Graph Theory Homework 1

Posted by blueskyson on January 28, 2022

1. Prove or disprove: 9, 6, 5, 5, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1 are the vertex degrees of some graph.

Each edge contributes one degree to each of its two endpoints, therefore $\Sigma_{v \in V(G)}d(v)=2e(G)$, which supposed to be a even number. The sum of degrees is 9 + 6 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 35. Since 35 is an odd number, so it’s not a graph.

2. Prove or disprove that Petersen graph has girth 5.

  1. Petersen graph is a simple graph, so there is no 1-cycle and 2-cycle
  2. A 3-cycle require three pairwise-disjoint 2-sets, which cannot occur among 5 elements.
    12, 34, 5? ====> cannot make it
    
  3. A 4-cycle in the absence of 3-cycles would require nonadjacent vertices with two common neighbors.
    12, 34, 15, 34 ====> 34 repeats
    
  4. Take an example, 12, 35, 24, 51, 34 yield a 5-cycle.

Therefore, Petersen graph has girth 5.

3. What is the chromatic number of the following graph?

The chromatic number is 3.

4. Is it isomorphism from Figure 1 to Figure 2?

5. Please show the adjacency matrix and incidence matrix of the digraph $G$.

6. Please show the equivalence classes of the connection relation on $V(G)$.

7. Draw the complement $\bar{G}$ of the simple graph $G$.

8. Prove or Disprove: Every graph with $n$ vertices and $k$ edges has at least $n-k$ components

9. Prove or Disprove: A graph is bipartite if and only if it has no odd cycle.

10. Prove that an edge is a cut-edge if and only if it belongs to no cycle.