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Suppose that the vertices of a graph $G$ are colored with two colors in an unknown way. The color that occurs on more than half of the vertices is called the majority color (if it exists), and any vertex of this color is called a majority vertex. We study the problem of finding a majority vertex (or show that none exists) if we can query edges to learn whether their endpoints have the same or different colors. Denote the least number of queries needed in the worst case by $m(G)$. It was shown by Saks and Werman that $m(K_n)=n-b(n)$, where $b(n)$ is the number of 1s in the binary representation of $n$. In this paper, we initiate the study of the problem for general graphs. The obvious bounds for a connected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices are $n-b(n)le m(G)le n-1$. We show that for any tree $T$ on an even number of vertices we have $m(T)=n-1$ and that for any tree $T$ on an odd number of vertices, we have $n-65le m(T)le n-2$. Our proof uses results about the weighted version of the problem for $K_n$, which may be of independent interest. We also exhibit a sequence $G_n$ of graphs with $m(G_n)=n-b(n)$ such that $G_n$ has $O(nb(n))$ edges and $n$ vertices.
Let $G$ be a graph and ${mathcal{tau}}: V(G)rightarrow Bbb{N}cup {0}$ be an assignment of thresholds to the vertices of $G$. A subset of vertices $D$ is said to be a dynamic monopoly corresponding to $(G, tau)$ if the vertices of $G$ can be partitioned into subsets $D_0, D_1,..., D_k$ such that $D_0=D$ and for any $iin {0, ..., k-1}$, each vertex $v$ in $D_{i+1}$ has at least $tau(v)$ neighbors in $D_0cup ... cup D_i$. Dynamic monopolies are in fact modeling the irreversible spread of influence in social networks. In this paper we first obtain a lower bound for the smallest size of any dynamic monopoly in terms of the average threshold and the order of graph. Also we obtain an upper bound in terms of the minimum vertex cover of graphs. Then we derive the upper bound $|G|/2$ for the smallest size of any dynamic monopoly when the graph $G$ contains at least one odd vertex, where the threshold of any vertex $v$ is set as $lceil (deg(v)+1)/2 rceil$ (i.e. strict majority threshold). This bound improves the best known bound for strict majority threshold. We show that the latter bound can be achieved by a polynomial time algorithm. We also show that $alpha(G)+1$ is an upper bound for the size of strict majority dynamic monopoly, where $alpha(G)$ stands for the matching number of $G$. Finally, we obtain a basic upper bound for the smallest size of any dynamic monopoly, in terms of the average threshold and vertex degrees. Using this bound we derive some other upper bounds.
In this paper, we study independent domination in directed graphs, which was recently introduced by Cary, Cary, and Prabhu. We provide a short, algorithmic proof that all directed acyclic graphs contain an independent dominating set. Using linear algebraic tools, we prove that any strongly connected graph with even period has at least two independent dominating sets, generalizing several of the results of Cary, Cary, and Prabhu. We prove that determining the period of the graph is not sufficient to determine the existence of an independent dominating set by constructing a few examples of infinite families of graphs. We show that the direct analogue of Vizings Conjecture does not hold for independent domination number in directed graphs by providing two infinite families of graphs. We initialize the study of time complexity for independent domination in directed graphs, proving that the existence of an independent dominating set in directed acyclic graphs and strongly connected graphs with even period are in the time complexity class $P$. We also provide an algorithm for determining existence of an independent dominating set for digraphs with period greater than $1$.
An extension of the well-known Szeged index was introduced recently, named as weighted Szeged index ($textrm{sz}(G)$). This paper is devoted to characterizing the extremal trees and graphs of this new topological invariant. In particular, we proved that the star is a tree having the maximal $textrm{sz}(G)$. Finding a tree with the minimal $textrm{sz}(G)$ is not an easy task to be done. Here, we present the minimal trees up to 25 vertices obtained by computer and describe the regularities which retain in them. Our preliminary computer tests suggest that a tree with the minimal $textrm{sz}(G)$ is also the connected graph of the given order that attains the minimal weighted Szeged index. Additionally, it is proven that among the bipartite connected graphs the complete balanced bipartite graph $K_{leftlfloor n/2rightrfloorleftlceil n/2 rightrceil}$ attains the maximal $textrm{sz}(G)$,. We believe that the $K_{leftlfloor n/2rightrfloorleftlceil n/2 rightrceil}$ is a connected graph of given order that attains the maximum $textrm{sz}(G)$.
We show that any connected Cayley graph $Gamma$ on an Abelian group of order $2n$ and degree $tilde{Omega}(log n)$ has at most $2^{n+1}(1 + o(1))$ independent sets. This bound is tight up to to the $o(1)$ term when $Gamma$ is bipartite. Our proof is based on Sapozhenkos graph container method and uses the Pl{u}nnecke-Rusza-Petridis inequality from additive combinatorics.
While there have been many results on lower bounds for Max Cut in unweighted graphs, the only lower bound for non-integer weights is that by Poljak and Turzik (1986). In this paper, we launch an extensive study of lower bounds for Max Cut in weighted graphs. We introduce a new approach for obtaining lower bounds for Weighted Max Cut. Using it, Probabilistic Method, Vizings chromatic index theorem, and other tools, we obtain several lower bounds for arbitrary weighted graphs, weighted graphs of bounded girth and triangle-free weighted graphs. We pose conjectures and open questions.