An edge of a 6-connected graph is said to be 6-contractible if the contraction of the edge results in a 6-connected graph. A contraction critically 6-connected graph is a 6-connected graph with no 6-contractible edge. We prove that each contraction critically 6-connected graph G has at least 1 7 |V
Vertices of degree 6 in a 6-contraction critical graph
β Scribed by Kiyoshi Ando; Atsushi Kaneko; Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1571-0653
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β¦ Synopsis
An edge of a (k)-connected graph is said to be (k)-contractible if the contraction of the edge results in a (k)-connected graph. A (k)-connected graph with no (k)-contractible edge is said to be a (k)-contraction critical graph. We prove that every 6 -contraction critical graph of order (n) has at least (n / 7) vertices of degree 6 .
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## Abstract In 1968, Vizing [Uaspekhi Mat Nauk 23 (1968) 117β134; Russian Math Surveys 23 (1968), 125β142] conjectured that for any edge chromatic critical graph ${{G}} = ({{V}}, {{E}})$ with maximum degree $\Delta$, $|{{E}}| \geq {{{1}}\over {{2}}}\{(\Delta {{- 1}})|{{V}}| + {{3}}\}$. This conject