Some structural, metric and convex properties of the boundary of a graph

Let u;v be two vertices of a connected graph G . The vertex v is said to be a boundary vertex of u if no neighbor of v is further away from u than v . The boundary of a graph is the set of all its boundary vertices. In this work, we present a number of properties of the boundary of a graph under diÆ...

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Authors: Hernando Martín, María del Carmen|||0000-0002-3864-6566, Mora Giné, Mercè|||0000-0001-6923-0320, Pelayo Melero, Ignacio Manuel|||0000-0002-6523-0611, Seara Ojea, Carlos|||0000-0002-0095-1725
Format: article
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/20898
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/20898
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Convex geometry
Boundary
Contour
Extreme set
Graph convexity
Metric dimension.
Geometria convexa
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Summary:Let u;v be two vertices of a connected graph G . The vertex v is said to be a boundary vertex of u if no neighbor of v is further away from u than v . The boundary of a graph is the set of all its boundary vertices. In this work, we present a number of properties of the boundary of a graph under diÆerent points of view: (1) a realization theorem involving diÆerent types of boundary vertex sets: extreme set, periphery, contour, and the whole boundary; (2) the contour is a monophonic set; and (3) the cardinality of the boundary is an upper bound for both the metric dimension and the determining number of a graph