Surface embedding of (n,k)-extendable graphs

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with the surface embedding of matching extendable graphs. There are two directions extending the theory of perfect matchings, that is, matching extendability and factor-criticality. In solving a problem posed by Plummer, Dean (The matching extendability of surfaces, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 54 (1992), 133--141) established the fascinating formula for the minimum number k=mu(Sigma) such that every Sigma-embeddable graph is not k-extendable. Su and Zhang, Plummer and Zha found the minimum number n=ho(Sigma) such that every Sigma-embeddable graph is not n-factor-critical. Based on the notion of (n,k)-graphs which associates these two parameters, we found the formula for the minimum number k=mu(n,Sigma) such that every Sigma-embeddable graph is not an (n,k)-graph. To access this two-parameter-problem, we consider its dual problem and find out mu(n,Sigma) conversely. The same approach works for rediscovering the formula of the number ho(Sigma).









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