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An attractive class of bipartite graphs

Rodica Boliac, Vadim Lozin (2001)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

In this paper we propose a structural characterization for a class of bipartite graphs defined by two forbidden induced subgraphs. We show that the obtained characterization leads to polynomial-time algorithms for several problems that are NP-hard in general bipartite graphs.

An elementary proof of a congruence by Skula and Granville

Romeo Meštrović (2012)

Archivum Mathematicum

Let p 5 be a prime, and let q p ( 2 ) : = ( 2 p - 1 - 1 ) / p be the Fermat quotient of p to base 2 . The following curious congruence was conjectured by L. Skula and proved by A. Granville q p ( 2 ) 2 - k = 1 p - 1 2 k k 2 ( mod p ) . In this note we establish the above congruence by entirely elementary number theory arguments.

An equivalence criterion for 3-manifolds.

M. R. Casali (1997)

Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Within geometric topology of 3-manifolds (with or without boundary), a representation theory exists, which makes use of 4-coloured graphs. Aim of this paper is to translate the homeomorphism problem for the represented manifolds into an equivalence problem for 4-coloured graphs, by means of a finite number of graph-moves, called dipole moves. Moreover, interesting consequences are obtained, which are related with the same problem in the n-dimensional setting.

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