Department

Mathematics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2014

Abstract

In 1982, Prodinger and Tichy defined the Fibonacci number of a graph G to be the number of independent sets of the graph G. They did so since the Fibonacci number of the path graph Pn is the Fibonacci number F(n+2) and the Fibonacci number of the cycle graph Cn is the Lucas number Ln. The tadpole graph Tn,k is the graph created by concatenating Cn and Pk with an edge from any vertex of Cn to a pendant of Pk for integers n=3 and k=0. This paper establishes formulae and identities for the Fibonacci number of the tadpole graph via algebraic and combinatorial methods.

Journal Title

Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications

Journal ISSN

2338-2287

Volume

2

Issue

2

First Page

129

Last Page

138

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.5614/ejgta.2014.2.2.5

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