scholarly journals A Note on Path Factors of $(3,4)$-Biregular Bipartite Graphs

10.37236/705 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Johan Casselgren

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ with colors $1,2,3,\dots$ is called an interval coloring if the colors on the edges incident with any vertex are consecutive. A bipartite graph is $(3,4)$-biregular if all vertices in one part have degree $3$ and all vertices in the other part have degree $4$. Recently it was proved [J. Graph Theory 61 (2009), 88-97] that if such a graph $G$ has a spanning subgraph whose components are paths with endpoints at 3-valent vertices and lengths in $\{2, 4, 6, 8\}$, then $G$ has an interval coloring. It was also conjectured that every simple $(3,4)$-biregular bipartite graph has such a subgraph. We provide some evidence for this conjecture by proving that a simple $(3,4)$-biregular bipartite graph has a spanning subgraph whose components are nontrivial paths with endpoints at $3$-valent vertices and lengths not exceeding $22$.

10.37236/610 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Schulman

In a bipartite graph there are two widely encountered monotone mappings from subsets of one side of the graph to subsets of the other side: one corresponds to the quantifier "there exists a neighbor in the subset" and the other to the quantifier "all neighbors are in the subset." These mappings generate a partially ordered semigroup which we characterize in terms of "run-unimodal" words.


1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred B. Manaster ◽  
Joseph G. Rosenstein

In this paper we examine the class of two-dimensional partial orderings from the perspective of undecidability. We shall see that from this perspective the class of 2dpo's is more similar to the class of all partial orderings than to its one-dimensional subclass, the class of all linear orderings. More specifically, we shall describe an argument which lends itself to proofs of the following four results:(A) the theory of 2dpo's is undecidable:(B) the theory of 2dpo's is recursively inseparable from the set of sentences refutable in some finite 2dpo;(C) there is a sentence which is true in some 2dpo but which has no recursive model;(D) the theory of planar lattices is undecidable.It is known that the theory of linear orderings is decidable (Lauchli and Leonard [4]). On the other hand, the theories of partial orderings and lattices were shown to be undecidable by Tarski [14], and that each of these theories is recursively inseparable from its finitely refutable statements was shown by Taitslin [13]. Thus, the complexity of the theories of partial orderings and lattices is, by (A), (B) and (D), already reflected in the 2dpo's and planar lattices.As pointed out by J. Schmerl, bipartite graphs can be coded into 2dpo's, so that (A) and (B) could also be obtained by applying a Rabin-Scott style argument [9] to Rogers' result [11] that the theory of bipartite graphs is undecidable and to Lavrov's result [5] that the theory of bipartite graphs is recursively inseparable from the set of sentences refutable in some finite bipartite graph. (However, (C) and (D) do not seem to follow from this type of argument.)


2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450049
Author(s):  
Behrooz Bagheri Gh. ◽  
Behnaz Omoomi

A μ-simultaneous edge coloring of graph G is a set of μ proper edge colorings of G with a same color set such that for each vertex, the sets of colors appearing on the edges incident to that vertex are the same in each coloring and no edge receives the same color in any two colorings. The μ-simultaneous edge coloring of bipartite graphs has a close relation with μ-way Latin trades. Mahdian et al. (2000) conjectured that every bridgeless bipartite graph is 2-simultaneous edge colorable. Luo et al. (2004) showed that every bipartite graphic sequence S with all its elements greater than one, has a realization that admits a 2-simultaneous edge coloring. In this paper, the μ-simultaneous edge coloring of graphs is studied. Moreover, the properties of the extremal counterexample to the above conjecture are investigated. Also, a relation between 2-simultaneous edge coloring of a graph and a cycle double cover with certain properties is shown and using this relation, some results about 2-simultaneous edge colorable graphs are obtained.


2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3 (253)) ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Aram H. Gharibyan ◽  
Petros A. Petrosyan

A \emph{$2$-partition of a graph $G$} is a function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \{0,1\}$. A $2$-partition $f$ of a graph $G$ is a \emph{locally-balanced with an open neighborhood}, if for every $v\in V(G)$, $\left\vert \vert \{u\in N_{G}(v)\colon\,f(u)=0\}\vert - \vert \{u\in N_{G}(v)\colon\,f(u)=1\}\vert \right\vert\leq 1$. A bipartite graph is \emph{$(a,b)$-biregular} if all vertices in one part have degree $a$ and all vertices in the other part have degree $b$. In this paper we prove that the problem of deciding, if a given graph has a locally-balanced $2$-partition with an open neighborhood is $NP$-complete even for $(3,8)$-biregular bipartite graphs. We also prove that a $(2,2k+1)$-biregular bipartite graph has a locally-balanced $2$-partition with an open neighbourhood if and only if it has no cycle of length $2 \pmod{4}$. Next, we prove that if $G$ is a subcubic bipartite graph that has no cycle of length $2 \pmod{4}$, then $G$ has a locally-balanced $2$-partition with an open neighbourhood. Finally, we show that all doubly convex bipartite graphs have a locally-balanced $2$-partition with an open neighbourhood.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1 (254)) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Khachik S. Smbatyan

Given a proper edge coloring $\alpha$ of a graph $G$, we define the palette $S_G(v,\alpha)$ of a vertex $v\in V(G)$ as the set of all colors appearing on edges incident with $v$. The palette index $\check{s}(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum number of distinct palettes occurring in a proper edge coloring of $G$. A graph $G$ is called nearly bipartite if there exists $ v\in V(G)$ so that $G-v$ is a bipartite graph. In this paper, we give an upper bound on the palette index of a nearly bipartite graph $G$ by using the decomposition of $G$ into cycles. We also provide an upper bound on the palette index of Cartesian products of graphs. In particular, we show that for any graphs $G$ and $H$, $\check{s}(G\square H)\leq \check{s}(G)\check{s}(H)$.


10.37236/9489 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bradshaw

A bipartite graph is called bipancyclic if it contains cycles of every even length from four up to the number of vertices in the graph. A theorem of Schmeichel and Mitchem states that for $n \geqslant 4$, every balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices in which each vertex in one color class has degree greater than $\frac{n}{2}$ and each vertex in the other color class has degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ is bipancyclic. We prove a generalization of this theorem in the setting of graph transversals. Namely, we show that given a family $\mathcal{G}$ of $2n$ bipartite graphs on a common set $X$ of $2n$ vertices with a common balanced bipartition, if each graph of $\mathcal G$ has minimum degree greater than $\frac{n}{2}$ in one color class and minimum degree at least $\frac{n}{2}$ in the other color class, then there exists a cycle on $X$ of each even length $4 \leqslant \ell \leqslant 2n$ that uses at most one edge from each graph of $\mathcal G$. We also show that given a family $\mathcal G$ of $n$ bipartite graphs on a common set $X$ of $2n$ vertices meeting the same degree conditions, there exists a perfect matching on $X$ that uses exactly one edge from each graph of $\mathcal G$.


2013 ◽  
Vol Vol. 15 no. 2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Chandran ◽  
Rogers Mathew

Graph Theory International audience Let k be an integer and k ≥3. A graph G is k-chordal if G does not have an induced cycle of length greater than k. From the definition it is clear that 3-chordal graphs are precisely the class of chordal graphs. Duchet proved that, for every positive integer m, if Gm is chordal then so is Gm+2. Brandstädt et al. in [Andreas Brandstädt, Van Bang Le, and Thomas Szymczak. Duchet-type theorems for powers of HHD-free graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 177(1-3):9-16, 1997.] showed that if Gm is k-chordal, then so is Gm+2. Powering a bipartite graph does not preserve its bipartitedness. In order to preserve the bipartitedness of a bipartite graph while powering Chandran et al. introduced the notion of bipartite powering. This notion was introduced to aid their study of boxicity of chordal bipartite graphs. The m-th bipartite power G[m] of a bipartite graph G is the bipartite graph obtained from G by adding edges (u,v) where dG(u,v) is odd and less than or equal to m. Note that G[m] = G[m+1] for each odd m. In this paper we show that, given a bipartite graph G, if G is k-chordal then so is G[m], where k, m are positive integers with k≥4.


2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Cairns ◽  
Stacey Mendan

Graph Theory International audience We show that if the two parts of a finite bipartite graph have the same degree sequence, then there is a bipartite graph, with the same degree sequences, which is symmetric, in that it has an involutive graph automorphism that interchanges its two parts. To prove this, we study the relationship between symmetric bipartite graphs and graphs with loops.


10.37236/1022 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Béla Csaba

Let $G$ be a simple balanced bipartite graph on $2n$ vertices, $\delta = \delta(G)/n$, and $\rho_0={\delta + \sqrt{2 \delta -1} \over 2}$. If $\delta \ge 1/2$ then $G$ has a $\lfloor \rho_0 n \rfloor$-regular spanning subgraph. The statement is nearly tight.


2017 ◽  
Vol 340 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-493
Author(s):  
Ayineedi Venkateswarlu ◽  
Santanu Sarkar ◽  
Sai Mali Ananthanarayanan

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