Connectivity and Edge-Connectivity of Cartesian Products of Graphs

Jun-Ming Xu and Chao Yang
Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China


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The earliest study on connectivity of Cartesian product graphs can be traced back to 1957 by G. Sabidussi. He proved $\kappa(G_1\times G_2)\geqslant \kappa(G_1)+\kappa(G_2)$, hence determined the connectivity of Cartesian product of two maximally connected graphs. This result was generalized by Xu[1998] and some other authors. Our recent work determined the exact value of connectivity and edge-connectivity of Cartesian product of two arbitrary digraphs, in terms of the parameters of the two factor graphs.