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Packing and Covering Triangles in Bilaterally-Complete Tripartite Graphs

Combinatorics 2023-07-19 v1

Abstract

We use Menger's Theorem and K\"onig's Line Colouring Theorem to show that in any tripartite graph with two complete (bipartite) sides the maximum number of pairwise edge-disjoint triangles equals the minimum number of edges that meet all triangles. This generalizes the corresponding result for complete tripartite graphs given by Lakshmanan, et al.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08824,
  title  = {Packing and Covering Triangles in Bilaterally-Complete Tripartite Graphs},
  author = {Naivedya Amarnani and Amaury De Burgos and Wayne Broughton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08824},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures

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