Advances and Applications in Discrete Mathematics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/DM024020129
Volume 24, Number 2, 2020, Pages 129-142 ISSN: 0974-1658
Received: March 4, 2020; Accepted: June 5, 2020
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C22, 91D30.
Keywords and phrases: signed graph, switching, switching isomorphism, frustration index,
frustration number.
SIGNED COMPLETE GRAPHS ON SIX VERTICES AND
THEIR FRUSTRATION INDICES
Deepak Sehrawat and Bikash Bhattacharjya
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati 781039, India
e-mail: deepakmath55555@iitg.ac.in
b.bikash@iitg.ac.in
Abstract
A signed graph is a graph whose edges are labeled positive or
negative. The sign of a cycle is the product of the signs of its edges.
A signed graph is said to be balanced if the sign of every cycle is
positive. The frustration index (and frustration number) of a signed
graph is the smallest number of edges (and vertices) whose deletion
makes the resulting signed graph balanced. In 2012, Zaslavsky [12]
proved that upto switching isomorphism, there are six different signed
Petersen graphs and he determined the frustration indices (and
numbers) of all signed Petersen graphs. In this paper, we determine
two things about complete graphs ,
6
K with six vertices. First, we
determine that there are sixteen signed s, ’
6
K upto switching
isomorphism. Second, we determine the frustration indices and the
frustration numbers of all signed s. ’
6
K