Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4649815 | Discrete Mathematics | 2009 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
We show that a complete equipartite graph with four partite sets has an edge-disjoint decomposition into cycles of length kk if and only if k≥3k≥3, the partite set size is even, kk divides the number of edges in the equipartite graph and the total number of vertices in the graph is at least kk. We also show that a complete equipartite graph with four even partite sets has an edge-disjoint decomposition into paths with kk edges if and only if kk divides the number of edges in the equipartite graph and the total number of vertices in the graph is at least k+1k+1.
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Authors
Elizabeth J. Billington, Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Benjamin R. Smith,