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    Antifactors of regular bipartite graphs

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    Let G=(X,Y;E)G=(X,Y;E) be a bipartite graph, where XX and YY are color classes and EE is the set of edges of GG. Lov\'asz and Plummer \cite{LoPl86} asked whether one can decide in polynomial time that a given bipartite graph G=(X,Y;E)G=(X,Y; E) admits a 1-anti-factor, that is subset FF of EE such that dF(v)=1d_F(v)=1 for all v∈Xv\in X and dF(v)β‰ 1d_F(v)\neq 1 for all v∈Yv\in Y. Cornu\'ejols \cite{CHP} answered this question in the affirmative. Yu and Liu \cite{YL09} asked whether, for a given integer kβ‰₯3k\geq 3, every kk-regular bipartite graph contains a 1-anti-factor. This paper answers this question in the affirmative
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