SHANDONG SCIENCE ›› 2015, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (5): 72-77.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2015.05.011

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m-competition index of a kind of primitive digraph

LIU Caifeng, LIU Guoyong, GAO Yubin   

  1. Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
  • Received:2015-01-22 Online:2015-10-20 Published:2015-10-20

Abstract: Let D be a primitive digraph of order n.For positive integers m and n(1≤m≤n), we define its mcompetition index,km(D), as the smallest positive integer k that satisfies the condition that for every pair of vertices x and y, there are m different vertices v1,v2,…,vm in D that satisfy xkvi and ykvi(i=1,2,…,m). We address a primitive digraph D of order n with two (n-2) cycles and one (n-3) cycle. We derive primitive digraphs Dn-2 and Dn-3 based on the structure of D. We can further obtain m-competition index of the primitive digraph D based on the definition of m-competition index.

Key words: digraph, primitive digraph, m-competition index

CLC Number: 

  • O157.5