{ "id": "1511.09277", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-11-30T12:44:47.000Z", "updated": "2015-11-30T12:44:47.000Z", "title": "Antifactor of regular bipartite graphs", "authors": [ "Hongliang Lu" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "This problem is NP-complete in general, but for the case when no prescription contains two consecutive gaps, Lov\\'asz gave a structural description, and Cornu\\'ejols gave a polynomial algorithm. However, results on $H$-factors are known only in some special cases, such as parity intervals or general antifactors. Let $k\\geq 3$ be an integer. Let $G'$ be a $k$-regular bipartite graph with partition $(X,Y)$. In this paper, we show that $G'$ contains an $H$-factor, where $H(x)=\\{1\\}$ for all $x\\in X$ and $H(y)=\\{0,2,3,\\ldots,k\\}$ for all $y\\in Y$, which solves a problem proposed by Liu and Yu.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-11-30T12:44:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "regular bipartite graph", "cornuejols gave", "prescription contains", "general antifactors", "lovasz gave" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv151109277L" } } }