Defensive alliances in regular graphs and circulant graphs

In this paper we study defensive alliances in some regular graphs. We determine which subgraphs could a critical defensive alliance of a graph $G$ induce, if $G$ is $6$-regular and the cardinality of the alliance is at most $8$. In particular, we study the case of circulant graphs, i.e. Cayley graph...

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Autores: Araujo Pardo, M. Gabriela, Barrière Figueroa, Eulalia|||0000-0002-5692-6879
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:2117/2284
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/2284
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
alliance
induced subgraph
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
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Sumario:In this paper we study defensive alliances in some regular graphs. We determine which subgraphs could a critical defensive alliance of a graph $G$ induce, if $G$ is $6$-regular and the cardinality of the alliance is at most $8$. In particular, we study the case of circulant graphs, i.e. Cayley graphs on a cyclic group. The critical defensive alliances of a circulant graph of degree at most $6$ are completely determined. For the general case, we give tight lower and upper bounds on the alliance number of a circulant graph with $d$ generators.