Operations Research Transactions ›› 2020, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 145-152.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2020.04.013

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The restricted edge-connectivity and λ'-optimality of hypergraphs

TONG Linken1, SHAN Erfang2,*   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China;
    2. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2018-01-29 Published:2020-11-18

Abstract: Let H=(V, E) be a connected hypergraph consisting of a vertex set V and an edge set E. For SE(H), S is a restricted edge-cut, if H\S is disconnected and there are no isolated vertices in H\S. The restricted edge-connectivity, denoted by λ'(H), is defined as the minimum cardinality over all restricted edge-cuts. The edgedegree dH(e) of an edge eE(H) is defined as the number of edges adjacent to e, and the minimum edge-degree of H is denoted by ξ(H). The hypergraph H is called λ'-optimal, if λ'(H)=ξ(H). In this paper, we consider the restricted edge-connectivity and λ'-optimality of hypergraphs and generalize some results on the restricted edge-connectivity and λ'-optimality of graphs to hypergraphs.

Key words: hypergraph, restricted edge-connectivity, λ'-optimal

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