Regular colouring defect of a cubic graph and the conjectures of Fan-Raspaud and Fulkerson

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Autori principali: Karabáš, Ján, Máčajová, Edita, Nedela, Roman, Škoviera, Martin
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author Karabáš, Ján
Máčajová, Edita
Nedela, Roman
Škoviera, Martin
author_facet Karabáš, Ján
Máčajová, Edita
Nedela, Roman
Škoviera, Martin
contents We introduce a new invariant of a cubic graph - its regular colouring defect - which is defined as the smallest number of edges left uncovered by any collection of three perfect matchings that have no edge in common. This invariant is a modification of colouring defect, an invariant introduced by Steffen (J. Graph Theory 78(2015), 195--206), whose definition does not require the empty intersection condition. In this paper we discuss the relationship of this invariant to the well-known conjectures of Fulkerson (1971) and Fan and Raspaud (1994) and prove that colouring defect and regular colouring defect can be arbitrarily far apart.
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spellingShingle Regular colouring defect of a cubic graph and the conjectures of Fan-Raspaud and Fulkerson
Karabáš, Ján
Máčajová, Edita
Nedela, Roman
Škoviera, Martin
Combinatorics
05C15, 05C70
We introduce a new invariant of a cubic graph - its regular colouring defect - which is defined as the smallest number of edges left uncovered by any collection of three perfect matchings that have no edge in common. This invariant is a modification of colouring defect, an invariant introduced by Steffen (J. Graph Theory 78(2015), 195--206), whose definition does not require the empty intersection condition. In this paper we discuss the relationship of this invariant to the well-known conjectures of Fulkerson (1971) and Fan and Raspaud (1994) and prove that colouring defect and regular colouring defect can be arbitrarily far apart.
title Regular colouring defect of a cubic graph and the conjectures of Fan-Raspaud and Fulkerson
topic Combinatorics
05C15, 05C70
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13638