Title
Straight-ahead walks in Eulerian graphs
Abstract
A straight-ahead walk in an embedded Eulerian graph G always passes from an edge to the opposite edge in the rotation at the same vertex. A straight-ahead walk is called Eulerian if all the edges of the embedded graph G are traversed in this way starting from an arbitrary edge. An embedding that contains an Eulerian straight-ahead walk is called an Eulerian embedding. In this article, we characterize some properties of Eulerian embeddings of graphs and of embeddings of graphs such that the corresponding medial graph is Eulerian embedded. We prove that in the case of 4-valent planar graphs, the number of straight-ahead walks does not depend on the actual embedding in the plane. Finally, we show that the minimal genus over Eulerian embeddings of a graph can be quite close to the minimal genus over all embeddings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.disc.2003.09.011
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Straight-ahead walk,Eulerian embedding,Medial graph,Genus of a graph
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Route inspection problem,Cycle basis,Eulerian path,Book embedding,Topological graph theory,1-planar graph,Medial graph,Mathematics,Planar graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
281
1
0012-365X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.62
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomaž Pisanski121444.31
Thomas W. Tucker2191130.07
Arjana Žitnik392.53