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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 94, Issues 1-3, 15 May 1999, Pages 193-203
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Graphs and Optimization GO-III
 
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On the deficiency of bipartite graphs

Krzysztof Giaro, Marek KubaleCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and MichaImage MaImage afiejski

Technical University of GdaImage sk, Foundations of Informatics Department, Narutowicza 11 / 12 80-952, GdaImage sk, Poland

Received 24 December 1996; 
revised 2 July 1997; 
accepted 8 May 1998. ;
Available online 11 August 1999.

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Abstract

Given a graph G, an edge-coloring of G with colors 1,2,3,… is consecutive if the colors of edges incident to each vertex form an interval of integers. This paper is devoted to bipartite graphs which do not have such a coloring of edges. We investigate their consecutive coloring deficiency, or shortly the deficiency d(G) of G, i.e. the minimum number of pendant edges whose attachment to G makes it consecutively colorable. In particular, we show that there are bipartite graphs whose deficiency approaches the number of vertices.

Author Keywords: Bipartite graph; Consecutive (interval) coloring; Chromatic index; Deficiency of graph; Edge-coloring; NP-completeness

Mathematical subject codes: 05C15

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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 94, Issues 1-3, 15 May 1999, Pages 193-203
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Graphs and Optimization GO-III
 
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