A weaker version of Lovász' path removal conjecture

  • Authors:
  • Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi;Orlando Lee;Bruce Reed;Paul Wollan

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Aramaki aza Aoba 09, Aoba-ku Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan;University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil;Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Laboratoire I3S, CNRS, Sophia-Antipolis, France;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We prove there exists a function f(k) such that for every f(k)-connected graph G and for every edge e@?E(G), there exists an induced cycle C containing e such that G-E(C) is k-connected. This proves a weakening of a conjecture of Lovasz due to Kriesell.