Rainbow Connections of Graphs

Rainbow connections are natural combinatorial measures that are used in applications to secure the transfer of classified information between agencies in communication networks. Rainbow Connections of Graphs covers this new and emerging topic in graph theory and brings together a majority of the res...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Xueliang (Author), Sun, Yuefang (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Mathematics,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction (Motivation and definitions, Terminology and notations)
  • 2. (Strong) Rainbow connection number(Basic results, Upper bounds for rainbow connection number, For some graph classes, For dense and sparse graphs, For graph operations, An upper bound for strong rainbow connection number)
  • 3. Rainbow k-connectivity
  •  4. k-rainbow index
  • 5. Rainbow vertex-connection number
  • 6. Algorithms and computational complexity
  • References.