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Antifactors of regular bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v9

Abstract

Let G=(X,Y;E)G=(X,Y;E) be a bipartite graph, where XX and YY are color classes and EE is the set of edges of GG. Lov\'asz and Plummer \cite{LoPl86} asked whether one can decide in polynomial time that a given bipartite graph G=(X,Y;E)G=(X,Y; E) admits a 1-anti-factor, that is subset FF of EE such that dF(v)=1d_F(v)=1 for all vXv\in X and dF(v)1d_F(v)\neq 1 for all vYv\in Y. Cornu\'ejols \cite{CHP} answered this question in the affirmative. Yu and Liu \cite{YL09} asked whether, for a given integer k3k\geq 3, every kk-regular bipartite graph contains a 1-anti-factor. This paper answers this question in the affirmative.

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@article{arxiv.1511.09277,
  title  = {Antifactors of regular bipartite graphs},
  author = {Hongliang Lu and Wei Wang and Juan Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09277},
  year   = {2023}
}
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