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Factorizations of Complete Graphs into [R,S,T,2)]-Caterpillars of Diameter 5

Michael Kubesa1
1Technica] University Ostrava

Abstract

A tree R such that after deleting all leaves we obtain a path P is called a caterpillar. The path P is called the spine of the caterpillar R. If the spine has length 3 and R on 2n vertices contains vertices of degrees r, s, t, 2, where 2<r,s,t<n, then we say that R is an (r,s,t,2)-caterpillar of diameter 5. We completely characterize (r,s,t,2)-caterpillars of diameter 5 on 4k+2 vertices that factorize the complete graph K4k+2.