The generalized hierarchical product of graphs

A generalization of both the hierarchical product and the Cartesian product of graphs is introduced and some of its properties are studied. We call it the generalized hierarchical product. In fact, the obtained graphs turn out to be subgraphs of the Cartesian product of the corresponding factors. Th...

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Autores: Barrière Figueroa, Eulalia|||0000-0002-5692-6879, Dalfó Simó, Cristina|||0000-0002-8438-9353, Fiol Mora, Miquel Àngel|||0000-0003-1337-4952, Mitjana Riera, Margarida|||0000-0002-6563-5512
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1927
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1927
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph coloring
Hamiltonian systems
Graph
Cartesian product
Hierarchical product
Diameter
Spectrum
Hamiltonian cycles
Coloring
Connectivity
Grafs, Teoria de
Hamilton, Sistemes de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
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Sumario:A generalization of both the hierarchical product and the Cartesian product of graphs is introduced and some of its properties are studied. We call it the generalized hierarchical product. In fact, the obtained graphs turn out to be subgraphs of the Cartesian product of the corresponding factors. Thus, some well-known properties of this product, such as a good connectivity, reduced mean distance, radius and diameter, simple routing algorithms and some optimal communication protocols, are inherited by the generalized hierarchical product. Besides some of these properties, in this paper we study the spectrum, the existence of Hamiltonian cycles, the chromatic number and index, and the connectivity of the generalized hierarchical product.