Hajo´s' conjecture and small cycle double covers of planar graphs
Discrete Mathematics - Special volume (part two) to mark the centennial of Julius Petersen's “Die theorie der regula¨ren graphs” (“The theory of regular graphs”)
Graph Algorithms
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Erdos et al. (Canad. J. Math. 18 (1966) 106-112) conjecture that there exists a constant d"c"e such that every simple graph on n vertices can be decomposed into at most d"c"en circuits and edges. We consider toroidal graphs, where the graphs can be embedded on the torus, and give a polynomial time algorithm to decompose the edge set of an even toroidal graph on n vertices into at most (n+3)/2 circuits. As a corollary, we get a polynomial time algorithm to decompose the edge set of a toroidal graph (not necessarily even) on n vertices into at most 3(n-1)/2 circuits and edges. This settles the conjecture for toroidal graphs.