Nowhere-Zero 3-Flows in Signed Graphs

Nowhere-Zero 3-Flows in Signed Graphs

Tutte observed that every nowhere-zero k-flow on a plane graph gives rise to a kvertex-coloring of its dual, and vice versa. Thus nowhere-zero integer flow and graph coloring can be viewed as dual concepts. Jaeger further shows that if a graph G has a face-k-colorable 2-cell embedding in some orientable surface, then it has a nowhere-zero k-flow. However, if the surface is nonorientable, then a...

Title Nowhere - Zero 3 - Flows in Signed Graphs

Tutte observed that every nowhere-zero k-flow on a plane graph gives rise to a kvertex-coloring of its dual, and vice versa. Thus nowhere-zero integer flow and graph coloring can be viewed as dual concepts. Jaeger further shows that if a graph G has a face-k-colorable 2-cell embedding in some orientable surface, then it has a nowhere-zero k-flow. However, if the surface is nonorientable, then a...

Nowhere-zero flows on signed regular graphs

We study the flow spectrum S(G) and the integer flow spectrum S(G) of odd regular graphs. We show that there are signed graphs where the difference between the integer flow number and the flow number is greater than or equal to 1, disproving a conjecture of Raspaud and Zhu [7]. Let G be a (2t + 1)-regular graph. We show that if r ∈ S(G), then r = 2 + 1t or r ≥ 2 + 2 2t−1 . This result generaliz...

Nowhere-Zero 3-Flows in Squares of Graphs

It was conjectured by Tutte that every 4-edge-connected graph admits a nowherezero 3-flow. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of graphs whose squares admit nowhere-zero 3-flows and thus confirm Tutte’s 3-flow conjecture for the family of squares of graphs.

Nowhere-zero 3-flows in Cayley Graphs of Abelian Groups