Subgraph extension problem: structures, characterizations and its connection with edge-weighting coloring problems

子图扩张和图染色问题图论是一个古老而又生机勃勃的数学分支。自20世纪60年代S以来，它得到了迅速发展，其应用范围扩展到物理、生物学和运筹学，特别是计算科学和通信网络。图表经常被用作各种科学调查的工作框架。特别是，计算科学为图论的发展提供了许多有趣的问题。最近，图论已经成为研究基因序列、环境可持续性、管理科学和逻辑设计的有用工具。该计划旨在扩展我们在图因子、子图扩展及其与其他组合主题的联系方面的知识。其目的是通过三种方式获取用于研究和HQP培训的知识：1)通过开发用于一般递归论证的分解过程来理解子图可扩展图(即(Y，H)可扩展图)的结构。这样的分解对于设计识别和构建这类图族的有效算法至关重要。这项工作涉及到概括现有的技术和方法，并为一般框架和抽象模型创建新的分析工具。2)这项研究将为子图扩展在其他组合问题和其他数学分支中的潜在应用提供一个更一致和更通用的框架。(Y，H)-可扩图是一个定义良好的框架，它不仅将许多著名的概念(如因子临界图、双临界图和缺陷-d匹配)统一在一起，而且保持了它的子类的基本性质。这使我们能够简化前面的许多证明，并与其他图论问题建立更紧密的联系。3)在我们的建议中，我们提出了许多密切相关和明确的问题。这些问题有不同程度的困难，从猜想和开放问题，到已知结果的推广和特定图类的构造；我们还通过考虑短期和长期目标来仔细选择和混合建议中的问题。所提出的问题将实现我在子图可拓研究方面的愿景，也为本科生和研究生提供参与创造、探索和体验严谨研究的机会。

Subgraph extension and graph coloring problems Graph Theory is an old but re-born and energized branch of mathematics. It has grown rapidly since the 1960’s with its applications spreading to Physics, Biology and Operations Research, in particular to Computing Science and communication networks. Often graphs are used as a working frame for various scientific investigations. In particular, Computing Science has provided many interesting problems for Graph Theory to grow. More recently, Graph Theory has become a useful instrument for the study of gene sequences, environment sustainability, management science and logic designing. The proposed program is to expand our knowledge on graph factors, subgraph extension and its connection to other combinatorial topics. The objectives are to acquire knowledge, both for research and HQP training in three ways: 1) To understand the structures of subgraph extension graphs (i.e., (Y, H)-extendable graphs) by developing a decomposition procedure for the purpose of general recursive arguments. Such a decomposition will be vital for the design of efficient algorithms to recognize and to construct the family of such graphs. This work involves to generalize the existing techniques and methods, and to create new analysis tools for the general framework and abstract models. 2) The research will deliver a more consistent and universal framework for the potential applications of subgraph extension to other combinatorial problems and other mathematical branches. The concept, (Y, H)-extendable graphs, is a well-defined framework, which not only consolidate many well-known concepts (e.g., factor-critical graph, bicritical graphs and defect-d matching) together and also maintain the basic properties of its sub-classes. This enables us to simplify many of the previous proofs and establish closer connections to other graph theory problems. 3) In our proposal, we have stated many closely related and well-defined problems. These problems have different levels of difficulties, from conjectures and open problems, to generalization of known results and construction of specified classes of graphs; we also carefully select and blend the problems in proposal by considering our short-term and long-term objectives. The problems proposed will fulfill my vision in the study of subgraph extension and also provide opportunities for involvement of undergraduate and graduate students to engage in creation, exploration and experiencing rigorous research.