The Pfaffian property of Cartesian products of graphs

Abstract

NSFC [10831001, 11171279]Suppose that G=(V,E) is a graph with even vertices. An even cycle C is a nice cycle of G if G-V(C) has a perfect matching. An orientation of G is a Pfaffian orientation if each nice cycle C has an odd number of edges directed in either direction of the cycle. Let P (n) and C (n) denote the path and the cycle on n vertices, respectively. In this paper, we characterize the Pfaffian property of Cartesian products GxP (2n) and GxC (2n) for any graph G in terms of forbidden subgraphs of G. This extends the results in (Yan and Zhang in Discrete Appl Math 154:145-157, 2006)

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