DMGT

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 28(2) (2008) 367-373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1412

ORDERED AND LINKED CHORDAL GRAPHS

Thomas Böhme, Tobias Gerlach and Michael Stiebitz

Institut für Mathematik
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany

e-mail:	tboehme@theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de
e-mail:	tobias.gerlach@tu-ilmenau.de
e-mail:	stieb@mathematik.tu-ilmenau.de

Abstract

A graph G is called k-ordered if for every sequence of k distinct vertices there is a cycle traversing these vertices in the given order.

In the present paper we consider two novel generalizations of this concept, k-vertex-edge-ordered and strongly k-vertex-edge-ordered . We prove the following results for a chordal graph G:

(a)

G is (2k−3)-connected if and only if it is k-vertex-edge-ordered (k ≥ 3).

(b)

G is (2k−1)-connected if and only if it is strongly k-vertex-edge-ordered (k ≥ 2).

(c)

G is k-linked if and only if it is (2k−1)-connected.

Keywords: paths and cycles, connectivity, chordal graphs.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C38, 05C40.

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Received 20 September 2007
Revised 1 April 2008
Accepted 2 April 2008