Chromatically Supremal Decompositions of Graphs

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 26 - Trang 369-382 - 2010
Robert E. Jamison1,2, Eric Mendelsohn3
1Discrete Mathematics, Clemson University, Clemson, USA
2University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
3Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Tóm tắt

If G is a graph, a G-decomposition of a host graph H is a partition of the edges of H into subgraphs of H which are isomorphic to G. The chromatic index of a G-decomposition of H is the minimum number of colors required to color the parts of the decomposition so that parts which share a common node get different colors. We establish an upper bound on the chromatic index and characterize those decompositions which achieve it. The structurally most interesting of the decompositions with maximal chromatic index are associated with (v, k, 1)-designs.

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