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An Upper Bound of 7n/6 for the Minimum Size 2EC on Cubic 3-Edge Connected Graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2017-06-07 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper, we study the minimum size 2-edge connected spanning subgraph problem (henceforth 2EC) and show that every 3-edge connected cubic graph G=(V, E), with n=|V| allows a 2EC solution for G of size at most 7n/6, which improves upon Boyd, Iwata and Takazawa's guarantee of 6n/5.

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@article{arxiv.1706.01609,
  title  = {An Upper Bound of 7n/6 for the Minimum Size 2EC on Cubic 3-Edge Connected Graphs},
  author = {Philippe Legault},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01609},
  year   = {2017}
}