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Nonorientable genus embedding of nearly complete bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2026-01-13 v2

Abstract

The nearly complete bipartite graph G(m,n,k)G(m,n,k) is obtained by removing kk independent edges from the complete bipartite graph Km,nK_{m,n}. In this paper, we prove that for any nearly complete bipartite graph G(m,n,k)G(m,n,k) with m,n3m, n\geq 3, and (m,n,k){(5,4,4)(m,n,k)\notin\{(5,4,4), (4,5,4)(4,5,4), (5,5,5)}(5,5,5)\}, there exists a nonorientable genus embedding Π\Pi satisfying γ~(Π)=max{((m2)(n2)k)/2,1}\tilde{\gamma}(\Pi)=\max\{\lceil \big((m-2)(n-2)-k\big)/2\rceil, 1\}. This embedding can be constructed by starting from an embedding of some G(p,q,h)G(p,q,h) with h6h\leq 6 and p,q7p,q\leq 7, and then iteratively adding multiple copies of G(2,2,2)G(2,2,2), G(2,0,0)G(2,0,0) and G(0,2,0)G(0,2,0). As a consequence, the previously unresolved nonorientable genus γ~(G(n+1,n,n))\tilde{\gamma}(G(n+1,n,n)) for even nn and γ~(G(n,n,n))\tilde{\gamma}(G(n,n,n)) for arbitrary nn are now determined.

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@article{arxiv.2305.10008,
  title  = {Nonorientable genus embedding of nearly complete bipartite graphs},
  author = {Shengxiang Lv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10008},
  year   = {2026}
}