Contractible Subgraphs, Thomassen's Conjecture and the Dominating Cycle Conjecture for Snarks
Broersma, Hajo and Fijavz, Gasper and Kaiser, Tomas and Kuzel, Roman and Ryjacek, Zdenek and Vrana, Petr (2007) Contractible Subgraphs, Thomassen's Conjecture and the Dominating Cycle Conjecture for Snarks. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 28 . pp. 55-59. ISSN 1571-0653
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|Abstract:||We show that the conjectures by Matthews and Sumner (every 4-connected claw-free graph is hamiltonian), by Thomassen (every 4-connected line graph is hamiltonian) and by Fleischner (every cyclically 4-edge-connected cubic graph has either a 3-edge-coloring or a dominating cycle), which are known to be equivalent, are equivalent with the statement that every snark (i.e. a cyclically 4-edge-connected cubic graph of girth at least five that is not 3-edge-colorable) has a dominating cycle.
We use a refinement of the contractibility technique which was introduced by Ryjáček and Schelp in 2003 as a common generalization and strengthening of the reduction techniques by Catlin and Veldman and of the closure concept introduced by Ryjáček in 1997.
|Copyright:||© 2007 Elsevier|
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
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