<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2012.312255</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-25347</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Some Results on (1,2&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; – 1)-Odd Factors
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>an</surname><given-names>Liu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qingzhi</surname><given-names>Yu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shuling</surname><given-names>Wang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Changhua</surname><given-names>Huang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Aerial Four Station Department, Air Force Logistics College, Xuzhou, China</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Basic Course, Air Force Logistics College, Xuzhou, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>liuman8866@163.com(AL)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>12</day><month>12</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>12</issue><fpage>1874</fpage><lpage>1876</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>September</day>	<month>4,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>November</day>	<month>1,</month>	<year>2012</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>November</day>	<month>8,</month>	<year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  Let 
  G be a graph. If there exists a spanning subgraph 
  F such that 
  d
  <sub>F</sub>(
  x) ∈ {1,3,…2
  n – 1}, then is called to be (1,2
  n – 1)-odd factor of 
  G. Some sufficient and necessary conditions are given for 
  G – U to have (1,2
  n – 1)-odd factor where 
  U is any subset of 
  V(
  G) such that |
  U| = 
  k.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Claw Free Graphs; (1</kwd><kwd>2&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; – 1)-Odd Factor; Factor-Criticality</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>We consider finite undirected graph without loops and multiple edges .Let <img src="5-7401095\30dafd20-9cdd-492a-be02-23bceeb051c7.jpg" /> be a graph with vertex set <img src="5-7401095\41e35952-c96d-40ec-b382-52cca366423b.jpg" /> and edge set <img src="5-7401095\343f536d-9827-4ab0-b0c8-b2853d3b08d7.jpg" /> Given<img src="5-7401095\8c8a3a2e-9c64-4081-8747-9476755b2b90.jpg" />, the set of vertexes adjacent to <img src="5-7401095\951b0d32-24f1-419d-a64a-45a844577f49.jpg" />is said to be the neighborhood of<img src="5-7401095\773587a3-3ecf-42ce-82a8-661e0fe5e674.jpg" />, denoted by<img src="5-7401095\db49f683-8af3-4842-b4c3-e27d4bac1718.jpg" />, and <img src="5-7401095\43d7a9a4-372c-4c51-8907-0adf365d7701.jpg" /> is called the degree of<img src="5-7401095\ef1a130f-23f1-4200-b712-f78e7177f3df.jpg" />, If there exists a spanning subgraph <img src="5-7401095\b2bec670-1a93-49c9-ab20-d0dc28805a3b.jpg" /> such that<img src="5-7401095\27959447-0413-4e77-a475-4c9e71c59535.jpg" />, then <img src="5-7401095\97d0386c-8d76-4d94-a09e-999752d39628.jpg" /> is called a <img src="5-7401095\4a70bd1c-93ad-40f9-8f98-7b6888d9b2d6.jpg" />-odd factor of<img src="5-7401095\c079e830-50f2-4637-8cc9-226218c8e2d4.jpg" />, especially, if for every <img src="5-7401095\0ed4559b-2685-4e5a-9ac7-436c340adce8.jpg" /> such that<img src="5-7401095\0b77e156-bce2-473c-b1c3-0684141072f9.jpg" />, then it is called <img src="5-7401095\6fa3ffcf-ab32-4474-9cd0-d226bedbc69a.jpg" />-odd factor. especially, <img src="5-7401095\bc64eb1b-cf48-44bb-97fc-b75220e55902.jpg" />-odd factor is 1-factor when n = 1. For a subset<img src="5-7401095\4f023a89-6e71-497e-a218-e7d6d43038b6.jpg" />, let <img src="5-7401095\f4b2a272-2031-45e2-96ec-1de19ac2e913.jpg" /> denote the subgraph obtained from <img src="5-7401095\09b4e7c8-344b-43a9-b699-4a81d81fb7c0.jpg" /> by deleting all the vertexes of <img src="5-7401095\9084fe1a-505a-4168-b7b7-c7b59ee236ab.jpg" /> together with the edges incident with the vertexes of <img src="5-7401095\50b37c9d-ad41-4bd8-b8f6-096b00fe187a.jpg" /> denotes the number of odd components of<img src="5-7401095\fd262d53-8cc6-42e1-9f7b-6b7804d88706.jpg" />. The sufficient and necessary condition for graph to have <img src="5-7401095\ff5175a4-938b-4318-8902-5b19058f18d8.jpg" />-odd factor was given in paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref1">1</xref>] Ryjacek [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref2">2</xref>] introduced one kind of new closure operation: let <img src="5-7401095\d2749e55-8573-420d-8afb-edfc7d74c2e2.jpg" /> be a graph, <img src="5-7401095\ee729cb6-1b59-4fd8-897b-b644fb5dc394.jpg" />, if the subgraph induced by <img src="5-7401095\c440c432-ce15-4468-b85a-a497b9bbd30c.jpg" /> is not complete graph, we consider the following operation: jointing every pair of nonadjacent vertex in <img src="5-7401095\850c1eef-a017-47ad-ac4c-85238ceec57c.jpg" /> makes <img src="5-7401095\c8858fc3-b6d6-43ed-9416-f8fc5478804e.jpg" /> to be a complete graph. The operation is called local completely at point<img src="5-7401095\70ddaf77-864f-4817-8b31-98de005e70a0.jpg" />. If the subgraph induced by <img src="5-7401095\50e23f54-3f8b-4ccd-9eb4-d80ab7e53615.jpg" /> is k-vertex connected, then vertex <img src="5-7401095\705933fa-54b9-4ae1-9d30-a39300ca59b9.jpg" /> is called local <img src="5-7401095\f4b94a21-c32d-4ffa-903e-f6c6bd1d00ad.jpg" />-vertex connected graph<img src="5-7401095\e23c54e2-f972-4714-9212-3ae9e0d75c60.jpg" />.</p><p>Favaron gave the concept of k-factor critical in paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref3">3</xref>]. If<img src="5-7401095\a9bc1fac-88b8-4963-8359-bb60094991b3.jpg" />, and for any <img src="5-7401095\f2a12a8b-4a98-42d5-be51-20ab92be8909.jpg" /> <img src="5-7401095\2096ec7d-429c-49e5-a3a4-d129ae6c99fc.jpg" />, <img src="5-7401095\f4bbd794-7e49-4dd1-8e39-ce578ef9db29.jpg" />is perfect matching ,then we call the graph <img src="5-7401095\90386c05-a5a9-4d2f-bd62-d02b50d201a9.jpg" /> to be k-factor critical. Of course, 0-factor critical graph is perfect matching. Favaron popularized a series of the properties of perfect matching to k-factor critical, at the same time the sufficient and necessary conditions were given for the graph to be k-factor critical, more results in factor critical graphs were referred to [4,5].</p><p>For <img src="5-7401095\8e504b0b-96d0-4012-950c-284507d6dc65.jpg" />-odd factor, Chen Ci-ping [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref6">6</xref>] gave a sufficient condition for a matching with exactly <img src="5-7401095\ed4e772a-9dd8-44e1-9538-74648299a865.jpg" /> edges extended to <img src="5-7401095\60a25cc3-6302-4da7-9abc-2a878482b63b.jpg" />-odd factor. Teng Cong generalized some results on kto <img src="5-7401095\88dfa955-3c49-4220-8fc4-aaf38c2b1dc1.jpg" />-odd factor, and proved that the connected graph <img src="5-7401095\5cfb7890-888e-4597-8c66-4160931f37b8.jpg" /> exists <img src="5-7401095\bdcb3f0c-3b12-4b68-aad2-166e0c33041d.jpg" />-odd factor with k-extended, then for the any edge <img src="5-7401095\bd2df1c4-ec6f-4e91-8ad4-5370284b6ee5.jpg" /> of<img src="5-7401095\20f7bbd7-b0a0-4cbe-875e-3653caba87ac.jpg" />, <img src="5-7401095\e5b1bf5d-f44d-427f-951b-c9ac7bad2ae0.jpg" />exists<img src="5-7401095\1ec8333c-3ae3-4dbb-8ebe-d61fd1130516.jpg" />-odd factor [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref7">7</xref>] with <img src="5-7401095\60c1cc28-643f-41e2-8363-df0203e4f865.jpg" />-extended. If there exists <img src="5-7401095\9334510e-9708-4bff-9030-af560f582d99.jpg" />-odd factor of <img src="5-7401095\30cc01a8-288d-43a2-adae-c163b25c049b.jpg" /> with k-extended, then there exists <img src="5-7401095\819f2f61-fa27-421b-9d7e-14f7f43ab327.jpg" />-odd factor with <img src="5-7401095\995d8158-1569-4997-a2d8-733784dbc1e0.jpg" />-extended, and <img src="5-7401095\dfa8c09f-5c98-4bc6-8aef-28f217ff23ff.jpg" /> is <img src="5-7401095\f26dc89e-e4da-4dca-97a8-0519420f792d.jpg" />-connected [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref8">8</xref>]. We will popularize some results of k-factor critical to <img src="5-7401095\6580e05b-e49e-4ed5-a756-e7302b4a33c5.jpg" />-odd factor, and gain several sufficient and necessary conditions for <img src="5-7401095\21ed3822-8a9a-4815-b5fc-c900b121d19c.jpg" /> to have <img src="5-7401095\9ab5bbb2-5efc-4b8e-b809-b78676115296.jpg" />-odd factor for any subset <img src="5-7401095\61f3c4d4-5154-4a30-8fc3-4d966bcb8c24.jpg" /> of <img src="5-7401095\dff0169f-5dee-46d9-b123-b4d8cbab9742.jpg" /> such that<img src="5-7401095\c40fc67a-c84d-4836-bb34-845f3f9f2211.jpg" />.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Main Results</title><p>We start with some lemmas as following.</p><p>Lemma 1 The sufficient and necessary condition for a graph <img src="5-7401095\4fc5a7c1-68c7-40c1-8669-3a8e75835aef.jpg" /> to have <img src="5-7401095\93baadcf-be13-43e7-a6ea-a463b68daf02.jpg" />-odd factor after cutting off any <img src="5-7401095\9441ff0a-24c7-41f0-a0c5-680a1c81075d.jpg" /> vertexes is</p><p><img src="5-7401095\84ee1009-eeb8-4f22-bfb9-922c97a491c2.jpg" /></p><p>Proof For set <img src="5-7401095\d36d58f5-3991-456d-9765-c1c8d913ecad.jpg" /> with any <img src="5-7401095\9f690d24-eab4-4e34-afcb-1ba442fe99af.jpg" /> vertexes, <img src="5-7401095\51e2b66d-a65c-423f-bc80-5b0bfee28a0a.jpg" />has <img src="5-7401095\97dd8bb4-2f23-48ec-8fc0-67f9a9409352.jpg" />-odd factor, next we will prove</p><p><img src="5-7401095\f4e44bf6-099c-4f44-8fd6-5659578df7ad.jpg" /></p><p>For any <img src="5-7401095\a95ab010-d137-475d-8fa2-5abe021af6ef.jpg" /> and<img src="5-7401095\8ecc215b-c299-4e46-955c-9d99f042ba61.jpg" />, let<img src="5-7401095\07fb0ce6-c650-46f1-b265-497bc790a47c.jpg" />, where<img src="5-7401095\3927b13a-37ad-4e23-8411-43bda16cd561.jpg" />. Since <img src="5-7401095\e7862709-31ff-4ab6-8ba8-49bcfd2ad6c4.jpg" /> has a <img src="5-7401095\68d04e1a-0b57-49c2-9b6f-350f067558cd.jpg" />-odd factor, by the sufficient and necessary condition for graph with <img src="5-7401095\8261e4ae-09a7-4da6-aeda-cedc21429b41.jpg" />-odd factor we have</p><p><img src="5-7401095\e410c516-d18c-49b2-b270-f9154f440aa4.jpg" />.</p><p>Noting that<img src="5-7401095\60fafa02-8c1d-4b67-a18c-570103e6db5b.jpg" />Therefore</p><p><img src="5-7401095\00d41d91-c053-43bc-b0cf-76bc583ad5ef.jpg" /></p><p>For any <img src="5-7401095\5a05175a-aad3-4cbb-b778-52681563a94d.jpg" /> and <img src="5-7401095\6a6b9713-c8cf-4104-88c0-91f8d48905f6.jpg" /> we have</p><p><img src="5-7401095\3285c170-978b-43ab-b263-ced416e0aadd.jpg" />the following that the set <img src="5-7401095\c4fc36e6-904a-4fc4-8139-9328ff071f26.jpg" /> with any <img src="5-7401095\510b957c-351a-4d59-9207-101170a40fc9.jpg" /> vertexes, <img src="5-7401095\4b8b3803-3312-4ee6-8510-897395301df0.jpg" />has <img src="5-7401095\04183162-2ef7-46eb-b874-6457945d8d44.jpg" />-odd factor, i.e., for any<img src="5-7401095\8ba71ab1-aade-4e36-9b41-28c87adeff4a.jpg" />, there<img src="5-7401095\03a4d382-a01b-469e-9795-7a33c3dd7055.jpg" />.</p><p>Noting that<img src="5-7401095\6074d2af-3d03-48ad-8f5f-aaa634032722.jpg" />, of course<img src="5-7401095\6827b489-57c9-43a5-a8f0-e9840a327d98.jpg" />.</p><p>By</p><p><img src="5-7401095\bfbbc2f8-d445-48f3-bc15-cec4e6a930cc.jpg" />and<img src="5-7401095\ce1b82ea-d0e5-47d9-a248-7643a78b8ece.jpg" />, we have</p><p><img src="5-7401095\ea6c9085-8e5b-4368-bb39-b44e61c611ec.jpg" /></p><p>Lemma 2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.25347-ref9">9</xref>] Connected claw free graphs of even order have 1-factor.</p><p>Lemma 3 Connected claw free graphs of even order have <img src="5-7401095\333b2aae-8c4c-4e1f-9584-caab06e79a8c.jpg" />-odd factor.</p><p>Proof If<img src="5-7401095\d8c59fbf-d110-4d22-aa61-aba5516cb553.jpg" />, by lemma 2, the conclusion is proved. Assume that<img src="5-7401095\4b2e66f6-3769-4cff-84a3-044746d22322.jpg" />.</p><p>By contradiction, we assume that <img src="5-7401095\2463d075-ed6a-4b6c-8624-141b3994463c.jpg" /> has no <img src="5-7401095\bf77cc6d-6e5b-4b4a-908e-dfd127bafdc9.jpg" />-odd factor, i.e., <img src="5-7401095\4753a27b-a342-4194-80f4-520d41b01398.jpg" />such that</p><p><img src="5-7401095\0e412bdc-c62c-486c-bb93-6a8c32ed0a61.jpg" />.</p><p>then there exists <img src="5-7401095\7345e87b-a1ac-44cd-93e9-ddb8470ace0c.jpg" /> such that <img src="5-7401095\f84e866e-3bd2-43fc-979b-888c88cc522f.jpg" /> connecting with three components of <img src="5-7401095\acf90a49-d855-4fac-8d13-5476cb8e3b05.jpg" /> at least. If not, for<img src="5-7401095\99a8bffa-9c26-416a-88ed-c5b14b29cd1e.jpg" />, <img src="5-7401095\25e889fa-8a6f-4a01-a569-8e4669d612dd.jpg" />connects with two components of <img src="5-7401095\d894b4ba-8657-42e3-86dd-1de3f4f8f438.jpg" /> at most, consequently<img src="5-7401095\9a0a34a3-d2cd-48e6-9300-62739affe920.jpg" />, contradiction.</p><p>Theorem 1 Let <img src="5-7401095\eac91d73-9d27-4426-a848-872e94074f35.jpg" /> be graph with <img src="5-7401095\ccb092e1-cac0-48f6-ac1a-1e06c3e76983.jpg" /> order, <img src="5-7401095\b42ecac6-2d1c-42c7-919c-05160f0468b5.jpg" />are a couple of nonadjacent vertexes and satisfy</p><p><img src="5-7401095\cc3ce465-fdbc-43a3-b2fc-2d2c0166ca73.jpg" />then the sufficient and necessary condition for <img src="5-7401095\ff7f37db-a009-425e-9508-9ced46778cfc.jpg" /> removing any <img src="5-7401095\559ae99c-675d-4f51-a67a-fb7714530671.jpg" /> vertexes with <img src="5-7401095\df623c3c-a9f2-4dba-b6be-1c30334a8d8a.jpg" />-odd factor is that <img src="5-7401095\4fd4d066-1b95-44c9-818a-0a7c0a9758ae.jpg" /> getting rid of any <img src="5-7401095\7c0f56c2-e99b-4b9b-999a-db98a8372278.jpg" /> vertexes with <img src="5-7401095\244abae2-686a-41d6-affb-9f6037262df3.jpg" />-odd factor.</p><p>Proof The necessary condition is obvious, next we prove the sufficient condition.</p><p>By contradiction, let <img src="5-7401095\10227138-67e5-470b-b18b-a0168772dcc2.jpg" /> remove any <img src="5-7401095\ccd2c949-ea55-4c09-8d5e-90b4db9a2eae.jpg" /> vertexes with <img src="5-7401095\5b2ee995-6e8c-4f18-a323-55f44e6e64c5.jpg" />-odd factor, but there exist <img src="5-7401095\fafc8403-b93f-4732-b0b0-b82ba5d8514c.jpg" /> vertexes after getting rid of the <img src="5-7401095\002c1db3-f7da-491a-bc9a-8564ea0f15c9.jpg" /> vertexes of <img src="5-7401095\078de7d5-6121-403e-bb2d-2f0af5f85007.jpg" /> without <img src="5-7401095\64830f6f-6a28-4ee4-93cf-d7fb1af9e03a.jpg" />-odd factor. By lemma 1, there exists</p><p><img src="5-7401095\5761197a-c286-4a13-8e8e-a2805ada7781.jpg" /></p><p>such that</p><p><img src="5-7401095\9a55dee0-eac7-4a76-b58c-7461e9f54ec3.jpg" />and</p><p><img src="5-7401095\d0caba68-e289-4aaf-8df1-9a89c22f3fc2.jpg" />.</p><p>at the same time, by <img src="5-7401095\9d902c12-601b-418a-9ce6-0b682ca6c840.jpg" /> and</p><p><img src="5-7401095\91d7b3e5-323b-4955-a8f0-6fe24cf8dc92.jpg" />Thereby<img src="5-7401095\5e741b84-ba05-4036-96c9-8087dcf1d338.jpg" />.</p><p>Furthermore, by<img src="5-7401095\733b95df-a943-4292-91e3-f1654e210ef8.jpg" />Consequently</p><p><img src="5-7401095\e205dd74-f714-4896-a8d2-6cd967835f34.jpg" /></p><p>Accordingly</p><p><img src="5-7401095\34509045-b282-4014-bb17-ce2ba8b805b8.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="5-7401095\2dde632e-a555-45d7-ae23-0186ef733789.jpg" />.</p><p>It shows that <img src="5-7401095\9fd40da7-df5c-4beb-92e0-1477ee031dd8.jpg" /> are part of two odd components <img src="5-7401095\e5e34e78-0ebe-4f44-add6-f084598a9837.jpg" /> of <img src="5-7401095\74ddb83f-d534-4133-97f4-d28fc569ef5d.jpg" /> respectively.</p><p>Thus</p><p><img src="5-7401095\9b9404d6-8320-4d10-bfe4-f6635f2054b0.jpg" />.</p><p>On the other hand, by hypothesis</p><p><img src="5-7401095\b79f420f-6124-4cdc-8931-3ccbd391cbc2.jpg" /></p><p>But</p><p><img src="5-7401095\1e0ba82a-4224-4cbd-bed6-dd46723bb751.jpg" />.</p><p>Contradiction.</p><p>Theorem 2 Let <img src="5-7401095\e72fca8f-199f-4739-8092-9bd14e3395c6.jpg" /> connected graph <img src="5-7401095\3bdfa300-e174-413b-bfca-5c784f2e4b16.jpg" /> be <img src="5-7401095\d92a371a-048a-4ed6-bf3d-66f238cca084.jpg" /> order, <img src="5-7401095\bdad2b8b-ea8e-438c-b47f-4aa78b019294.jpg" />are a couple of any nonadjacent vertexes of<img src="5-7401095\e9277065-8d5a-4833-a681-38f65aa1104e.jpg" />, and satisfy</p><p><img src="5-7401095\da5110f4-f248-4552-830f-eb4713214908.jpg" />then the sufficient and necessary condition for <img src="5-7401095\33c6e5b2-1c3e-4410-b19b-5f3d5427242d.jpg" /> removing any <img src="5-7401095\fb5c17b7-c792-42b8-8f90-fe72ba6d5357.jpg" /> vertexes with <img src="5-7401095\ab768d34-4791-4bd1-ac96-671f41e6817b.jpg" />-odd factor is <img src="5-7401095\b45eeacb-db55-45c7-8abe-b98b034ad941.jpg" /> getting rid of&#160; any <img src="5-7401095\c844ab14-c922-4fe7-8191-f1ee1b190505.jpg" /> vertexes with</p><p><img src="5-7401095\4efcebff-064c-4cfd-b35b-19363308df21.jpg" />-odd factor.</p><p>Proof <img src="5-7401095\ba064530-c9f1-4585-966e-597013f1ffd4.jpg" /> is a spanning subgraph of<img src="5-7401095\ab55c903-7228-4a77-8f04-7492acddc694.jpg" />, so the necessary condition is obvious.</p><p>Next we prove the sufficient condition. We suppose <img src="5-7401095\c497dca6-8316-4615-b15d-14c06aa97304.jpg" /> getting rid of any <img src="5-7401095\7e054f6c-b4f8-4d1c-b9fd-6ccae5a7c1e8.jpg" /> vertexes with <img src="5-7401095\d9147047-1354-4743-955b-4b9a3fb983bb.jpg" />- odd factor, but <img src="5-7401095\c2d3d003-5c33-4397-b31a-1f5fbf73fbfc.jpg" /> is not, i.e. there exist</p><p><img src="5-7401095\879e42fc-b6c9-40de-a9f2-177f0a7f4853.jpg" /></p><p>such that</p><p><img src="5-7401095\b4dbdcff-8f7c-4ba4-835b-57c10e0f18c7.jpg" />.</p><p>Be similar to the discussion of theorem 1</p><p><img src="5-7401095\8d2e3eeb-00db-4153-b2d6-53ffb7ee3577.jpg" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="5-7401095\f8a0f91c-ecb5-445c-8c9d-0e8ea5360dc5.jpg" />.</p><p>thereby <img src="5-7401095\98c18635-a44c-426c-af05-2f43c2f15b88.jpg" /> are part of two odd components <img src="5-7401095\a84aff65-905e-44c3-a6e3-3fbf3391ec55.jpg" /> of <img src="5-7401095\27e20ba0-c569-4bd7-af14-653d5c4963f1.jpg" /> respectively.</p><p>Noting that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.25347-formula112594"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="5-7401095\0ba2eb8c-96c4-44d0-afbf-29d6b3bbccfa.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>By hypothesis</p><disp-formula id="scirp.25347-formula112595"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="5-7401095\699225a0-214e-4122-8be8-559c1b946f6c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Combining (1) with (2)</p><p><img src="5-7401095\fecf48dd-9895-4173-a62e-b5e30f1bd782.jpg" /></p><p>Consequently</p><p><img src="5-7401095\5f0aac5b-84e5-4b74-8131-437bfce17a37.jpg" />but<img src="5-7401095\f7bc0641-a5e7-4356-a799-f293cdfcfea7.jpg" />.</p><p>Contradiction.</p><p>Theorem 3 Let <img src="5-7401095\463e91e8-1ac5-486d-9ff2-d2403ae0867a.jpg" /> be claw free graphs, <img src="5-7401095\e64f139e-dd89-475c-9256-9e5bb7020ba0.jpg" />be partial <img src="5-7401095\30f4c260-dd77-480d-afaf-ace37f121a9d.jpg" /> connection point. <img src="5-7401095\476b2203-9f78-418c-a107-7c89b3269a27.jpg" />be graph obtained by locally fully on <img src="5-7401095\676db6da-45f8-46e8-ae4e-1abd32c8e840.jpg" /> in <img src="5-7401095\4c29340b-3624-4cec-baec-027777f6fc8f.jpg" /> point, then for<img src="5-7401095\11f3a758-d538-4f5b-868f-601ce368e58b.jpg" />, the sufficient and necessary condition for <img src="5-7401095\54272a32-0475-4502-bb83-3c2a067f5f09.jpg" /> with <img src="5-7401095\ade6bec1-2d0c-40f2-8420-71c8ac0a9187.jpg" />-odd factor is <img src="5-7401095\526ad6f2-ce3e-4861-8e6d-9ade933b5387.jpg" /> with <img src="5-7401095\b61129e8-1b73-4581-b100-db7709fcfa38.jpg" />-odd factor.</p><p>Proof <img src="5-7401095\26466df5-ce75-44d2-b1dc-8d7c4fed1830.jpg" /> is a spanning subgraph of<img src="5-7401095\af657f45-dbd9-442f-995d-f449441e75cf.jpg" />, so the necessary condition is obvious.</p><p>Next we prove the sufficient condition. Let <img src="5-7401095\ceadde1d-b404-4cee-8485-68ff6b794d12.jpg" /> have <img src="5-7401095\56f8d607-c587-4997-873e-90814551982a.jpg" />-odd factor, <img src="5-7401095\7379ee5e-804a-4a8f-955b-3d0dd2cba879.jpg" />have no <img src="5-7401095\85015069-faff-4ff3-933f-d10c36798418.jpg" />- odd factor. <img src="5-7401095\fb6ae454-be9f-43a5-9a8e-ff27dd7fb6ee.jpg" />has <img src="5-7401095\ea7cda13-632c-4191-abdf-5507d9149c57.jpg" />-odd factor, <img src="5-7401095\69b22bfb-e2ae-413e-8c7d-1bb6c0262fbf.jpg" />, so<img src="5-7401095\52f0b0c8-0add-4d2b-9448-9cf34f7a0cd7.jpg" />.</p><p>On the other hand, <img src="5-7401095\30883b5b-2a80-4e60-ae15-8fc721664087.jpg" />is claw free, so <img src="5-7401095\3b22c97a-5e41-45f7-b22e-6a970cac15df.jpg" /> is claw free.</p><p>By lemma 2, lemma 3, <img src="5-7401095\ef899ef7-4222-4518-b1ea-27c9aa1186b8.jpg" />has two odd components at least.</p><p>If<img src="5-7401095\ea21886e-0c1f-43ac-8814-25fc360df13f.jpg" />, let <img src="5-7401095\d2b7c8c7-5c21-4d3b-895f-a0349916d71e.jpg" /> (<img src="5-7401095\13a44518-f4fb-4c41-a213-000e04ee9674.jpg" />is branch of<img src="5-7401095\b10dbf4c-141b-4f2b-af17-272026082a76.jpg" />). Now, <img src="5-7401095\00f52086-6e26-4c7d-b8f4-bc6cf11e9ac5.jpg" />has the same odd components as<img src="5-7401095\ab544fe7-961b-495d-95c4-f74bb8399be5.jpg" />, therefore, <img src="5-7401095\af1ca370-1adf-4feb-9451-bd50fff76945.jpg" />has <img src="5-7401095\45a36a16-2b25-44d9-a1c8-e16ce8434de6.jpg" />-odd factor. which is contradiction.</p><p>Next let<img src="5-7401095\7de26b36-ab4b-4653-91f4-cb849ab5e79c.jpg" />, since <img src="5-7401095\85a93643-01c0-4ae1-ac91-2dd7aa1585aa.jpg" /> has not odd components, for any odd components of<img src="5-7401095\17f27d2c-29e8-4d3f-b5b6-706df5b8b3e5.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="5-7401095\e8b35720-b279-42c3-b704-094f807f8f8a.jpg" /></p><p>is complete.</p><p>Let <img src="5-7401095\26995d15-a366-4368-a0a1-8f273a8aff40.jpg" /> be adjacent vertexes of <img src="5-7401095\6bd13aa7-4345-4574-aff3-247c0b13d44b.jpg" /> in two odd components of <img src="5-7401095\efbab9be-b18b-4d77-9d24-29ad1ddd711c.jpg" /> respectively.</p><p>Then <img src="5-7401095\1edca753-f398-418d-92c0-dad092320776.jpg" /> is nonadjacent in the induced subgraph of</p><p><img src="5-7401095\e3e6fc62-a7c5-489c-88e7-cb77410ef4fe.jpg" />, which is contradiction to the fact that</p><p><img src="5-7401095\7b369df0-1d99-4007-830f-adf97bf109b0.jpg" />is a locally <img src="5-7401095\3b1cc1b1-a377-4dc3-9cf0-b13a9ec6d9e4.jpg" /> connected vertex, since</p><p><img src="5-7401095\c7a5756f-6642-44a8-94c2-a5961c03091c.jpg" /></p><p>The proof is complete.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>REFERENCES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.25347-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Y. 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