A sufficient condition for Pk-path graphs being r-connected

  • Authors:

  • C. Balbuena;P. García-Vázquez

  • Affiliations:

  • Departament de Matemítica Aplicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici C2,C/Jordi Girona 1 i 3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda Reina Mercedes 2, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain

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

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Abstract

Given an integer k=1 and any graph G, the path graph P"k(G) has for vertices the paths of length k in G, and two vertices are joined by an edge if and only if the intersection of the corresponding paths forms a path of length k-1 in G, and their union forms either a cycle or a path of length k+1. Path graphs were investigated by Broersma and Hoede [Path graphs, J. Graph Theory 13 (1989), 427-444] as a natural generalization of line graphs. In fact, P"1(G) is the line graph of G. For k=1,2 results on connectivity of P"k(G) have been given for several authors. In this work, we present a sufficient condition to guarantee that P"k(G) is connected for k=2 if the girth of G is at least (k+3)/2 and its minimum degree is at least 4. Furthermore, we determine a lower bound of the vertex-connectivity of P"k(G) if the girth is at least k+1 and the minimum degree is at least r+1 where r=2 is an integer.