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Rapport Année : 2023

Toughness Properties of Arbitrarily Partitionable Graphs

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Drawing inspiration from a well-known conjecture of Chv\'atal on a toughness threshold guaranteeing graph Hamiltonicity, we investigate toughness properties of so-called arbitrarily partitionable (AP) graphs, which are those graphs that can be partitioned into arbitrarily many connected graphs with arbitrary orders, and can be perceived as a weakening of Hamiltonian and traceable graphs. In particular, we provide constructions of non-AP graphs with toughness about $\frac{5}{4}$, \textit{i.e.}, in which, when removing the vertices of any cut-set $S$, the number of resulting connected components is at most about $\frac{4}{5} |S|$. We also consider side related questions on graphs that can be partitioned arbitrarily into only a few connected graphs (with arbitrary orders). Among other things, we prove that not all $1$-tough graphs can always be partitioned into four connected graphs this way. As going along, we also raise several other questions and problems of interest on the topic.
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hal-04312057 , version 1 (28-11-2023)

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Julien Bensmail. Toughness Properties of Arbitrarily Partitionable Graphs. Université côte d'azur. 2023. ⟨hal-04312057⟩
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