The Restricted Edge-Connectivity of Kronecker Product Graphs

The restricted edge-connectivity of a connected graph [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], if exists, is the minimum number of edges whose deletion disconnects the graph such that each connected component has at least two vertices. The Kronecker product of graphs [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is the graph with vertex set [Formula: see text], where two vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are adjacent in [Formula: see text] if and only if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In this paper, it is proved that [Formula: see text] for any graph [Formula: see text] and a complete graph [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] vertices, where [Formula: see text] is minimum edge-degree of [Formula: see text], and a sufficient condition such that [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text]-optimal is acquired.