Gallai's Conjecture For Graphs of Girth at Least Four

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  • Peter Harding
  • Sean McGuinness
چکیده

In 1966, Gallai conjectured that for any simple, connected graph G having n vertices, there is a path-decomposition of G having at most dn2 e paths. In this paper, we show that for any simple graph G having girth g ≥ 4, there is a path-decomposition of G having at most p(G) 2 + ⌊( g+1 2g ) q(G) ⌋ paths, where p(G) is the number of vertices of odd degree in G and q(G) is the number of non-isolated vertices of even degree in G.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Graph Theory

دوره 75  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014