Miri Priesler ; Michael Tarsi
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Multigraph decomposition into multigraphs with two underlying edges
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2005,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AE, European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3405
Multigraph decomposition into multigraphs with two underlying edgesArticle
Authors: Miri Priesler 1; Michael Tarsi 2
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Miri Priesler;Michael Tarsi
1 Ruppin Academic Centre
2 School of Computer Science
Due to some intractability considerations, reasonable formulation of necessary and sufficient conditions for decomposability of a general multigraph G into a fixed connected multigraph H, is probably not feasible if the underlying simple graph of H has three or more edges. We study the case where H consists of two underlying edges. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for H-decomposability of G, which hold when certain size parameters of G lies within some bounds which depends on the multiplicities of the two edges of H. We also show this result to be "tight" in the sense that even a slight deviation of these size parameters from the given bounds results intractability of the corresponding decision problem.