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On the Toughness of Regular Graphs and Prisms

Geoffrey Boyer·Wayne Goddard
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We contribute results on $r$-regular graphs that do and don't have the maximum possible toughness, namely $r/2$. Doty and Ferland showed the existence of a $5$-regular graph with toughness $5/2$ for all even orders except $n= 18$. Using a computer search we show that there does not exist such a graph for $n=18$. Also, we provide the first family of $4$-regular graphs with toughness $2$ that contains claws. For the prism $G \Box K_2$ of a graph~$G$, we provide several bounds including a sufficient condition for the prism to have the same toughness as~$G$. In particular, we show that if $G$ has toughness $t\le \frac{1}{2}$ then its prism has toughness $2t$; further, the prism of any $r$-regular $r$-connected inflation has toughness~$r/2$ (despite being $(r+1)$-regular) and in general the prism of any $3$-regular graph has toughness at most~$3/2$.

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Geoffrey Boyer, Wayne Goddard. 2025-05-08. On the Toughness of Regular Graphs and Prisms. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13632

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