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Kasteleyn's Theorem and Arbitrary Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles H. C. Little
Charles H. C. Little*
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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Familiarity with the basic notions of graph theory is assumed. Loops and multiple edges are not permitted. An orientation of an edge e of a graph G is a designation of one of the ends of e as the positive end and the other as the negative end. We say that e is oriented from the positive end to the negative end. If e joins vertex v to vertex w and v is the positive end of e, we write e = (v, w). An orientation of G is a set of orientations, one for each edge of G; a graph with an orientation is called a directed graph.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 1973 , pp. 758 - 764
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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