Minimum coverings of Kn with hexagons

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  • Janie Ailor Kennedy
چکیده

The edge set of Kn cannot be decomposed into edge-disjoint hexagons (or 6-cycles) when n =1= 1 or 9 (mod 12). We discuss adding edges to the edge set of Kn so that the resulting graph can be decomposed into edge-disjoint hexagons. This paper gives the solution to this minimum covering of Kn with hexagons problem.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Australasian J. Combinatorics

دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1997