Volume 88, Issue 4 p. 631-640
ARTICLE

Decomposing planar cubic graphs

Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof,

Arthur Hoffmann-Ostenhof

Institute of Information Systems, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

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Tomáš Kaiser,

Corresponding Author

Tomáš Kaiser

Department of Mathematics, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (CE-ITI), and European Centre of Excellence NTIS (New Technologies for the Information Society), University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Correspondence Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Email: kaisert@kma.zcu.czSearch for more papers by this author
Kenta Ozeki,

Kenta Ozeki

Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

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First published: 10 January 2018
Citations: 5

Contract grant sponsor: Austrian Science Fund (FWF); contract grant number: P 26686.

Contract grant sponsor: Czech Science Foundation; contract grant number: GA14-19503S.

Contract grant sponsor: JST ERATO, Japan; contract grant number: JPMJER1201.

Abstract

The 3-Decomposition Conjecture states that every connected cubic graph can be decomposed into a spanning tree, a 2-regular subgraph and a matching. We show that this conjecture holds for the class of connected plane cubic graphs.

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