Rainbow matchings in strongly edge-colored graphs

Babu, Jasine and Chandran, Sunil L and Vaidyanathan, Krishna (2015) Rainbow matchings in strongly edge-colored graphs. In: DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, 338 (7). pp. 1191-1196.

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Abstract

A rainbow matching of an edge-colored graph G is a matching in which no two edges have the same color. There have been several studies regarding the maximum size of a rainbow matching in a properly edge-colored graph G in terms of its minimum degree 3(G). Wang (2011) asked whether there exists a function f such that a properly edge-colored graph G with at least f (delta(G)) vertices is guaranteed to contain a rainbow matching of size delta(G). This was answered in the affirmative later: the best currently known function Lo and Tan (2014) is f(k) = 4k - 4, for k >= 4 and f (k) = 4k - 3, for k <= 3. Afterwards, the research was focused on finding lower bounds for the size of maximum rainbow matchings in properly edge-colored graphs with fewer than 4 delta(G) - 4 vertices. Strong edge-coloring of a graph G is a restriction of proper edge-coloring where every color class is required to be an induced matching, instead of just being a matching. In this paper, we give lower bounds for the size of a maximum rainbow matching in a strongly edge-colored graph Gin terms of delta(G). We show that for a strongly edge-colored graph G, if |V(G)| >= 2 |3 delta(G)/4|, then G has a rainbow matching of size |3 delta(G)/4|, and if |V(G)| < 2 |3 delta(G)/4|, then G has a rainbow matching of size |V(G)|/2] In addition, we prove that if G is a strongly edge-colored graph that is triangle-free, then it contains a rainbow matching of size at least delta(G). (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Keywords:	Rainbow matching; Edge-colored graphs; Strong edge-coloring
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	06 May 2015 04:37
Last Modified:	06 May 2015 04:37
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/51470

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