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2013 The Average Covering Number of a Graph
Derya Dogan, Pinar Dundar
J. Appl. Math. 2013: 1-4 (2013). DOI: 10.1155/2013/849817

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There are occasions when an average value of a graph parameter gives more useful information than the basic global value. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the average covering number of a graph (the covering number of a graph is the minimum number of vertices in a set with the property that every edge has a vertex in the set). We establish relationships between the average covering number and some other graph parameters, find the extreme values of the average covering number among all graphs of a given order, and find the average covering number for some families of graphs.

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Derya Dogan. Pinar Dundar. "The Average Covering Number of a Graph." J. Appl. Math. 2013 1 - 4, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/849817

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Published: 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 14 March 2014

zbMATH: 06950906
MathSciNet: MR3103051
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1155/2013/849817

Rights: Copyright © 2013 Hindawi

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