## Lu, Hongliang and Wang, Wei and Yan, Juan - Antifactors of regular bipartite graphs

dmtcs:3233 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, June 4, 2020, vol. 22 no. 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-22-1-16
Antifactors of regular bipartite graphs

Authors: Lu, Hongliang and Wang, Wei and Yan, Juan

Let $G=(X,Y;E)$ be a bipartite graph, where $X$ and $Y$ are color classes and $E$ is the set of edges of $G$. Lovász and Plummer \cite{LoPl86} asked whether one can decide in polynomial time that a given bipartite graph $G=(X,Y; E)$ admits a 1-anti-factor, that is subset $F$ of $E$ such that $d_F(v)=1$ for all $v\in X$ and $d_F(v)\neq 1$ for all $v\in Y$. Cornuéjols \cite{CHP} answered this question in the affirmative. Yu and Liu \cite{YL09} asked whether, for a given integer $k\geq 3$, every $k$-regular bipartite graph contains a 1-anti-factor. This paper answers this question in the affirmative.

Volume: vol. 22 no. 1
Section: Graph Theory
Published on: June 4, 2020
Submitted on: March 30, 2017
Keywords: Mathematics - Combinatorics