Orthogonal A-trails of 4-regular graphs embedded in surfaces of low genus (Q1924123)
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Orthogonal A-trails of 4-regular graphs embedded in surfaces of low genus (English)
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12 January 1997
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Anton Kotzig has shown that every connected 4-regular plane graph has an A-trail, that is an Euler trail in which any two consecutive edges lie on a common face boundary. We shall characterize the 4-regular plane graphs which contain two orthogonal A-trails, that is to say two A-trails for which no subtrail of length 2 appears in both A-trails. Our proof gives rise to a polynomial algorithm for deciding if two such A-trails exist. We shall also discuss the corresponding problem for graphs in the projective plane and the torus, and the related problem of deciding when a 2-regular digraph contains two orthogonal Euler trails.
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embedding in surfaces
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delta-matroid
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transition system
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A-trail
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projective plane
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torus
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digraph
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orthogonal Euler trails
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