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Solution of Vizing's Problem on Interchanges for Graphs with Maximum Degree 4 and Related Results
Let be a Class 1 graph with maximum degree and let be an
integer. We show that any proper -edge coloring of can be transformed to
any proper -edge coloring of using only transformations on -colored
subgraphs (so-called interchanges). This settles the smallest previously
unsolved case of a well-known problem of Vizing on interchanges, posed in 1965.
Using our result we give an affirmative answer to a question of Mohar for two
classes of graphs: we show that all proper -edge colorings of a Class 1
graph with maximum degree 4 are Kempe equivalent, that is, can be transformed
to each other by interchanges, and that all proper 7-edge colorings of a Class
2 graph with maximum degree 5 are Kempe equivalent
Some local--global phenomena in locally finite graphs
In this paper we present some results for a connected infinite graph with
finite degrees where the properties of balls of small radii guarantee the
existence of some Hamiltonian and connectivity properties of . (For a vertex
of a graph the ball of radius centered at is the subgraph of
induced by the set of vertices whose distance from does not
exceed ). In particular, we prove that if every ball of radius 2 in is
2-connected and satisfies the condition for
each path in , where and are non-adjacent vertices, then
has a Hamiltonian curve, introduced by K\"undgen, Li and Thomassen (2017).
Furthermore, we prove that if every ball of radius 1 in satisfies Ore's
condition (1960) then all balls of any radius in are Hamiltonian.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures; journal accepted versio
On the number of nearly perfect matchings in almost regular uniform hypergraphs
AbstractStrengthening the result of Rődl and Frankl (Europ. J. Combin 6 (1985) 317–326), Pippenger proved the theorem stating the existence of a nearly perfect matching in almost regular uniform hypergraph satisfying some conditions (see J. Combin. Theory A 51 (1989) 24–42). Grable announced in J. Combin. Designs 4 (4) (1996) 255–273 that such hypergraphs have exponentially many nearly perfect matchings. This generalizes the result and the proof in Combinatorica 11 (3) (1991) 207–218 which is based on the Rődl Nibble algorithm (European J. Combin. 5 (1985) 69–78). In this paper, we present a simple proof of Grable's extension of Pippenger's theorem. Our proof is based on a comparison of upper and lower bounds of the probability for a random subgraph to have a nearly perfect matching. We use the Lovasz Local Lemma to obtain the desired lower bound of this probability
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