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Properties of Hereditary Hypergraphs and Middle Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. J. Cockayne ,
S. T. Hedetniemi  and
D. J. Miller
E. J. Cockayne
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
S. T. Hedetniemi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
D. J. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
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Abstract

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The middle graph of a graph G=( V, E) is the graph M(G) = (V∪E, E′), in which two vertices u, v are adjacent if either M is a vertex in V and v is an edge in E containing u, or u and v are edges in E having a vertex in common. Middle graphs have been characterized in terms of line graphs by Hamada and Yoshimura [7], who also investigated their traversability and connectivity properties. In this paper another characterization of middle graphs is presented, in which they are viewed as a class of intersection (representative) graphs of hereditary hypergraphs. Graph theoretic parameters associated with the concepts of vertex independence, dominance, and irredundance for middle graphs are discussed, and equalities relating the chromatic number of a graph to these parameters are obtained.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , 01 December 1978 , pp. 461 - 468
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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