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SIAMDM
2010
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Complete Minors and Independence Number
Let G be a graph with n vertices and independence number . Hadwiger's conjecture implies that G contains a clique minor of order at least n/. In 1982, Duchet and Meyniel prov...
Jacob Fox
DAM
2011
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Independence in connected graphs
We prove that if G = (VG, EG) is a finite, simple, and undirected graph with κ components and independence number α(G), then there exist a positive integer k ∈ N and a functi...
Jochen Harant, Dieter Rautenbach
JCT
2010
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Pancyclicity of Hamiltonian and highly connected graphs
A graph G on n vertices is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle of length n and pancyclic if it contains cycles of length for all 3 ≤ ≤ n. Write α(G) for the independence numbe...
Peter Keevash, Benny Sudakov
SIAMDM
1998
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The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph
If f(m, n) is the (vertex) independence number of the m × n grid graph, then we show that the double limit η = def limm,n→∞ f(m, n) 1 mn exists, thereby refining earlier res...
Neil J. Calkin, Herbert S. Wilf
CORR
2007
Springer
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A new lower bound on the independence number of a graph
For a given connected graph G on n vertices and m edges, we prove that its independence number α(G) is at least ((2m+n+2) -((2m+n+2)2 -16n2 )½ )/8. Keywords : independence numbe...
Ossama Kettani
DM
2006
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Transversal numbers of translates of a convex body
Let F be a family of translates of a fixed convex set M in Rn. Let (F) and (F) denote the transversal number and the independence number of F, respectively. We show that (F) (F) 8...
Seog-Jin Kim, Kittikorn Nakprasit, Michael J. Pels...
DM
2006
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Hall ratio of the Mycielski graphs
Let n(G) denote the number of vertices of a graph G and let (G) be the independence number of G, the maximum number of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of G. The Hall ratio of a grap...
Mathew Cropper, András Gyárfá...
CORR
2006
Springer
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The Shannon capacity of a graph and the independence numbers of its powers
The independence numbers of powers of graphs have been long studied, under several definitions of graph products, and in particular, under the strong graph product. We show that t...
Noga Alon, Eyal Lubetzky
DM
2010
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Interpolating between bounds on the independence number
For a non-negative integer T, we prove that the independence number of a graph G = (V, E) in which every vertex belongs to at most T triangles is at least uV f(d(u), T) where d(u)...
Anett Boßecker, Dieter Rautenbach