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Nantou 54561, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Applied Mathematics, I-Shou University, Ta-Hsu, Kaohsiung 84008, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Given a graph G and a strong oriented graph D=(V,F) of G. For u,v@?V(D), the strong distance sd(u,v) is the minimum size (the number of edges) of strong subdigraph of D containing u and v and the strong eccentricity se(u) is the maximum strong distance sd(u,v) for all v@?V(D). The strong radius and strong diameter of D are defined as the minimum and maximum strong eccentricities se(u) among all u@?V(D), respectively. The following four values: srad(G), SRAD(G), sdiam(G), and SDIAM(G) for a connected undirected graph G denote the minimum strong radius, maximum strong radius, minimum strong diameter, and maximum strong diameter, respectively, of D among all possible strong oriented graphs D of G. In this paper, we propose some important properties about these values and derive an inequality that gives an upper bound for each of srad(GxH) and sdiam(GxH) where G and H are any two graphs. Moreover, we can obtain srad(G) and sdiam(G) by substituting G into hypercube BC"n or two extension hypercubes EC"n and FC"n, respectively. For these graphs, we also give a lower bound of SDIAM(G) for each of them.