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 July 29th, 2012, 07:42 AM #1 Newbie   Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 19 Thanks: 0 Induced Subgraphs (Graph Theory) Not sure if I am posting this in the right section. Prove or disprove: For every graph G and every integer $r \geq max \{ degv: v \in V(G) \}$, there is an r-regular graph H containing G as an induced subgraph. Thanks for any help.
 August 2nd, 2012, 09:39 AM #2 Senior Member   Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 628 Thanks: 1 Re: Induced Subgraphs (Graph Theory) Can you construct an r-regular graph with an arbitrary number of vertices as long as the number of vertices exceeds a given quantity? If so, then you may construct H from G as follows: Let $d_n$ be the degree of the nth vertex of G. For every vertex $v_n$ in G with degree $d_n$ less than r, add a vertex to the graph and an edge connecting that vertex to $v_n$ and repeat this process until the degree of $v_n$ is r. Then you will have a graph in which the degree of the vertices originally in G is r, and the degree of the vertices not originally in G is 1. If you cannot construct an (r-1)-regular graph with the number of additional vertices (the ones not originally in G), then add two vertices and connect them with an edge. Repeat this process until you can construct an (r-1)-regular graph with the number of additional vertices. Now, for the vertices whose degree is 1, add the edges of the (r-1)-regular graph you constructed. This will complete the creation of H, and G will be an induced subgraph of H, which is seen easily by choosing the vertices originally in G, to which no edges were added in the creation of H.

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