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On Barnette's Conjecture and $H^{+-}$ property

Combinatorics 2012-08-22 v1

Abstract

A conjecture of Barnette states that every 3-connected cubic bipartite plane graph has a Hamilton cycle, which is equivalent to the statement that every simple even plane triangulation admits a partition of its vertex set into two subsets so that each induces a tree. Let GG be a simple even plane triangulation and suppose that V1,V2,V3{V_1, V_2, V_3} is a 3-coloring of the vertex set of GG. Let BiB_{i}, i=1,2,3i = 1, 2, 3, be the set of all vertices in ViV_i of the degree at least 6. We prove that if induced graphs G[B1B2]G[B_1 \cup B_2] and G[B1B3]G[B_1 \cup B_3] are acyclic, then the following properties are satisfied: [6pt] (1) For every path abcabc there is possible to partition the vertex set of GG into two subsets so that each induces a tree, and one of them contains the edge abab and avoids the vertex cc, [6pt] (2) For every path abcabc with vertices aa, cc of the same color there is possible to partition the vertex set of GG into two subsets so that each induces a tree, and one of them contains the path abcabc.

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@article{arxiv.1208.4332,
  title  = {On Barnette's Conjecture and $H^{+-}$ property},
  author = {Jan Florek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4332},
  year   = {2012}
}

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