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Decomposition of a complete bipartite multigraph into arbitrary cycle sizes

Combinatorics 2016-09-27 v2

Abstract

In a graph GG, let μG(xy)\mu_G(xy) denote the number of edges between xx and yy in GG. Let λKv,u\lambda K_{v,u} be the graph (VU,E)(V\cup U,E) with V=v|V|=v, U=u|U|=u, and \mu_G(xy)=\begin{cases} \lambda &\mbox{if $x\in U$ and $y\in V$ or if $x\in V$ and $y\in U$}\\ 0 &\mbox{otherwise.} \\ \end{cases} Let MM be a sequence of non-negative integers m1,m2,,mnm_1,m_2,\ldots,m_n. An (M)(M)-cycle decomposition of a graph GG is a partition of the edge set into cycles of lengths m1,m2,,mnm_1,m_2,\ldots,m_n. In this paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an (M)(M)-cycle decomposition of λKv,u\lambda K_{v,u}.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05744,
  title  = {Decomposition of a complete bipartite multigraph into arbitrary cycle sizes},
  author = {John Asplund and Joe Chaffee and James Hammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05744},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 0 figures. Fixed two typos. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.3368 by other authors

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