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Gaps in the cycle spectrum of 3-connected cubic planar graphs

Combinatorics 2019-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove that, for every natural number kk, every sufficiently large 3-connected cubic planar graph has a cycle whose length is in [k,2k+9][k,2k+9]. We also show that this bound is close to being optimal by constructing, for every even k4k\geq 4, an infinite family of 3-connected cubic planar graphs that contain no cycle whose length is in [k,2k+1][k,2k+1].

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@article{arxiv.1905.09101,
  title  = {Gaps in the cycle spectrum of 3-connected cubic planar graphs},
  author = {Martin Merker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09101},
  year   = {2019}
}