A graph G is diameter-2-critical if its diameter is two and the deletion of any edge increases the diameter. The complete graph on four vertices minus one edge is called a diamond, and a diamond-free graph has no induced diamond subgraph. In this paper we use an association with total domination to characterize the diameter-2-critical graphs whose complements are diamond-free. Murty and Simon conjectured that the number of edges in a diameter-2-critical graph G of order n is at most ⌊ n24⌋ and that the extremal graphs are the complete bipartite graphs K⌊ n2⌋n2⌉. As a consequence of our characterization, we prove the Murty-Simon conjecture for graphs whose complements are diamond-free.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etsu-works-17333 |
| Date | 01 September 2012 |
| Creators | Haynes, Teresa W., Henning, Michael A. |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | ETSU Faculty Works |
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