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 ScienceAsia 47 (2021):ID  779-784 |doi: 
						
					10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2021.099
 
 
 A lower bound of the rank of a signed graph in terms
of order and maximum degree
 Yong Lua,*, Wei-Ru Xub ABSTRACT:     that r(K
a,b) = 2 (a, b ? 2) if and only if all the cycles of order 4 in K
a,b are balanced. Using this result,
we also prove that r(
 
                    
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              | a | School of Mathematics and Statistics, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116 China |  
              | b | School of Mathematical Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610066 China |              * Corresponding author, E-mail: luyong@jsnu.edu.cn Received 25 Sep 2020, Accepted 21 Jul 2021            
        
 
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