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Shorter signed circuit covers of graphs

Combinatorics 2017-06-14 v1

Abstract

A signed circuit is a minimal signed graph (with respect to inclusion) that admits a nowhere-zero flow. We show that each flow-admissible signed graph on mm edges can be covered by signed circuits of total length at most (3+2/3)m(3+2/3)\cdot m, improving a recent result of Cheng et al. [manuscript, 2015]. To obtain this improvement we prove several results on signed circuit covers of trees of Eulerian graphs, which are connected signed graphs such that removing all bridges results in a collection of Eulerian graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03808,
  title  = {Shorter signed circuit covers of graphs},
  author = {Tomáš Kaiser and Robert Lukot'ka and Edita Máčajová and Edita Rollová},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03808},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures

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