Graph Decomposition is NP-Complete: A Complete Proof of Holyer's Conjecture

On the oriented perfect path double cover conjecture

‎An  oriented perfect path double cover (OPPDC) of a‎ ‎graph $G$ is a collection of directed paths in the symmetric‎ ‎orientation $G_s$ of‎ ‎$G$ such that‎ ‎each arc‎ ‎of $G_s$ lies in exactly one of the paths and each‎ ‎vertex of $G$ appears just once as a beginning and just once as an‎ ‎end of a path‎. ‎Maxov{'a} and Ne{v{s}}et{v{r}}il (Discrete‎ ‎Math‎. ‎276 (2004) 287-294) conjectured that ...

Graph decomposition is NPC - A complete proof

Mixed cycle-E-super magic decomposition of complete bipartite graphs

An H-magic labeling in a H-decomposable graph G is a bijection f : V (G) ∪ E(G) → {1, 2, ..., p + q} such that for every copy H in the decomposition, ΣνεV(H) f(v) +  ΣeεE(H) f(e) is constant. f is said to be H-E-super magic if f(E(G)) = {1, 2, · · · , q}. A family of subgraphs H1,H2, · · · ,Hh of G is a mixed cycle-decomposition of G if every subgraph Hi is isomorphic to some cycle Ck, for k ≥ ...

Mixed cycle-E-super magic decomposition of complete bipartite graphs

An H-magic labeling in a H-decomposable graph G is a bijection f : V (G) ∪ E(G) → {1, 2, ..., p + q} such that for every copy H in the decomposition, ∑νεV (H) f(v) + ∑νεE (H) f(e) is constant. f is said to be H-E-super magic if f(E(G)) = {1, 2, · · · , q}. A family of subgraphs H1,H2, · · · ,Hh of G is a mixed cycle-decomposition of G if every subgraph Hi is isomorphic to some cycle Ck, for k ≥...

NP completeness of the edge precoloring extension problem on bipartite graphs

We show that the following problem is NP complete: Let G be a cubic bipartite graph and f be a precoloring of a subset of edges of G using at most three colors. Can f be extended to a proper edge 3-coloring of the entire graph G? This result provides a natural counterpart to classical Holyer's result on edge 3-colorability of cubic graphs and a strengthening of results on precoloring extension ...