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When modelling relations between two different classes of objects, bipartite graphs very often arise naturally. For instance, a graph of football players and clubs, with an edge between a player and a club if the player has played for that club, is a natural example of an affiliation network, a type of bipartite graph used in social network analysis.
A complete bipartite graph K m,n has a maximum matching of size min{m,n}. A complete bipartite graph K n,n has a proper n-edge-coloring corresponding to a Latin square. [14] Every complete bipartite graph is a modular graph: every triple of vertices has a median that belongs to shortest paths between each pair of vertices. [15]
A bipartite graph with 4 vertices on each side, 13 edges, and no , subgraph, and an equivalent set of 13 points in a 4 × 4 grid, showing that (;).. The number (;) asks for the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph with vertices on each side that has no 4-cycle (its girth is six or more).
The Ruzsa–Szemerédi problem asks for the answer to these equivalent questions. To convert the bipartite graph induced matching problem into the unique triangle problem, add a third set of vertices to the graph, one for each induced matching, and add edges from vertices and of the bipartite graph to vertex in this third set whenever bipartite ...
The graph theoretic formulation of Marshal Hall's extension of the marriage theorem can be stated as follows: Given a bipartite graph with sides A and B, we say that a subset C of B is smaller than or equal in size to a subset D of A in the graph if there exists an injection in the graph (namely, using only edges of the graph) from C to D, and ...
A bipartite graph B = (X,Y,E) is chordal bipartite if and only if every induced subgraph of B has a maximum X-neighborhood ordering and a maximum Y-neighborhood ordering. [5] Various results describe the relationship between chordal bipartite graphs and totally balanced neighborhood hypergraphs of bipartite graphs. [6]
An example of a bipartite graph, with a maximum matching (blue) and minimum vertex cover (red) both of size six. In the mathematical area of graph theory, Kőnig's theorem, proved by Dénes Kőnig (), describes an equivalence between the maximum matching problem and the minimum vertex cover problem in bipartite graphs.
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a convex bipartite graph is a bipartite graph with specific properties. A bipartite graph, (U ∪ V, E), is said to be convex over the vertex set U if U can be enumerated such that for all v ∈ V the vertices adjacent to v are consecutive. Convexity over V is defined analogously. A bipartite graph (U ...