Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4656706 | Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B | 2016 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We prove that every internally 4-connected non-planar bipartite graph has an odd K3,3K3,3 subdivision; that is, a subgraph obtained from K3,3K3,3 by replacing its edges by internally disjoint odd paths with the same ends. The proof gives rise to a polynomial-time algorithm to find such a subdivision. (A bipartite graph G is internally 4-connected if it is 3-connected, has at least five vertices, and there is no partition (A,B,C)(A,B,C) of V(G)V(G) such that |A|,|B|≥2|A|,|B|≥2, |C|=3|C|=3 and G has no edge with one end in A and the other in B.)
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Authors
Robin Thomas, Peter Whalen,