Connectivity of Cartesian products of graphs

Abstract Let κ ( G ) be the connectivity of G and G □ H the Cartesian product of G and H . We prove that for any nontrivial graphs G and H , κ ( G □ H ) = min { κ ( G ) | H | , κ ( H ) | G | , δ ( G □ H ) } .

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