On edge connectivity of direct products of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-Lan Cao;Špela Brglez;Simon Špacapan;Elkin Vumar

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, PR China;University of Maribor, FME, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, FME, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia;College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Let @l(G) be the edge connectivity of G. The direct product of graphs G and H is the graph with vertex set V(GxH)=V(G)xV(H), where two vertices (u"1,v"1) and (u"2,v"2) are adjacent in GxH if u"1u"2@?E(G) and v"1v"2@?E(H). We prove that @l(GxK"n)=min{n(n-1)@l(G),(n-1)@d(G)} for every nontrivial graph G and n=3. We also prove that for almost every pair of graphs G and H with n vertices and edge probability p, GxH is k-connected, where k=O((n/logn)^2).