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A SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR A PAIR OF SEQUENCES TO BE BIPARTITE GRAPHIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

GRANT CAIRNS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3086, Australia email [email protected]
STACEY MENDAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3086, Australia email [email protected]
YURI NIKOLAYEVSKY*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3086, Australia email [email protected]
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Abstract

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We present a sufficient condition for a pair of finite integer sequences to be degree sequences of a bipartite graph, based only on the lengths of the sequences and their largest and smallest elements.

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© 2016 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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