Longest paths and cycles in faulty star graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jung-Heum Park;Hee-Chul Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, San. 43-1, Yokkok 2-Dong, Wonmi-Gu, Puchon City 420-743, Republic of Korea;Computer Science and Information Communications Engineering Division, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the star graph S"n with faulty vertices and/or edges from the graph theoretic point of view. We show that between every pair of vertices with different colors in a bicoloring of S"n, n=4, there is a fault-free path of length at least n!-2f"v-1, and there is a path of length at least n!-2f"v-2 joining a pair of vertices with the same color, when the number of faulty elements is n-3 or less. Here, f"v is the number of faulty vertices. S"n, n=4, with at most n-2 faulty elements has a fault-free cycle of length at least n!-2f"v unless the number of faulty elements are n-2 and all the faulty elements are edges incident to a common vertex. It is also shown that S"n, n=4, is strongly hamiltonian-laceable if the number of faulty elements is n-3 or less and the number of faulty vertices is one or less.