Year: 2021
Type: preprint
Abstract: Let G be a vertex-colored graph. We call a vertex cut S of G a monochromatic vertex cut if the vertices of S are colored with the same color. The graph G is monochromatically vertex-disconnected if any two nonadjacent vertices of G has a monochromatic vertex cut separating them. The monochromatic vertex-disconnection number of G, denoted by mvd(G), is the maximum number of colors that are used to make G monochromatically vertex-disconnected. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to compute mvd(G) and give an mvd-coloring of the graph G. We run this algorithm with an example written in Java. The main part of the code is shown in Appendix B and the complete code is given on Github: https://github.com/fumiaoT/mvd-coloring.git. Secondly, inspired by the previous localization principle, we obtain a upper bound of mvd(G) for some special classes of graphs. In addition, when mvd(G) is large and all blocks of G are minimally 2-connected triangle-free graphs, we characterize G. On these bases, we show that any graph whose blocks are all minimally 2-connected graphs of small order, can be computed mvd(G) and given an mvd-coloring in polynomial time.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Fu, Miao, Zhang, Yuqin
Institution: Tianjin University
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Theory and Mathematics
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1442670891, G2245778657, G4800798109
OpenAlex ID: W3217340828