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Embeddings of 3-connected 3-regular planar graphs on surfaces of non-negative Euler characteristic
Whitney's theorem states that every 3-connected planar graph is uniquely
embeddable on the sphere. On the other hand, it has many inequivalent
embeddings on another surface. We shall characterize structures of a
-connected -regular planar graph embedded on the projective-plane,
the torus and the Klein bottle, and give a one-to-one correspondence between
inequivalent embeddings of on each surface and some subgraphs of the dual
of embedded on the sphere. These results enable us to give explicit bounds
for the number of inequivalent embeddings of on each surface, and propose
effective algorithms for enumerating and counting these embeddings.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figure