Two kinds of generalized connectivity of dual cubes

TL;DR

This paper investigates two generalized connectivity parameters of dual cubes, establishing exact values for our and ive, thereby extending understanding of network robustness in these graph structures.

Contribution

The paper determines the exact value of our for dual cubes and provides a formula for the ive component connectivity, advancing the theoretical understanding of dual cube connectivity.

Findings

our of dual cubes is n-1 for n.

ive component connectivity of dual cubes is rn - r(r+1)/2 + 1.

Results extend known connectivity parameters beyond r=3 for dual cubes.

Abstract

Let $S\subseteq V(G)$ and $\kappa_{G}(S)$ denote the maximum number $k$ of edge-disjoint trees $T_{1}, T_{2}, \cdots, T_{k}$ in $G$ such that $V(T_{i})\bigcap V(T_{j})=S$ for any $i, j \in \{1, 2, \cdots, k\}$ and $i\neq j$. For an integer $r$ with $2\leq r\leq n$, the {\em generalized $r$-connectivity} of a graph $G$ is defined as $\kappa_{r}(G)= min\{\kappa_{G}(S)|S\subseteq V(G)$ and $|S|=r\}$. The $r$-component connectivity $c\kappa_{r}(G)$ of a non-complete graph $G$ is the minimum number of vertices whose deletion results in a graph with at least $r$ components. These two parameters are both generalizations of traditional connectivity. Except hypercubes and complete bipartite graphs, almost all known $\kappa_{r}(G)$ are about $r=3$. In this paper, we focus on $\kappa_{4}(D_{n})$ of dual cube $D_{n}$. We first show that $\kappa_{4}(D_{n})=n-1$ for $n\geq 4$. As a corollary, we obtain $\kappa_{3}(D_{n})=n-1$ for $n\geq 4$. Furthermore, we show that $c\kappa_{r+1}(D_{n})=rn-\frac{r(r+1)}{2}+1$ for $n\geq 2$ and $1\leq r \leq n-1$.