Edge-added Eccentricities of Vertices in a Graph

Kevin McDougal1
1Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI U.S.A. 54901

Abstract

The eccentricity of a vertex \(v\) in a connected graph \(G\) is the distance between \(v\) and a vertex farthest from \(v\). For a vertex \(v\), we define the edge-added eccentricity of \(v\) as the minimum eccentricity of \(v\) in all graphs \(G+e\), taken over all edges \(e\) in the complement of \(G\). A graph is said to be edge-added stable (or just stable) if the eccentricity and the edge-added eccentricity are the same for all vertices in the graph. This paper describes properties of edge-added eccentricities and edge-added stable graphs.