The generalized connectivity of complete bipartite graphs

Details The generalized connectivity of complete bipartite graphs The generalized connectivity of complete bipartite graphs

2010-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/1012.5710v1

Mathematics

Combinatorics

18 pages

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Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected graph of order $n$, and $k$ an integer with $2\leq k\leq n$. For a set $S$ of $k$ vertices of $G$, let $\kappa (S)$ denote the maximum number $\ell$ of edge-disjoint trees $T_1,T_2,...,T_\ell$ in $G$ such that $V(T_i)\cap V(T_j)=S$ for every pair $i,j$ of distinct integers with $1\leq i,j\leq \ell$. Chartrand et al. generalized the concept of connectivity as follows: The $k$-$connectivity$, denoted by $\kappa_k(G)$, of $G$ is defined by $\kappa_k(G)=$min$\{\kappa(S)\}$, where the minimum is taken over all $k$-subsets $S$ of $V(G)$. Thus $\kappa_2(G)=\kappa(G)$, where $\kappa(G)$ is the connectivity of $G$. Moreover, $\kappa_{n}(G)$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees of $G$. This paper mainly focus on the $k$-connectivity of complete bipartite graphs $K_{a,b}$. First, we obtain the number of edge-disjoint spanning trees of $K_{a,b}$, which is $\lfloor\frac{ab}{a+b-1}\rfloor$, and specifically give the $\lfloor\frac{ab}{a+b-1}\rfloor$ edge-disjoint spanning trees. Then based on this result, we get the $k$-connectivity of $K_{a,b}$ for all $2\leq k \leq a+b$. Namely, if $k>b-a+2$ and $a-b+k$ is odd then $\kappa_{k}(K_{a,b})=\frac{a+b-k+1}{2}+\lfloor\frac{(a-b+k-1)(b-a+k-1)}{4(k-1)}\rfloor,$ if $k>b-a+2$ and $a-b+k$ is even then $\kappa_{k}(K_{a,b})=\frac{a+b-k}{2}+\lfloor\frac{(a-b+k)(b-a+k)}{4(k-1)}\rfloor,$ and if $k\leq b-a+2$ then $\kappa_{k}(K_{a,b})=a. $

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