Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE MAT3470

 
TITLE Graph Theory

 
UM LEVEL 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 6

 
DEPARTMENT Mathematics

 
DESCRIPTION Follows from: MAT3413

Leads to: MAT5411

- Definitions and elementary results on graphs:
    - Graphical degree sequences;
- Trees:
    - Cayley’s theorem on the number of spanning trees,
    - The matrix-tree theorem;
- Connectivity;
- Euler tours and Hamilton cycles;
- Vector spaces associated with graphs;
- Cycle-cutset duality;
- Graph colourings:
    - Chromatic polynomials;
- Planar graphs.

Main Texts

- Gross J.L. and Yellen J., Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 2004.
- Wilson R.J., Introduction to Graph Theory, Longman, 4th Edition, 1996.
- West D.B., Introduction to Graph Theory, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2001.
- Biggs N.L., Discrete Mathematics, Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, 1989.
- Agnarsson G. and Greenlaw R., Graph Theory: Modelling, Applications and Algorithms, Pearson, 2006.

Supplementary Reading

- Diestel R., Graph Theory, Springer-Verlag, 3rd Edition, 2006.
- Cameron P.J., Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Bryant V., Aspects of Combinatorics: A Wide Ranging Introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

 
RULES/CONDITIONS In TAKING THIS UNIT YOU CANNOT TAKE MAT3414 OR TAKE MAT3471

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Examination (3 Hours) Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Peter Borg

 

 
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