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Bounds on the Coarseness of the n-Cube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jehuda Hartman*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics the University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaT6G 2G1
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Abstract

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The coarseness, c(G), of a graph G is the maximum number of edge disjoint nonplanar subgraphs contained in G For the n-dimensional cube Qn we obtain the inequalities

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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