Result: The average connectivity of a digraph

Title:
The average connectivity of a digraph
Source:
Discrete applied mathematics. 140(1-3):143-153
Publisher Information:
Amsterdam; Lausanne; New York, NY: Elsevier, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 7 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Academic journal Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
School of Mathematics, Statistics, & Information Technology, University of Natal, Private Bag X01, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
ISSN:
0166-218X
Rights:
Copyright 2004 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems

Mathematics
Accession Number:
edscal.15859785
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

In this paper we consider the concept of the average connectivity of a digraph D defined to be the average, over all ordered pairs (u, v) of vertices of D, of the maximum number of internally disjoint directed u-v paths. We determine sharp bounds on the average connectivity of orientations of graphs in terms of the number of vertices and edges and for tournaments and orientations of trees in terms of their orders. An efficient procedure for finding the maximum average connectivity among all orientations of a tree is described and it is shown that this maximum is always greater than 2/9 and at most 1/2.