Author : Lowell W. Beineke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2004-10-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521801973
There is no other book with such a wide scope of both areas of algebraic graph theory.
Author : Ravindra B. Bapat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1447165691
This new edition illustrates the power of linear algebra in the study of graphs. The emphasis on matrix techniques is greater than in other texts on algebraic graph theory. Important matrices associated with graphs (for example, incidence, adjacency and Laplacian matrices) are treated in detail. Presenting a useful overview of selected topics in algebraic graph theory, early chapters of the text focus on regular graphs, algebraic connectivity, the distance matrix of a tree, and its generalized version for arbitrary graphs, known as the resistance matrix. Coverage of later topics include Laplacian eigenvalues of threshold graphs, the positive definite completion problem and matrix games based on a graph. Such an extensive coverage of the subject area provides a welcome prompt for further exploration. The inclusion of exercises enables practical learning throughout the book. In the new edition, a new chapter is added on the line graph of a tree, while some results in Chapter 6 on Perron-Frobenius theory are reorganized. Whilst this book will be invaluable to students and researchers in graph theory and combinatorial matrix theory, it will also benefit readers in the sciences and engineering.
Author : Jonathan L. Gross
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 158488505X
Already an international bestseller, with the release of this greatly enhanced second edition, Graph Theory and Its Applications is now an even better choice as a textbook for a variety of courses -- a textbook that will continue to serve your students as a reference for years to come. The superior explanations, broad coverage, and abundance of illustrations and exercises that positioned this as the premier graph theory text remain, but are now augmented by a broad range of improvements. Nearly 200 pages have been added for this edition, including nine new sections and hundreds of new exercises, mostly non-routine. What else is new? New chapters on measurement and analytic graph theory Supplementary exercises in each chapter - ideal for reinforcing, reviewing, and testing. Solutions and hints, often illustrated with figures, to selected exercises - nearly 50 pages worth Reorganization and extensive revisions in more than half of the existing chapters for smoother flow of the exposition Foreshadowing - the first three chapters now preview a number of concepts, mostly via the exercises, to pique the interest of reader Gross and Yellen take a comprehensive approach to graph theory that integrates careful exposition of classical developments with emerging methods, models, and practical needs. Their unparalleled treatment provides a text ideal for a two-semester course and a variety of one-semester classes, from an introductory one-semester course to courses slanted toward classical graph theory, operations research, data structures and algorithms, or algebra and topology.
Author : L.R. Foulds
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461209331
The first part of this text covers the main graph theoretic topics: connectivity, trees, traversability, planarity, colouring, covering, matching, digraphs, networks, matrices of a graph, graph theoretic algorithms, and matroids. These concepts are then applied in the second part to problems in engineering, operations research, and science as well as to an interesting set of miscellaneous problems, thus illustrating their broad applicability. Every effort has been made to present applications that use not merely the notation and terminology of graph theory, but also its actual mathematical results. Some of the applications, such as in molecular evolution, facilities layout, and graffic network design, have never appeared before in book form. Written at an advanced undergraduate to beginning graduate level, this book is suitable for students of mathematics, engineering, operations research, computer science, and physical sciences as well as for researchers and practitioners with an interest in graph theoretic modelling.
Author : T.T Chelvam
Publisher : ALPHA SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 8184873107
Algebra and Graph Theory are two fascinating branches of Mathematics. The tools of each have been used in the other to explore and investigate problems in depth. Especially the Cayley graphs constructed out of the group structures have been greatly and extensively used in Parallel computers to provide network to the routing problem. ALGEBRA, GRAPH THEORY AND THEIR APPLICATIONS takes an inclusive view of the two areas and presents a wide range of topics. It includes sixteen referred research articles on algebra and graph theory of which three are expository in nature alongwith articles exhibiting the use of algebraic techniques in the study of graphs. A substantial proportion of the book covers topics that have not yet appeared in book form providing a useful resource to the younger generation of researchers in Discrete Mathematics.
Author : Norman Biggs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521458979
This is a substantial revision of a much-quoted monograph, first published in 1974. The structure is unchanged, but the text has been clarified and the notation brought into line with current practice. A large number of 'Additional Results' are included at the end of each chapter, thereby covering most of the major advances in the last twenty years. Professor Biggs' basic aim remains to express properties of graphs in algebraic terms, then to deduce theorems about them. In the first part, he tackles the applications of linear algebra and matrix theory to the study of graphs; algebraic constructions such as adjacency matrix and the incidence matrix and their applications are discussed in depth. There follows an extensive account of the theory of chromatic polynomials, a subject which has strong links with the 'interaction models' studied in theoretical physics, and the theory of knots. The last part deals with symmetry and regularity properties. Here there are important connections with other branches of algebraic combinatorics and group theory. This new and enlarged edition this will be essential reading for a wide range of mathematicians, computer scientists and theoretical physicists.
Author : Chris Godsil
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461301637
This book presents and illustrates the main tools and ideas of algebraic graph theory, with a primary emphasis on current rather than classical topics. It is designed to offer self-contained treatment of the topic, with strong emphasis on concrete examples.
Author : W. T. Tutte
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0191637785
This book provides a unique and unusual introduction to graph theory by one of the founding fathers, and will be of interest to all researchers in the subject. It is not intended as a comprehensive treatise, but rather as an account of those parts of the theory that have been of special interest to the author. Professor Tutte details his experience in the area, and provides a fascinating insight into how he was led to his theorems and the proofs he used. As well as being of historical interest it provides a useful starting point for research, with references to further suggested books as well as the original papers. The book starts by detailing the first problems worked on by Professor Tutte and his colleagues during his days as an undergraduate member of the Trinity Mathematical Society in Cambridge. It covers subjects such as comnbinatorial problems in chess, the algebraicization of graph theory, reconstruction of graphs, and the chromatic eigenvalues. In each case fascinating historical and biographical information about the author's research is provided.
Author : S. Lefschetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1468493671
This monograph is based, in part, upon lectures given in the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science. It presupposes mainly an elementary knowledge of linear algebra and of topology. In topology the limit is dimension two mainly in the latter chapters and questions of topological invariance are carefully avoided. From the technical viewpoint graphs is our only requirement. However, later, questions notably related to Kuratowski's classical theorem have demanded an easily provided treatment of 2-complexes and surfaces. January 1972 Solomon Lefschetz 4 INTRODUCTION The study of electrical networks rests upon preliminary theory of graphs. In the literature this theory has always been dealt with by special ad hoc methods. My purpose here is to show that actually this theory is nothing else than the first chapter of classical algebraic topology and may be very advantageously treated as such by the well known methods of that science. Part I of this volume covers the following ground: The first two chapters present, mainly in outline, the needed basic elements of linear algebra. In this part duality is dealt with somewhat more extensively. In Chapter III the merest elements of general topology are discussed. Graph theory proper is covered in Chapters IV and v, first structurally and then as algebra. Chapter VI discusses the applications to networks. In Chapters VII and VIII the elements of the theory of 2-dimensional complexes and surfaces are presented.
Author : Courtney Brown
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1412941091
This book describes an easily applied language of mathematical modeling that uses boxes and arrows to develop very sophisticated, algebraic statements of social and political phenomena.
