Super restricted edge connectivity of regular edge-transitive graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jin-Xin Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

An edge cut of a connected graph is called restricted if it separates this graph into components each having order at least 2; a graph G is super restricted edge connected if G-F contains an isolated edge for every minimum restricted edge cut F of G. It is proved in this paper that a connected regular edge-transitive graph of valency at least 3 is not super restricted edge connected if and only if it is either the three dimensional hypercube, or a tetravalent edge-transitive graph of girth 3 and of order at least 6. As a result, there are infinitely many k-regular Hamiltonian graphs with k=3 which are not super restricted edge connected. This answers negatively a question in [J. Ou, F. Zhang, Super restricted edge connectivity of regular graphs, Graphs & Combin. 21 (2005) 459-467] regarding the relationship between restricted edge connected graphs and Hamiltonian graphs.