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NEIGHBOURHOOD AND THE EXISTENCE OF FRACTIONAL k-FACTORS OF GRAPHS

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

SIZHONG ZHOU ,
BINGYUAN PU  and
YANG XU
SIZHONG ZHOU*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Mengxi Road 2, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212003, PR China (email: zsz_cumt@163.com)
BINGYUAN PU
Affiliation:
Department of Fundamental Course, Chengdu Textile College, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, PR China
YANG XU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong 266109, PR China (email: xuyang_825@126.com)
*
✉For correspondence; e-mail: zsz_cumt@163.com
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Abstract

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Let G be a graph, and k a positive integer. Let h:E(G)→[0,1] be a function. If ∑ e∋xh(e)=k holds for each x∈V (G), then we call G[Fh] a fractional k-factor of G with indicator function h where Fh={e∈E(G)∣h(e)>0}. In this paper we use neighbourhoods to obtain a new sufficient condition for a graph to have a fractional k-factor. Furthermore, this result is shown to be best possible in some sense.

Keywords

graphneighbourhoodfractional k-factor

MSC classification

Secondary: 05C70: Factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , June 2010 , pp. 473 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2010

Footnotes

This research was sponsored by Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province and was supported by Jiangsu Provincial Educational Department (07KJD110048) and Sichuan Provincial Educational Department (08zb068).

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