A rainbow matching in an edge-colored graph is a matching whose edges have distinct colors. We address the complexity issue of the following problem, max rainbow matching: Given an edge-colored graph G, how large is the largest rainbow matching in G? We present several sharp contrasts in the complexity of this problem. We show, among others, that • max rainbow matching can be approximated by a ...

The goal of coverage path planning is to determine a path that passes a detector over all points in an environment. This work prescribes a provably complete coverage path planner for robots in unknown spaces. We achieve coverage using Morse decompositions which are exact cellular decompositions whose cells are defined in terms of critical points of Morse functions. Generically, two critical poi...

X iv :0 80 9. 25 51 v1 [ m at h. C O ] 1 5 Se p 20 08 Spanning Trees in Grid Graphs Paul Raff July 25, 2008 Abstract A general method is obtained for finding recurrences involving the number of spanning trees of grid graphs, obtained by taking the graph product of an arbitrary graph and path or cycle. The results in this paper extend the work by Desjarlais and Molina and give concrete methods f...

The goal of coverage path planning is to determine a path that passes a detector over all points in an environment. This work prescribes a provably complete coverage path planner for robots in unknown spaces. We achieve coverage using Morse decompositions which are exact cellular decompositions whose cells are defined in terms of critical points of Morse functions. Generically, two critical poi...

A graph with signed edges is orientation embedded in a surface when it is topologically embedded so that one trip around a closed path preserves or reverses orientation according as the path's sign product is positive or negative. We nd the smallest surface within which it is possible to orientation-embed the complete bipartite signed graph K r;s , which is obtained from the complete bipartite ...

S-prime graphs are graphs that cannot be represented as nontrivial subgraphs of nontrivial Cartesian products of graphs, i.e., whenever it is a subgraph of a nontrivial Cartesian product graph it is a subgraph of one the factors. A graph is S-composite if it is not S-prime. Although linear time recognition algorithms for determining whether a graph is prime or not with respect to the Cartesian ...

We consider the problem of nding a minimum cost acceptable path on a toroidal grid graph, where each horizontal and each vertical edge have the same orientation. An acceptable path is closed path that makes a complete horizontal and vertical circuit. We exploit the structure of this graph to develop eecient parallel algorithms for a message passing computer. Given p processors and an m by n tor...

In this paper we continue the investigation of the class of edge intersection graphs of a collection of paths in a tree (EPT graphs) where two paths edge intersect if they share an edge. The class of EPT graphs differs from the class known as path graphs, the latter being the class of vertex intersection graphs of paths in a tree. A characterization is presented here showing when a path graph i...

A chord of a path $P$ is an edge joining two non-adjacent vertices of $P$. A path  $P$ is called a monophonic path if it is a chordless path. A longest $x-y$ monophonic path is called an $x-y$ detour monophonic path. A  detour monophonic graphoidal cover of a graph $G$ is a collection $psi_{dm}$ of detour monophonic paths in $G$ such that every vertex of $G$ is an internal vertex  of at most on...