Extending matchings in planar graphs V

A graph G on at least 2n + 2 vertices in n-extendable if every set of n independent edges extends to (i.e., is a subset of) a perfect matching in G. It is known that no planar graph is 3-extendable. In the present paper we continue to study 2-extendability in the plane. Suppose independent edges e₁ and e₂ are such that the removal of their endvertices leaves at least one odd component C_o. The subgraph G[V(C_o) V(e₁) V(e₂)] is called a generalized butterfly (or gbutterfly). Clearly, a 2-extendable graph can contain no gbutterfly. The converse, however, is false.

We improve upon a previous result by proving that if G is 4-connected, locally connected and planar with an even number of vertices and has no gbutterfly, it is 2-extendable. Sharpness with respect to the various hypotheses of this result is discussed.     

On embeddings of graphs containing no K5-minor

In this paper, we proved that every 2-connected graph containing no K₅-minor has a closed 2-cell embedding on some 2-manifold surface. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Stiefel-Whitney surfaces and decompositions of 3-manifolds into handlebodies

Every closed nanorientable 3-manifold M can be obtained as the union of three orientable handlebodies V₁, V₂, V₃ whose interiors are pairwise disjoint. If g_i denotes the genus of V_i, g₁g₂g₃, we say that M has tri-genus (g₁, g₂, g₃), if in terms of lexicographical ordering, the triple (g₁, g₂, g₃) is minimal among all such decompositions of M into orientable handlebodies. We relate the tri-genus of M to the genus of a surface that represents the dual of the first Stiefel-Whitney class of M. This is used to determine g₁ and g₂.     

Maximum Genus of Strong Embeddings

The strong embedding conjecture states that any 2-connected graph has a strong embedding on some surface. It implies the circuit double cover conjecture: Any 2-connected graph has a circuit double cover.Conversely, it is not true. But for a 3-regular graph, the two conjectures are equivalent. In this paper, a characterization of graphs having a strong embedding with exactly 3 faces, which is the strong embedding of maximum genus, is given. In addition, some graphs with the property are provided. More generally, an upper bound of the maximum genus of strong embeddings of a graph is presented too. Lastly, it is shown that the interpolation theorem is true to planar Halin graph.     

CYCLE SPACES OF GRAPHS ON THE SPHERE AND THE PROJECTIVE PLANE

Cycle base theory of a graph has been well studied in abstract mathematical field such matroid theory as Whitney and Tutte did and found many applications in pratical uses such as electric circuit theory and structure analysis, etc. In this paper graph embedding theory is used to investigate cycle base structures of a 2-(edge)-connected graph on the sphere and the projective plane and it is shown that short cycles do generate the cycle spaces in the case of ““““small face-embeddings““““. As applications the authors find the exact formulae for the minimum lengthes of cycle bases of some types of graphs and present several known results. Infinite examples shows that the conditions in their main results are best possible and there are many 3-connected planar graphs whose minimum cycle bases can not be determined by the planar formulae but may be located by re-embedding them into the projective plane.     

Consequences of an algorithm for bridged graphs

Chepoi showed that every breadth first search of a bridged graph produces a cop-win ordering of the graph. We note here that Chepoi's proof gives a simple proof of the theorem that G is bridged if and only if G is cop-win and has no induced cycle of length four or five, and that this characterization together with Chepoi's proof reduces the time complexity of bridged graph recognition. Specifically, we show that bridged graph recognition is equivalent to (C₄,C₅)-free graph recognition, and reduce the best known time complexity from O(n⁴) to O(n^3.376).     

Some results on characterizing the edges of connected graphs with a given domination number

A dominating set for a graph G = (V, E) is a subset of vertices V′ V such that for all v ε V − V′ there exists some u ε V′ for which {v, u} ε E. The domination number of G is the size of its smallest dominating set(s). For a given graph G with minimum size dominating set D, let m₁ (G, D) denote the number of edges that have neither endpoint in D, and let m₂ (G, D) denote the number of edges that have at least one endpoint in D. We characterize the possible values that the pair (m₁ (G, D), m₂ (G, D)) can attain for connected graphs having a given domination number.     

Strong embeddings of minimum genus

A “folklore conjecture, probably due to Tutte” (as described in [P.D. Seymour, Sums of circuits, in: Graph Theory and Related Topics (Proc. Conf., Univ. Waterloo, 1977), Academic Press, 1979, pp. 341-355]) asserts that every bridgeless cubic graph can be embedded on a surface of its own genus in such a way that the face boundaries are cycles of the graph. Sporadic counterexamples to this conjecture have been known since the late 1970s. In this paper we consider closed 2-cell embeddings of graphs and show that certain (cubic) graphs (of any fixed genus) have closed 2-cell embedding only in surfaces whose genus is very large (proportional to the order of these graphs), thus providing a plethora of strong counterexamples to the above conjecture. The main result yielding such counterexamples may be of independent interest.     

Planar graphs with no 6-wheel minor

Tutte's wheels theorem states that the k-spoked wheel graphs, W_k, are the basic building blocks for the collection of simple, 3-connected graphs. Therefore it is of interest to examine the structure of the graphs that do not have a minor isomorphic to W_k for small values of k. Dirac determined that the graphs having no W₃-minor are the series-parallel networks. An easy consequence of Tutte's wheels theorem is that W₃ is the only simple, 3-connected graph that has a W₃-minor and no W₄-minor. Oxley characterized the graphs that have a W₄-minor and no W₅-minor. This paper characterizes the planar graphs that have a W₅-minor and no W₆-minor. A best-possible upper bound on the number of edges of such a graph is also determined.     

Ramsey linear families and generalized subdivided graphs

The following results are obtained. (i) Let p, d, and k be fixed positive integers, and let G be a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into parts V₁, V₂,…, V_a such that for each i at most d vertices in V₁ … V_i have neighbors in V_i+1 and r(K_k, V_i) p | V(G) |, where V_i denotes the subgraph of G induced by V_i. Then there exists a number c depending only on p, d, and k such that r(K_k, G)c | V(G) |. (ii) Let d be a positive integer and let G be a graph in which there is an independent set I V(G) such that each component of G−I has at most d vertices and at most two neighbors in I. Then r(G,G)c | V(G) |, where c is a number depending only on d. As a special case, r(G, G) 6 | V(G) | for a graph G in which all vertices of degree at least three are independent. The constant 6 cannot be replaced by one less than 4.     

Partition of a directed bipartite graph into two directed cycles

Let D = (V₁, V₂; A) be a directed bipartite graph with |V₁| = |V₂| = n 2. Suppose that d_D(x) + d_D(y) 3n + 1 for all x ε V₁ and y ε V₂. Then D contains two vertex-disjoint directed cycles of lengths 2n₁ and 2n₂, respectively, for any positive integer partition n = n₁ + n₂. Moreover, the condition is sharp for even n and nearly sharp for odd n.     

On the existence of kernels and h-kernels in directed graphs

A directed graph D with vertex set V is called cyclically h-partite (h2) provided one can partition V=V₀+V₁++V_h−1 so that if (u, υ) is an arc of D then uεV_i, and υεV_i+1 (notation mod h). In this communication we obtain a characterization of cyclically h-partite strongly connected digraphs. As a consequence we obtain a sufficient condition for a digraph to have a h-kernel.     

On neighborhood condition for graphs to have [a,b]-factors

Let G be a graph of order n, and let a and b be integers such that 1a<b. Let δ(G) be the minimum degree of G. Then we prove that if δ(G)(k−1)a, n(a+b)(k(a+b)−2)/b, and |N_G(x₁)N_G(x₂)N_G(x_k)|an/(a+b) for any independent subset {x₁,x₂,…,x_k} of V(G), where k2, then G has an [a,b]-factor. This result is best possible in some sense.     

Embeddings of the base and bundle isomorphisms

Let π_i :E_i→M, i=1,2, be oriented, smooth vector bundles of rank k over a closed, oriented n-manifold with zero sections s_i :M→E_i. Suppose that U is an open neighborhood of s₁(M) in E₁ and F :U→E₂ a smooth embedding so that π₂Fs₁ :M→M is homotopic to a diffeomorphism f. We show that if k>[(n+1)/2]+1 then E₁ and the induced bundle f^*E₂ are isomorphic as oriented bundles provided that f have degree +1; the same conclusion holds if f has degree −1 except in the case where k is even and one of the bundles does not have a nowhere-zero cross-section. For n≡0(4) and [(n+1)/2]+1<kn we give examples of nonisomorphic oriented bundles E₁ and E₂ of rank k over a homotopy n-sphere with total spaces diffeomorphic with orientation preserved, but such that E₁ and f^*E₂ are not isomorphic oriented bundles. We obtain similar results and counterexamples in the more difficult limiting case where k=[(n+1)/2]+1 and M is a homotopy n-sphere.     

Biased partitions and judicious <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-partitions of graphs

Let G = (V,E) be a graph with m edges. For reals p ∈ [0, 1] and q = 1- p, let m_p(G) be the minimum of qe(V₁) +pe(V₂) over partitions V = V₁ ∪ V₂, where e(V_i) denotes the number of edges spanned by V_i. We show that if mp(G) = pqm-δ, then there exists a bipartition V₁, V₂ of G such that e(V₁) ≤ p²m - δ + p√m/2 + o(√m) and e(V₂) ≤ q²m - δ + q √m/2 + o(√m) for δ = o(m^2/3). This is sharp for complete graphs up to the error term o(√m). For an integer k ≥ 2, let fk(G) denote the maximum number of edges in a k-partite subgraph of G. We prove that if fk(G) = (1 - 1/k)m + α, then G admits a k-partition such that each vertex class spans at most m/k² - Ω(m/k^7.5) edges for α = Ω(m/k⁶). Both of the above improve the results of Bollobás and Scott.     

Bandwidth of the composition of two graphs

The bandwidth B(G) of a graph G is the minimum of the quantity max{|f(x)−f(y)| : xyE(G)} taken over all proper numberings f of G. The composition of two graphs G and H, written as G[H], is the graph with vertex set V(G)×V(H) and with (u₁,v₁) is adjacent to (u₂,v₂) if either u₁ is adjacent to u₂ in G or u₁=u₂ and v₁ is adjacent to v₂ in H. In this paper, we investigate the bandwidth of the composition of two graphs. Let G be a connected graph. We denote the diameter of G by D(G). For two distinct vertices x,yV(G), we define w_G(x,y) as the maximum number of internally vertex-disjoint (x,y)-paths whose lengths are the distance between x and y. We define w(G) as the minimum of w_G(x,y) over all pairs of vertices x,y of G with the distance between x and y is equal to D(G). Let G be a non-complete connected graph and let H be any graph. Among other results, we prove that if |V(G)|=B(G)D(G)−w(G)+2, then B(G[H])=(B(G)+1)|V(H)|−1. Moreover, we show that this result determines the bandwidth of the composition of some classes of graphs composed with any graph.     

On the minimal reducible bound for outerplanar and planar graphs

Let L be the set of all additive and hereditary properties of graphs. For P₁, P₂ L we define the reducible property R = P₁ P₂ as follows: G P₁P₂ if there is a bipartition (V₁, V₂) of V(G) such that V₁ P₁ and V₂ P₂. For a property P L, a reducible property R is called a minimal reducible bound for P if P R and for each reducible property R′, R′ R → P R′. It is proved that the class of all outerplanar graphs has exactly two minimal reducible bounds in L. Some related problems for planar graphs are discussed.     

Neighborhood unions and cyclability of graphs

A graph G is said to be cyclable if for each orientation of G, there exists a set S of vertices such that reversing all the arcs of with one end in S results in a hamiltonian digraph. Let G be a 3-connected graph of order n36. In this paper, we show that if for any three independent vertices x₁, x₂ and x₃, |N(x₁)N(x₂)|+|N(x₂)N(x₃)|+|N(x₃)N(x₁)|2n+1, then G is cyclable.     

极大外平面图的不可定向强最大亏格

强嵌入猜想称:任意2-连通图都可以强嵌入到某一曲面上．本文通过分析极大外平面图的结构以及强嵌入的特征,讨论了该图类的不可定向强最大亏格,并给出了一个复杂度为O(nlogn)的算法．其中部分图类的强最大亏格嵌入提供该图的一个少双圈覆盖．     

On convex embeddings of planar 3‐connected graphs

A well‐known Tutte's theorem claims that every 3‐connected planar graph has a convex embedding into the plane. Tutte's arguments also show that, moreover, for every nonseparating cycle C of a 3‐connected graph G, there exists a convex embedding of G such that C is a boundary of the outer face in this embedding. We give a simple proof of this last result. Our proof is based on the fact that a 3‐connected graph admits an ear assembly having some special properties with respect to the nonseparating cycles of the graph. This fact may be interesting and useful in itself. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J. Graph Theory 33: 120–124, 2000