Exercise · ZW-BIPARTITE-GRAPH-009 · ★★★ Advanced

A graph on 7 vertices has three connected components: two isolated edges and a path on 3 vertices. In how many ways can the unordered partition \(\{A,B\}\) be chosen?

Choose one option.

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  • C. 4

Explanation

Each component can be split in two ways, but swapping \(A\) and \(B\) throughout gives the same partition: \(2^3/2=4\).

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Review the concept: Bipartite graph

A bipartite graph is a graph \(G=(V,E)\) whose vertices split into two disjoint sets \(A\) and \(B\) so that every edge \(e\in E\) joins a vertex of \(A\) to one of \(B\).

\[V=A\cup B,\quad A\cap B=\varnothing,\quad |e\cap A|=1\ \text{ for every } e\in E\]

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