{"title":"Five-cycle double cover and shortest cycle cover","authors":"Siyan Liu, Rong-Xia Hao, Rong Luo, Cun-Quan Zhang","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23164","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jgt.23164","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 5-even subgraph cycle double cover conjecture (5-CDC conjecture) asserts that every bridgeless graph has a 5-even subgraph double cover. A shortest even subgraph cover of a graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> is a family of even subgraphs which cover all the edges of <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> and the sum of their lengths is minimum. It is conjectured that every bridgeless graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> has an even subgraph cover with total length at most <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>21</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>15</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>E</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 </mrow></math>. In this paper, we study those two conjectures for weak oddness 2 cubic graphs and present a sufficient condition for such graphs to have a 5-CDC containing a member with many vertices. As a corollary, we show that for every oddness 2 cubic graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> satisfying the sufficient condition has a 4-even subgraph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow></math>-cover with total length at most <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>20</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>15</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>E</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∣</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mrow></math>. We also show that every oddness 2 cubic graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> with girth at least 30 has a 5-CDC containing a member of length at least <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>9</mn>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 1","pages":"39-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dense circuit graphs and the planar Turán number of a cycle","authors":"Ruilin Shi, Zach Walsh, Xingxing Yu","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23165","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jgt.23165","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>planar Turán number</i> <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mtext>ex</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow></math> of a graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> is the maximum number of edges in an <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math>-vertex planar graph without <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> as a subgraph. Let <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>C</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow></math> denote the cycle of length <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math>. The planar Turán number <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mtext>ex</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>C</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow></math> is known for <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≤</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>7</mn>\u0000 </mrow></math>. We show that dense planar graphs with a certain connectivity property (known as circuit graphs) contain large near triangulations, and we use this result to obtain consequences for planar Turán numbers. In particular, we prove that there is a constant <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> so that <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mtext>ex</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 1","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.23165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strong arc decompositions of split digraphs","authors":"Jørgen Bang-Jensen, Yun Wang","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23157","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jgt.23157","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A <i>strong arc decomposition</i> of a digraph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow></math> is a partition of its arc set <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> into two sets <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow></math> such that the digraph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>D</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>i</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>A</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>i</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow></math> is strong for <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>i</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mrow></math>. Bang-Jensen and Yeo conjectured that there is some <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>K</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math> such that every <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>K</mi>\u0000 </mrow></math>-arc-strong digraph has a strong arc decomposition. They also proved that with one exception on four vertices every 2-arc-strong semicomplete digraph has a strong arc decomposition. Bang-Jensen and Huang extended this result to locally semicomplete digraphs by proving that every 2-arc-strong locally semicomplete digraph which is not the square of an even cycle h","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.23157","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability of Rose Window graphs","authors":"Milad Ahanjideh, István Kovács, Klavdija Kutnar","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23162","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jgt.23162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Γ</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${rm{Gamma }}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is said to be stable if for the direct product <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Γ</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>×</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>K</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mtext>Aut</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>Γ</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>×</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>K</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${rm{Gamma }}times {{bf{K}}}_{2},text{Aut}({rm{Gamma }}times {{bf{K}}}_{2})$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is isomorphic to <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>Aut</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>Γ</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>×</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>Z</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $text{Aut}({rm{Gamma }})times {{mathbb{Z}}}_{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>; otherwise, it is called unstable. An unstable graph is called nontrivially unstable when it is not bipartite and no two vertices have the same neighborhood. Wilson described nine families of unstable Rose Window graphs and conjectured that these contain all nontrivially unstable Rose Window graphs (2008). In this paper we show that the conjecture is true.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"107 4","pages":"810-832"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}