3—连通局部连通无爪图是泛连通图

本文证明了若G是连通、局部连通的无爪图,则G是泛连通图的充要条件为G是3-连通图.这意味着H.J.Broersma和H.J.Veldman猜想成立.     

K1,4-受限图的路可扩性

图G中同构于K1,p的子图叫G的p-爪(p3).如果G中任意一个p-爪中1度顶点之间边的数目p-2,则称G为K1,p-受限图,它是无爪图(p=3时)的推广.本文证明了:连通、局部3-连通的K1,4-受限图是路可扩的.     

K1,p-受限图

图G中同构于Ki,p的子图叫G的p-爪(P≥3)．如果G中任意一个p-爪中1度顶点之间边(在G中的边)的数目≥P-2,则称G为K1,p-受限图,它是无爪图的推广．本文证明了连通、局部2-连通的K1,4-受限图是完全圈可扩的．     

3-连通3-正则图生成树外的可去边

G是3-连通图，e是G中的一条边．若G-e是3-连通图的一个剖分，则称e是3-连通图的可去边．否则，e是G中不可去边．本给出3-连通3-正则图中生成树外可去边的分布情况及数目．     

3连通图的可去边数

设 e是 3连通图 G的一条边 ,如果 G- e是某个 3连通图的剖分 ,则称 e是 G的可去边 .本文给出了 3连通图的可去边数依赖于极大半轮的下界以及达到下界的极图 .     

几类新的上可嵌入图

讨论了几类上可嵌入的边连通简单图,得到了如下结果:若G为简单连通图,且满足以下条件1)-3)之一:1)G为1-边连通的,且不含完全图K_3,α(G)≤3,2)G为2-边连通的,且不含完全图K_3,α(G)≤5,3)G为3-边连通的,且不含完全图K_3,α(G)≤10,则G是上可嵌入的,且在上述相应条件下,独立数上界都分别是最好的.     

恰有k条非基本边的极小3连通图

设G是简单3连通图．G\e(删除边e)和G/e(收缩边e)都不是简单3连通图,则e称为G的基本边．对于3连通图中的非基本边．Tutte证明了：唯一没有非基本边的简单3连通图是轮．Oxley和Wu确定了至多有3条非基本边的所有极小3连通图以及恰有4条非基本的极小3连通图．Reid与Wu确定了至多有5条非基本边的极小3连通图．在本文中,我们在极小3连通图中定义了三种运算,然后通过轮利用这些运算的逆运算给出恰有k(k■2)条非基本边的极小3连通图的一种构造方法．     

k-边连通图的新充分谱条件

令G是一个简单连通图.如果连通图G被删除少于k条边后仍然保持连通,则称G是k-边连通的.基于图G或补图■的距离谱半径,距离无符号拉普拉斯谱半径,Wiener指数和Harary指数,提供了图G是k-边连通的新充分谱条件,从而建立了图的代数性质与结构性质之间的紧密联系.     

关于rectifiable空间中的局部(序列)连通性的几个注记

给出连通的rectifiable空间是局部序列连通(或局部连通)的刻画,推广了拓扑群中的相应结果;利用rectifiable空间G中e的局部邻域基给出G是局部连通(或局部序列连通)的刻画;证明了若A是rectifiable空间G中的序列开子集,那么H=A是G的序列开rectifiable子空间.     

点可迁图的限制边连通度

设S是连通图G的边子集.如果G-S不连通而且不含孤立点,那么称S是G的一个限制边割.G中所有限制边割中最小边数称为G的限制边连通度,记为′(G).限制边连通度是对传统边连通度的推广,而且是计算机互连网络容错性的一个重要度量.点可迁图是一类重要的网络模型.本文证明了如下结论 设G是连通的点可迁图.如果G的点数n4,而且点度k2,那么或者′(G)=2k-2,或者n是偶数,G含三角形且存在整数m2,使得k′(G)=n/m2k-3.     

Group connectivity in line graphs

Tutte introduced the theory of nowhere zero flows and showed that a plane graph G has a face k-coloring if and only if G has a nowhere zero A-flow, for any Abelian group A with |A|≥k. In 1992, Jaeger et al. [9] extended nowhere zero flows to group connectivity of graphs: given an orientation D of a graph G, if for any b:V(G)?A with ∑_v∈V(G)b(v)=0, there always exists a map f:E(G)?A−{0}, such that at each v∈V(G), in A, then G is A-connected. Let Z₃ denote the cyclic group of order 3. In [9], Jaeger et al. (1992) conjectured that every 5-edge-connected graph is Z₃-connected. In this paper, we proved the following.

• (i) 

  Every 5-edge-connected graph is Z3-connected if and only if every 5-edge-connected line graph is Z3-connected.

• (ii) 

  Every 6-edge-connected triangular line graph is Z3-connected.

• (iii) 

  Every 7-edge-connected triangular claw-free graph is Z3-connected.

In particular, every 6-edge-connected triangular line graph and every 7-edge-connected triangular claw-free graph have a nowhere zero 3-flow.     

On Group Connectivity of Graphs

Tutte conjectured that every 4-edge-connected graph admits a nowhere-zero Z ₃-flow and Jaeger et al. [Group connectivity of graphs–a nonhomogeneous analogue of nowhere-zero flow properties, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 56 (1992) 165-182] further conjectured that every 5-edge-connected graph is Z ₃-connected. These two conjectures are in general open and few results are known so far. A weaker version of Tutte’s conjecture states that every 4-edge-connected graph with each edge contained in a circuit of length at most 3 admits a nowhere-zero Z ₃-flow. Devos proposed a stronger version problem by asking if every such graph is Z ₃-connected. In this paper, we first answer this later question in negative and get an infinite family of such graphs which are not Z ₃-connected. Moreover, motivated by these graphs, we prove that every 6-edge-connected graph whose edge set is an edge disjoint union of circuits of length at most 3 is Z ₃-connected. It is a partial result to Jaeger’s Z ₃-connectivity conjecture. Received: May 23, 2006. Final version received: January 13, 2008     

Neighborhood Unions and Z 3-Connectivity in Graphs

Let G be a 2-edge-connected simple graph on n ≥ 14 vertices, and let A be an abelian group with the identity element 0. If a graph G* is obtained by repeatedly contracting nontrivial A-connected subgraphs of G until no such a subgraph left, we say that G can be A-reduced to G*. In this paper, we prove that if for every ${uv\not\in E(G), |N(u) \cup N(v)| \geq \lceil \frac{2n}{3} \rceil}$ , then G is not Z ₃-connected if and only if G can be Z ₃-reduced to one of ${\{C_3,K_4,K_4^-, L\}}$ , where L is obtained from K ₄ by adding a new vertex which is joined to two vertices of K ₄.     

Connected,locally 2-connected,K1,3-free graphs are panconnected

A graph G is locally n-connected, n ≥ 1, if the subgraph induced by the neighborhood of each vertex is n-connected. We prove that every connected, locally 2-connected graph containing no induced subgraph isomorphic to K_1,3 is panconnected.     

A note on locally connected and hamiltonian-connected graphs

A graphG is locallyn-connected,n≧1, if the subgraph induced by the neighborhood of each vertex isn-connected. It is shown that every connected, locally 3-connected graph containing no induced subgraph isomorphic toK(1, 3) is hamiltonian-connected.     

The 3-connected graphs with a maximum matching containing precisely one contractible edge

It has previously been shown that if M is a maximum matching in a 3-connected graph G, other than K₄, then M contains at least one contractible edge of G. In this paper, we give a constructive characterization of the 3-connected graphs G having a maximum matching containing only one contractible edge of G.     

A necessary and sufficient condition for connected,locally k-connected k1,3-free graphs to be k-hamiltonian

We prove the following conjecture of Broersma and Veldman: A connected, locally k-connected K_1,3-free graph is k-hamiltonian if and only if it is (k + 2)-connected (K ? 1).     

On planarity of compact, locally connected, metric spaces

Independently, Claytor [Ann. Math. 35 (1934), 809–835] and Thomassen [Combinatorica 24 (2004), 699–718] proved that a 2-connected, compact, locally connected metric space is homeomorphic to a subset of the sphere if and only if it does not contain K ₅ or K _3;3. The “thumbtack space” consisting of a disc plus an arc attaching just at the centre of the disc shows the assumption of 2-connectedness cannot be dropped. In this work, we introduce “generalized thumbtacks” and show that a compact, locally connected metric space is homeomorphic to a subset of the sphere if and only if it does not contain K ₅, K _3;3, or any generalized thumbtack, or the disjoint union of a sphere and a point.     

Hamiltonian connectedness in 3-connected line graphs

We investigate graphs G such that the line graph L(G) is hamiltonian connected if and only if L(G) is 3-connected, and prove that if each 3-edge-cut contains an edge lying in a short cycle of G, then L(G) has the above mentioned property. Our result extends Kriesell’s recent result in [M. Kriesell, All 4-connected line graphs of claw free graphs are hamiltonian-connected, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 82 (2001) 306-315] that every 4-connected line graph of a claw free graph is hamiltonian connected. Another application of our main result shows that if L(G) does not have an hourglass (a graph isomorphic to K₅−E(C₄), where C₄ is an cycle of length 4 in K₅) as an induced subgraph, and if every 3-cut of L(G) is not independent, then L(G) is hamiltonian connected if and only if κ(L(G))≥3, which extends a recent result by Kriesell [M. Kriesell, All 4-connected line graphs of claw free graphs are hamiltonian-connected, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 82 (2001) 306-315] that every 4-connected hourglass free line graph is hamiltonian connected.     

On 3-Edge-Connected Supereulerian Graphs

The supereulerian graph problem, raised by Boesch et al. (J Graph Theory 1:79–84, 1977), asks when a graph has a spanning eulerian subgraph. Pulleyblank showed that such a decision problem, even when restricted to planar graphs, is NP-complete. Jaeger and Catlin independently showed that every 4-edge-connected graph has a spanning eulerian subgraph. In 1992, Zhan showed that every 3-edge-connected, essentially 7-edge-connected graph has a spanning eulerian subgraph. It was conjectured in 1995 that every 3-edge-connected, essentially 5-edge-connected graph has a spanning eulerian subgraph. In this paper, we show that if G is a 3-edge-connected, essentially 4-edge-connected graph and if for every pair of adjacent vertices u and v, d _G (u) + d _G (v) ≥ 9, then G has a spanning eulerian subgraph.