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Bipartite graphs and best proximity pairs

Combinatorics 2022-01-24 v3 General Topology

Abstract

We say that a bipartite graph G(A,B)G(A, B) with fixed parts AA, BB is proximinal if there is a semimetric space (X,d)(X, d) such that AA and BB are disjoint proximinal subsets of XX and all edges {a,b}\{a, b\} satisfy the equality d(a,b)=dist(A,B)d(a, b) = \operatorname{dist}(A, B). It is proved that a bipartite graph GG is not isomorphic to any proximinal graph iff GG is finite and empty. It is also shown that the subgraph induced by all non-isolated vertices of a nonempty bipartite graph GG is a disjoint union of complete bipartite graphs iff GG is isomorphic to a nonempty proximinal graph for an ultrametric space.

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@article{arxiv.2111.07289,
  title  = {Bipartite graphs and best proximity pairs},
  author = {Karim Chaira and Oleksiy Dovgoshey and Samih Lazaiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07289},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures

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