DECOMPOSITIONS OF COMPLETE GRAPHS INTO KAYAK PADDLES

Main Authors: Froncek, Dalibor; University of Minnesota, Tollefson, Leah; University of Minnesota
Format: Article application/pdf eJournal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: IndoMS , 2012
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Online Access: http://www.jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/view/17
Daftar Isi:
  • A canoe paddle is a cycle attached to an end-vertex of a path. It was shown by Truszczynski that all canoe paddles are graceful and therefore decompose complete graphs. A kayak paddle is a pair of cycles joined by a path. We prove that the complete graph K<sub>2n+1</sub> is decomposable into kayak paddles with <i>n</i> edges whenever at least one of its cycles is eve.DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.22342/jims.0.0.17.39-44