Open Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics (ODAM)

This paper furthers the study on a new graph parameter called the degree affinity number. The degree affinity number of a graph \(G\) is obtained by iteratively constructing graphs, \(G_1,G_2,\dots,G_k\) of increased size by adding a maximal number of edges between distinct pairs of distinct vertices of equal degree. Preliminary results for certain \(2\)-regular graphs are presented.

The inverse degree of a graph was defined as the sum of the inverses of the degrees of the vertices. In this paper, we focus on finding sufficient conditions in terms of the inverse degree for a graph to be \(k\)-path-coverable, \(k\)-edge-hamiltonian, Hamilton-connected and traceable, respectively. The results obtained are not dropped.

Let \(G\) be a simple and finite graph. A graph is said to be decomposed into subgraphs \(H_1\) and \(H_2\) which is denoted by \(G= H_1 \oplus H_2\), if \(G\) is the edge disjoint union of \(H_1\) and \(H_2\). If \(G= H_1 \oplus H_2 \oplus \cdots \oplus H_k\), where \(H_1\), \(H_2\), …, \(H_k\) are all isomorphic to \(H\), then \(G\) is said to be \(H\)-decomposable. Furthermore, if \(H\) is a cycle of length \(m\) then we say that \(G\) is \(C_m\)-decomposable and this can be written as \(C_m|G\). Where \(G\times H\) denotes the tensor product of graphs \(G\) and \(H\), in this paper, we prove that the necessary conditions for the existence of \(C_6\)-decomposition of \(K_m \times K_n\) are sufficient. Using these conditions it can be shown that every even regular complete multipartite graph \(G\) is \(C_6\)-decomposable if the number of edges of \(G\) is divisible by \(6\).

A topological index of graph \(G\) is a numerical parameter related to graph which characterizes its molecular topology and is usually graph invariant. Topological indices are widely used to determine the correlation between the specific properties of molecules and the biological activity with their configuration in the study of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs). In this paper some basic mathematical operations for the forgotten index of complement graph operations such as join \(\overline {G_1+G_2}\), tensor product \(\overline {G_1 \otimes G_2}\), Cartesian product \(\overline {G_1\times G_2}\), composition \(\overline {G_1\circ G_2}\), strong product \(\overline {G_1\ast G_2}\), disjunction \(\overline {G_1\vee G_2}\) and symmetric difference \(\overline {G_1\oplus G_2}\) will be explained. The results are applied to molecular graph of nanotorus and titania nanotubes.

A pseudo walk matrix \(\bf{W}_\bf{v}\) of a graph \(G\) having adjacency matrix \(\bf{A}\) is an \(n\times n\) matrix with columns \(\bf{v},\bf{A}\bf{v},\bf{A}^2\bf{v},\ldots,\bf{A}^{n-1}\bf{v}\) whose Gram matrix has constant skew diagonals, each containing walk enumerations in \(G\). We consider the factorization over \(\mathbb{Q}\) of the minimal polynomial \(m(G,x)\) of \(\bf{A}\). We prove that the rank of \(\bf{W}_\bf{v}\), for any walk vector \(\bf{v}\), is equal to the sum of the degrees of some, or all, of the polynomial factors of \(m(G,x)\). For some adjacency matrix \(\bf{A}\) and a walk vector \(\bf{v}\), the pair \((\bf{A},\bf{v})\) is controllable if \(\bf{W}_\bf{v}\) has full rank. We show that for graphs having an irreducible characteristic polynomial over \(\mathbb{Q}\), the pair \((\bf{A},\bf{v})\) is controllable for any walk vector \(\bf{v}\). We obtain the number of such graphs on up to ten vertices, revealing that they appear to be commonplace. It is also shown that, for all walk vectors \(\bf{v}\), the degree of the minimal polynomial of the largest eigenvalue of \(\bf{A}\) is a lower bound for the rank of \(\bf{W}_\bf{v}\). If the rank of \(\bf{W}_\bf{v}\) attains this lower bound, then \((\bf{A},\bf{v})\) is called a recalcitrant pair. We reveal results on recalcitrant pairs and present a graph having the property that \((\bf{A},\bf{v})\) is neither controllable nor recalcitrant for any walk vector \(\bf{v}\).

In this paper we give a new variation of the prime labeling. We call a graph \(G\) with vertex set \(V(G)\) has an odd prime labeling if its vertices can be labeled distinctly from the set \(\big\{1, 3, 5, …,2\big|V(G)\big| -1\big\}\) such that for every edge \(xy\) of \(E(G)\) the labels assigned to the vertices of \(x\) and \(y\) are relatively prime. A graph that admits an odd prime labeling is called an odd prime graph. We give some families of odd prime graphs and give some necessary conditions for a graph to be odd prime. Finally, we conjecture that every prime graph is odd prime graph.

Harvesting has a strong impact on the dynamic evolution of a population subjected to it. In this paper, a fractional-order predator-prey interaction is studied with harvesting affecting both predator and prey populations. Local stability of the coexistence equilibrium point is discussed depending upon the harvesting of prey. Moreover, period-doubling and Neimark-Sacker bifurcations are studied for a wide range of constant harvesting effort of prey.

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solution for the fractional differential equation of order \(\alpha\) with three point boundary conditions having the following form
$$
D^{\alpha}u(t)=f(t,v(t),D^{\nu}v(t)),\quad t\in(0,T)$$
$$u(0)=0,\quad u(T)=au(\xi),$$
where \(1<\alpha<2\), \(\nu, a>0\), \(\xi\in (0,T)\), \(T^{\alpha-1}+a\xi^{\alpha-1}\neq0\). \(D\) is the standard Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative operator and \(f\in C([0,1]\times\mathbf{R}^{2},\mathbf{R})\). Applying the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative we prove the existence of at least one solution. As an application, we also given some examples to illustrate the results obtained.

Fibonacci polynomials have been generalized mainly by two ways: by maintaining the recurrence relation and varying the initial conditions and by varying the recurrence relation and maintaining the initial conditions. In this paper, both the recurrence relation and initial conditions of generalized Fibonacci polynomials are varied and defined by recurrence relation as \(R_n(x)=axR_{n-1}(x)+bR_{n-2}(x)\) for all \(n\geq2,\) with initial conditions \(R_0(x)=2p\) and \(R_1(x)=px+q\) where \(a\) and \(b\) are positive integers and \(p\) and \(q\) are non-negative integers. Further some fundamental properties of these generalized polynomials such as explicit sum formula, sum of first \(n\) terms, sum of first \(n\) terms with (odd or even) indices and generalized identity are derived by Binet’s formula and generating function only.

The degree tolerant number of the power graph of the finite Albenian group, \(\mathbb{Z}_n\) under addition modulo \(n\), \(n\in \mathbb{N}\) is investigated. A surprising simple result, \(\chi_{dt}(\mathcal{P}((\mathbb{Z}_{n},+_{n}))) = k\) for the product of primes, \(n=p_1p_2p_3\cdots p_k\) is presented.