ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Mycielskians and matchings

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Informatics and Mathematics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska c. 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

It is shown in this note that some matching-related properties of graphs, such as their factor-criticality, regularizability and the existence of perfect 2-matchings, are preserved when iterating Mycielski's construction.

Keywords

Mycielskian, factor-critical graph, perfect matching, perfect 2-matching

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Pages:
261-266
Main language of publication
English
Received
2003-07-15
Accepted
2004-07-23
Published
2005
Exact and natural sciences