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Edita Rollová

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arXiv2021

Perfect matchings in highly cyclically connected regular graphs

A leaf matching operation on a graph consists of removing a vertex of degree~$1$ together with its neighbour from the graph. For $k\geq 0$, let $G$ be a $d$-regular cyclically $(d-1+2k)$-edge-connected graph of even order. We prove that for any given set $X$ of $d-1+k$ edges, there is no $1$-factor of $G$ avoiding $X$ if and only if either an isolated vertex can be obtained by a series of leaf matching operations in $G-X$, or $G-X$ has an independent set that contains more than half of the vertices of~$G$. To demonstrate how to check the conditions of the theorem we prove several statements on $2$-factors of cubic graphs. For $k\ge 3$, we prove that given a cubic cyclically $(4k-5)$-edge-connected graph $G$ and three paths of length $k$ such that the distance of any two of them is at least $8k-17$, there is a $2$-factor of $G$ that contains one of the paths . We provide a similar statement for two paths when $k=3$ and $k=4$. As a corollary we show that given a vertex $v$ in a cyclically $7$-edge-connected cubic graph, there is a $2$-factor such that $v$ is in a circuit of length greater than $7$.

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arXiv2021

3-Flows with Large Support

We prove that every 3-edge-connected graph $G$ has a 3-flow $ϕ$ with the property that $|\mathop{supp}(ϕ)| \ge \frac{5}{6} |E(G)|$. The graph $K_4$ demonstrates that this $\frac{5}{6}$ ratio is best possible; there is an infinite family where $\frac 56$ is tight.

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arXiv2017

Shorter signed circuit covers of graphs

A signed circuit is a minimal signed graph (with respect to inclusion) that admits a nowhere-zero flow. We show that each flow-admissible signed graph on $m$ edges can be covered by signed circuits of total length at most $(3+2/3)\cdot m$, improving a recent result of Cheng et al. [manuscript, 2015]. To obtain this improvement we prove several results on signed circuit covers of trees of Eulerian graphs, which are connected signed graphs such that removing all bridges results in a collection of Eulerian graphs.

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arXiv2017

A note on counting flows in signed graphs

Tutte initiated the study of nowhere-zero flows and proved the following fundamental theorem: For every graph $G$ there is a polynomial $f$ so that for every abelian group $Γ$ of order $n$, the number of nowhere-zero $Γ$-flows in $G$ is $f(n)$. For signed graphs (which have bidirected orientations), the situation is more subtle. For a finite group $Γ$, let $ε_2(Γ)$ be the largest integer $d$ so that $Γ$ has a subgroup isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_2^d$. We prove that for every signed graph $G$ and $d \ge 0$ there is a polynomial $f_d$ so that $f_d(n)$ is the number of nowhere-zero $Γ$-flows in $G$ for every abelian group $Γ$ with $ε_2(Γ) = d$ and $|Γ| = 2^d n$. Beck and Zaslavsky had previously established the special case of this result when $d=0$ (i.e., when $Γ$ has odd order).

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arXiv2016

Nowhere-zero flows in signed graphs: A survey

We survey known results related to nowhere-zero flows and related topics, such as circuit covers and the structure of circuits of signed graphs. We include an overview of several different definitions of signed graph colouring.

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arXiv2016

Signed graphs with two negative edges

The presented paper studies the flow number $F(G,σ)$ of flow-admissible signed graphs $(G,σ)$ with two negative edges. We restrict our study to cubic graphs, because for each non-cubic signed graph $(G,σ)$ there is a set ${\cal G}(G,σ)$ of cubic graphs such that $F(G, σ) \leq \min \{F(H,σ_H) : (H,σ_H) \in {\cal G}(G)\}$. We prove that $F(G,σ) \leq 6$ if $(G,σ)$ contains a bridge and $F(G,σ) \leq 7$ in general. We prove better bounds, if there is an element $(H,σ_H)$ of ${\cal G}(G,σ)$ which satisfies some additional conditions. In particular, if $H$ is bipartite, then $F(G,σ) \leq 4$ and the bound is tight. If $H$ is 3-edge-colorable or critical or if it has a sufficient cyclic edge-connectivity, then $F(G,σ) \leq 6$. Furthermore, if Tutte's 5-Flow Conjecture is true, then $(G,σ)$ admits a nowhere-zero 6-flow endowed with some strong properties.

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arXiv2015

A new proof of Seymour's 6-flow theorem

Tutte's famous 5-flow conjecture asserts that every bridgeless graph has a nowhere-zero 5-flow. Seymour proved that every such graph has a nowhere-zero 6-flow. Here we give (two versions of) a new proof of Seymour's Theorem. Both are roughly equal to Seymour's in terms of complexity, but they offer an alternative perspective which we hope will be of value.

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arXiv2014

Nowhere-zero flows in signed series-parallel graphs

Bouchet conjectured in 1983 that each signed graph that admits a nowhere-zero flow has a nowhere-zero 6-flow. We prove that the conjecture is true for all signed series-parallel graphs. Unlike the unsigned case, the restriction to series-parallel graphs is nontrivial; in fact, the result is tight for infinitely many graphs.

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