The cycle space of a 3-connected locally finite graph is generated by its finite and infinite peripheral circuits

  • Authors:
  • Henning Bruhn

  • Affiliations:
  • AG Geometrie und Diskrete Mathematik, Mathematisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Mathematik, Bundesstraße 55, Raum 229, DE-20146 Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B - Special issue dedicated to professor W. T. Tutte
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We extend Tutte's result that in a finite 3-connected graph the cycle space is generated by the peripheral circuits to locally finite graphs. Such a generalization becomes possible by the admission of infinite circuits in the graph compactified by its ends.