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Partitions of a graph into cycles containing a specified linear forest

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematical Information Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
  2. Kyoto Computer Gakuin, Kyoto 601-8407, Japan

Abstract

In this note, we consider the partition of a graph into cycles containing a specified linear forest. Minimum degree and degree sum conditions are given, which are best possible.

Keywords

ENG
partition of a graph, vertex-disjoint cycle, 2-factor, linear forest

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
2008/28/1
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Pages:
97-107
Main language of publication
English
Received
2006-10-02
Accepted
2007-02-05
Published
2008

DOI: 10.7151/dmgt.1394

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