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The bichromaticity of a lattice-graph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Zevi Miller
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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The bichromaticity β(B) of a bipartite graph B has been defined as the maximum order of a complete bipartite graph onto which B is homomorphic. This number was previously determined for trees and even cycles. It is now shown that for a lattice-graph Pm × Pm the cartesian product of two paths, the bichromaticity is 2 + {mn/2}.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1977

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