The Critical Group of a Line Graph: The Bipartite Case
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The critical group K(G) of a graph G is a finite abelian group whose order is the number of spanning forests of the graph. Here we investigate the relationship between the critical group of a regular bipartite graph G and its line graph lineG. The relationship between the two is known completely for regular nonbipartite graphs. We compute the critical group of a graph closely related to the complete bipartite graph and the critical group of its line graph. We also discuss general theory for the critical group of regular bipartite graphs. We close with various examples demonstrating what we have observed through experimentation. The problem of classifying the the relationship between K(G) and K(lineG) for regular bipartite graphs remains open.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011