Geodetic numbers of tensor product and lexicographic product of graphs

Abstract

A shortest u - v path between two vertices u and v of a graph G is a u - v geodesic of G. Let I[u, v] denote the set of all internal vertices lying on some u - v geodesic of G. For a nonempty subset S of V ( G ) , let I ( S ) = ∪ u , v ∈ S I [ u , v ] . If I ( S ) = V ( G ) , then S is a geodetic set of G. The cardinality of a minimum geodetic set of G is the geodetic number of G and it is denoted by g ( G ) . In this paper, the exact geodetic numbers of the product graphs T × K m and T ° K ¯ m are obtained, where T is a tree, K ¯ m denotes the complement of the complete graph K m and, × and ° denote the tensor product and lexicographic product $($also called the wreath product$)$ of graphs, respectively.