Maximum packings of Kn with k-stars

نویسندگان

  • D. G. Hoffman
  • Dan Roberts
چکیده

Given graphs G and H, we define an H-packing of G to be a partition of the edges of G into some copies of H along with a set of edges L, called the leave. An H-packing is called maximum when |L| is minimum, or equivalently, when the H-packing contains as many copies of H as possible. A k-star, denoted Sk, is defined to be the complete bipartite graph K1,k. In this paper we characterize the number of k-stars in a maximum Sk-packing of Kn, as well as investigate the configuration of the leave.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 59  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014