Facial non-repetitive edge-colouring of plane graphs

A sequence $r_1,r_2,\dots,r_{2n}$ such that $r_i=r_{n+i}$ for all $1\leq i \leq n$, is called a {\em repetition}. A sequence $S$ is called {\em non-repetitive} if no {\it block} (i.e. subsequence of consecutive terms of $S$) is a repetition. Let $G$ be a graph whose edges are coloured. A trail is called {\em non-repetitive} if the sequence of colours of its edges is non-repetitive. If $G$ is a plane graph, a {\em facial non-repetitive edge-colouring} of $G$ is an edge-colouring such that any {\it facial trail} (i.e. trail of consecutive edges on the boundary walk of a face) is non-repetitive. We denote $\pi'_f(G)$ the minimum number of colours of a facial non-repetitive edge-colouring of $G$. In this paper, we show that $\pi'_f(G)\leq 8$ for any plane graph $G$. We also get better upper bounds for $\pi'_f(G)$ in the cases when $G$ is a tree, a plane triangulation, a simple $3$-connected plane graph, a hamiltonian plane graph, an outerplanar graph or a Halin graph. The bound $4$ for trees is tight

Types of triangle in plane Hamiltonian triangulations and applications to domination and k-walks

We investigate the minimum number t(0)(G) of faces in a Hamiltonian triangulation G so that any Hamiltonian cycle C of G has at least t(0)(G) faces that do not contain an edge of C. We prove upper and lower bounds on the maximum of these numbers for all triangulations with a fixed number of facial triangles. Such triangles play an important role when Hamiltonian cycles in triangulations with 3-cuts are constructed from smaller Hamiltonian cycles of 4-connected subgraphs. We also present results linking the number of these triangles to the length of 3-walks in a class of triangulation and to the domination number

Polyhedra with few 3-cuts are hamiltonian

In 1956, Tutte showed that every planar 4-connected graph is hamiltonian. In this article, we will generalize this result and prove that polyhedra with at most three 3-cuts are hamiltonian. In 2002 Jackson and Yu have shown this result for the subclass of triangulations. We also prove that polyhedra with at most four 3-cuts have a hamiltonian path. It is well known that for each $k \ge 6$ non-hamiltonian polyhedra with $k$ 3-cuts exist. We give computational results on lower bounds on the order of a possible non-hamiltonian polyhedron for the remaining open cases of polyhedra with four or five 3-cuts.Comment: 21 pages; changed titl