This note presents a solution to the following problem posed by Chen, Schelp, and Soltés: find a simple graph with the least number of vertices for which only the degrees of the vertices that appear an odd number of times are given.
Graphs with given odd sets
✍ Scribed by Chen, Guantao; Schelp, Richard H.; ?olt�s, ?ubom�r
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 123 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-9024
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✦ Synopsis
Given a graph G, its odd set is a set of all integers k such that G has odd number of vertices of degree k. We show that if two graphs G and H of the same order have the same odd sets then they can be obtained from each other by succesive application of the following two operations:
• add or remove an edge joining two vertices of the same degree • replace two independent edges with two new independent edges on the same vertex set.
If, moreover, both graphs G and H are regular or both are forests, it is sufficient to use only the first operation, but, in general, both operations are necessary.
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