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A generalisation of a recent characterisation of planar graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

C.H.C. Little
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Abstract

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Planar graphs have recently been characterised as those which have no strict elegant odd ring of circuits. Here we generalise that result by showing that its dual yields a theorem that is valid for all graphs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1983

References

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