Sufficient conditions for a digraph to be supereulerian

Jørgen Bang-Jensen, Alessandro Maddaloni

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Abstract

A (di)graph is supereulerian if it contains a spanning eulerian sub(di)graph. This property is a relaxation of hamiltonicity. Inspired by this analogy with hamiltonian cycles and by similar results in supereulerian graph theory, we analyze a number of sufficient Ore type conditions for a digraph to be supereulerian. Furthermore, we study the following conjecture due to Thomassé and the first author: if the arc-connectivity of a digraph is not smaller than its independence number, then the digraph is supereulerian. As a support for this conjecture we prove it for digraphs that are semicomplete multipartite or quasitransitive and verify the analogous statement for undirected graphs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8-20
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Graph Theory
Volume79
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • arc-connectivity
  • degree conditions
  • independence number
  • quasitransitive digraph
  • semicomplete multipartite digraph
  • spanning closed trail
  • supereulerian digraph

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