Sufficient conditions for super-edge-connected graphs depending on the clique number

Lutz Volkmann1
1Lehrstuhl II fiir Mathematik, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany

Abstract

Let \( \delta(G) \) and \( \lambda(G) \) be the minimum degree and edge-connectivity of a graph \( G \), respectively. A graph \( G \) is maximally edge-connected if \( \lambda(G) = \delta(G) \) and super-edge-connected if every minimum edge cut consists of edges adjacent to a vertex of minimum degree.

In this paper, sufficient conditions for super-edge-connected graphs depending on the clique number and the minimum degree are presented. These results show that some known sufficient conditions for maximally edge-connected graphs even lead to super-edge-connected graphs.