Packing cycles in graphs

  • Authors:
  • Guoli Ding;Wenan Zang

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A graph G is called cycle Mengerian (CM) if for all nonnegative integral function w defined on V(G), the maximum number of cycles (repetition is allowed) in G such that each vertex υ is used at most w(υ) times is equal to the minimum of Σ{w(x):x ∈ X}, where the minimum is taken over all X ⊆ V(G) such that deleting X from G results in a forest. The purpose of this paper is to characterize all CM graphs in terms of forbidden structures. As a corollary, we prove that if the fractional version of the above minimization problem always have an integral optimal solution, then the fractional version of the maximization problem will always have an integral optimal solution as well.