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Circuits and Cycles in Graphs and Matroids
This dissertation mainly focuses on characterizing cycles and circuits in graphs, line graphs and matroids. We obtain the following advances.
1. Results in graphs and line graphs. For a connected graph G not isomorphic to a path, a cycle or a K1,3, let pc(G) denote the smallest integer n such that the nth iterated line graph Ln(G) is panconnected. A path P is a divalent path of G if the internal vertices of P are of degree 2 in G. If every edge of P is a cut edge of G, then P is a bridge divalent path of G; if the two ends of P are of degree s and t, respectively, then P is called a divalent (s, t)-path. Let l(G) = max{m : G has a divalent path of length m that is not both of length 2 and in a K3}. We prove the following. (i) If G is a connected triangular graph, then L(G) is panconnected if and only if G is essentially 3-edge-connected. (ii) pc(G) ≤ l(G) + 2. Furthermore, if l(G) ≥ 2, then pc(G) = l(G) + 2 if and only if for some integer t ≥ 3, G has a bridge divalent (3, t)-path of length l(G).
For a graph G, the supereulerian width μ′(G) of a graph G is the largest integer s such
that G has a spanning (k;u,v)-trail-system, for any integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ s, and for any
u, v ∈ V (G) with u ̸= v. Thus μ′(G) ≥ 2 implies that G is supereulerian, and so graphs with
higher supereulerian width are natural generalizations of supereulerian graphs. Settling an open
problem of Bauer, Catlin in [J. Graph Theory 12 (1988), 29-45] proved that if a simple graph
G on n ≥ 17 vertices satisfy δ(G) ≥ n − 1, then μ′(G) ≥ 2. In this paper, we show that for 4
any real numbers a, b with 0 \u3c a \u3c 1 and any integer s \u3e 0, there exists a finite graph family
F = F(a,b,s) such that for a simple graph G with n = |V(G)|, if for any u,v ∈ V(G) with
uv ∈/ E(G), max{dG(u), dG(v)} ≥ an + b, then either μ′(G) ≥ s + 1 or G is contractible to a
member in F. When a = 1,b = −3, we show that if n is sufficiently large, K3,3 is the only 42
obstacle for a 3-edge-connected graph G to satisfy μ′(G) ≥ 3. An hourglass is a graph obtained from K5 by deleting the edges in a cycle of length 4, and an
hourglass-free graph is one that has no induced subgraph isomorphic to an hourglass. Kriesell in [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 82 (2001), 306-315] proved that every 4-connected hourglass-free line graph is Hamilton-connected, and Kaiser, Ryj ́aˇcek and Vr ́ana in [Discrete Mathematics, 321 (2014) 1-11] extended it by showing that every 4-connected hourglass-free line graph is 1- Hamilton-connected. We characterize all essentially 4-edge-connected graphs whose line graph is hourglass-free. Consequently we prove that for any integer s and for any hourglass-free line
graph L(G), each of the following holds. (i) If s ≥ 2, then L(G) is s-hamiltonian if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ s + 2; (ii) If s ≥ 1, then L(G) is s-Hamilton-connected if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ s + 3.
For integers s1, s2, s3 \u3e 0, let Ns1,s2,s3 denote the graph obtained by identifying each vertex of a K3 with an end vertex of three disjoint paths Ps1+1, Ps2+1, Ps3+1 of length s1,s2 and s3, respectively. We prove the following results. (i)LetN1 ={Ns1,s2,s3 :s1 \u3e0,s1 ≥s2 ≥s3 ≥0ands1+s2+s3 ≤6}. Thenforany N ∈ N1, every N-free line graph L(G) with |V (L(G))| ≥ s + 3 is s-hamiltonian if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ s + 2. (ii)LetN2={Ns1,s2,s3 :s1\u3e0,s1≥s2≥s3≥0ands1+s2+s3≤4}.ThenforanyN∈N2, every N -free line graph L(G) with |V (L(G))| ≥ s + 3 is s-Hamilton-connected if and only if κ(L(G)) ≥ s + 3. 2. Results in matroids. A matroid M with a distinguished element e0 ∈ E(M) is a rooted matroid with e0 being the root. We present a characterization of all connected binary rooted matroids whose root lies in at most three circuits, and a characterization of all connected binary rooted matroids whose root lies in all but at most three circuits. While there exist infinitely many such matroids, the number of serial reductions of such matroids is finite. In particular, we find two finite families of binary matroids M1 and M2 and prove the following. (i) For some e0 ∈ E(M), M has at most three circuits containing e0 if and only if the serial reduction of M is isomorphic to a member in M1. (ii) If for some e0 ∈ E(M), M has at most three circuits not containing e0 if and only if the serial reduction of M is isomorphic to a member in M2. These characterizations will be applied to show that every connected binary matroid M with at least four circuits has a 1-hamiltonian circuit graph
Spanning Trees and Spanning Eulerian Subgraphs with Small Degrees. II
Let be a connected graph with and with the spanning
forest . Let be a real number and let be a real function. In this paper, we show that if for all
, , then has a spanning tree
containing such that for each vertex , , where
denotes the number of components of and denotes the
number of edges of with both ends in . This is an improvement of several
results and the condition is best possible. Next, we also investigate an
extension for this result and deduce that every -edge-connected graph
has a spanning subgraph containing edge-disjoint spanning trees such
that for each vertex , , where ; also if contains
edge-disjoint spanning trees, then can be found such that for each vertex
, , where .
Finally, we show that strongly -tough graphs, including -tough
graphs of order at least three, have spanning Eulerian subgraphs whose degrees
lie in the set . In addition, we show that every -tough graph has
spanning closed walk meeting each vertex at most times and prove a
long-standing conjecture due to Jackson and Wormald (1990).Comment: 46 pages, Keywords: Spanning tree; spanning Eulerian; spanning closed
walk; connected factor; toughness; total exces
Defining Recursive Predicates in Graph Orders
We study the first order theory of structures over graphs i.e. structures of
the form () where is the set of all
(isomorphism types of) finite undirected graphs and some vocabulary. We
define the notion of a recursive predicate over graphs using Turing Machine
recognizable string encodings of graphs. We also define the notion of an
arithmetical relation over graphs using a total order on the set
such that () is isomorphic to
().
We introduce the notion of a \textit{capable} structure over graphs, which is
one satisfying the conditions : (1) definability of arithmetic, (2)
definability of cardinality of a graph, and (3) definability of two particular
graph predicates related to vertex labellings of graphs. We then show any
capable structure can define every arithmetical predicate over graphs. As a
corollary, any capable structure also defines every recursive graph relation.
We identify capable structures which are expansions of graph orders, which are
structures of the form () where is a partial order. We
show that the subgraph order i.e. (), induced subgraph
order with one constant i.e. () and an expansion
of the minor order for counting edges i.e. ()
are capable structures. In the course of the proof, we show the definability of
several natural graph theoretic predicates in the subgraph order which may be
of independent interest. We discuss the implications of our results and
connections to Descriptive Complexity
Peeling and Nibbling the Cactus: Subexponential-Time Algorithms for Counting Triangulations and Related Problems
Given a set of n points S in the plane, a triangulation T of S is a maximal set of non-crossing segments with endpoints in S. We present an algorithm that computes the number of triangulations on a given set of n points in time n^{ (11+ o(1)) sqrt{n} }, significantly improving the previous best running time of O(2^n n^2) by Alvarez and Seidel [SoCG 2013]. Our main tool is identifying separators of size O(sqrt{n}) of a triangulation in a canonical way. The definition of the separators are based on the decomposition of the triangulation into nested layers ("cactus graphs"). Based on the above algorithm, we develop a simple and formal framework to count other non-crossing straight-line graphs in n^{O(sqrt{n})} time. We demonstrate the usefulness of the framework by applying it to counting non-crossing Hamilton cycles, spanning trees, perfect matchings, 3-colorable triangulations, connected graphs, cycle decompositions, quadrangulations, 3-regular graphs, and more
Peeling and nibbling the cactus: Subexponential-time algorithms for counting triangulations and related problems
Given a set of points in the plane, a triangulation of is a
maximal set of non-crossing segments with endpoints in . We present an
algorithm that computes the number of triangulations on a given set of
points in time , significantly improving the previous
best running time of by Alvarez and Seidel [SoCG 2013]. Our main
tool is identifying separators of size of a triangulation in a
canonical way. The definition of the separators are based on the decomposition
of the triangulation into nested layers ("cactus graphs"). Based on the above
algorithm, we develop a simple and formal framework to count other non-crossing
straight-line graphs in time. We demonstrate the usefulness
of the framework by applying it to counting non-crossing Hamilton cycles,
spanning trees, perfect matchings, -colorable triangulations, connected
graphs, cycle decompositions, quadrangulations, -regular graphs, and more.Comment: 47 pages, 23 Figures, to appear in SoCG 201
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