Let Km,n be a completebipartite graph with two partite sets having m and n vertices,respectively. A Kp,q-factorization of Km,n is a set ofedge-disjoint Kp,q-factors of Km,n which partition theset of edges of Km,n. Whe...Let Km,n be a completebipartite graph with two partite sets having m and n vertices,respectively. A Kp,q-factorization of Km,n is a set ofedge-disjoint Kp,q-factors of Km,n which partition theset of edges of Km,n. When p=1 and q is a prime number,Wang, in his paper 'On K1,k-factorizations of a completebipartite graph' (Discrete Math, 1994, 126: 359-364),investigated the K1,q-factorization of Km,n and gave asufficient condition for such a factorization to exist. In the paper'K1,k-factorizations of complete bipartite graphs' (DiscreteMath, 2002, 259: 301-306), Du and Wang extended Wang's resultto the case that q is any positive integer. In this paper, we give a sufficient condition for Km,n to have aKp,q-factorization. As a special case, it is shown that theMartin's BAC conjecture is true when p:q=k:(k+1) for any positiveinteger k.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10071056).
文摘Let Km,n be a completebipartite graph with two partite sets having m and n vertices,respectively. A Kp,q-factorization of Km,n is a set ofedge-disjoint Kp,q-factors of Km,n which partition theset of edges of Km,n. When p=1 and q is a prime number,Wang, in his paper 'On K1,k-factorizations of a completebipartite graph' (Discrete Math, 1994, 126: 359-364),investigated the K1,q-factorization of Km,n and gave asufficient condition for such a factorization to exist. In the paper'K1,k-factorizations of complete bipartite graphs' (DiscreteMath, 2002, 259: 301-306), Du and Wang extended Wang's resultto the case that q is any positive integer. In this paper, we give a sufficient condition for Km,n to have aKp,q-factorization. As a special case, it is shown that theMartin's BAC conjecture is true when p:q=k:(k+1) for any positiveinteger k.