On the crossing numbers of join products of W4+Pn and W4+Cn

Abstract

The crossing number $cr(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edge crossings over all drawings of $G$ in the plane. The main aim of the paper is to give the crossing number of the join product $W_{4}+P_{n}$ and $W_{4}+C_{n}$ for the wheel $W_4$ on five vertices, where $P_n$ and $C_n$ are the path and the cycle on $n$ vertices, respectively. Yue et al. conjectured that the crossing number of $W_{m}+C_{n}$ is equal to $Z(m+1)Z(n)+(Z(m)-1) \big \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \big \rfloor + n+ \big\lceil\frac{m}{2}\big\rceil +2$, for all $m,n \geq 3$, and where the Zarankiewicz's number $Z(n)=\big \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \big \rfloor \big \lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \big \rfloor$ is defined for $n \geq 1$. Recently, this conjecture was proved for $W_{3}+C_{n}$ by Klešč. We establish the validity of this conjecture for $W_{4}+C_{n}$ and we also offer a new conjecture for the crossing number of the join product $W_{m}+P_{n}$ for $m \geq 3$ and $n \geq 2$.