Judicious k-partitions of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Baogang Xu;Xingxing Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanjing Normal University, 122 Ninghai Road, Nanjing 210097, China;School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Judicious partition problems ask for partitions of the vertex set of graphs so that several quantities are optimized simultaneously. In this paper, we answer the following judicious partition question of Bollobas and Scott [B. Bollobas, A.D. Scott, Problems and results on judicious partitions, Random Structures Algorithms 21 (2002) 414-430] in the affirmative: For any positive integer k and for any graph G of size m, does there exist a partition of V(G) into V"1,...,V"k such that the total number of edges joining different V"i is at least k-1km, and for each i@?{1,2,...,k} the total number of edges with both ends in V"i is at mostmk^2+k-12k^2(2m+14-12)? We also point out a connection between our result and another judicious partition problem of Bollobas and Scott [B. Bollobas, A.D. Scott, Problems and results on judicious partitions, Random Structures Algorithms 21 (2002) 414-430].