Nowhere-zero 4-flow in almost Petersen-minor free graphs
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Nowhere-zero 4-flow in almost Petersen-minor free graphs
Tutte [W.T. Tutte, On the algebraic theory of graph colorings, J. Combin. Theory 1 (1966) 15–20] conjectured that every bridgeless Petersen-minor free graph admits a nowhere-zero 4-flow. Let (P10)μ̄ be the graph obtained from the Petersen graph by contracting μ edges from a perfect matching. In this paper we prove that every bridgeless (P10)3̄-minor free graph admits a nowhere-zero 4-flow. c © 20...
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عنوان ژورنال: Discrete Mathematics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2007.11.055