An Extension of Kotzig’s Theorem

Valerii A. Aksenov; Oleg V. Borodin; Anna O. Ivanova

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory (2016)

  • Volume: 36, Issue: 4, page 889-897
  • ISSN: 2083-5892

Abstract

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In 1955, Kotzig proved that every 3-connected planar graph has an edge with the degree sum of its end vertices at most 13, which is tight. An edge uv is of type (i, j) if d(u) ≤ i and d(v) ≤ j. Borodin (1991) proved that every normal plane map contains an edge of one of the types (3, 10), (4, 7), or (5, 6), which is tight. Cole, Kowalik, and Škrekovski (2007) deduced from this result by Borodin that Kotzig’s bound of 13 is valid for all planar graphs with minimum degree δ at least 2 in which every d-vertex, d ≥ 12, has at most d − 11 neighbors of degree 2. We give a common extension of the three above results by proving for any integer t ≥ 1 that every plane graph with δ ≥ 2 and no d-vertex, d ≥ 11+t, having more than d − 11 neighbors of degree 2 has an edge of one of the following types: (2, 10+t), (3, 10), (4, 7), or (5, 6), where all parameters are tight.

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Valerii A. Aksenov, Oleg V. Borodin, and Anna O. Ivanova. "An Extension of Kotzig’s Theorem." Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 36.4 (2016): 889-897. <http://eudml.org/doc/287057>.

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