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Vertex Arboricity of Toroidal Graphs with a Forbidden Cycle
The vertex arboricity of a graph is the minimum such that
can be partitioned into sets where each set induces a forest. For a
planar graph , it is known that . In two recent papers, it was
proved that planar graphs without -cycles for some
have vertex arboricity at most 2. For a toroidal graph , it is known that
. Let us consider the following question: do toroidal graphs
without -cycles have vertex arboricity at most 2? It was known that the
question is true for k=3, and recently, Zhang proved the question is true for
. Since a complete graph on 5 vertices is a toroidal graph without any
-cycles for and has vertex arboricity at least three, the only
unknown case was k=4. We solve this case in the affirmative; namely, we show
that toroidal graphs without 4-cycles have vertex arboricity at most 2.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Planar graphs without 3-cycles and with 4-cycles far apart are 3-choosable
A graph G is said to be L-colourable if for a given list assignment L = {L(v)|v ∈ V (G)} there is a proper colouring c of G such that c(v) ∈ L(v) for all v in V (G). If G is L-colourable for all L with |L(v)| ≥ k for all v in V (G), then G is said to be k-choosable.
This paper focuses on two different ways to prove list colouring results on planar graphs. The first method will be discharging, which will be used to fuse multiple results into one theorem. The second method will be restricting the lists of vertices on the boundary and applying induction, which will show that planar graphs without 3- cycles and 4-cycles distance 8 apart are 3-choosable
Edge-choosability of Planar Graphs
According to the List Colouring Conjecture, if G is a multigraph then χ' (G)=χl' (G) . In this thesis, we discuss a relaxed version of this conjecture that every simple graph G is edge-(∆ + 1)-choosable as by Vizing’s Theorem ∆(G) ≤χ' (G)≤∆(G) + 1. We prove that if G is a planar graph without 7-cycles with ∆(G)≠5,6 , or without adjacent 4-cycles with ∆(G)≠5, or with no 3-cycles adjacent to 5-cycles, then G is edge-(∆ + 1)-choosable
Box representations of embedded graphs
A -box is the cartesian product of intervals of and a
-box representation of a graph is a representation of as the
intersection graph of a set of -boxes in . It was proved by
Thomassen in 1986 that every planar graph has a 3-box representation. In this
paper we prove that every graph embedded in a fixed orientable surface, without
short non-contractible cycles, has a 5-box representation. This directly
implies that there is a function , such that in every graph of genus , a
set of at most vertices can be removed so that the resulting graph has a
5-box representation. We show that such a function can be made linear in
. Finally, we prove that for any proper minor-closed class ,
there is a constant such that every graph of
without cycles of length less than has a 3-box representation,
which is best possible.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures - revised versio
Spanning trees without adjacent vertices of degree 2
Albertson, Berman, Hutchinson, and Thomassen showed in 1990 that there exist
highly connected graphs in which every spanning tree contains vertices of
degree 2. Using a result of Alon and Wormald, we show that there exists a
natural number such that every graph of minimum degree at least
contains a spanning tree without adjacent vertices of degree 2. Moreover, we
prove that every graph with minimum degree at least 3 has a spanning tree
without three consecutive vertices of degree 2
Circumference and Pathwidth of Highly Connected Graphs
Birmele [J. Graph Theory, 2003] proved that every graph with circumference t
has treewidth at most t-1. Under the additional assumption of 2-connectivity,
such graphs have bounded pathwidth, which is a qualitatively stronger result.
Birmele's theorem was extended by Birmele, Bondy and Reed [Combinatorica, 2007]
who showed that every graph without k disjoint cycles of length at least t has
bounded treewidth (as a function of k and t). Our main result states that,
under the additional assumption of (k + 1)- connectivity, such graphs have
bounded pathwidth. In fact, they have pathwidth O(t^3 + tk^2). Moreover,
examples show that (k + 1)-connectivity is required for bounded pathwidth to
hold. These results suggest the following general question: for which values of
k and graphs H does every k-connected H-minor-free graph have bounded
pathwidth? We discuss this question and provide a few observations.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
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