Bohossian, Vasken and Bruck, Jehoshua (2006) Shortening Array Codes and the Perfect 1-Factorization Conjecture. California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA. (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechPARADISE:2006.ETR075
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Abstract
The existence of a perfect 1-factorization of the complete graph Kn, for arbitrary n, is a 40-year old open problem in graph theory. Two infinite families of perfect 1-factorizations are known for K2p and Kp+1, where p is a prime. It was shown in [8] that finding a perfect 1-factorization of Kn can be reduced to a problem in coding, i.e. to constructing an MDS, lowest density array code of length n. In this paper, a new method for shortening arbitrary array codes is introduced. It is then used to derive the Kp+1 family of perfect 1-factorizations from the K2p family, by applying the reduction metioned above. Namely, techniques from coding theory are used to prove a new result in graph theory.
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Group: | Parallel and Distributed Systems Group | ||||||
Record Number: | CaltechPARADISE:2006.ETR075 | ||||||
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Deposited On: | 16 Jul 2006 | ||||||
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