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The product structure of squaregraphs

Combinatorics 2022-03-09 v1

Abstract

A squaregraph is a plane graph in which each internal face is a 44-cycle and each internal vertex has degree at least 4. This paper proves that every squaregraph is isomorphic to a subgraph of the semi-strong product of an outerplanar graph and a path. We generalise this result for infinite squaregraphs, and show that this is best possible in the sense that "outerplanar graph" cannot be replaced by "forest".

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@article{arxiv.2203.03772,
  title  = {The product structure of squaregraphs},
  author = {Robert Hickingbotham and Paul Jungeblut and Laura Merker and David R. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03772},
  year   = {2022}
}
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