Publisher’s description: This book deals with two important branches of graph theory – factor theory and extendable graphs. Due to the mature techniques and wide ranges of applications, factors and matchings become useful tools in the investigation of many theoretical problems and practical issues. This book includes basic techniques and theoretical foundations as well as recent advances in the field. It also discusses open problems and conjectures to inspire the readers.
It is primarily aimed at researchers and graduate students in graph theory and combinatorics in general. However, all the necessary prerequisites are developed from scratch and should be accessible to upper-level undergraduate students with prior knowledge of graph theory.