The flavor-changing top-quark decay t --> ch, where h is the lightest CP-ev
en Higgs boson in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, is examined in
the R-parity-violating supersymmetric model. Within the existing bounds on
the relevant R-parity-violating couplings, the branching fraction for t --
> ch can be as large as about 10(-5) in some part of the parameter space. (
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