Graph Theory and Decomposition

Jomon Kottarathil (0000-0003-4787-6029) St. Joseph’s College, Moolamattom jomoncmi@gmail.com Jomon Kottarathil (Jomon K Sebastian) secured his doctoral degree from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India, on ‘Decompositions of Graphs’. He currently serves as Head of the Department of Data Science and is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Joseph’s College, Moolamattom, Kerala, India. He also serves as a member of panels of referees for many international research journals and is a life member of professional societies. He has authored around 20 research articles in graph theory and more than 20 literary articles in the vernacular language of Malayalam. He attended around 35 conferences and presented papers. He holds postgraduate degrees in mathematics and education and has over 15 years of teaching experience and about 10 years of research experience. Sudev Naduvath (0000-0001-9692-4053) CHRIST(Deemed to be University), Bengaluru sudev.nk@christuniversity.in Sudev Naduvath secured his doctoral degree from Kannur University, Kerala, India, on ‘Set- Valuations of Discrete Structures and Their Applications’. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India. He has authored 127 researcharticles, 3 books, and 4 book chapters. He is a member of the panels of referees for 52 journals and a member of the board of editors for 11 journals. He has membership in 13 professional societies. He has about 20 years of teaching experience 10 years of research experience, and he is currently supervising seven doctoral students. Joseph Varghese Kureethara (0000-0001-5030-3948) CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru frjoseph@christuniversity.in Joseph Varghese Kureethara secured his doctoral degree from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India, on ’Observations in Continuous Monotonic Decomposition of Connected Graphs: Special Cases in Complete Tripartite Graphs and Other Related Topics’. He currently serves as a Professor of Mathematics and is heading the Centre for Research at CHRIST(Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India. He has over eighteen years of experience in teaching and research and has published 148 articles, of which 77 are Scopus-indexed, and 38 are in the Web of Science core collection. His areas of interest are Graph Theory, Number Theory, Fuzzy Optimisation, and Education. He has supervised six PhDs, 12 MPhils, and is supervising eight PhDs.

1. Decompositions of Graphs: An introduction. 2. Cycle Decompositions 3. Digraph Decompositions 4. K4-e Decompositions 5. Tree Decompositions 6. Path Decompositions 7. Star Decompositions 8. Pendant Number of Graphs 9. Multiple Decompositions of Graphs 10. Bibliography 11. Index