Biclique coverings of regular bigraphs and minimum semiring ranks of regular matrices

نویسندگان

  • David A. Gregory
  • Norman J. Pullman
  • Kathryn F. Jones
  • J. Richard Lundgren
چکیده

We study the minimum number of complete bipartite subgraphs needed to cover and partition the edges of a k-regular bigraph on 2n vertices. Bounds are determined on the minima of these numbers for fixed n and k. Exact values of the minima are found for all n and k 6 4. The same results hold for directed graphs. Equivalently, we have determined bounds on the minimum value of the Boolean and nonnegative integer ranks of binary n xn matrices with constant row and column sum k for fixed n and k, obtaining the exact values of the minimum for k <4.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B

دوره 51  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991