It is shown that if G is a graph such that the maximum size of a set of pairwise edge-disjoint triangles is v(G), then there is a set C of edges of G of size at most (3 -e)v(G) such that E(T) N C 7~ 0 for every triangle T of G, where e> 3. This is the first nontrivial bound known for a long-standing
Packing and Covering Triangles in Tripartite Graphs
β Scribed by Sarmad Abbasi
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0911-0119
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