The Edmonds-Gallai decomposition for the \(k\)-piece packing problem
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 12 (2005)
Generalizing Kaneko's long path packing problem, Hartvigsen, Hell and Szabó consider a new type of undirected graph packing problem, called the $k$-piece packing problem. A $k$-piece is a simple, connected graph with highest degree exactly $k$ so in the case $k=1$ we get the classical matching problem. They give a polynomial algorithm, a Tutte-type characterization and a Berge-type minimax formula for the $k$-piece packing problem. However, they leave open the question of an Edmonds-Gallai type decomposition. This paper fills this gap by describing such a decomposition. We also prove that the vertex sets coverable by $k$-piece packings have a certain matroidal structure.
@article{10_37236_1905,
author = {Marek Janata and Martin Loebl and J\'acint Szab\'o},
title = {The {Edmonds-Gallai} decomposition for the \(k\)-piece packing problem},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2005},
volume = {12},
doi = {10.37236/1905},
zbl = {1062.05119},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/1905/}
}
Marek Janata; Martin Loebl; Jácint Szabó. The Edmonds-Gallai decomposition for the \(k\)-piece packing problem. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 12 (2005). doi: 10.37236/1905
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