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Irreducible pseudo 2-factor isomorphic cubic bipartite graphs
A bipartite graph is {\em pseudo 2--factor isomorphic} if all its 2--factors
have the same parity of number of circuits. In \cite{ADJLS} we proved that the
only essentially 4--edge-connected pseudo 2--factor isomorphic cubic bipartite
graph of girth 4 is , and conjectured \cite[Conjecture 3.6]{ADJLS}
that the only essentially 4--edge-connected cubic bipartite graphs are
, the Heawood graph and the Pappus graph.
There exists a characterization of symmetric configurations %{\bf
decide notation and how to use it in the rest of the paper} due to Martinetti
(1886) in which all symmetric configurations can be obtained from an
infinite set of so called {\em irreducible} configurations \cite{VM}. The list
of irreducible configurations has been completed by Boben \cite{B} in terms of
their {\em irreducible Levi graphs}.
In this paper we characterize irreducible pseudo 2--factor isomorphic cubic
bipartite graphs proving that the only pseudo 2--factor isomorphic irreducible
Levi graphs are the Heawood and Pappus graphs. Moreover, the obtained
characterization allows us to partially prove the above Conjecture
An alternate description of a (q + 1; 8)-cage
Let q >= 2 be a prime power. In this note we present an alternate description of the
known (q + 1; 8)-cages which has allowed us to construct small (k; g)–graphs for k =q, q-1,
and g = 7; 8 in other papers on this same topic.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
Extending perfect matchings to Hamiltonian cycles in line graphs
A graph admitting a perfect matching has the Perfect-Matching-Hamiltonian
property (for short the PMH-property) if each of its perfect matchings can be
extended to a Hamiltonian cycle. In this paper we establish some sufficient
conditions for a graph in order to guarantee that its line graph has
the PMH-property. In particular, we prove that this happens when is (i) a
Hamiltonian graph with maximum degree at most , (ii) a complete graph, or
(iii) an arbitrarily traceable graph. Further related questions and open
problems are proposed along the paper.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Characterizing Minimally 1-factorable r-Regular Bipartite Graphs
AbstractThe possibilities for circuits of length 4 to appear together in a cubic bigraph are classified. That has consequences on the structure of minimally 1-factorable regular bigraphs, i.e. those in which each 1-factor lies in precisely one 1-factorization. We characterize minimally 1-factorable cubic bigraphs of girth 4
A Characterization of Graphs with Small Palette Index
Given an edge-coloring of a graph G, we associate to every vertex v of G the set of colors appearing on the edges incident with v. The palette index of G is defined as the minimum number of such distinct sets, taken over all possible edge-colorings of G. A graph with a small palette index admits an edge-coloring which can be locally considered to be almost symmetric, since few different sets of colors appear around its vertices. Graphs with palette index 1 are r-regular graphs admitting an r-edge-coloring, while regular graphs with palette index 2 do not exist. Here, we characterize all graphs with palette index either 2 or 3 in terms of the existence of suitable decompositions in regular subgraphs. As a corollary, we obtain a complete characterization of regular graphs with palette index 3