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A note on the edge partition of graphs containing either a light edge or an alternating 2-cycle

Combinatorics 2018-09-11 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let Gα\mathcal{G}_{\alpha} be a hereditary graph class (i.e, every subgraph of GαGαG_{\alpha}\in \mathcal{G}_{\alpha} belongs to Gα\mathcal{G}_{\alpha}) such that every graph GαG_{\alpha} in Gα\mathcal{G}_{\alpha} has minimum degree at most 1, or contains either an edge uvuv such that dGα(u)+dGα(v)αd_{G_{\alpha}}(u)+d_{G_{\alpha}}(v)\leq \alpha or a 2-alternating cycle. It is proved that every graph in Gα\mathcal{G}_{\alpha} (α5\alpha\geq 5) with maximum degree Δ\Delta can be edge-partitioned into two forests F1F_1, F2F_2 and a subgraph HH such that Δ(Fi)max{2,Δα+62}\Delta(F_i)\leq \max\{2,\lceil\frac{\Delta-\alpha+6}{2}\rceil\} for i=1,2i=1,2 and Δ(H)α5\Delta(H)\leq \alpha-5.

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@article{arxiv.1809.02799,
  title  = {A note on the edge partition of graphs containing either a light edge or an alternating 2-cycle},
  author = {Xin Zhang and Bei Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02799},
  year   = {2018}
}

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