Super-cyclically edge-connected regular graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jin-Xin Zhou;Yan-Quan Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P.R. China 100044;Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P.R. China 100044

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A cyclic edge-cut of a graph G is an edge set, the removal of which separates two cycles. If G has a cyclic edge-cut, then it is called cyclically separable. We call a cyclically separable graph super cyclically edge-connected, in short, super-驴 c , if the removal of any minimum cyclic edge-cut results in a component which is a shortest cycle. In Z. Zhang, B. Wang (Super cyclically edge-connected transitive graphs, J. Combin. Optim. 22:549---562, 2011), it is proved that a connected edge-transitive graph is super-驴 c if either G is cubic with girth at least 7 or G has minimum degree at least 4 and girth at least 6, and the authors also conjectured that a connected graph which is both vertex-transitive and edge-transitive is always super cyclically edge-connected.In this article, for a 驴 c -optimal but not super-驴 c graph G, all possible 驴 c -superatoms of G which have non-empty intersection with other 驴 c -superatoms are determined. This is then used to give a complete classification of non-super-驴 c edge-transitive k(k驴3)-regular graphs.