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The edges surrounding a face of a map $M$ form a cycle $C$, called the boundary cycle of the face, and $C$ is often not a simple cycle. If the map $M$ is arc-transitive, then there is a cyclic subgroup of automorphisms of $M$ which leaves…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Jiyong Chen , Cai Heng Li , Cheryl E. Praeger , Shu-Jiao Song

A finite simple graph is called a 2-graph if all of its unit spheres S(x) are cyclic graphs of length 4 or larger. A 2-graph G is Eulerian if all vertex degrees of G are even. An edge refinement of a graph splits an edge (a,b) to two edges…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Oliver Knill

It is shown that Euler's theorem for graphs can be generalized for 2-complexes. Two notions that generalize cycle and Eulerian tour are introduced (``circlet'' and ``Eulerian cover''), and we show that for a strongly-connected, pure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Richard H. Hammack , Paul C. Kainen

Consider an undirected graph whose edges are labeled invertibly in a group. When does every Eulerian trail from one fixed vertex to another have the same label? We give a precise structural answer to this question. Essentially, we show that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Donggyu Kim , Rose McCarty , Caleb McFarland

Gallai's conjecture asserts that every connected graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into $\frac{n+1}{2}$ paths. For general graphs (possibly disconnected), it was proved that every graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yanan Chu , Yan Wang

The Harary reconstruction conjecture states that any graph with more than four edges can be uniquely reconstructed from its set of maximal edge-deleted subgraphs. In 1977, M\"uller verified the conjecture for graphs with $n$ vertices and $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Anthony E. Pizzimenti , Umarkhon Rakhimov

Due to Veblen's Theorem, if a connected multigraph $X$ has even degrees at each vertex, then it is Eulerian and its edge set has a partition into cycles. In this paper, we show that an Eulerian multigraph has a unique partition into cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Joshua Cooper , Utku Okur

An even-cycle decomposition of a graph G is a partition of E(G) into cycles of even length. Evidently, every Eulerian bipartite graph has an even-cycle decomposition. Seymour (1981) proved that every 2-connected loopless Eulerian planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Tony Huynh , Sang-il Oum , Maryam Verdian-Rizi

We introduces the umodules, a generalisation of the notion of graph module. The theory we develop captures among others undirected graphs, tournaments, digraphs, and $2-$structures. We show that, under some axioms, a unique decomposition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Michel Habib , Vincent Limouzy , Fabien De Montgolfier

Given an $r$-edge-colouring of the edges of a graph $G$, we say that it can be partitioned into $p$ monochromatic cycles when there exists a set of $p$ vertex-disjoint monochromatic cycles covering all the vertices of $G$. In the literature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Fabrício Siqueira Benevides , Arthur Lima Quintino , Alexandre Talon

A cycle basis in an undirected graph is a minimal set of simple cycles whose symmetric differences include all Eulerian subgraphs of the given graph. We define a rooted cycle basis to be a cycle basis in which all cycles contain a specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 David Eppstein , J. Michael McCarthy , Brian E. Parrish

We study triangle decompositions of graphs. We consider constructions of classes of graphs where every edge lies on a triangle and the addition of the minimum number of multiple edges between already adjacent vertices results in a strongly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-23 C. M. Mynhardt , A. K. Wright

A cycle system of order $n$ is a decomposition of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ into cycles of a fixed length. A cycle system is said to be $k$-colourable if we can assign $k$ colours to its vertices so that no cycle is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Andrea C. Burgess , David A. Pike , Shahriyar Pourakbar-Saffar

The cycles are the only $2$-connected graphs in which any two nonadjacent vertices form a vertex cut. We generalize this fact by proving that for every integer $k\ge 3$ there exists a unique graph $G$ satisfying the following conditions:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Yanan Hu , Xingzhi Zhan , Leilei Zhang

Nested graphs have been used in different applications, for example to represent knowledge in semantic networks. On the other hand, graphs with cycles are really important in surface reconstruction, periodic schedule and network analysis.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 María Carrasco , Zenaida Castillo , Nerio Borges , Ramón Pino Pérez

An undirected graph G is d-degenerate if every subgraph of G has a vertex of degree at most d. By the classical theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Gallai from 1959, every graph of degeneracy d>1 contains a cycle of length at least d+1. The proof of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The monography presents a new algorithm for finding the clique of maximal length in a nonseparable graph. The algorithm is based on the properties of the representation of a clique as a subset of the set of cycles with a length of three,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

Over 50 years ago, Erd\H{o}s and Gallai conjectured that the edges of every graph on $n$ vertices can be decomposed into $O(n)$ cycles and edges. Among other results, Conlon, Fox and Sudakov recently proved that this holds for the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Dániel Korándi , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

An (edge) decomposition of a graph $G$ is a set of subgraphs of $G$ whose edge sets partition the edge set of $G$. Here we show, for each odd $\ell \geq 5$, that any graph $G$ of sufficiently large order $n$ with minimum degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Darryn Bryant , Peter Dukes , Daniel Horsley , Barbara Maenhaut , Richard Montgomery

A monotone cylindrical graph is a topological graph drawn on an open cylinder with an infinite vertical axis satisfying the condition that every vertical line intersects every edge at most once. It is called simple if any pair of its edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Andres J. Ruiz-Vargas