Factors of claw-free graphs
The Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture is the statement that every graph that is the union of n cliques of size n intersecting pairwise in at most one vertex has chromatic number n. Kahn and Seymour proved a fractional version of this conjecture, where the chromatic number is replaced by the fractional chromatic number. In this note we investigate similar fractional relaxations of the Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture, involving variations of the fractional chromatic number. We exhibit some relaxations that...
An additive hereditary property of graphs is a class of simple graphs which is closed under unions, subgraphs and isomorphism. Let [...] be an additive hereditary property of graphs. A [...] -edge-coloring of a simple graph is an edge coloring in which the edges colored with the same color induce a subgraph of property [...] . In this paper we present some results on fractional [...] -edge-colorings. We determine the fractional [...] -edge chromatic number for matroidal properties of graphs.
The Gyárfás tree packing conjecture asserts that any set of trees with 2,3,...,k vertices has an (edge-disjoint) packing into the complete graph on k vertices. Gyárfás and Lehel proved that the conjecture holds in some special cases. We address the problem of packing trees into k-chromatic graphs. In particular, we prove that if all but three of the trees are stars then they have a packing into any k-chromatic graph. We also consider several other generalizations of the conjecture.
We study the generalized -connectivity as introduced by Hager in 1985, as well as the more recently introduced generalized -edge-connectivity . We determine the exact value of and for the line graphs and total graphs of trees, unicyclic graphs, and also for complete graphs for the case .
We prove: (1) that can be arbitrarily large, where and are P-choice and P-chromatic numbers, respectively, (2) the (P,L)-colouring version of Brooks’ and Gallai’s theorems.
The generalized k-connectivity κk(G) of a graph G, introduced by Hager in 1985, is a nice generalization of the classical connectivity. Recently, as a natural counterpart, we proposed the concept of generalized k-edge-connectivity λk(G). In this paper, graphs of order n such that [...] for even k are characterized.
Some bipartite Hamilton decomposable graphs that are regular of degree δ ≡ 2 (mod 4) are shown to have Hamilton decomposable line graphs. One consequence is that every bipartite Hamilton decomposable graph G with connectivity κ(G) = 2 has a Hamilton decomposable line graph L(G).
In this paper the following results are proved: 1. Let be a path with vertices, where and . Let be a matching in . Then is hamiltonian-connected. 2. Let be a connected graph of order , and let be a matching in . Then is hamiltonian-connected.