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Covering hypergraphs are eulerian

Combinatorics 2021-01-13 v1

Abstract

An Euler tour in a hypergraph (also called a rank-2 universal cycle or 1-overlap cycle in the context of designs) is a closed walk that traverses every edge exactly once. In this paper, we define a covering kk-hypergraph to be a non-empty kk-uniform hypergraph in which every (k1)(k-1)-subset of vertices appear together in at least one edge. We then show that every covering kk-hypergraph, for k3k\geq 3, admits an Euler tour if and only if it has at least two edges.

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@article{arxiv.2101.04561,
  title  = {Covering hypergraphs are eulerian},
  author = {Mateja Šajna and Andrew Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04561},
  year   = {2021}
}