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edge covering (Definition)

Let $G$ be a graph. An edge covering $C$ on $G$ is a subset of the vertices of $G$ such that each edge in $G$ is incident with at least one vertex in $C$

For any graph, the vertex set is a trivial edge covering. Generally, we are more interested in minimal coverings. A minimal edge covering is simply an edge covering of the least possible .




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Also defines:  minimal edge covering
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Cross-references: coverings, minimal, incident, edge, vertices, subset, graph
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This is version 5 of edge covering, born on 2002-05-26, modified 2002-07-06.
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AMS MSC05C70 (Combinatorics :: Graph theory :: Factorization, matching, covering and packing)

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