Extraconnectivity of graphs with large minimum degree and girth (Q1356447)

The extraconnectivity \(\kappa (n)\) of a graph \(G\) is the minimum cardinality of a set of vertices, if any, whose deletion disconnects \(G\) in such a way that every remaining component has more than \(n\) vertices. The edge-extraconnectivity \(\lambda (n)\) is defined similarly. The paper brings sufficient conditions for maximum (edge-)extraconnectivity. One of them relates the diameter \(D\), the girth \(g\) and the minimum degree \(\delta\): If \(D\leq g-n+2 (\delta-3)\) for \(n\geq 2\delta+4\) and \(g\geq n+5\), then \(\kappa(n) =(n+1) \delta- 2n\), which is the maximum.