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Abstract
Kaneko et al. [12] proved that every 3-connected planar graph G has a 2-connected spanning subgraph K such that , and they also conjectured that the constant of the estimation can be improved to when . To prove the result, they showed the statement for a circuit graph, which is obtained from a 3-connected planar graph by deleting one vertex, and the theorem is best possible for circuit graphs. In this paper, we give a characterization of a circuit graph G each of whose 2-connected spanning subgraph K requires and then we improve the bound for the 3-connected planar case.
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