On Lower Orientable Strong Diameter and Strong Radius of Some Graphs

Abstract

For two vertices \(u\) and \(v\) in a strong digraph \(D\), the strong distance between \(u\) and \(v\) is the minimum number of arcs of a strong subdigraph of \(D\) containing \(u\) and \(v\). The strong eccentricity of a vertex \(v\) of \(D\) is the strong distance between \(v\) and a vertex farthest from \(v\). The strong diameter (strong radius) of \(D\) is the maximum (minimum) strong eccentricity among all vertices of \(D\). The lower orientable strong diameter (lower orientable strong radius), \(\mathrm{sdiam}(G)\) (\(\mathrm{srad}(G)\)), of a 2-edge-connected graph \(G\) is the minimum strong diameter (minimum strong radius) over all strong orientations of \(G\). In this paper, a conjecture of Chen and Guo is disproved by proving \(\mathrm{sdiam}(K_{3} \square K_{3}) = \mathrm{sdiam}(K_{3} \square K_{4}) = 5\), \(\mathrm{sdiam}(K_{m} \square P_{n})\) is determined, \(\mathrm{sdiam}(G)\) and \(\mathrm{srad}(G)\) for cycle vertex multiplications are computed, and some results concerning \(\mathrm{sdiam}(G)\) are described.