Sufficient Conditions for Tuza's Conjecture on Packing and Covering Triangles
Sufficient Conditions for Tuza's Conjecture on Packing and Covering Triangles
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10.1007/978-3-319-44543-4_21
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2016-05
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Xujin Chen;Zhuo Diao;Xiaodong Hu;Zhongzheng Tang
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Xujin Chen;Zhuo Diao;Xiaodong Hu;Zhongzheng Tang
Given a simple graph, a subset ofEis called a triangle cover if it intersects each triangle ofG. Letanddenote the maximum number of pairwise edge-disjoint triangles inGand the minimum cardinality of a triangle cover ofG, respectively. Tuza conjectured in 1981 thatholds for every graphG. In this paper, using a hypergraph approach, we design polynomial-time combinatorial algorithms for finding small triangle covers. These algorithms imply new sufficient conditions for Tuza’s conjecture on covering and packing triangles. More precisely, suppose that the setof triangles covers all edges inG. We show that a triangle cover ofGwith cardinality at mostcan be found in polynomial time if one of the following conditions is satisfied: (i), (ii), (iii).