P5-factorization of complete bipartite graphs
P5-factorization of complete bipartite graphs
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完全二部图的 P5 分解
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10.1016/j.disc.2006.09.046
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2008-05
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A Pk-factor of complete bipartite graph Km,nis a spanning subgraph of Km,nsuch that every component is a path of length k. A Pk-factorization of Km,nis a set of edge-disjoint Pk-factors of Km,nwhich is a partition of the set of edges of Km,n. When k is an even number, the spectrum problem for a Pk-factorization of Km,nhas been completely solved. When k is an odd number, Ushio in 1993 proposed a conjecture. However, up to now we only know that Ushio Conjecture is true for k=3. In this paper we will show that Ushio Conjecture is true when k=5. That is, we shall prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a P5-factorization of Km,nis (1) 3n⩾2m, (2) 3m⩾2n, (3) m+n≡0 (mod5), and (4) 5mn/[4(m+n)] is an integer.