Note: Connectivity of iterated line graphs

  • Authors:
  • Yehong Shao

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Let k=0 be an integer and L^k(G) be the kth iterated line graph of a graph G. Niepel and Knor proved that if G is a 4-connected graph, then @k(L^2(G))=4@d(G)-6. We show that the connectivity of G can be relaxed. In fact, we prove in this note that if G is an essentially 4-edge-connected and 3-connected graph, then @k(L^2(G))=4@d(G)-6. Similar bounds are obtained for essentially 4-edge-connected and 2-connected (1-connected) graphs.