Decomposition of snarks
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Peter J. Cameron; Amanda G. Chetwynd; John J. Watkins
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Article
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1987
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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There are several methods for constructing snarks (cubic graphs with chromatic index 4). We study the reverse process of splitting a snark into smaller snarks which compose it. We also introduce the notion of a " prime " s na r k.