On Double-Star Decomposition of Graphs

Abstract

A tree containing exactly two non-pendant vertices is called a double-star. A double-star with degree sequence (k1 + 1, k2 + 1, 1, . . . , 1) is denoted by Sk1,k2. We study the edge-decomposition of graphs into double-stars. It was proved that every double-star of size k decomposes every 2k-regular graph. In this paper, we extend this result by showing that every graph in which every vertex has degree 2k + 1 or 2k + 2 and containing a 2-factor is decomposed into Sk1,k2 and Sk1−1,k2, for all positive integers k1 and k2 such that k1 + k2 = k.

Keywords

• graph decomposition
• double-stars
• bipartite graph
• 05c51
• 05c05