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Thrackles containing a standard musquash

Combinatorics 2016-01-22 v1

Abstract

A thrackle is a drawing of a graph in which each pair of edges meets precisely once. Conway's Thrackle Conjecture asserts that a planar thrackle drawing of a graph cannot have more edges than vertices, which is equivalent to saying that no connected component of the graph contains more than one cycle. We prove that a thrackle drawing containing a standard musquash (standard nn-gonal thrackle) cannot contain any other cycle of length three or five.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05562,
  title  = {Thrackles containing a standard musquash},
  author = {Grace Misereh and Yuri Nikolayevsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05562},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages,19 figures

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