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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...