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Nowhere-zero 8-flows in cyclically 5-edge-connected, flow-admissible signed graphs

Combinatorics 2023-09-06 v1

Abstract

In 1983, Bouchet proved that every bidirected graph with a nowhere-zero integer-flow has a nowhere-zero 216-flow, and conjectured that 216 could be replaced with 6. This paper shows that for cyclically 5-edge-connected bidirected graphs that number can be replaced with 8.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.00704,
  title  = {Nowhere-zero 8-flows in cyclically 5-edge-connected, flow-admissible signed graphs},
  author = {Matt DeVos and Kathryn Nurse and Robert Sámal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00704},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages

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