Packing and covering immersions in 4-edge-connected graphs

Packing and Covering Triangles in K 4-free Planar Graphs

We show that every K4-free planar graph with at most ν edge-disjoint triangles contains a set of at most 32ν edges whose removal makes the graph triangle-free. Moreover, equality is attained only when G is the edge-disjoint union of 5-wheels plus possibly some edges that are not in triangles. We also show that the same statement is true if instead of planar graphs we consider the class of graph...

Packing and Covering Dense Graphs

Let d be a positive integer. A graph G is called d-divisible if d divides the degree of each vertex of G. G is called nowhere d-divisible if no degree of a vertex of G is divisible by d. For a graph H, gcd(H) denotes the greatest common divisor of the degrees of the vertices of H. The H-packing number of G is the maximum number of pairwise edge disjoint copies of H in G. The H-covering number o...

Edge-disjoint Odd Cycles in 4-edge-connected Graphs

Finding edge-disjoint odd cycles is one of the most important problems in graph theory, graph algorithm and combinatorial optimization. In fact, it is closely related to the well-known max-cut problem. One of the difficulties of this problem is that the Erdős-Pósa property does not hold for odd cycles in general. Motivated by this fact, we prove that for any positive integer k, there exists an ...

Packing and covering triangles in graphs

Packing and Covering Triangles in Planar Graphs

Tuza conjectured that if a simple graph G does not contain more than k pairwise edgedisjoint triangles, then there exists a set of at most 2k edges that meets all triangles in G. It has been shown that this conjecture is true for planar graphs and the bound is sharp. In this paper, we characterize the set of extremal planar graphs.